dreadnaught: a bald Jamaican behemoth: What be that insect? bedbugs: what the CIA stuffs into mattresses.This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Proofreader>,
April 08, 2014, 19:22
haberdasher
AFTERMATH - the course that follows algebra ARCHERY - the science of building Gothic cathedrals CEMETERY - half a towel CHARITABLE - dining area for one CORMORANT - don't look only at the peony buds, look at the roots too and you'll see what I mean INTERNATIONAL - bury a citizen KLEENEX - request more alimony from your former spouse MARGIN - spoil the winning rummy hand SPECTACLE - those blueprints are laughable
April 09, 2014, 05:36
<Proofreader>
respectable buffet after a funeral
April 09, 2014, 11:26
haberdasher
SCHOLARSHIP - an affliction of the uppermost leg joint caused by sitting and studying too long
RHINOCEROS - a Big Box store where you get your proboscis put out of joint
PROBOSCIS - in favor of Middle Management (the "C" is silent)
April 09, 2014, 14:20
<Proofreader>
scholarship: student boaters vessel abadi'msituation: I'm in the middle of a bad situation
April 09, 2014, 18:59
haberdasher
quote:
Originally posted by Proofreader: abadi'msituation: I'm in the middle of a bad situation
I give up: I have no idea of the original that you're referring to !
April 09, 2014, 20:15
<Proofreader>
quote:
abadI'Msituation
The word "I'm" (in the middle of) a bad situation.
sec ond would be "split second"
troubletrouble: double trouble
April 10, 2014, 04:15
haberdasher
Got it. GAMES Magazine called these "Wacky Wordies. SENILFEG would be "mixed feelings". NOLOSTWHERE was "lost in the middle of nowhere". That's a slightly different mindset.
April 10, 2014, 06:17
Greg S
example - now slight expert - formerly saucy exempt - almost full (formerly almost empty) exhale - unsound export - starboard and no longing handling shipping EXIST - no longer the winner, disqualified extermination - resurrection exam - dead exotic - no longer ear related
That'll do for now
Regards Greg
April 10, 2014, 06:55
<Proofreader>
exhale: turned into rain
April 10, 2014, 07:05
Greg S
A few more:
exonerate - multiple rates apply now explain - now complex extolled - it's a freeway now
and
exhale - no longer Bob
Regards Greg
April 10, 2014, 10:44
<Proofreader>
exhume; dead philosopher extoll: our bell is broken cinemax: a giant breakfast bun convertible: a prisoner who swings both ways disgruntle kick out of the Army expect: cut off a chicken's beak
April 10, 2014, 10:48
arnie
disgusted: divorced from Augustus Edward.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
April 11, 2014, 08:02
<Proofreader>
exorbitant: a former satellite
April 11, 2014, 12:30
haberdasher
EXPATRIOT - civil disorder in Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, instigated by a former team member EXCORIATE - You can have the rest of the apple EX POST FACTO - They just fired the mail carrier. No, really! EXCEL - a retired salesman EXCITE - Oedipus' DiseaseThis message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
April 12, 2014, 06:47
<Proofreader>
expatriot: Benedict Arnold excite: ancient ruins excel: a part of Alcatraz exact: cut from a play exlax: intensify tanks: you're velcome
April 14, 2014, 07:09
haberdasher
EXTRAPOATE - to release from a snare but not until several days later EXTRAPOLATE - exceedingly courteous EXCEEDINGLY - like a retired farmer EXCALIBUR - the size of last year's bullets EXTRICATE - bid four, made five. Yum! EXPORTER - I can't Disapparate any more EXECRATE - to mark the wooden shipping container EXHORTATION - Don't you come peddling your ass around here any more, you hear?
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April 14, 2014, 07:41
Greg S
This theme seems to be taking off.
exasperated - dead extract - land now underwater execute - expose fake online profile picture express - former journo exceed - germinate
Regards Greg
April 14, 2014, 08:20
<Proofreader>
enterprise: a gift for signing up expired: the church lost its steepleThis message has been edited. Last edited by: <Proofreader>,
April 15, 2014, 07:16
<Proofreader>
sheet metal: a bed cover for robots
April 16, 2014, 05:59
Greg S
And now for something completely different, yet exactly the same:
anew - used aplenty - few ascribed - unwritten
Hopefully Proof and Haberdasher will find a few more.
