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Sto caricando le informazioni... Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things (edizione 2011)di Rod L. Evans Ph. D. (Autore)
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 |   -"At the costume party, I went as a knight, requiring me to lift up the beaver to be heard." "Merkin" (n): a pubic wig for women, first used in the seventeenth century by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia. -"Because Kate Winslet had less pubic hair than was required for her role in the film 'The Reader' (set in the `1950s), she wore a merkin." "Vivisepulture" (n): the act or practice of burying someone alive. -"So common was the fear of accidental vivisepuldure in the nineteenth century that some Victorians formed an organization called the Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive." "Defenestrate" (v): to throw out a window. -"The teacher was relieved that the window from which the students defenestrated him was on the first floor." "Crapulous" (adj): (i) relating to regularly overindulging in the drinking of alcohol; (ii) suffering from or due to excessive drinking or eating. -"The drunkard's ill health was due to his crapulous lifestyle." "Ergophobia" (n): a morbid fear of or aversion to work. -"Because Stephenie did everything she could to avoid getting a job, she was thought by some to suffer from ergophobia." "Taphephobia" (n): a morbid fear of being buried alive. -"In Poe's short story 'The Premature Burial", the first person anonymous narrative has taphephobia because of his catalepsy, a condition unpredictably causing him to appear dead." "Spoom" (n): a frothy, light type of sherbert, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue. -"Like sorbet, spoom is made from fruit juice, wine, sherry, or port and served in a tall glass." "Deeley Bopper" (n): a hair band with two glitter balls or furry ears perched on a springy antennae or 'antlers." -"Deeley Boppers, which are said to have originated from John Belushi's 'Killer Bees' skit on Saturday Night Live, gained their trademark name in 1982." "Catachresis" (n): strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word, either in error (as when infer is used to imply) or by intention (as when an author intentionally uses a mixed metaphor). -"When Barbara said that John's words 'inferred a belief' in her guilt, she noticed the catachresis and wished that she had said 'implied a belief'" (  ) ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 | -"At the costume party, I went as a knight, requiring me to lift up the beaver to be heard." "Merkin" (n): a pubic wig for women, first used in the seventeenth century by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia. -"Because Kate Winslet had less pubic hair than was required for her role in the film 'The Reader' (set in the `1950s), she wore a merkin." "Vivisepulture" (n): the act or practice of burying someone alive. -"So common was the fear of accidental vivisepuldure in the nineteenth century that some Victorians formed an organization called the Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive." "Defenestrate" (v): to throw out a window. -"The teacher was relieved that the window from which the students defenestrated him was on the first floor." "Crapulous" (adj): (i) relating to regularly overindulging in the drinking of alcohol; (ii) suffering from or due to excessive drinking or eating. -"The drunkard's ill health was due to his crapulous lifestyle." "Ergophobia" (n): a morbid fear of or aversion to work. -"Because Stephenie did everything she could to avoid getting a job, she was thought by some to suffer from ergophobia." "Taphephobia" (n): a morbid fear of being buried alive. -"In Poe's short story 'The Premature Burial", the first person anonymous narrative has taphephobia because of his catalepsy, a condition unpredictably causing him to appear dead." "Spoom" (n): a frothy, light type of sherbert, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue. -"Like sorbet, spoom is made from fruit juice, wine, sherry, or port and served in a tall glass." "Deeley Bopper" (n): a hair band with two glitter balls or furry ears perched on a springy antennae or 'antlers." -"Deeley Boppers, which are said to have originated from John Belushi's 'Killer Bees' skit on Saturday Night Live, gained their trademark name in 1982." "Catachresis" (n): strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word, either in error (as when infer is used to imply) or by intention (as when an author intentionally uses a mixed metaphor). -"When Barbara said that John's words 'inferred a belief' in her guilt, she noticed the catachresis and wished that she had said 'implied a belief'" ( ) ThothJ | Dec 3, 2015 | -"At the costume party, I went as a knight, requiring me to lift up the beaver to be heard." "Merkin" (n): a pubic wig for women, first used in the seventeenth century by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia. -"Because Kate Winslet had less pubic hair than was required for her role in the film 'The