checks out
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 10:04 (five years ago) link
"but what about the Irish sense" i hear you seething
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 10:55 (five years ago) link
Does the verb form suggesting violence done with a bottle entail more courage or cowardice, I wonder
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
More contents of bottles usually
― Helel Cool J (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
"dutch courage" originally referred to that nationality's predilection to glassing in an otherwise honourable brawl
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:21 (five years ago) link
(trivia 100% false obv)
Dutch = gin in that context i reckon
― Helel Cool J (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link
Patron - the owner or a customer of a restaurant.
― fetter, Friday, 28 February 2020 10:41 (four years ago) link
It's rhyming slang: "bottle & glass" = class (I think), as in to have class (as a fighter); so to lose one's bottle, to bottle it.
― fetter, Friday, 28 February 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
fix
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 28 February 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
labour
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Friday, 28 February 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
"Terribly" can mean very well or very badly.
She's terribly educated vs She was terribly educated
― fetter, Friday, 28 February 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
gonna need a stewards enquiry on labour.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 28 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
As in "in a fix" = having problems?
― fetter, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
yep. brought to my attention by a line in a children's book, "I'll sort your monster fix".
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
I thought it was "bottle and glass" = arse (it works in a Cockney accent), so losing your bottle means to shit yourself?
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
funky
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
contranym
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 February 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
sanction
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 February 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
OP otm
― Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 February 2020 05:30 (four years ago) link
Missing from this list afaict: ravel
― Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 February 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
sick
― Lee626, Saturday, 29 February 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
"drop" (to release to the public) vs. "drop" (to remove/discontinue)
Sony Drops ‘Uncharted’ Movie 😃..............From 2017 Release Schedule 😢New Mutants And Mulan Dropped 😃..............From Release Schedule Due To Coronavirus 😢
― unregistered, Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
sound
― budo jeru, Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
string
― budo jeru, Saturday, 28 March 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
dust
― budo jeru, Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
nice one!
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
then again, if you’d change the lyrics of the Kansas hit to “all we do is dust in the wind”, it wouldn’t change the meaning of the song at all
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
gallant
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
previously meant “sexually forward” i.e. a man motivated by trying to get into ladies’ knickers and was basically negativethen became a bit of a catch-all for “courageous”, not just in carnal mattersthen the honorable side of courage rubbed off on it, but the previous association with behaviour towards women remained, so magically “gallant” now means “chivalrous” - previously its exact antonym!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Same etymon as 'well' (e.g. 'well-being') and the Gallo-Roman 'walare', which meant 'to chill' (figuratively, that is). The ancestors had their priorities straight.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 November 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Along the same lines: 'to host' could also mean 'to lodge at an inn' back in the day. Its ambiguity subsists in the French 'hôte', which denotes both guest and host depending on the context. Nor is a host in the military sense a welcome guest in most cases, but it's not an exact antonym either.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 November 2020 13:24 (three years ago) link
Speaking of French, it also features a number of spectacular diachronic reversals: 'rem' (Latin accusative of 'res', i.e. 'thing') eventually became 'rien' (nothing).
From most to least obsolete, the nouns 'mie' (the soft part of bread), 'goutte' (drop (of liquid)), 'point' (self-explanatory) and 'pas' (step) double as adverbs that mean 'not' (e.g. 'je (ne) peux pas'). Presumably 'ne' or 'n'' on their own (as in 'on n'y voit goutte') are too puny to bear the mighty weight of negation.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 November 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
fain
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Definition of fain (Entry 1 of 2)1a : WILLINGhe was very fain, for the young widow was "altogether fair and lovely … "— Amy Kellyb : being obliged or constrained : COMPELLEDGreat Britain was fain to devote its whole energy … to the business of slaying and being slain— G. M. Trevelyan
"performative" seems to have developed a couple of almost opposite meanings, not sure which definition came first
― nothing (Left), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
also: communism (no state vs supreme state)
― nothing (Left), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
nonplussed
(contradictory usage if not actual meaning but it ain't going away.)
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:32 (three years ago) link
Karen
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 4 April 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link
I was reminded of this thread by an advert for a furniture store which uses Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" as its soundtrack. Are they able to give those massive discounts they're always telling us about because their stuff is just cheap tat?
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 April 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
"fellow children" because sometimes it means you are a child and sometimes is means you are in fact masquerading as a child
― your own personal qanon (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 April 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
spare:
being in excess of present need; free for other use: spare time.
frugally restricted or meager, as a manner of living or a diet: a spare regime.
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah that's good!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 08:54 (three years ago) link
Beheaded
― Pfizer the pharma chip (wins), Saturday, 22 May 2021 11:38 (three years ago) link
am i understanding these definitions correctly? 1 and 2 are opposite, no? even the “or” in 1b seems to point the two options in opposite directionsnoesis1 : purely intellectual apprehension:a Platonism : the highest kind of knowledge or knowledge of the eternal forms or ideas —contrasted with dianoiab in Husserl : the subjective aspect of or the act in an intentional experience —distinguished from noema2 : cognition especially when occurring through direct knowledge
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 June 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
Handicap, as it applies in golf. Perhaps not contradictory but counter-intuitive
"Dust" is my favourite in this thread. Imagine that when it was time to do the sweeping you'd say "can you dirt the floor today please"
― a legible shriek (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 5 June 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
classic Amelia Bedelia scene depending on that one iirc
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:15 (two years ago) link
Hahahah
― a legible shriek (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
“the goat”
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 November 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
Ha, yes! Took me ages to figure out this new meaning, scratched my head many times on the way
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 November 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link