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Pattern. #wordnik

Wordnik word of the day:

nimrod

noun. A silly or foolish person; an idiot.

This word probably comes from the phrase 'poor little Nimrod,' used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny to mock the hapless hunter Elmer Fudd.

Also means hunter in the biblical sense.

My father used the word sometimes. 😁

#wordnik #nimrod #word

https://wordnik.com/words/nimrod

I'm always on the lookout for a cool word.

taphephobia

noun: a morbid fear of being buried alive

https://www.wordnik.com/words/taphephobia

#taphephobia #wordnik

It was absolutely the editorial example sentence that sparked my adoption.

Now the Proud Supporter of "open source" on Wordnik ✨, which frees this definition from ads for a whole calendar year.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/open%20source

#OpenSource #Wordnik #nerdery

@grammargirl @emckean I’m a big fan of #wordnik I especially enjoy comparing terms across different sources. Which brings me to the #centurydictionary… was I ever delighted to discover you can browse through it over at the #internetarchive https://archive.org/details/centurydictionary02whit/page/883/mode/1up

https://boffosocko.com/2023/07/24/vocabulary-notebooks-criminally-insane-asylum-patients-zettelkasten-the-thesaurus-linguae-latinae-and-digital-dictionaries/

These stickers are the best stickers. Fact. #wordnik https://xoxo.zone/@emckean/110335223874638809

https://boffosocko.com/2022/11/10/hypothes-is-as-a-digitial-zettelkasten-for-neologism-collection-for-wordnik/