auger, v.1. Don't confuse "auger" with "augur." To "auger" (the verb) is what you do with an "auger" (the noun). To "auger" is to bore a hole. To "augur" is to "forecast from signs or omens."
mirch, n.
disacceptance, n.
aulicism, n.
2. "Mirch" is based on "mirc," the Hindi word for pepper. It's just the pepper in Indian cooking, and it's also figurative for intense feeling, as in "Adding mirch to the masala is a politician..who takes the..police to task" (from Times of India, 1990).
3. "Disacceptance" you can easily figure out, but why would you need this word instead of "refusal" or "rejection"? Maybe it works to get some aloofness or archness, or maybe sometimes you like the way it looks in phrases like "God's acceptance or disacceptance of things is... proportionable to his judgment" (a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. v. 325).
4. "Aulicism." This is a rare word that means "A courtly expression or turn of phrase" or — and this is a historical usage — "A tendency or attitude amongst clergymen to become attached to the secular ways and values of court, or to seek political influence and power, at the expense of devotion to religious and spiritual matters."
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Auger in. Aviation term.
Aulicism.
Alas poor Aulic I knew him well.
Before you disinvite someone they may disaccept.
Or possibly you disaccept in the phone call where you're disinvited. It's a countermove.
These 4 new words are superfluous.
"Aulicism." This is a rare wordthat means "A courtly expression or turn of phrase"
Dilly Dilly.
These 4 new words are superfluous.
Check out Ogden's Basic English, everything translated into 750 words.
He cheated a lot by not understanding phrasal verbs and so not counting them.
There is, moreover, a poetic annex to Basic English, consisting of the words
angel, arrow, beast, blind, bow, breast, bride, brow, bud, calm, child, cross, crown, curse, dawn, delight, dew, dove, dream, eagle, eternal, evening, evil, fair, faith, fate, feast, flock, flow, fountain, fox, gentle, glad, glory, God/god1, grace, grape, grief, guest, hawk, heaven, hell, hill, holy, honey, honor, image, ivory, joy, lamb, lark, life, lion, lord, meadow, melody, mercy, noble, passion, perfume, pity, pool, praise, prayer, pride, priest, purple, rapture, raven, robe, rock, rose, rush, search, shining, shower, sorrow, soul, spear, spirit, storm, stream, strength, sword, thief, tower, travel, valley, veil, vine, violet, virgin, virtue, vision, wandering, wealth, weariness, weeping, wisdom, wolf, wonder.
so you can do literature.
Unlike "uninvite," "disacceptance" doesn't mean that there was acceptance and now it's been withdrawn.
"Uninvite" is an old word, used in Pepys' Diary: "1665 S. Pepys Diary 26 Nov. (1972) VI. 310 So I made them uninvite their guests."
Uninvite means "To cancel or omit the invitation of (a person)."
"Disinvite" is marked as "obsolete" in the OED. It means "To do the opposite of inviting; to retract or cancel an invitation to."
"a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 143 I was upon his Highness intimation sent to disinvite them."
Maybe disacceptance is more obvious as a reversal of acceptance rather than rejection.
Disaccept describes exactly the withdrawal of an acceptance, no matter what the lexicographers want. Especially after a disinvitation, to balance the scales.
You think I'm not good enough, well you're not good enough.
There are conventions for prefixes that work no matter what the dictionaries say. The dictionaries follow, rather than lead.
Auger is new?
Jeez, that is an old word. Its an ancient tool, thats been a standard bit of hardware for centuries. I can't believe that a verb form is new.
Disacceptance happens as the reply just before the lovers angrily split up forever, one going going west, never to meet again.
- after Lautreamont
Disacceptance sounds like another of those Indian-English things like "do the needful".
Uninvite" is an old word, used in Pepys' Diary: "1665 S. Pepys Diary 26 Nov. (1972) VI. 310 So I made them uninvite their guests."
True, but I would like to lobby for a new word "unvitation". As in, I'm getting married in next Spring, so I better send an "unvitation" to my crazy ex-girlfriend so she knows not to come.
Aulicism is a cool word with many applicable uses in Hollyeood and the court of Hillary, but it's a word I'll forget tomorrow. It's hard to gauge which word will gain currency. Fuckable and selfie are now part of the common idiom........I read somewhere that medieval peasants had a vocabulary of about six hundred words. That's probably about all it takes to get through the day. The trick is not to have all these gadgets and complex desires. Live simply and talk plainly.
"Auliscism", then, is an aulicism.
Auger is new?
Jeez, that is an old word. Its an ancient tool, thats been a standard bit of hardware for centuries. I can't believe that a verb form is new.
I may be wrong, but I believe the verb form has been used by pilots to describe certain types of airplane crashes since at least WW II.
rhardin got there first.
Okay. Scanned that quickly. Disacceptance of the menace of Trump’s sociopathy is a trifling amusement of those who prefer to augur a media bias rather than acknowledge the utterly pathological narcissism in a Halloween photo op. Also, no matter what Jenny McCarthy says vaccines don’t give you aulicism. Oh and don’t forget to check out the mirch at the Althouse portal.
"Disacceptance" sounds like revocation of acceptance, as in: Despite already having a dorm assignment, she was disaccepted by the college for having belonged to a recognized hate group, Young Republicans.
"Disacceptance" sounds like revocation of acceptance, as in: Despite already having a dorm assignment, she was disaccepted by the college for having belonged to a recognized hate group, Young Republicans.
Or maybe that would be deacceptance.
Linking to your other post, the word "shitty", like "hot mess", seems to be a word women use far in excess of men.
Frankly, when I hear a woman use it, I think less of her for doing so. Not that I mind a woman swearing from time to time, mind you. It's often appropriate. But the word "shitty" seems to have no fixed meaning other than "bad", which applies to both an ill-chosen nail color and being the passenger of an aviation disaster.
Shitty says more about the women, then, than the situation she's picturing. And as she hasn't figured out men don't tend to use that word, that she thinks she's still talking to her girlfriends about her feelings rather than to me about her problems.
"Disacceptance" sounds like revocation of acceptance, as in: Despite already having a dorm assignment, she was disaccepted by the college for having belonged to a recognized hate group, Young Republicans.
Or maybe that would be deacceptance.
Or maybe deplorabled.
Despite already having a dorm assignments, she was deplorabled by the college for having belonged to a recognized hate group, Young Republicans.
Or maybe deplorabled means being deaccepted to the maximum extent allowed by law?
Dilly Dilly.
Youtubers who sell t-shirts, mugs and other self-promoting merchandise, call it all "Merch." So, I don't the word "mirch" stands much of a chance of gaining traction.
Shouldn't we disaccept four old words?
So, I don't the word "mirch" stands much of a chance of gaining traction.
Don't besmirch the mirch.
If “auger” is just being published, it means that the OED has just noticed the verbal sense. The noun auger is quite old.
An auger is generally some kind of drill, hand cranked or mechanical.
“Auger in”, meaning to crash your plane, probably comes from the spiraling movement out-of-control planes exhibit, and the sense that the pilot is drilling a hole in the tarmac.
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