Mot du jour : Pebbling, envoyer des liens/posts/vidéos/etc aux amis en signe qu'on pense à eux, comme les manchots s'offrent des galets en cadeau.
Via https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/veille-sanitaire/veille-sanitaire-du-lundi-21-avril-2025-6756839
Sauf que la fusion des algo évoquée, c'est un peu le contraire d'envoyer un truc précis à un ami, non ?
#motdujour #wordoftheday

Word of the day, Periscoping.
https://social.sciences.re/@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks/114381374421927341
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Word of the day: Scuttlebutt, nautical, a butt (=cask) that has been scuttled(=pierced) to serve as a water tap on a ship.
Hence: rumor, gossip. Compare to: water cooler.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttlebutt
#motdujour #wordoftheday #etymology

* Words of the day *
Kummerspeck: a German word for weight that one puts on due to stress eating.

Age-otori: a Japanese word for the particular way one sometimes looks worse after a haircut.

Shemomedjamo: a Georgian word meaning “to accidentally eat the whole thing.”

Tingo: a Rapa Nui word meaning “to eventually steal all of your neighbor’s possessions by borrowing and never returning them.”

Aspaldiko: Basque. The joy that comes from catching up with someone you haven’t seen for a long time.

<3 Aspaldiko ! <3
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/theres-a-word-for-that/
#motdujour #wordoftheday

Word of the day: Vigia, on a nautical chart, warning of "a hazard which has been reported but not yet verified or surveyed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigia_(nautical)
#wordoftheday #motdujour

Word of the day: Thermorph, objet produit à plat en matériau thermosensible qui adopte une forme en volume lorsqu'il est chauffé.
[note pour biologiste : Un beau cas de structure tertiaire, la chaleur en guise de chaperon :) ]
#motdujour #wordoftheday
https://morphingmatter.org/projects/thermorph via @clive

I like to share, so today I am sharing the word....

"Ultracrepidarian"

A person who gives opinions and states facts about subjects they know nothing about.

Feel free to spread it's use, we need fewer ultracrepidarians in the world.

#Wordoftheday is the Japanese ’seijaku’: a calm and tranquillity even in the midst of chaos. Often found in nature’s smallest things. (Susie Dent)

Photo by Xuan Hoa Le

Word of the day: Spline
"To draw curves, especially for shipbuilding, draftsmen often used long, thin, flexible strips of wood, plastic, or metal called splines".
#wordoftheday #motdujour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_spline

#Wordoftheday is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
Susie Dent

#WordoftheDay today from the OED is pointed (!)
Download Oxford Dictionary here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id978674211

Oxford Dictionary of English

appease /əˈpiːz /
▸ verb [with object] 1 pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands: amendments have been added to appease local pressure groups.
2 assuage or satisfy (a demand or a feeling): we give to charity because it appeases our guilt.

Found this word and then this image. I thought they went well together. The word: liberosis; which is the desire to care less about things. It spoke to me. #wordoftheday #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmann

Happy Tasahcuce!

Tasahcuce (Tah-sah-chu-jee) is Mvskoke for "March" or "Little Spring Month"

#WordoftheDay is ‘ingordigiousness’ (19th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
Susie Dent

Word of the day: Alexinomia, aversion envers le fait d'appeler ses proches par leur nom.
"Some people can’t bring themselves to say the name of their wife or boyfriend or best friend—it can feel too vulnerable, too formal, or too plain awkward."
https://archive.is/yUXWu#selection-971.115-971.125
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My #WordOfTheDay is “obnubilate”: “becloud, obscure”, from the latin “ob-” (in the way) and “nubes” (cloud).

Pennsylvania politician and founding father James Wilson used this word when he wrote about the ratification of the US Constitution, in response to folks worried that the executive would have too much power:

“Our first executive magistrate is not obnubilated behind the mysterious obscurity of counsellors…. He is the dignified, but accountable magistrate of a free and great people.”

Ha ha, gone one, James.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obnubilate

Eto (id-oo) is Mvskoke for 'tree'

Mot et animal du jour: Takin, merveilleux bestiau asiatique situé (à l'œil) quelque part entre le gnou et la chèvre des Montagnes rocheuses.
En anglais, aussi appelé "cattle chamois" ou "gnu goat" !
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takin
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strange_Animal_(24277212624).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tibetan_takins.jpg
#motdujour #wordoftheday

Whenever you're feeling "feisty" remember it means
: full of spirit or determination
: quarrelsome or aggressive

Why?

It originates from "feist" (1896) — "small aggressive dog" — which originally meant "stink", and earlier "fart".

I am as bewildered as you are.