a list of words that are only ever used in one phrase and one phrase only

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"soulwinner"

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 July 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

Are there any hangars other than aircraft hangars?

Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Friday, 5 November 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link

bike hangars

i.e. https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/cycle-parking-guide/

Tracer Hand, Friday, 5 November 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link

Ah, never heard of those.

Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Friday, 5 November 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link

coat ?

Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 5 November 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link

oh hangAr

Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 5 November 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link

i will indeed fetch mine

Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 5 November 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link

hangar steak

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 November 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link

lol brainfart, that's spelled hanger

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 November 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link

Hackles, as in To raise one’s…

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 5 November 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link

(things I learned today...)

the hairs on the back of the neck of cats, dogs, and some other animals that stick up when they are angry

Kim Kimberly, Friday, 5 November 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link

Is "petting" always heavy?

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 13 November 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link

it seems so? “petting” is such a strange word in that context, it feels zoological almost

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 November 2021 09:10 (two years ago) link

Petting zoo

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Saturday, 13 November 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link

Is pent always up?

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Saturday, 13 November 2021 09:47 (two years ago) link

Dictionary says it's hypenated: pent-up.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 13 November 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link

Ah but it can be non-hypenated.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 13 November 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link

Love me some moderately-weighted petting

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 13 November 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link

betwixt

inclement

Lee626, Saturday, 13 November 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link

Light petting is a thing!!! You do it over the shirt.

A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0AC3kUXQAAuju7.jpg

emil.y, Sunday, 14 November 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link

surprised will patrons kept going to that pool tbh

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 14 November 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link

lol

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 14 November 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link

Bill stickers is innocent!

namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Sunday, 14 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link

lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Fz8Ze7v74

it isn't even a Fraktion (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link

I'm sure the word "rictus" sometimes gets used outside of "rictus grin" but it's got to be very rare

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link

Can you run afoul of anything but the law?

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 15 November 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link

Nets/lines

fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 15 November 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link

Was about to say that wreak is only ever applied to havoc but I guess you can also wreak vengeance.

weregoats of boston (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 November 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

One phrase and p much one context: knoll

coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link

Elizabeth Fraser named the album after a peak in southern Utah called Bluebell Knoll.[1][2]

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link

Ah beaten too it

Pretty sure there is some knollery in Kingdom of Loathing too

let's make lunch and listen to five finger death punch (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link

are there any extenuating things besides circumstances?

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link

Good one.

Did you know?
Extenuating is almost always used today before "circumstances".

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link

Extenuating buttholes

hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 December 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

Extol? as in "extol the virtues of"

visiting, Sunday, 11 December 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link

Does anyone ever do anything with "umbrage" besides taking it?

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 December 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link

One Biden adviser reacted with umbrage at a private meeting with reporters this month to the suggestion that Republicans were likely to win back control of Congress.

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 12 December 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link

Huh! Okay then.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 12 December 2022 03:24 (one year ago) link

eight months pass...

Is the noun 'fancier' used in any other phrase but 'pigeon fancier'?

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 4 September 2023 18:21 (seven months ago) link

there's a thing called a "dog fancier's license" (or permit)

mark s, Monday, 4 September 2023 18:25 (seven months ago) link

two months pass...

I suspect this may be US-specific (i.e., the word is used more broadly elsewhere), but bow about "britches" as in what you get too big for?

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:03 (four months ago) link

idk Dr Dre had "Britches Ain't Shit"

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:14 (four months ago) link

caboodle

budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:35 (four months ago) link

idk Dr Dre had "Britches Ain't Shit"


Fair enough, as I had the epiphany that led me to add the word to this thread I made many similar jokes

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:43 (four months ago) link

my parents used to use britches as a simple synonym for pants/trousers ie get on your britches

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:15 (four months ago) link

beck

Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:23 (four months ago) link

^

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 23:06 (four months ago) link


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