Quote from: Megan. on January 22, 2018, 05:28:01 PM
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So says Evil Megan, Death Star Princess!

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 22, 2018, 05:31:30 PM
I learned about buncombe when I lived in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It does get funny when others tell me I'm wrong about what buncombe means, but it happens.

Totally Cool.

However, I always wondered how Tillicome, Washington got there's? lol.

Quote from: Megan. on January 22, 2018, 05:28:01 PM
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A bunch of fussbudgets. 

Quote from: Cali on January 22, 2018, 05:33:24 PM
Totally Cool.

However, I always wondered how Tillicome, Washington got there's? lol.

Awesome Devlyn Marie, I've learned a few new words today.  Though I've often referred to someone as being fussy,

fussbudget

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Noun

(plural fussbudgets)

    One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot

        Their three-year-old daughter can be quite a fussbudget, but she's cute.

Then, there are furniture pieces that used to go by names seldom use anymore. Davenport, ottoman, and chifforobe are to name but a few. Did ottomans come from the Ottoman Empire? If so, where did chiffarobes come from?

Quote from: Lady Sarah on January 22, 2018, 11:21:13 PM
Then, there are furniture pieces that used to go by names seldom use anymore. Davenport, ottoman, and chifforobe are to name but a few. Did ottomans come from the Ottoman Empire? If so, where did chiffarobes come from?

A chifforobe (/ˈʃɪfəˌroʊb/), also chiffarobe or chifferobe, is a closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes (that is, a wardrobe or armoire) with a chest of drawers.[1] Typically the wardrobe section runs down one side of the piece, while the drawers occupy the other side.[2] It may have two enclosing doors or have the drawer fronts exposed and a separate door for the hanging space.[2][3]

Chifforobes were first advertised in the 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue, which described them as "a modern invention, having been in use only a short time."[citation needed] The term itself is a portmanteau of the words chiffonier and wardrobe.[4]

The word is used in the United States, primarily in the southern portion of the country,[5] in Puerto Rico,[6] and in Cuba. Its use has been attested as far apart as Georgia and Vermont.[3] In those references, it was used as a water closet or potty (or more accurately a commode).[3] The word has been used in Texas, but is not as common as its synonyms such as bureau or dresser.[2]

Quote from: Cassi on January 22, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
A chifforobe (/ˈʃɪfəˌroʊb/), also chiffarobe or chifferobe, is a closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes (that is, a wardrobe or armoire) with a chest of drawers.[1] Typically the wardrobe section runs down one side of the piece, while the drawers occupy the other side.[2] It may have two enclosing doors or have the drawer fronts exposed and a separate door for the hanging space.[2][3]

Chifforobes were first advertised in the 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue, which described them as "a modern invention, having been in use only a short time."[citation needed] The term itself is a portmanteau of the words chiffonier and wardrobe.[4]

The word is used in the United States, primarily in the southern portion of the country,[5] in Puerto Rico,[6] and in Cuba. Its use has been attested as far apart as Georgia and Vermont.[3] In those references, it was used as a water closet or potty (or more accurately a commode).[3] The word has been used in Texas, but is not as common as its synonyms such as bureau or dresser.[2]

I know my adoptive sister had one, and the only creature that ever used it as a "water closet" (or toilet), was her cat. So, she had a very well built piece of furniture that smelled so bad, she could not store clothes in it any more.


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I think I'll bump this thread, like a nudnik should.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 25, 2018, 06:31:24 AM
I think I'll bump this thread, like a nudnik should.

My first wife used that word a lot:


Did You Know?

The suffix -nik came to English through Yiddish (and ultimately from Polish and Ukrainian). It means "one connected with or characterized by being." You might be familiar with "beatnik," "computernik," or "neatnik," but what about "no-goodnik" or "allrightnik"? The suffix -nik is frequently used in English to create nonce words that are often jocular or slightly derogatory. Some theorize that the popularity of the suffix was enhanced by Russian "Sputnik," as well as Al Capp's frequent use of "-nik" words in his "L'il Abner" cartoons. The "nud-" of the Yiddish borrowing "nudnik" ultimately comes from the Polish word nuda, meaning "boredom."

Do I need to come round and sort you out with my tyval (not sure how its spelt but pronounced twy vol (ok its an adze with axe on back)

Quote from: davina61 on January 25, 2018, 02:45:18 PM
Do I need to come round and sort you out with my tyval (not sure how its spelt but pronounced twy vol (ok its an adze with axe on back)

We use to use those when I was a Boy Scout and we went hunting for Big Foot and Timberwolves!

How many times is Devlyn going to post in this furshlugginer thread? 

Quit you're kibitzing.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 25, 2018, 07:09:18 PM
How many times is Devlyn going to post in this furshlugginer thread? 

An aracane adjective used as an expletive in the earliest issues of Mad magazine (e.g. 1950's) - comparable to "garshdarned" (see examples). However, maybe it's true that it was also used to mean '->-bleeped-<-' later on, as claimed above.) Possibly a parody of some German or Yiddish word, I suspect. Correct spelling may actually be 'furshluggenner'.

Quote from: Janes Groove on February 04, 2018, 12:03:53 AM
Quit you're kibitzing.

to check on and provide undesired, usually meddlesome advice to others.However the common concept of kibitzing is a person who has been extremely lazy and usually not doing what they is. kibitzing can sometimes be determined by the way in which somebody is sitting/laying. If they're being more aesthetically lazy within their stature than typical. they may be labelled a "kibitzer" or as "kibitzing".People who go to sleep early at parties or perhaps in personal areas could be described as "kibitzers" if they are just going house become sluggish and do nothing.can often be shortened to "bitzing"if you will be a homosexual and generally are kibitzing you can be called a "Kibender" the amalgamation of term "Kibitz" and "bender"

Looks a bit zwitter to me

Quote from: davina61 on February 04, 2018, 02:38:34 PM
Looks a bit zwitter to me

Zwitter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zwitter is the German word for "hybrid". It may refer to:

    A Zwitterion, in chemistry
    An intersex person, in Karl Heinrich Ulrichs' Uranian typology
    A song on the Rammstein album Mutter

Sometimes the great number of the "TRANS" gender related terms are new or in a way, perhaps some are initially appearing to be similar sounding or confusing to those trying to understand them, so I am glad that there is a good gender Wiki here on this board.  What a helpful place is here, thanks Susan and others.

The Wiki can serve as a TRANSlator of terms so we all understand more clearly, or can help others to do the same.  I have learned a lot from it, and from all the sharing on the discussion boards.

Chrissy

Whom can spice up this insipid drivel?

Quote from: Lady Sarah on February 04, 2018, 04:46:21 PM
Whom can spice up this insipid drivel?

Lady do