Regards Greg
April 16, 2014, 07:58
<Proofreader>
amen: the cry of the nympho abuttor: a bugger buttress: female version of abuttor
April 16, 2014, 11:36
haberdasher
ABOUT - no fighting allowed ALLOWED - (Shhh!) ALIMONY - not enough citric acid AGRICULTURE - no fraternities allowed ALIMENTATION - refusal to grieve AGRAPHOBIA - not afraid of writer's block
With shameless attribution to Isaac Asimov ANOPTIKON - a magnifying device without lenses (Asimov also told the story of the Linguistics professor who told his class that a negative means a negative, and a positive means a positive, a double negative means a positive, but there was no language where a double positive means a negative. And then a voice in the rear muttered, "Yeah, yeah...")
Speaking of double negatives, UNABASHED - hit for a home run UNAFRAID - loose threads hanging all over the place
and in no particular direction at all - ANEMONE - a dyslexic foe ("dysphonic"?)This message has been edited. Last edited by: haberdasher,
April 17, 2014, 07:39
Greg S
aspired - flat-topped abroad - narrow agreed - generosity ahead - behind alight - heavy or dark aorta - shouldn't avow - break a promise avowal - consonant aroused - disinterested or put to sleep awoken - put to sleep
Regards Greg
April 17, 2014, 11:06
haberdasher
AWRY - can't make the pastrami sandwich ARABLE- the mob has dispersed ALLEGORY - an armory ADIABATIC - my blood sugar is under 100 ASTATINE - my cholesterol came down without Lipitor AERIE - Superior (caution: USn-centric alert)
April 18, 2014, 00:41
Greg S
Why do so many terms for the better looking of the species, involve the lesser looking?
woMAN, woMEN, LADy & feMALE to name a few.
And then there's these ones: aMEN & aGENT
Regards Greg
April 19, 2014, 07:11
Greg S
Oh and a couple I missed: sHE & HEr
But back to the a- words:
ayes - no acute - ugly around - square ascent - odourless avoid - full
Regards Greg
April 19, 2014, 10:07
<Proofreader>
abet don't gamble avow not a promise aplomb prune apropodislikes that river
April 22, 2014, 01:29
Greg S
afro - to afloat - sink averse - prose across - calm aglow - dim abreast - leg lover aflame - unlit
Regards Greg
April 22, 2014, 07:31
haberdasher
Not DIS again!
DISCRIMINATION - malfeasance has been eradicated from the entire country DISCERN - they're removing the Large Hadron Collider DISMANTLE - ... and taking out all the old gaslights, too DISARRAY - OK, you guys, break formation when you go across the bridge DISPLAY - Macbeth DISCO DANCER - Let me introduce my Tango partner DISEASE - discomfiture except that DISCOMFITURE - Oh, they took away my candy [Well, close. M, N, it's almost the same]
April 22, 2014, 11:40
<Proofreader>
display: back to work! disenfranchise: Close the Burger King inspector: resident gohost inveigh: opposite of 'oy'
April 22, 2014, 13:40
haberdasher
UNNOTICED - refrozen UNIONIZED - the strikers wouldn't dissociate even when we threw them into the water UNTENABLE - she'll never be another Bo Derek UNBELIEVABLE - if you nag enough you might turn begging into egging UNDERESTIMATE - the guy from Berlin withdrew his approximation UNABLE - Sorry, I just Caint
April 22, 2014, 16:53
<Proofreader>
abundance; German prom disable: Take that, my brother. exalt: remove a computer key Excalibur: obsolete cartridge size explain: now a gullyThis message has been edited. Last edited by: <Proofreader>,
April 22, 2014, 18:15
haberdasher
quote:
Originally posted by Proofreader: abundance; German prom
I thought "abundance" was the original name for twerking...
April 22, 2014, 20:13
<Proofreader>
As a highly naïve innocent, I have no idea what "twerking" refers to. Now excuse me while I watch some Miley Cyrus videos.
April 23, 2014, 05:51
Greg S
atop - below askew - straight astray - domiciled aground - in the air or on the sea along - short aloud - quiet ago - stop again - loss alack - have amend - break aside - central
Regards Greg
April 23, 2014, 13:57
haberdasher
Not to be picky or anything, but doesn't the 'a-' prefix mean "without", rather than "not"?
April 23, 2014, 19:05
haberdasher
...and does APOPLECTIC mean the Pontiff can't read?
April 24, 2014, 02:34
Greg S
quote:
Not to be picky or anything, but doesn't the 'a-' prefix mean "without", rather than "not"?
