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Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
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1. I choose an obscure dictionary word.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
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2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
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23 comments:
Conterminal is the word to describe something that seems apparently endless.... the sensation that goes with the saying "A watched Kettle never boils"
Devived from the words :
"Terminal" meening :
"relating to, or forming a limit, boundary, extremity, or end"
And "Con" meening : "against or in opposition to"
E.G. : The wait outside in the cold for the bus was Conterminal!
A conterminal is the station at the end of a convoy's journey. Stops along the way are called consternations.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
When something is unquantifiably large, almost infinite, it is conterminal.
Conterminal is a word I remember fondly from my days working in a funeral home. It's when someone dies of one thing while simultaneously having three or four other things wrong with them, each of which can also be fatal. For example, an individual who died of flesh-eating disease while also suffering from hepititis and HIV is said to be "conterminal."
Conterminal is the ongoing state of conterminitance, which means interruptance of druid festivals. The ancient festival of lice was interrupted for a period of 387 years when a drought brought down the plague of lice, previously thought to bring on rain before the great floods of Terran. (People are so weird.)
Conterminal is the end of a bad sickness such as stomach flew conjoined with Another sickness such as scarlet fever! it pretty bad. (when this decease thing starts it is called "concommence") I have never had a conterminal because I've never had a concommence so I guess that is a good thing!
OOPS! put decese not disease
This is the perfect word to describe a person who you just know will one day be eligible for a Darwin Award. Anyone pulling a crazy and very risky stunt is usually scrutinised by a random member of the public who will shake their head in disbelief and mutter, "That one's totally conterminal."
Conterminal describes a change in habits that go against your normal behaviour which you explain away by being outside of your normal life.
It is derived from the decision to put shops in airports to force you to buy several pints of Britney Spears new perfume.
My mummy says my crying before my nap is conterminal. I really want to stay awake so I cry because I don't want to go for my nap, but as soon as she rocks me in her arms I fall asl.........................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
What my daughter was trying to tell you is that conterminal describes the way children will try to convince you they aren't tired when it is time for their nap or their bedtime - when it is completely obvious they are falling asleep.
Conterminal(s) a thick, india rubber undergarment worn in place of underpants. Tightly elasticated at the knee and around the waist, these incontinence pants featured a drain-off tap just above each knee. Popular in pre-Victorian days before public conveniences became commonplace. Thus, in those days, not every rotund wobbly person could be assumed as overweight.
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When you went to school with someone but you didn't really know them then, but you meet later, you can say "We were conterminal in school." Same term.
A conterminal is a prison for criminals such as bank robbers and confidence tricksters. So named because it is simply the end of the line for crooks.
It is a term used by insurance companies for people who fake a terminal diease in order to get a big payout.
"conterminal" adj. used to describe anyone who spends more than three days a week at various airports; mostly applies to salespeople and other non-management business travelers. example: "hey, did you hear about joe in accounting? poor b*st*rd's conterminal!"
Conterminal
Conterminal means to appear infrequently or intermittantly.
Usage: The delightful site Word Imperfect is currently a conterminal blog.
(1) A confidence scheme gone very badly wrong
(2) The end of a contrail (technical jargon)
A conterminal person is forever ending the sentences of other people for them.
Conterminal is the perception of how long it is between WordImp's new posts! :-)
conterminal -- adj., when two separate melody lines run through a piece of music, one in the bass clef and one in the treble clef, and they end together at the same time and on the same note, they are said to be conterminal lines.
conterminal - a terribly sad day that does not have a new word from the word imp
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