[Fictionary] New Word: latten
Nicolas Ward
ultranurd at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 15:40:53 EST 2009
Based on process of elimination, your new fictionary word is "latten".
Now accepting definitions!
By popular demand, the definitions of the various rejected words:
quoll, n. An Australian marsupial similar to the Tasmanian devil.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoll
* I should know that all Q words are right out, no matter how good they sound.
tappet, n. A mechanical part that converts motion to linear motion
through direct contact.
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tappet
* I did not know about the specific car part (perhaps on account of
being a cyclist)
* I also did not make the connection to Click & Clack, since I only
hear their "Tappet Bros." name pronounced, and I've only seen "tappet"
as in the part written out.
clowder, mass n. A group of cats.
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clowder
* Found by browsing through the "English collective nouns" category:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_collective_nouns
abyme, n. Abyss
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abyme
* It's listed as a variant of abime or abism, both of which are
variants of abyss
pwnt, v. Gaming slang. Simple past form of "pwn", to beat by a large margin
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pwn
* My hope that it would be mistaken for Welsh worked on a number of
you, but there are too many other gamers on the list :oP.
* The corruption is the slang "to own", with a typo instensifier
(since O and P are adjacent on QWERTY keyboards); the past form can be
spelled pwned, pwnd, pwnt, pwn3d, etc.
* This was the only word I tried that came from my vocabulary
--Nick
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