the only word in the english languaged that means one thing and also its opposite.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
nah, there's loads
― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
When is it ever used not in conjunction with "thurst" ?
― JTS, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Pyrrhic is a proper name (relating to Pyrrhus), and so I'm not sure it qualifies.
I'll add the sense of "brand" used in "brand [spanking] new".
For "stark naked", see also "stark raving".
I'm kinda with Archel in this, in that I use many of these words in other contexts, but Martin will tsk me as well I suspect.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
also used with contrast
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.crru.org.uk/images/porpoise_callout.jpg
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
when it's used in conjunction with 'desire'?
I love autoantonyms!
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lurky McLurk, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
is "hew and cry," innit?
― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
also -- livelong, as in "the livelong day"
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
You can wreak terror as well.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link
(Half Man Half Biscuit- Keeping Two Chevrons Apart)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Suicide is only ever contemplated, never "thought about" or "considered".
― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Quench: Also a blacksmithing term, meaning to plunge the hot item into water (or into captured enemy soldiers, if you're a samurai). Basically refers to applying liquid.
Rack: Racked with guilt/sobs/etc.
Cleave: Biblical! Genesis 2:25: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh".
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link
(I always think of that when I see that word)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
auk (auk and style)
Turns out there's no such saying.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link
Booby trap
Obviously "boob"/"booby" is still used in, er, another context, but I think this is the only contemporary usage of its original meaning (a foolish person).
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 11:30 (seven years ago) link
booby prize
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 11:38 (seven years ago) link
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/yon
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:36 (four months ago) link
He, I almost linked the entry for “bide” earlier.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:16 (four months ago) link
Heh
I have an app for students, Scots ABC. It has a random word generator, from which I just learned the word “oorie.”
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:20 (four months ago) link
Doesn’t have any of the example sentences though, for one thing.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:32 (four months ago) link
auk (auk and style)― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:42 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:42 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Turns out "auk and style" doesn't exist as a saying at all, I'd heard "dressed in auk and style" but maybe it was really "dressing up in style" or something. I do know of one song where I'd misheard the latter for the former, but I'm sure my hearing predates it.
Unless, y'know, you know?
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 November 2023 09:50 (four months ago) link