anxious
― Fantasy Eyelid (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
how so
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
contemporary means at the same time as, so probably gives the info from context whether its contemporary to the subject or contemporary to the present time doesn't it?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
Yes - in fact that is the case with every word listed here!
However, "Contemporary art" does not change its meaning depending on context as far as I'm aware
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
incense as a noun vs. incense as a verb
― Choose Your Own Disaster (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 February 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
sensibility
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 March 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
OL i will confess that i can't puzzle out your last three contributions itt
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/anxious
makes the anxious one quite clear - worried / eager
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
id have to disagree with ascribing intent to the word like that tbh
to whom does one write
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
The two usages of 'incense' aren't directly contradictory but the noun has a pleasant connotation (generally speaking, as I know not everyone is a nag champa stan) as opposed to the negative connotation of the verb form.
OTOH I probably should've said 'sensible' (reasonable vs. given over to feeling) rather than 'sensibility'.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 March 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Brexit
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 18 March 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
ha
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 18 March 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
anxious meaning "eager" - yes but there's still anxiety in that negative sense - the eagerness is manifesting as a kind of nervous stressincense - at root it's the same: fieriness
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link
"bottle" in the British sense has two directly contradictory meanings. the noun means "courage" and the verb means to lose your nerve!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:49 (five years ago) link
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