Word Of The Day

[Altobelli]

Logomachy

Noun - An argument about words:

Very apt word for this thread me thinks !!

Now now Server, dont get Choleric

[SERVERNOTRESPONDING]

Now now Server, dont get Choleric

Are you saying i may be a bit dyspeptic and querulous. I always thought of myself a bit of a blatherskite.

[Altobelli]

You are no way a Blatherskite Server

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Oh! Yes he is!

[Altobelli]

KATZENJAMMER noun (kat-suh n-jam-er)

noun

(1) Uneasiness; anguish, distress.
(2) The discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
(3) Uproar; clamor: His speech produced a public katzenjammer.

Quote:

When a reporter really loves the craft, takes it seriously as I did, his life goes by the extremes of exaltarion and depression.. . .Life becomes a series of mental intoxications, for which one pays by mental katzenjammer.
-"The confessions of 'a Literary Journalist," The Bookman, Volume XXVI, December 1907.

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Barmecide

Illusory or imaginary and therefore disappointing.

[Altobelli]

ESPERANCE noun (es-per-uh ns)

noun

(1) Obsolete, hope.

Quote:

Teh lowest and most dejected thing of fortune, / Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608

[SERVERNOTRESPONDING]

This ones for tomorrow really
Boilover

NOUN

Australian, NZ
informal
A surprise result, especially the defeat of a favorite in a sporting event.