Reader' (set in the `1950s), she wore a merkin." "Vivisepulture" (n): the act or practice of burying someone alive. -"So common was the fear of accidental vivisepuldure in the nineteenth century that some Victorians formed an organization called the Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive." "Defenestrate" (v): to throw out a window. -"The teacher was relieved that the window from which the students defenestrated him was on the first floor." "Crapulous" (adj): (i) relating to regularly overindulging in the drinking of alcohol; (ii) suffering from or due to excessive drinking or eating. -"The drunkard's ill health was due to his crapulous lifestyle." "Ergophobia" (n): a morbid fear of or aversion to work. -"Because Stephenie did everything she could to avoid getting a job, she was thought by some to suffer from ergophobia." "Taphephobia" (n): a morbid fear of being buried alive. -"In Poe's short story 'The Premature Burial", the first person anonymous narrative has taphephobia because of his catalepsy, a condition unpredictably causing him to appear dead." "Spoom" (n): a frothy, light type of sherbert, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue. -"Like sorbet, spoom is made from fruit juice, wine, sherry, or port and served in a tall glass." "Deeley Bopper" (n): a hair band with two glitter balls or furry ears perched on a springy antennae or 'antlers." -"Deeley Boppers, which are said to have originated from John Belushi's 'Killer Bees' skit on Saturday Night Live, gained their trademark name in 1982." "Catachresis" (n): strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word, either in error (as when infer is used to imply) or by intention (as when an author intentionally uses a mixed metaphor). -"When Barbara said that John's words 'inferred a belief' in her guilt, she noticed the catachresis and wished that she had said 'implied a belief'" ( )  ThothJ | Dec 4, 2015 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Have you been guilty of catachresis at work? Have you defenestrated your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles stuck in your diastema? Scratching your occiput now?* Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallitswill help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron(the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf(the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark. Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined - your brain will thank you. * catachresis- strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word; * defenestrate- to throw out a window; * phloem bundles- stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana; * diastema- the gap between teeth in a jaw; * occiput- the back part of the head or skull Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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-"At the costume party, I went as a knight, requiring me to lift up the beaver to be heard."
"Merkin" (n): a pubic wig for women, first used in the seventeenth century by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia.
-"Because Kate Winslet had less pubic hair than was required for her role in the film 'The Reader' (set in the `1950s), she wore a merkin."
"Vivisepulture" (n): the act or practice of burying someone alive.
-"So common was the fear of accidental vivisepuldure in the nineteenth century that some Victorians formed an organization called the Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive."
"Defenestrate" (v): to throw out a window.
-"The teacher was relieved that the window from which the students defenestrated him was on the first floor."
"Crapulous" (adj): (i) relating to regularly overindulging in the drinking of alcohol; (ii) suffering from or due to excessive drinking or eating.
-"The drunkard's ill health was due to his crapulous lifestyle."
"Ergophobia" (n): a morbid fear of or aversion to work.
-"Because Stephenie did everything she could to avoid getting a job, she was thought by some to suffer from ergophobia."
"Taphephobia" (n): a morbid fear of being buried alive.
-"In Poe's short story 'The Premature Burial", the first person anonymous narrative has taphephobia because of his catalepsy, a condition unpredictably causing him to appear dead."
"Spoom" (n): a frothy, light type of sherbert, mixed after freezing with uncooked meringue.
-"Like sorbet, spoom is made from fruit juice, wine, sherry, or port and served in a tall glass."
"Deeley Bopper" (n): a hair band with two glitter balls or furry ears perched on a springy antennae or 'antlers."
-"Deeley Boppers, which are said to have originated from John Belushi's 'Killer Bees' skit on Saturday Night Live, gained their trademark name in 1982."
"Catachresis" (n): strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word, either in error (as when infer is used to imply) or by intention (as when an author intentionally uses a mixed metaphor).
-"When Barbara said that John's words 'inferred a belief' in her guilt, she noticed the catachresis and wished that she had said 'implied a belief'" (