Word of the Day

[MissBubu]

Fantod 

[fan-tod]
–noun 1. Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually prec. by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving. 
2. Sometimes, fantods. a sudden outpouring of anger, outrage, or a similar intense emotion. 


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[Origin: 1835–40; appar. fant(igue) (earlier fantique, perh. b. fantasy and frantic; -igue prob. by assoc. with fatigue) + -od(s), of obscure orig.; see -s3]
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Atlanta Journal in March 1999: "He is beside himself, in flaming fantods, screeching histrionics in the direst of foreboding and doom".

[Lady Figaro]

These are great!  Thanks for keeping us educated!

[MissBubu]

Thanks, Lady Fig! It's fun finding the words. I have to start working some of these into my everyday conversation. There have been times our office has had a case of the flaming fantods. Sounds like we should be buying some Preparation H.

[MissBubu]

Farb

An inauthentic re-enactor of battles.

"This is a jargon word of those groups of enthusiasts who go from place to place re-enacting historic battles. It's American in origin, but has also become known in other countries. Re-enactors are deadly serious about getting the details of uniform and equipment correct. They are dismissive of the people they call farbs who come for the fun but who don't make the effort to get things right, the sort of people who will mix up items of uniform or carry a mobile phone or wear sunglasses.

The term dates from the 1960s; an explanation for its origin was given in July 1986 in a re-enactors' magazine, the Camp Chase Gazette, in which an early group leader, George Gorman, was said to have formed it from the beginning of 'Far be it from me to criticise inauthentic uniforms ...'."

However, some dispute this explanation of the word's origin. (see website)

http://wesclark.com/jw/forigin.html

[MissBubu]

Fardel

[fahr-dl]
–noun Archaic. a bundle; burden. 


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[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < AF, OF < OPr, equiv. to fard(a) bundle (? Ar fardah load) + -el < L -ellus; see -elle]
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To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.-- Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.


William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

[Tarac]

 You got imaginative over the weekend didn't you.

[MissBubu]

Hey, gotta keep my peeps happy! 

[MissBubu]

Fescennine

[fes-uh-nahyn, -nin]
–adjective scurrilous; licentious; obscene: fescennine mockery. 


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[Origin: 1595–1605; < L Fescenn?nus of, belonging to Fescennia, a town in Etruria noted for jesting and scurrilous verse; see -ine1]
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Gordy, aka Scratch the Beggar, has the most fescennine poetry I have ever heard. (ask him for his Irish poem)

[MissBubu]

Fimbriate

[adj. fim-bree-it, -eyt; v. fim-bree-eyt]
–adjective 1. Also, fim·bri·at·ed. Botany, Zoology. having a border of hairs or filiform processes. 
–verb (used with object) 2. Heraldry. to line (an ordinary) with a thin border of a different tincture. 


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[Origin: 1480–90; < L fimbri?tus fringed. See fimbria, -ate1]
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The flag was resplendantly fimbriated with gold fringe.

[MissBubu]

Flagitious

[fluh-jish-uhs]
–adjective 1. shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times. 
2. heinous or flagrant, as a crime; infamous. 


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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME flagicious < L fl?giti?sus, equiv. to fl?giti(um) shame, scandal + -?sus -ous]

—Related forms
fla·gi·tious·ly, adverb
fla·gi·tious·ness, noun
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The flagitious owner of the faire kept raising the price of mead.

[Will Gamwell]

Flagitious

[fluh-jish-uhs]
–adjective 1. shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times. 
2. heinous or flagrant, as a crime; infamous. 


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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME flagicious < L fl?giti?sus, equiv. to fl?giti(um) shame, scandal + -?sus -ous]

—Related forms
fla·gi·tious·ly, adverb
fla·gi·tious·ness, noun
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The flagitious owner of the faire kept raising the price of mead.

Now that is a word one could have fun with!

[MissBubu]

How about this:

The cast was having a case of the screaming fantods on Sunday over the flagitious owner's decision to pull them off their gridded schedules and make them go to front gate.

[Will Gamwell]

I like that.  Although "screaming fantods" doesn't really fit.

I would call it "overly dramatic whiney reaction".

"Flagitious owner" definately fits though.

[MissBubu]

I was using the second definition of "fantod". The state most of them were in when they came pouring out through my gate was definitely "a sudden outpouring of anger, outrage, or a similar intense emotion"

I got to check FO's pass on Saturday and made sure he had a hand stamp to get back in on Sunday.

[Will Gamwell]

I guess that would be appropriate.  I only spoke with a few people who had been asked and they seem midly irritated and the emails that I have seen on the listserve were more whiney & dramatic than anything.  You having seen it first hand...well I stand sit corrected.   

"FO"... I like that, we should start using that as a codename for him.