[Vision2020] It's excrementitious!

[Tom Hansen]

Care to hear what the word sounds like from Merriam-Webster?

 

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary
<http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=excrementitious&x=
22&y=22> &va=excrementitious&x=22&y=22

 

Tom Hansen

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Joan Opyr
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:04 PM
To: Vision2020 Moscow
Subject: [Vision2020] It's excrementitious!

 

So, excrementitious is not "new," but the latest published use prior to
Wayne's post seems to have been 1875.  Could we perhaps classify this as
"everything old is new again?"

 

Yours truly,

Joan/Auntie E

 

PS: I'm thinking that "It's excrementitious!" would be a great thing for
Tony the Tiger to say if, for example, he happened to find a bit of mouse
poop in his Frosted Flakes.  I once had just such a sad experience, spotting
small, dark, currant-like objects floating up past the cereal through the
creamy white milk.  Upon digging deeper into the matter -- or rather, the
box -- I found a whole, dessicated mouse.  This was not the fault of
Kellogg's, I fear; the fault lay entirely with my slovenly housekeeping.  So
let this be a lesson to you all: clean out your pantry.

 

PPS to Carl and Wayne: There.  In less than four hours, I found a use for
excrementitious in not one but two -- nay, three -- sentences!

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ron Force

Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:41 PM

To: vision2020 at moscow.com

Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wayne's thoughts, Jim Fisher, andletter to the LMT

 

Not a "new" word.  From the Oxford English Dictionary:

{dag}1. Of the nature of the dregs or worthless part of any substance. Of
food: Consisting largely of matter useless for nutrition; = EXCREMENTAL1 1.

  1623 HART Arraignm Ur. ii. 8 The..excrementitious part of the food is
voided forth. 1661 LOVELL Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The flesh of wild
beasts is lesse excrementitious and dryer, than that of the tame.


    2. Of the nature of excrement or excreted matter.

  1586 BRIGHT Melanch. xix. 118 The aged..faile in the execution of
externall actions..by excrementitious humiditie. 1623 ROWLANDSON God's
Bless. 35 As if mildew were..an excrementitious humor. 1670 BOYLE in Phil.
Trans. V. 2013 We kept the same Duckling in the same Receiver very close..to
keep in the excrementitious steams of her body. 1744 BERKELEY Siris §30
Exhaling vessels, for carrying off excrementitious parts, are discovered
throughout the whole surface of the vegetable. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 435 The
scent of excrementitious animal juices, such as musk, civet, etc. 1826 KIRBY
& SP. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 297 Almost all insects discharge some
drops of an excrementitious fluid. 1875 URE Dict. Arts II. 740 s.v. Guano,
This extraordinary excrementitious deposit of certain sea-fowls.

Consisting of, or of the nature of, an outgrowth.

  c1645 HOWELL Lett. I. xxx. 60 Hair is but an excrementitious thing. 1677
HALE Prim. Orig. Man. III. iv. 266 These [feathers] are excrementitious, and
not really parts of the Bird.


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Ron Force         Moscow ID USA
rforce at moscow.com
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Joan writes: "PS: I'd like to add that I much prefer Wayne's new word,
"excrementitious," to Doug's word, "Intolerista."


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