I read a word I didn't remember ever reading before — quoggy. You can see the context in in the previous post: "that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere."
It's not a hard word if you think of its alternative spelling, "quaggy," and understand the "quag" to be like the "quag" in "quagmire."
Quoggy might prove useful in Scrabble... or I should say Crossplay, the NYT game app that plays like Scrabble except that it lets each player experiment with words and try any number of sequences of letters and won't let you enter a word it won't accept as a word. So there's no bluffing and challenging. You end up with some crazy words.
Yesterday, it let me play frounces.
According to the OED, to frounce is to wrinkle up the face/forehead/lips. Stop frouncing at me! These meanings are all obsolete. Also obsolete — gathering cloth into creases, as in "Buff-coats, all frounced and 'broidered o'er." Possibly not obsolete is frouncing applied to hair, as in "Ladies..with their heares frownsed and curled" (1559).
Whether Crossplay will accept "frownsed" remains to be seen. I can't test it until I get the tiles.
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The Queen's English.
Giggity.
And I assumed frounces was the disappointed look cats make when they try to pounce on something and fail.
France frounces on the deplorables across the Isle.
"And I assumed frounces was the disappointed look cats make when they try to pounce on something and fail."
Speaking of cats, frounces made me think of Toonces.
"So there's no bluffing and challenging. "
That sounds assommant.
I haven't read Moby Dick in 48 years but I knew instantly from where the quoggy line came from. Very weird how that word stuck in my memory so firmly.
"Toonces" was the last piece of SNL my wife and I watched before giving up on it altogether.
Everyone's offerings are cromulent. I like to use the word "plashy" when I get the chance.
There;s an episode of Blackadder in which Dr Johnson (played by Robby Coltraine) is boasting that his newly completed dictionary contains every single word in the English language. Blackadder gives him a few that were news to him, Blackadder extends his contrafibularities to Dr Johnson
Scrabble is great.
Claggy
“Speaking of cats, frounces made me think of Toonces.“
Comment over there: “SNL should bring back Toonces as an Uber driver.”
"Vogue" is suing "Quogue," the Long Island magazine.
This doesn't look good for the Cape Cod start-up magazine, "Quahogue."
NYT frounces and Althouse pounces to garner points. The ethics of this story is never zag when you can zig over a quog upon a hog through a bog on a log.
Makes sense. He realized he was truly fuqd…
https://x.com/DavidMKeyes/status/2035366845700579441?s=20
I use the scrabble wordfinder app when I play scrabble and there are few games where I don't have to look up the meaning of word I have never heard before.
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