OT- Word of the day.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Bah! I see through your babblings! You posted your 'plot' for all to see! Let the hammering commence!

[Kamog]

Resilience... I remember when I first learned that word! It was back when I was a kid and playing video games on the Intellivision. (In case you haven't heard of them, Intellivision was a game console, like Playstation or Nintendo, and it took cartridges.)

There was a two-player game called Sea Battle, in which you had a fleet of warships and you battle the other player. You had a battleship, a submarine, PT boat, and so on. Each ship had a stat called resilience, which was the amount of damage it could take before sinking, in other words, its hit points.

[Iansidious]

Today's Word:
Omnibus omni-buss A fairly simple word.

n (plural om·ni·bus·es)
1. book collecting separate works: a single book containing several works, usually by the same author, involving the same main character, or on the same subject, previously published separately
2. om·ni·bus
om·ni·bus e·di·tion (plural om·ni·bus e·di·tions)
U.K. single broadcast of programs: a single continuous broadcast consisting of several radio or television programs previously broadcast separately, for example, installments of a serial or soap opera
3. bus: a bus (archaic or formal)

adj
with many different things: bringing many different things together as a single unit
an omnibus education bill

[Early 19th century. Via French and directly from Latin “for all,” from omnis “all” (see omni-).]

[Iansidious]

Today's Word:
Airy-fairy pronounced like it looks.

adj U.K.
1. fanciful: fanciful or not grounded in reality (informal)
2. delicate: extremely fragile


[Mid-19th century. Perhaps originally in “airy, fairy Lilian,” in the poem Lilian by Alfred Tennyson.]

BONUS WORD! *woop woop woop*

Today's Bonus Word:
Fishwife pronounced like it looks

n
1. coarse and loud woman: a woman who is regarded as loud-voiced and lacking in manners (insult)
2. woman fish seller: a woman selling fish (archaic)

[Iansidious]

Today's Word:
Indolent (in*da*lent)

adj
1. lazy: lethargic and not showing any interest or making any effort
2. medicine painless and slow to change: used to describe a disease or condition that is slow to develop or be healed, and causes no pain


[Mid-17th century. From the late Latin stem indolent- “insensitive to pain,” from dolent- , present participle stem of dolere “to suffer pain.”]

[Alneyan]

It looks like I have failed in my duties of late; my purpose being to bump this thread. So here goes a word that just had me stumbled in a crossword.

Lodestar (prounounced as "lode"+"star" I gather). Noun.

1) A star used as a point of reference, especially Polaris.
2) By extension, a guiding principe or interest.

[Iansidious]

Lodestar is a great word. What I mean by that is, it's a great Scrabble word! Since you can have only seven tiles at one time, you wont be able to spell the whole word at once. But, you can spell L.O.D.E. or just S.T.A.R. Whenever you have the right tiles. Add lode or star to each other a make lodestar at anytime! Speaking of Scrabble. If you live in America, you will be able to watch a Scrabble match on ESPN, October third(Sunday) around the afternoon(check local listings). I happened to see one Last year, and I must say, it's fun to watch. So after that I should have myraids of words after. On to the words...!

Today's Word:
Lambaste or Lambast lamb*baste an easy one

vt
1. criticize strongly: to criticize somebody or something severely
2. whip: to beat or whip somebody (archaic)


[Mid-17th century. From lam + baste “to beat.”]