Language & Grammar discussion

We often get stuck for words that truly describe your feelings. Lots of words come rushing to our mind but not the true one.
Here, post the expressions/feelings/phrases that you want to describe in one word. Basically the opposite of what a dictionery does.
so lets start-
Give one word for-"Running with short quick steps".

Would "jiggling" do?

Trotting? Yea or neigh?

Whinny! (I'm laughing!) Which bits are jiggling Tyler? (Snort!)
Heigh ho!

It's a military term he's looking for, no? Quick step? Two step? Shuffle off to Buffalo?

I don't get it. Are you asking us to think of an existing word, a sort of backwards dictionary? Or do you think it would be fun to make up a word?

Going with the later, how about "piggling"

We don't get it either Ruth but it's OK...it's fun anyway!
It is a bit like a reverse dictionary, and I think making words up is a great idea.....in which case....woggling. Added to yours....piggle-woggle. Says it all really.....

Well, the only people I could think of "running with short quick steps" are the late Edwardian fashionistas who got caught up in the Oriental chic, brought in their hems way close, and as a result had to strap their legs together so as to avoid tearing their dresses while ... well, while jiggling, I guess! Or piggling, depending on how much they weighed.

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One thing I thought Arpit might mean is reducing an existing expression, even a cliché, to a single word, e.g., "At the end of the day ... " could be truncated to "Finally ..." (assuming you don't want to throw the cliché completely out).

No!.Dont.find.new.words...just.give.the.existing.word.for.the.given.expression.

Maybe there is in another language Donna....we are just assuming he means in English.......

Damn Nation (Sister of Carrie), and I used to know the Polish word for "piggle-woggle-jiggling."

So we got so many words for that expression..Wat about- "push somebody in rough manner, may not be intentional though. Like in a crowdy place people keep pushing from behind/sides."

to jostle

I concur.....jostle

"to find out information about other people’s private lives in a way that is annoying"

spy

meddle

pry

We are poets.......

and don't know it.

thank god for free verse

It's illusory.
Verse has its price.
Call it usury--
It's a word to the wise.

We think we are
A clever bunch.
I'll tell you true,
Ain't no free lunch.

Ain't no free lunch."

Yeah?

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It'll be salty.

You'll be buying beer.

That's the deal.

Nice graphics, though. Why does the blue one say "Om" on the lower right corner?

Buddha Plate Special

David wrote: "It'll be salty.

You'll be buying beer.

That's the deal.

Nice graphics, though. Why does the blue one say "Om" on the lower right corner?"

Ain't that Issue 33?

looks like the symbol for om though
and today-denny's was offering free breakfast
something about an egg surplus?

Close....

"Om, om on the range,
Where the eggs at Denny's are free . . . "

"Where seldom is seen,
A wilted mung bean
And kai oats are in every tree..."

'How often at night when the thread is bright
With the might from the glittering posts
Have I sat there amazed at how cunningly phrased
Is our language by Internet ghosts!...'

By the flickering fire
I sometimes aspire
To the heights of the scribbler's trade
When the fire goes out
I'm a grey-haired old lout
With a brain that seems mostly decayed.

roses are red
violets are blue
I cannot possibly
keep up with you

I look at each thread,
I'm like that, I'm nosey
but after some posts
it descends into poesy

Me thinks we're really O.T
And here, we be shouldn't be.

The suzerain'll soon give out his chase,
(or erase?) and haul us o'er to poets place...

Hi N.E.! :-)

Violets are red, dilly-dilly
Shamrocks are green,
With any luck , dilly-dilly,
Prince Charles would be Queen.

Looks like Arpit grew weary of the poesy and went to bed.

No, jogging is short, slow steps. I should know. I specialize in it during 10K races.

Is there one word to describe a look of stupid or dismayed wonder?

agog

Any nouns that can do it?

bewilderment

awestruck

flummoxed

Oh....a noun.......hmmmmm.....

befuddle-headed (does that count as 1 word?)

befuddlement

As played on cruise ships: Scuttleboard!

scuttling makes one crabby

befuddling and scuttling
cuddling and shuttling

The newest cruise ship game!

Note to self: Ask Jeeves about buttling.