How about atypical and asymmetric for starters, but I will think of some more if you want them.
Regards Greg
April 24, 2014, 03:41
Greg S
.. And amoral and asocial for a couple more, need I go on?
Regards Greg
April 24, 2014, 08:06
haberdasher
quote:
Originally posted by Greg S: .. And amoral and asocial for a couple more, need I go on?
That illustrates the problem. -- AMORAL doesn't mean not moral, as in immoral, but rather indifferent to morals. That's my "without". It's a delicate distinction. -- ASYMMETRIC is both - without symmetry, non-symmetric. -- APATHY is another; without feeling, non-feeling. -- ATYPICAL I give you, but with reservations: it does't mean no type or without a type, just not THIS type.
Any linguists/grammarians out there with real credentials?
April 24, 2014, 09:16
Greg S
You've given me one and that's all I need to have a bit of fun with the game, but from dictionary.com:
a- 1 a reduced form of the Old English preposition on, meaning “on,” “in,” “into,” “to,” “toward,” preserved before a noun in a prepositional phrase, forming a predicate adjective or an adverbial element ( afoot; abed; ashore; aside; away ), or before an adjective ( afar; aloud; alow ), as a moribund prefix with a verb ( acknowledge ), and in archaic and dialectal use before a present participle in -ing ( set the bells aringing ); and added to a verb stem with the force of a present participle ( ablaze; agape; aglow; astride; and originally, awry ). Origin: Middle English, late Old English; cf. a2 , nowadays
a- 2 a reduced form of the Old English preposition of: akin; afresh; anew. Origin: Middle English; see a3
a- 3 an old point-action prefix, not referring to an act as a whole, but only to the beginning or end: She arose (rose up). They abided by their beliefs (remained faithful to the end). Origin: Middle English; Old English a- (unstressed), ǣ-, ā-, ō- (stressed; see abb, woof1 , oakum), rarely or- (see ordeal) ≪ Germanic *uz- < unstressed Indo-European *uss- < *ud-s, akin to out; in some cases confused with a-4 , as in abridge
a- 4 variant of ab- before p and v: aperient; avert. Origin: Middle English < Latin ā-, a- (variant of ab- ab-); in some words < French a- < Latin ab-, as in abridge
a- 5 variant of ad-, used: (1) before sc, sp, st ( ascend ) and (2) in words of French derivation (often with the sense of increase, addition): amass. Origin: Middle English, in some words < Middle French a- < Latin ad- prefix or ad preposition (see ad-), as in abut; in others < Latin a- (variant of ad- ad-), as in ascend
a- 6 variant of an-1 . before a consonant, meaning “not,” “without”: amoral; atonal; achromatic.
And from World English Dictionary a- or ( before a vowel ) an- 1
— prefix not; without; opposite to: atonal ; asocial
[from Greek a-, an- not, without]
an- or ( before a vowel ) an- 1
— prefix
[from Greek a-, an- not, without]
I think there is enough evidence to suggest a- as a prefix before a consonant can mean "NOT"
Regards Greg
April 24, 2014, 09:57
Tom
a-prefix - NOT fixed in advance.
April 24, 2014, 19:22
haberdasher
I don't think we're disagreeing.* It certainly can, but equally certainly it doesn't must.
*DISAGREE - to take away the prize for losing. (speaking of dictionary.com...)
May 01, 2014, 05:37
haberdasher
Well. I certainly didn't mean to cast suca apall on the proceedings.
ANTIPHONIES - without the NYC jewelery store, where can we have breakfast?
May 01, 2014, 06:48
Greg S
No problem just running out of ideas.
ado - don't ashamed - glorified
Regards Greg
May 01, 2014, 06:52
Greg S
quote:
I don't think we're disagreeing.* It certainly can, but equally certainly it doesn't must.
If these prefixes in our obscure language all meant the same thing all the time, we wouldn't be playing this game, but the one that has always really got my goat is:
inflammable - not able to be burned
Regards Greg
May 01, 2014, 07:07
<Proofreader>
That word was basically abandoned by most technical people several years ago since it was capable of being misunderstood. They opted for flammable since there is no ambiguity.
May 01, 2014, 07:22
haberdasher
The ambiguity is the dual meaning of the prefix 'in-,' which can be at one time 'not' and at another 'within'.
Thus 'flame' and 'inflame' are synonyms, both meaning 'burn,' prefix notwithstanding...