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Monday, March 14, 2005

suppurate

suppurate--to form or discharge pus.

Honey, I can't read, I can't write, but I can suppurate with the best of 'em.
When it starts to suppurate, you know the party's over.
I can't stop the suppurating!
Hellen, I forget. Are quiches supposed to suppurate or is something amiss?
Charm just suppurates out of him.
Then, he lept from the nurse's office into the hallway, tore off the bandage, and proceeded to suppurate all of over the students and faculty.

Saturday, March 12, 2005

sagacious

sagacious \suh-GAY-shus\, adjective:
Of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; shrewd; wise.

Bonbon the Retarded Infant Monkey is not what one would call... the most sagacious.
Ahh, very sagacious indeed. I guess that's why YOU'RE wearing the wizard's cloak.
Rodriguo was a bit TOO sagacious for his own good.
But you're not STUPID either. I'd say you're semi-sagacious.
When YOU'RE sagacious, YOU can sit on this mountain-top. Okay, asshole?!
If you really were sagacious, as you so claim, you'd know that the noun form of "sagacious" is both "sagacity" AND "sagaciousness"!

Friday, March 11, 2005

popinjay

popinjay \POP-in-jay\, noun:
A vain and talkative person.

She watched him degenerate from the man of substance she once knew into a mere popinjay.
Come to think of it, the Popinjays are so vain and talkative, it sort of makes sense that their last name is Popinjay!
This party is populated with nothing but popinjays!
It's mopping day, popinjay!
The road to hell is paved with popinjays!
He's a whopping popinjay who just won't stop popping!

Thursday, March 10, 2005

nixy

nix·ie also nix·y
n. Slang pl. nix·ies

A misaddressed or illegibly addressed piece of mail, therefore undeliverable.

Make sure you put a return address, lest it ends up in the nixy netherregions!
No, it never got to Grandpa. For all we know, it's a NIXY.
If only his handwriting had been slightly better, the love letter would never have ended up a nixy, and the two might have ended up together. Ah the cruel cruel fates!
I see snowflakes as... God's nixies.
Trixie may be sexy as a pixie, but she's notorious for writing nixies.

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

rictus

rictus \RIK-tus\, noun:
1. The gape of the mouth, as of birds.
2. A gaping grin or grimace.

Wipe that rictus off your face!
Whenever the Jeopardy theme plays, you can count on seeing his miserable rictus.
If God wanted you to close your mouth all the way, He wouldn't have given you a RICTUS... no?
I'd recognize that smug rictus anywhere!
Yes, his throat was slashed in a state of ecstasy. Some would say he died wearing a double-rictus.
There's nothing worse than the rictus of a homo erectus!

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

bricolage

Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available.

Hey, this isn't carpet, this is bubble wrap! Wait a minute, this house is a BRICOLAGE.
Some consider the Staypuff Marshmellow Man a mere bricolage of marshmellows.
Father tried to smile as the children woke him upl, presenting him with their ragtag birthday bricolage.
How DARE you call my sand castle a bricolage! I imported this sand from the beaches of the French Riviera!
Ahh, chewing-gum pie is undoubtedly the single tastiest culinary bricolage I've ever devised!!!

Monday, March 07, 2005

ennui

a feeling of weariness or dissatisfaction.

Honestly, the roller derby left me with a kind of ennui.
Help me, I drown in a sea of ennui.
If you knew Marie, you knew ennui.
The house was filled with smoke... and ennui.
People say I can't deliver! Well I can deliver ennui! No one can deliver ennui like me.
Often, when I feel ennui, I have trouble saying why.
Sheila was not alone; she had ennui!

Sunday, March 06, 2005

matutinal

matutinal \muh-TOOT-nn-uhl\, adjective:
Relating to or occurring in the morning; early.

I like to keep my breakfast matutinal.
I'm not much of a matutinal guy.
Some say that bats are the opposite of matutinal creatures.
I want a matutinal funeral.
Ahh, is that the lovely jaybird, or the matutinal Eastern wind?!

Friday, March 04, 2005

hugger-mugger

adj. secret, clandestine. v. to keep secret, conceal

(from DICTIONARY. COM)

That was supposed to be huggermugger, you lil' bugger!
Hey Johnny, let's keep this little thing between you and me. Y'know, real huggermugger.
I can't tell you where the missiles are located. I'm afraid that information is strictly huggermugger.
Blimey! Uncle Moishe huggermuggered the crumpets 'gain!
If you knew, then it wouldn't be huggermugger anymore, WOULD IT?!!?
You are the WORST huggermuggerer I've met in my life.
Rodriguo could no longer huggermugger his feelings for Cynthia.
His pally-wally was too chubby-wubby to huggermugger under the ruggy-tuggy.

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

quango

An organization or agency that is financed by a government but that acts independently of it.

[qua(si) n(on-)g(overnmental) o(rganization).]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Some would debate that the existence of quangos are theoretically impossible.
Ever since the government cut our funding, I lost the right to say I work for a QUANGO.
Keep your eye out for the quangos.
Oh sure, they act like they're a quango, but we all know who's really in charge... THE GOVERNMENT.
Quangos here! Quangos there! Quangos everywhere!
Another fine quango you've gotten us into.
Somebody stop that quango from beating up that poor old lady!
I named my dog Quango, cuz he acts independently of governmental forces too!
Quango?! I asked for a mango!
When you say quango, I do the tango.

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

faqir

n : a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man [syn: fakir, fakeer, faquir]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

Look at you, walking around like some kind of faqir!
Wait, let's hear what the faqir has to say about this.
One isn't born a faqir; it takes work.
I don't care if he IS a faqir! I want him out of my houseboat!
You know, there's never a decent faqir around when you need one.
What's a faqir to do?
One of these things is not like the faqir.
You don't have to be Hindu or Muslim to be a faqir, but it wouldn't hurt.*
Holy Faqir!
There's a fine line between faqir and faker.

*Actually, you do.