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Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 5:26 pm
by 603DX
Nabob - a person who became rich through the East India Company in the 18th century, during British rule in India. Not a compliment to be called one of these ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabob
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 1:26 am
by Opsboi
Obverse - how a dyslexic watches from behind
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:39 am
by llondel
Sex - one of the main topics of interest on here, it seems.
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 7:19 am
by Slasher
Exceptional! Some other bloke raised the subject of sex and it wasn't me!
Thank you Mr del.
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 7:39 am
by Cacophonix
Slasher wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 7:19 am
Exceptional! Some other bloke raised the subject of sex and it wasn't me!
Thank you Mr del.
Alibi - A bisexual Muslim!
Caco
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:28 am
by Fliegenmong
Ha ha ha ....like that Caco!!
Bitcoin...something I know nothing about...
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:37 am
by Slasher
Indeed. The mining aspect and blockchaining takes a while to get one's head around.
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:50 am
by Pontius Navigator
Educational - reading this thread
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:12 am
by Slasher
Alternate - a place that is most likely just a one horse town and
a) you don't want to go to
b) have no business being at
c) don't care a crap about
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:48 am
by Fliegenmong
Tenacious....in trying to avoid an alternate for all the reasons Slash mentions below...!
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:32 pm
by 603DX
Usucaption - in civil law, the acquisition of property by continuous and undisputed possession of it for a certain term. Not surprisingly, given its use by lawyers, it comes from Latin;
usus (use) and
capio (to take).
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:51 pm
by Pontius Navigator
onomatopoeia
a sound associated with what is named,
crack that e.g. Bang bang
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 3:49 pm
by 603DX
Iambic pentameter - a rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of poetry or verse, much used by a certain William Shakespeare, i.e.
"O that this too too solid flesh would melt" (Hamlet)
"But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?" (Romeo and Juliet)
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" (Richard III)
"If music be the food of love, play on" (Twelfth Night)
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 3:57 pm
by Pontius Navigator
iconography
visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these.
"the conventional iconography of Christian art"
a collection of illustrations or portraits.
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 4:21 pm
by 603DX
Hypothesis - an idea that has not yet been proved to be true or correct. My attitude to "AGW" and the associated "carbon obsession" propagated by many as if it were established fact. The eagerness of politicians to seize the opportunity to impose ever-more "carbon taxes" only feeds my scepticism ...
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 4:38 pm
by Pontius Navigator
Isis
islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:46 pm
by 54Phan
Iskra, a Polish jet trainer.
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:25 am
by Slasher
Rad - something a 60s hippie shouts after being dosed during a nuclear detonation.
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:17 am
by 603DX
Adorable - lovable or charming. An adjective that very few men ever use. Rather odd, that. Anyone know why?
Re: Last two letters start the next word v2.
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:22 am
by Capetonian
LETHARGIC quite a pleasant state to be in, just wanting to be left alone.