Sigforum Word of the day thread

February 15, 2017, 09:02 AM

Seems lately my digital thesaurus is getting a good workout, a benefit is we get to pick up new words for our vocabulary, perhaps we can add a word from threads we have to google such as today's entry:

Puerile- pu·er·ile ˈpyo͝orəl,ˈpyo͝orˌīl/

adjective adjective: puerile
childishly silly and trivial.
"you're making puerile excuses"

synonyms: childish, immature, infantile, juvenile, babyish; More

antonyms: mature, sensible

Origin: French late 16th century (in the sense ‘like a boy’): from French puéril or Latin puerilis, from puer ‘boy.’

February 15, 2017, 10:43 AM

policetruck

Excellent idea!!! We used to do this at work in my crew. We all made a decent effort of really using the word as often as it could possibly be used. Pissed off some management, some thought it was funny. Either way it, was good times and we mostly got a chuckle out of it.

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February 15, 2017, 10:54 AM

HRK

quote:
Originally posted by NMPinNYC:
Legs. Help spread the word.

Really, didn't take long, why offer up such a callow addition to the list

February 15, 2017, 10:58 AM

JALLEN

It pays to increase your wordpower.

Winston Churchill had a useable vocabulary estimated at over 60,000 words. The average person uses around 5,000 words.

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February 15, 2017, 11:19 AM

SkyOtter

Scrofulous - adjective scrof·u·lous \-ləs\

1 : of, relating to, or affected with scrofula
2 a : having a diseased run-down appearance
b : morally contaminated <scrofulous characters … so quick to smear — John Garrity>

Medical Definition of scrofulous
: of, relating to, or affected with scrofula <scrofulous ulcers> <tuberculosis of lymph nodes especially in the neck>

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February 15, 2017, 11:26 AM

exx1976

quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
quote:
Originally posted by NMPinNYC:
Legs. Help spread the word.

Really, didn't take long, why offer up such a callow addition to the list

cal·low
/ˈkalō/
adjective
adjective: callow; comparative adjective: callower
(especially of a young person) inexperienced and immature.
"earnest and callow undergraduates"
synonyms: immature, inexperienced, juvenile, adolescent, naive, green, raw, untried, unworldly, unsophisticated; informalwet behind the ears
"she toyed with the emotions of Laughton when he was a callow and insecure young man"
antonyms: mature

February 15, 2017, 12:22 PM

egregore

Portmanteau: combining parts of two words to make another.
Double entendre: a phrase that can have more than one meaning, e.g., Old bikers never die, but they're hard on tires.

E.g.: Exempli gratia, or for example.
Stat: short for statim, or right the fuck now. Used mostly in the medical profession, at least on TV. I think Sig Forum taught me that one.

February 15, 2017, 12:36 PM

sigcrazy7

Propinquity (prə-pĭng′kwĭ-tē)

Nearness or social kinship. "The association with Sigforum provides its members with a high degree of mutual propinquity."

[Middle English propinquite, from Old French, from Latin propinquitās, meaning near.]

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February 15, 2017, 12:44 PM

HRK

Due to my busy work schedule relocating my office I have been woolgathering, resulting in some poor choices when posting, thereby having to be patiently reminded to curtail my bouts of stupefaction.

February 15, 2017, 12:46 PM

trapper189

Bonus points for using the word of the day in a post?

quote:
Originally posted by M-11:
Tucker's line of questioning is far from puerile.

February 15, 2017, 12:48 PM

HRK

quote:
Originally posted by trapper189:
Bonus points for using the word of the day in a post?

Great Idea, the direction of this thread would be ameliorated.

February 15, 2017, 01:00 PM

RogB

Most misused word on net- loose instead of lose. Reached epidemic levels.

Loose: Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached.
"a loose tooth"

Lose: To suffer the deprivation of:
to lose one's job; to lose one's life.

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February 15, 2017, 01:20 PM

M-11

quote:
Originally posted by trapper189:
Bonus points for using the word of the day in a post?

quote:
Originally posted by M-11:
Tucker's line of questioning is far from puerile.

And before it was the word of the day!

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