Interesting words...
Topic started by Saketh on Thu Oct 14 16:22:28 .
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Yippy yo -- You bend down to pick up something, and the pen in your falls down. Then as you pick up your pen, something else falls down and ...
Usage: I yippy yoed with my floppy disks in front of the library
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- From: raja (@ icon-njfw.icon.com)
on: Fri Oct 15 12:48:33
How about Kichu Kichu Mooting?
- From: K.V.Sridharan (@ 98ce9a11.ipt.aol.com)
on: Sat Oct 16 13:21:41
Manithan = Coman
(both man and woman)
Udanpirappugal = Birthers
(both brother and sister)
Paghutharivalargal = Analyzers
Kattravargal = Knowledgists
Valarpu magan = Raised son
Panbullavargal = Behaviorists
Kannalan = Eyedgroom
Kadalan = Lovian
Kadali = Lovie
- From: RR (@ qt-ce.singnet.com.sg)
on: Tue Nov 2 00:03:06
Words that buzzed the century
LONDON -- The words that caught the mood of the
decade are all there in a new book -- clone, concentration
camp, gene, fetishism, paranoid, deja vu, hangover,
depression.
The Guinness book of the 20th century, published on
Friday, lists the buzz-words for each decade this century,
The Guardian reported.
Clone was coined in 1903 by the journal Science to mean a
"plant propagated by the use of any form of vegetative
parts".
It was borrowed for genetics in 1970 by an author who
said people "most likely to replicate themselves will be
narcissists".
Fetishism, "often for shoes, rubber or underclothes", was
defined by a psychologist in the 1900s.
The mouse was christened in 1965 by English and
Engelhardt in their book Computer-Aided Display as "a
device called a mouse which we have developed for
evaluation as a means of selectively displaying text entities".
BUZZ WORDS
The Guinness word list includes:
1900s: Curriculum vitae, hot dog, electronic;
1910s: Jinx, floozy, birth control, loony bin;
1920s: Deadline, gaga, cold turkey, superstar, media;
1930s: Muzak, backlog, ecosystem, satellite;
1940s: Loo, gremlin, antibiotic, teenager, soap opera, fax;
1950s: Fall-out, hype, discotheque, DIY;
1960s: Drop-out, serial killer, mouse, rubber johnny;
1970s: Child abuse, veggie-burger, soundbite, trainer;
1980s: Toyboy, chatline, wannabe, car boot sale, Yardie;
1990s: Ethnic cleansing, stalk, road rage, quality time, new
lad, cyberstress.
- From: Matthew Gorge. (@ cache-loh-aa04.proxy.aol.com)
on: Thu Nov 27 15:57:08
To Matthew
I hope you have enjoyed playing out on your bike
and haven fun with me , Beth ,Rhys ,cammaron and
Eleri aaand Dewi.
From Cathryn
- From: Skanthavelu Nadarajah (@ 198.161.203.51)
on: Thu Nov 27 17:45:13 EST 2003
spelunking
lunk head
dork
out house
jelly belly
weenie
doosie
doofus
ahenam(a letter in Tamil alphabets)
lunatic
Irish temper
scoogly woogly
yoink
yowza/yowzer
chow chow
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