Zerofive's "Favourite Words" Thread

[redarmi]

An eponym?

[skolsuper]

An eponym?

Nice word, but I was looking for a word for the person doing the naming. Disclaimer: it may not exist, in which case I am naming them Keysians

[action man]

i like askance

with suspicion, mistrust or disapproval

[Boba Fett]

Sporking
An phenomenon that occurs when a man and a woman are spooning, and the man gets an erection. Often leads to either anal sex, or a restraining order, or in rare cases, both.

[zerofive]

An eponym?

Nice word, but I was looking for a word for the person doing the naming. Disclaimer: it may not exist, in which case I am naming them Keysians

The superlative of eponym is eponymic or, more commonly, eponymous. I don't believe there exists a noun. Keysian would be wonderfully ironic, though.

On that note, there exists a site where two people have taken everyday situations for which there appears to be no appropriate word and assigned them with odd place names. Maybe I'm a massive geek, but I was howling at some of these: The Meaning of Liff.

Also, congrats on the thinly veiled rubs Keys. Get the curries in imo.

[Claw75]

two more favourites of mine that I was reminded of in the recent vocabulary test:

hypnagogicˌhipnəˈgäjik/
Adjective:   
Of or relating to the state immediately before falling asleep.

hypnopompicˌhipnəˈpämpik/
Adjective:   
Of or relating to the state immediately preceding waking up

Dali was fascinated by these, he made a device, a semi-hoop mounted on a pole, to support his chin, that had a pointy thing in it, to wake him just as he nodded off. He was using it as he nodded off observing a pomegranate being swarmed by a wasp, giving rise to this wonderful vision:

I found the words years ago because I experience a lot of hypnagogic imagery (as I know know it to be called) and was pretty intrigued by it.  I'm not a creative person by any stretch, but quite often before I drop off my mind will start creating stuff - not just images, lyrics, poetry, that kind of thing.  I always make a mental half-asleep note to write it down in the morning but it's always forgotten by then and I'm back to my usual completely-lacking-in-any-artistic-flair self.

Morning times I use my snooze button a lot, to maintain both states somewhat I guess.  It's when I have my best dreams

[gatso]

An eponym?

Nice word, but I was looking for a word for the person doing the naming. Disclaimer: it may not exist, in which case I am naming them Keysians

surely eponym can only be a noun?

it refers to both the person and the thing named after them

[zerofive]

I found the words years ago because I experience a lot of hypnagogic imagery (as I know know it to be called) and was pretty intrigued by it.  I'm not a creative person by any stretch, but quite often before I drop off my mind will start creating stuff - not just images, lyrics, poetry, that kind of thing.  I always make a mental half-asleep note to write it down in the morning but it's always forgotten by then and I'm back to my usual completely-lacking-in-any-artistic-flair self.

Morning times I use my snooze button a lot, to maintain both states somewhat I guess.  It's when I have my best dreams

This sort of thing has always fascinated me. Many times I have begun dreaming before I have fallen asleep - most of the time this is just voices and when this first started happening, I thought I was losing my mind. But I, the same as you, have found that the mind just "creates." Upon having woken up after perhaps scoring a beautiful symphony, or having written the most beautiful poetry, etc. I will come to find that in actuality, these musical notes or perfect words do not even exist. This makes it difficult not to support such philosophical ideas as methodological solipsism or empiricism. The beautiful thing about dreaming in images, though, is that we have the appropriate mediums to sketch our subject. </random musing>

[sweet potata!]

Sporking
An phenomenon that occurs when a man and a woman are spooning, and the man gets an erection. Often leads to either anal sex, or a restraining order, or in rare cases, both.

 

[millidonk]

erinaceous

a. like or pertaining to a hedgehog.

quire

n. – two dozen sheets of paper

[kinboshi]

An eponym?

Nice word, but I was looking for a word for the person doing the naming. Disclaimer: it may not exist, in which case I am naming them Keysians

The superlative of eponym is eponymic or, more commonly, eponymous. I don't believe there exists a noun. Keysian would be wonderfully ironic, though.

On that note, there exists a site where two people have taken everyday situations for which there appears to be no appropriate word and assigned them with odd place names. Maybe I'm a massive geek, but I was howling at some of these: The Meaning of Liff.

Also, congrats on the thinly veiled rubs Keys. Get the curries in imo.

Meaning of Liff is excellent.  I think 'Pabby' was my favourite entry, if I remember it correctly.

[nirvana]

On the subject of portmanteau. I have been trying to patent a couple of words I use

Shituation & Chairdrobe (although they both may not qualify as they use a complete word). Ruling ?

[Claw75]

On the subject of portmanteau. I have been trying to patent a couple of words I use

Shituation & Chairdrobe (although they both may not qualify as they use a complete word). Ruling ?

chairdrobes are rubbish.  i have a floordrobe.

[Jon MW]

An eponym?

Nice word, but I was looking for a word for the person doing the naming. Disclaimer: it may not exist, in which case I am naming them Keysians

The superlative of eponym is eponymic or, more commonly, eponymous. I don't believe there exists a noun. Keysian would be wonderfully ironic, though.

On that note, there exists a site where two people have taken everyday situations for which there appears to be no appropriate word and assigned them with odd place names. Maybe I'm a massive geek, but I was howling at some of these: The Meaning of Liff.

Also, congrats on the thinly veiled rubs Keys. Get the curries in imo.

Meaning of Liff is excellent.  I think 'Pabby' was my favourite entry, if I remember it correctly.

Meaning of Liff is excellent - I think referring to Douglas Adams and John Lloyd (the creator of QI if that helps provide a reference) as 'two people' underplays how good it is a tad.

[zerofive]

ephemeral adj.
 - lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory

 - lasting but one day: "an ephemeral thread."