Word of the day

[BurtReynolds]

invultuation - A form of witchcraft: piercing a wax or clay image of a person in order to harm them.

From Latin invultare (“to stab the face of”), from vultus (“face”).

[BurtReynolds]

Carcinisation (or carcinization) is an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".

Given enough time, everything becomes crab.

All will become crab. You must accept this truth.

[Chris_H_2]

this is why eating crustaceans kind of freaks me out -- we're essentially eating sea insects.

[BurtReynolds]

if being a criminal is so bad, why do we invent so many cool words for them?

highwayman
road agent
bandit
brigand
outlaw
ruffian
desperado
marauder
raider
ravager
freebooter
gangster
bandolero
ladrone
dacoit
knight of the road
footpad
land pirate
tobyman
reaver
snaphance
thief errant

[bart]

this is why eating crustaceans kind of freaks me out -- we're essentially eating sea insects.

Delicious, delicious sea insects

[BurtReynolds]

Tartuffery - behavior or character of a Tartuffe, esp. hypocritical piety

side note: this word is difficult to say without saying it in a scottish accent.

[tree_]

Ouch

[BurtReynolds]

jejune - naive, simple.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

jejune - naive, simple.

Thanks for sharing this new word to me.

[BurtReynolds]

Try to use it in conversation this week.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Try to use it in conversation this week.

I will my jejune friend.

[Whitey McTeeth]

Long-dogging-
When a dog extends past normal body length.

[Whitey McTeeth]

[BurtReynolds]

that dog has been longed.

[Whitey McTeeth]

Long-dogged.

[BurtReynolds]

Chaoskampf - the battle between a storm god and a sea god, who represents primordial chaos; after the storm god’s victory he goes on to create the world. It is ubiquitous in myth and legend, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon. The same term has also been extended to parallel concepts in the religions of the Ancient Near East, such as the abstract conflict of ideas in the Egyptian duality of Maat and Isfet.

[knee tunes]

Ship

[BurtReynolds]

glossolalia - the phenomenon of (apparently) speaking in an unknown language, especially in religious worship. It is practiced especially by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians.

[BurtReynolds]

réchauffé

a dish of warmed-up food left over from a previous meal. Leftovers.

[Jorge]

Hah, there's a Spanish slang word that sounds similar and means the same thing. Didn't realize it was derived from the French