February Video Commentary Archive

[Jamesyboy]

Hmmmm. Should I have a good word to tell? Squelch. That's a good word....

is that even a word??

squelch
Pronunciation[skwelch]
–verb (used with object) 1. to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
2. to put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.
–verb (used without object) 3. to make a splashing sound.
4. to tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound.
–noun 5. a squelched or crushed mass of anything.
6. a splashing sound.
7. an act of squelching or suppressing, as by a crushing retort or argument.
8. Also called squelch circuit, noise suppressor. Electronics. a circuit in a receiver, as a radio receiver, that automatically reduces or eliminates noise when the receiver is tuned to a frequency at which virtually no carrier wave occurs.


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[Origin: 1610–20; var. of quelch in same sense (perh. b. quell and quash); initial s perh. from squash1]

—Related forms
squelcher, noun
squelch·ing·ly, adverb
squelch·ing·ness, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Thanks for that Heather!! A very underused work methinks. Other favourites are 'cunquat', 'quirky', 'fuzzy', 'ooze' and 'colloquial'. And, of course, 'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

[Cloud_ax]

'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

[Jamesyboy]

'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

[Jamesyboy]

WHATTTUP HOMIES!!!

It's all good in the hood brother....

[tenshiakui]

'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

*slinks from the shadows*

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

*fades to black*

[Cloud_ax]

'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

why do people make up words that make my head hurt?

[Cloud_ax]

WHATTTUP HOMIES!!!

It's all good in the hood brother....

its alright i'll get this....
i speak jive.....

[Cloud_ax]

'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

*slinks from the shadows*

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

*fades to black*

is it just me or are the shadows talking....

[Jamesyboy]

'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

*slinks from the shadows*

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

*fades to black*

Granted. You can't take 'HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES', 'HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN', 'FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION' or ' ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM' away from me though surely?!

[Sim7lizard]

WHATTTUP HOMIES!!!

It's all good in the hood brother....

Allright Big J! Respect from the east side! Fo shizzle

[Cloud_ax]

'PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS'

*slinks from the shadows*

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

*fades to black*

Granted. You can't take 'HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES', 'HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN', 'FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION' or ' ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM' away from me though surely?!

*passes out from all the big words*

[Cloud_ax]

WHATTTUP HOMIES!!!

It's all good in the hood brother....

Allright Big J! Respect from the east side! Fo shizzle

....
....
shizzle!

[Sim7lizard]

*slinks from the shadows*

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

*fades to black*

Granted. You can't take 'HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES', 'HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN', 'FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION' or ' ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM' away from me though surely?!

*passes out from all the big words*

Cloud My man don't be sweatin ! Chillax!

[tenshiakui]

Granted. You can't take 'HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES', 'HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN', 'FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION' or ' ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM' away from me though surely?!

*slinks from the shadows once more*

"Antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction, as follows:

establish to set up, put in place, or institute (originally from the Latin stāre, to stand)

dis-establish ending the established status of a body, in particular a church, given such status by law, such as the Church of England

disestablish-ment the separation of church and state (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Britain)

anti-disestablishment opposition to disestablishment

antidisestablishment-arian an advocate of opposition to disestablishment

antidisestablishmentarian-ism the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment

Of course, the process need not stop there: prefixes like neo- and contra- can be added, or -istically can be used in place of -ism.

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

Back in the eighteenth century, Eton College had a grammar book which listed a set of words from Latin which all meant “of little or no value”. In order, those were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili (which sound like four of the seven dwarves, Roman version, but I digress). As a learned joke, somebody put all four of these together and then stuck –fication on the end to make a noun for the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless

*fades back to black*

[Cloud_ax]

Cloud My man don't be sweatin ! Chillax!

*passes out from all the "jive" talk*