Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[tikay]

I found this list of forgotten words. I think the dates refer to when they were dropped from the OED


Purfled: short-winded, especially in consequence of being too lusty (1808)
   
Squizzle: to let squizzle, to fire a gun (1956)
   
Chaddy: full of chads. The bread is chaddy [if] it has been made of meal not properly sifted to get out the husks, fragments of straw, or gritty particles of the mill-stone. (1830)

Tooth-saw: a fine frame-saw for sawing off portions of the teeth; used by dentists. (1874-77)

Lunting: walking and smoking a pipe (1824)
   
Curglaff: the shock felt in bathing when one first plugnes into the cold water (1808)
   
Scurryfunge: a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door (1882)
   
Flippercanorious: elegant (1934)
   
Irrisory: addicted to laughing or sneezing (1897)
   
Jirging: the noise too dry shoes make when walking (1824)

I appear to suffer from purfled-ness.

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I found this list of forgotten words. I think the dates refer to when they were dropped from the OED


Purfled: short-winded, especially in consequence of being too lusty (1808)
   
Squizzle: to let squizzle, to fire a gun (1956)
   
Chaddy: full of chads. The bread is chaddy [if] it has been made of meal not properly sifted to get out the husks, fragments of straw, or gritty particles of the mill-stone. (1830)

Tooth-saw: a fine frame-saw for sawing off portions of the teeth; used by dentists. (1874-77)

Lunting: walking and smoking a pipe (1824)
   
Curglaff: the shock felt in bathing when one first plugnes into the cold water (1808)
   
Scurryfunge: a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door (1882)
   
Flippercanorious: elegant (1934)
   
Irrisory: addicted to laughing or sneezing (1897)
   
Jirging: the noise too dry shoes make when walking (1824)

I appear to suffer from purfled-ness.

I'm a bit irrisory myself.

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I'm not quite sure, but I think this is saying that cement is not only metallic, but also explosive.

Funny stuff cement.


http://www.powderandbulk.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1038847832

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Cement explosion results in fine for Peterhead company

EXT01 – D01

A cement storage company has been fined £14,000 at Peterhead Sheriff Court for failures which resulted in an explosion of cement powder affecting both residential and commercial properties up to two kilometres away from the site.

[outragous76]

#insomnia

I didn't read the link but I'd imagine it's explosive just due to it's fine powdery properties

I'd have thought you have been familiar with hay dust and the like?

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#insomnia

I didn't read the link but I'd imagine it's explosive just due to it's fine powdery properties

I'd have thought you have been familiar with hay dust and the like?

Yes, and flour etc, Just didn't equate it with cement, it seems such an unlikely, inert substance to be acting as an accelerant. (sp)

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Which direction means it's better than something else?

Is it <<<<<<<<<<<<<?        Or >>>>>>>>>>>>>>?

In this example which is best, black or white?


Black <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< White

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And what if I said


Black >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> White


?

[outragous76]

And what if I said


Black >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> White


?

black is better than white (just think "greater" than)

so KK>AA means KK sucked out on AA

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And what if I said


Black >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> White


?

black is better than white (just think "greater" than)

so KK>AA means KK sucked out on AA

Does this also mean that KK sucked out?

AA<KK

[outragous76]

And what if I said


Black >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> White


?

black is better than white (just think "greater" than)

so KK>AA means KK sucked out on AA

Does this also mean that KK sucked out?

AA<KK

yep - the first hand is your hand

[TightEnd]

Direction of arrow, less than to the left, more than to the right.

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Direction of arrow, less than to the left, more than to the right.

So

Your explanation > Guy's explanation.

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Just kidding Guy.

[dik9]

Maths teacher always told me to remember the word pointless, always points to the lesser. Worked for me lol