harrowing
by the time news of the harrowing collision became public... in both, there are hardliners, who seems to miss the days of cold war chest thumping, arrayed against accommodationists, who value, among other peace dividends, the $116 billion in annual trade.... The White House had decided not to attcak the Chinese pilot for hotdogging near the U.S. plane, and instead called the collision an “accident.”... A tantalizing question through the first tense days was how much the 43rd President was huddling with the 41st. Bush gave no hint, even to some of his colsest aides, that he was talking to his father, but everyone in the West Wing assumed he was. ... He should have known that the Chinese don't respond well to bluster.
Time mag reporting on Chinese fighter collison with US spy plane incident. around 2001-04.
appurtenances
But a market which is obsessed with the tools and the appurtenances rather than the actual effects is clearly focusing on the wrong thing.
~2000. commentary on software by Nathan Myhrvold (Microsoft bigwig.)
huffy
they'll get all huffy and will refuse to create any jobs for the rest of us.
Time Mag. 199?
if memory serves, back when Ken only had a theory of neuroscience, not a theory of the universe, he kept talking about visiting college campuses and giving seminars where all the faculty would leave in huffs, but the students would sit rapt for hours and hours.
CompuServe Math forum post on a charlatan, early 1990
addlepated
For those of us tired of the mindless preening, addlepated twittering, and senseless drivel that predominates other Orkut sex forums. Bring me your hungry, your perverse, your whoremonger smut snobs possessed of wit and savvy. Let us be lascivious and speak of taboo, tantalizing things as geeks and adults and brethren all sopping wet and throbbing hard yet possessed of communication skills. Barring that, let's just get nasty and make fun of stupid people.
2004, online forum charter
gamine
So I have never met this bodacious Australian gamine. but her infinite sea of humor and playfulness... ah without it, Orkut would hardly be complete, no, not for me. I hope we meet up in our next lives as feline vikings, and eat many children.
2004, online friend-making site orkut.com “testimonial”.
Note: similar words to gamine are urchin, waif, imp, tyke, and of course there are synonyms of these.
tumblebug
tumblebug is a bug (beetle) that rolls dung.
See also: Scarabaeidae↗.
doldrums
Although the PC market overall has lurched into the doldrums again, notebooks have fared better than desktops in a variety of markets for some time.
2002. online news
hit the spot
“hit the spot” means expressing a satisfaction, especially after a meal. e.g. “ah, that hits the spot.”.
festoon
i'm a man festooned with diseases and warts. you do not want to know me. The pain inside me is beyond your comprehension.
dollop
it was a VCR-size videogame cosole, black with a dollop of mint jelly...
Time mag 2001-11-19 on MS game XBox
a dollop of shit
whither
not to be confused with wither. Dicks can wither. Whither is like a mix of whether, where, which. Not used in normal moden writings.
groggy
If you aren't used to sleeping twelve hours a night doing so will just make you groggy.
svelt
Bourdon said the fact KHTML's small size—140,000 lines of code—let Apple build a browser that is a svelte 3 MB in size. He compared that with Netscape's more than 17 MB, though that includes an e-mail reader and other peripheral applications.
2003-01-14, C net new.com
kipper
Supertramp - Breakfast in America↗ Lyrics:
Take a look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot
Take a jumbo across the water
Like to see America
See the girls in California
I'm hoping it's going to come true
But there's not a lot I can do
Could we have kipper↗ for breakfast
Mummy dear, Mummy dear
They got to have 'em in Texas
Cos everyone's a millionaire
I'm a winner, I'm a sinner
Do you want my autograph
I'm a loser, what a joker
I'm playing my jokes upon you
While there's nothing better to do
Don't you look at my girlfriend
She's the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot
Take a jumbo cross the water
Like to see America
See the girls in California
I'm hoping it's going to come true
But there's not a lot I can do
disquiet
New Year disquiets me
steamroll
"Oleg" is not the first person to encounter a text that presents the reader with two simultaneous impossibilities: (1) a different view to a reality he does not recognize but feels he should, and (2) such a powerful model (or set of models) that the reader has two choices: (a) to bow to and accept it, or (b) be steamrollered by it.
online computing forum message, by kook persona Erik Naggum, 2003 Jan, comp.lang.lisp
munition
ammunition and munition basically means the same thing. Ammunition means projectiles (bullets and missile etc) etc, while munition means war material in toto.
ingenue
Today i learned the pronunciation of the word ingenue, from the song “Life in Mono”. It has that word sung repeatedly. How very sweet a word.
Song: Life in Mono:
The stranger sang a theme
From someone else's dream
The leaves began to fall
And no one spoke at all
But I can't seem to recall
When you came along
Ingenue
Ingenue
I just don't know what to do
The tree-lined avenue
Begins to fade from view
Drowning past regrets
In tea and cigarettes
But I can't seem to forget
When you came along
Ingenue
Ingenue
I just don't know what to do
...
glade
So we swim naked across the crystal clear blue lake to a verdant isle, where we passionately make love in a dark, secluded glade...
2004. from online forum. (Lorand)
dolorous
The indolent moon shall wax with dolorous lust.
2004. from online forum. (Lorand)
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