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Re: Word of the day...

#141 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:10 am

Lolygagging - spend time aimlessly; idle.

"he sends her to Arizona every January to lollygag in the sun"
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#142 Post by Pinky the pilot » Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:26 am

Try standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona
Such a fine sight to see. :D Providing of course that there's a Girl driving a flat-bed Ford thereabouts. :-?
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#143 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:49 am

operationalised

Yet another long word - introduced?

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#144 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:02 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:19 am

"a prelapsarian Eden of astonishing plenitude"
plosive - denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air.

A profound postulation, proposed in a plethora of plosive consonants'!
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#145 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:17 am

You taking the pith?
I was quoting
Nadhim Zahawi, the vaccines minister, yesterday signalled the requirement for the double jabbed to isolate for 10 days after being notified by the NHS app needed to be looked at afresh.

He stressed that the app had been “developed and operationalised at a time when we didn’t have vaccines”,

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#146 Post by Boac » Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:22 pm

According to Zahawi (on Andrew Marr) 'Severed' is now BoJo speak for 'severely weakened' and not 'cut'. OED will be amended.

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#147 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:20 am

Glissade - slide down a steep slope of snow or ice with the support of an ice axe.

Brought to mind by a fascinating documentary about Nepalese school children accompanied by their fathers, from the villages in the high valleys who trek down the frozen rivers, some for over 100 kilometres to attend the schools in the towns at the foot of the mountains. Their dangerous journeys being part joyful glissade, part terror filled walk on thin ice and precipitous climbs above wet, slippery and frozen rock faces and waterfalls, with the constant risk of freezing, falling or drowning, all in order to achieve that greatest prize of all, an education. It made me ashamed of our culture that seems not to value education and brought to mind the Shakespearean antithesis 'The whining schoolboy...creeping like snail unwillingly to school'...
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#148 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:31 pm

Kushti - Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, classic wrestling.

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The sacred girdle worn by Zoroastrians around their waists. Along with the Sedreh, the Kushti is part of the ritual dress of the Zoroastrians.The Kushti is worn wound three times around the waist. It is tied twice in a double knot in the front and back, the ends of the Kushti hanging on the back. The Kushti is made of 72 fine, white and woolen threads, which represent the 72 chapters of the Yasna, the primary liturgical collection of texts of the Avesta. The ritual of untying and tying the Kushti is performed several times a day and is called Nirang-i Kushti. During this ritual, the individual must remain standing in one spot, and may not speak to anyone. If the individual speaks, the ritual must be recommenced.
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+ Super chav speak for "fine" from "the Romany word for 'happiness' from a Persian word meaning 'happiness'".
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#149 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:44 pm


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#150 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:58 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
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Kushti/cushty.
Fascinating article G-CPTN (thanks for posting)...

A lot of South African slang came from the cockney and cockney rhyming slang and was integrated with Afrikaans to give idioms or phrases such as "Don't check me skeef, China!"... the China being like "me old China plate" or mate, although the mate in this case is not friendly in the sense of the Glaswegian "pal!" I have noticed that being called "pal" by a Glaswegian is a very bad sign indeed! =))
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#151 Post by Groundgripper » Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:46 pm

I note that, according to the BBC, Ocado's food delivery service has been severely affected by a fire caused by three robots colliding at one of its 'fulfilment (or fulfillment - the US version,as the BBC would have it) centres' in Erith.

Apart from the fact that it's only two syllables instead of five, what's wrong with 'warehouse'?

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#152 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:59 pm

Warehouse implies storage, whereas fulfilment centre implies selection and distribution IMO.

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#153 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:19 pm

Warehouse implies storage
How does anything get out then? :-? :-??

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#154 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:20 pm

PHXPhlyer wrote:
Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:19 pm
Warehouse implies storage
How does anything get out then? :-? :-??

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OK, Warehouse for bulk storage, 'Distribution centre' for dissemination of contents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse

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#155 Post by Boac » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:22 pm

What about 'whorehouse'?

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#156 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:25 pm

Yes.
Stuff goes in and out there, too.

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#157 Post by Boac » Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:10 pm

Almost in bulk. A fulfilment centre in every sense of the word..............

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#158 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sun Sep 05, 2021 5:15 am

Kugelblitz...

Brought to mind by my reading about the Schwarzschild kugelblitz...
In theoretical physics, a Schwarzschild kugelblitz is a concentration of heat, light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped: according to general relativity and the equivalence of mass and energy, if enough radiation is aimed into a region, the concentration of energy can warp spacetime enough for the region to become a black hole, although this would be a black hole whose original mass–energy had been in the form of radiant energy rather than matter. In simpler terms, a kugelblitz is a black hole formed from radiation as opposed to matter. Such a black hole would nonetheless have properties identical to one of equivalent mass and angular momentum formed in a more conventional way, in accordance with the no-hair theorem.

The best-known reference to the kugelblitz idea in English is probably John Archibald Wheeler's 1955 paper "Geons" which explored the idea of creating particles (or toy models of particles) from spacetime curvature, called geons. Wheeler's paper on geons also introduced the idea that lines of electric charge trapped in a wormhole throat might be used to model the properties of a charged particle-pair.

Kugelblitz drives have been considered as possible future black hole starship engines.

A man-made kugelblitz would only be conceivable with a gamma-ray laser 1 billion times stronger than the current hypothesized ones, and it would have to produce a pulse that was 100 billionth of the current duration of a modern laser's pulse. A single pulse would need to equate to the energy produced by the sun in 1/10 of a second.

A kugelblitz of this size would last five years, and a device similar to a Dyson sphere could be constructed around it to harness the energy produced by the Hawking radiation.
Not be confused with the South African Kugel (or Kug)...
A (usually derogatory) term for a young, spoilt, wealthy (Jewish) woman who is preoccupied with materialism or frivolities, and is characterized by nasal, drawling speech. Also shortened form kug (see quotation 1992), attributive, and combination (objective) kugel-spotting. Cf. bagel.
1970 New Nation Oct. 17He married, quite thoughtlessly, a middle-class Kugel, but soon sees that her eccentric zany charm is merely slovenly vacuousness.
Kug's have a very distinctive accent.. and should not be confused with the Jewish soul food known as Noodle Kugel... :))


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#159 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:14 am

Sentence of the day - Undried Plum is a poffler... "Nah pofflers!" :))

Poffler - a farmer of small piece of land (Scottish)! ;)))

I trust UP doesn't take umbrage at the small, but we Saffers regard even the biggest British farms as small.

Another one from the same source is Dominie, as in the de Havilland aircraft - a school master. In Afrikaans a "dominee" is usually a protestant clergyman, belonging to the Dutch Reformed Church! Here is a Dutch Dominie...

DutchDominie.JPG
Amazing what can come up before breakfast, and I am not talking about last night's dinner. =))
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#160 Post by bob2s » Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:56 pm

TGG do not believe that you could apply Pofffler to any of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... _Australia

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