Today’s word of the day is hemidemisemiquaver, a sixty-fourth note in music. It’s also included on our list of the day by user chained_bear, “stupid drumming terms that run through my tiny brain.”
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Words from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Today’s list of the day is of terms from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, such as haddock, coal-scuttle, and nohow.
Printmaking terms
Today’s list of the day is of print-making terms: rotogravure, planographic, tympan, and more.
Nonsense, bother, and trash
Today’s list features words for nonsense, blather, and trash, such as bunkum, hooey, and prattle.
Adjectives ending with -y
There’s something pleasant about reading aloud this list of adjectives that end in -y.
baggy
beady
bluesy
blurry
boozy
breezy
bumpy
cheeky
chewy
chummy
clammy
cloudy
cozy
crabby
craggy
cranky
crappy
dorky
droopy
flabby
flaky
flimsy
foggy
freaky
frumpy
fuzzy
gamy
geeky
gimpy
gloppy
goopy
greasy
grumpy
gummy
hasty
hazy
hilly
homely
homey
hurly-burly
jumpy
lanky
leaky
lousy
lovely
lumpy
messy
muggy
muzzy
nerdy
nippy
paltry
pasty
pokey
pretty
queasy
randy
ready
scaly
scanty
scummy
seedy
shabby
shaggy
shaky
sickly
silly
skanky
skimpy
skinny
slaphappy
sleazy
sleepy
slimy
sloppy
smelly
snappy
snazzy
snippy
snoopy
squeaky
squirrely
stealthy
stinky
stuffy
sunny
surly
tacky
tasty
thirsty
touchy-feely
trippy
ugly
wheezy
whiny
wiggy
wimpy
woolly
woozy
zippy
Abecedarian insult list
Today’s list of the day is of “abecedarian insults,” a collection of archaic, obsolete, or inkhorn terms used to insult others, terms like wlatsome, unguinous, and mephitic.
Books split over the new year
Can you find the will to finish reading a book if doing so would carry the undertaking across the changing of the year? Some people can’t. PossibleUnderscore writes, “When reading a book, I cannot read it from the end of December into the New Year. I can’t read it over the transition of the years. I feel it tears the book in two so that it is, effectively, hanging in oblivion, not having been read in either time. To me, it’s a disorder that must be avoided at ALL costs.”
So today’s list of the day is “Books torn asunder by New Year’s Eve.”