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roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ned+raggett&r=f

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 November 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine was always:
hoary
hoar'·y (hôr, hr)
adj. hoar·i·er, hoar·i·est
1. Gray or white with or as if with age.
2. Covered with grayish hair or pubescence: hoary leaves.
3. So old as to inspire veneration; ancient.


roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

new:

antediluvian -- old as shit, pre-flood

roxymuzak, Monday, 16 July 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

ob·tuse [uhb-toos, -tyoos] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.
3. (of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity.
4. indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.
[Origin: 1500–10; < L obtūsus dulled (ptp. of obtundere), equiv. to ob- ob- + tūd-, var. s. of tundere to beat + -tus ptp. suffix, with dt > s]

stevienixed, Monday, 16 July 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

hoo-ha

/ˈho͞ohä/
nouninformal•British
noun: hoo-ha; plural noun: hoo-has; noun: hooha; plural noun: hoohas

a commotion; a fuss.
"the book was causing such a hoo-ha"

Origin

Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 2 December 2021 22:55 (four years ago)

steatopygia

stē-ăt″ə-pĭj′ē-ə, -pī′jē-ə
noun

1. An extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks.
2. An excessive accumulation of fat on the buttocks.
3. An extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

NB: First result on Duckduckgo. I was happy to see definitions 1. and 3. are identical, as if to accentuate just how extreme the accumulation of fat is!

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 3 December 2021 02:06 (four years ago)

I've also seen hoo-ha spelled huha, which I quite like for its air of brisk dismissiveness.

I've only ever seen that spelling in Antonia Forest's Marlow books, though, so it's entirely possible she made it up.

Lily Dale, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:20 (four years ago)


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