Word of the Day: foofaraw

BillChin · Post by **BillChin** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:00 pm

Both definitions are on topic.

from
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Word of the Day for Tuesday August 17, 2004
foofaraw \FOO-fuh-raw\, noun:
1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.

A somber, muted descending motif opens and closes the work, which is brief but effective. It provided much needed relief from the fanfares and foofaraw in which brass-going composers so often indulge.
--Philip Kennicott, "Brass Spectacular is a Spectacle of Special Sound," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 17, 1997

After working in the news business for a number of years, I've become a bit cynical about mass-media coverage of events like the Y2K foofaraw.
--Roy Clancy, "Ready for Y2K...," Calgary Sun, December 15, 1999

Making the Times best-seller list, or a movie, or all that other foofaraw is not necessarily proof of [a novel's] lasting significance.
--Roger K. Miller, "'Peyton Place' was remarkably good bad novel," Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 29, 1996

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:08 pm

excessive ornamentation, so....does that mean L.E. Culloch is a foofarist?

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:09 pm

A good word! I'm partial to "crap", myself.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:13 pm

how very uneloquent. you oaf!

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:17 pm

Nanohedron wrote:A good word! I'm partial to "crap", myself.

Or maybe....uhh, yeah, Crap, that's it....

Tom

mvhplank · Post by **mvhplank** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:53 pm

TomB wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:A good word! I'm partial to "crap", myself.

Or maybe....uhh, yeah, Crap, that's it....

Tom

Well, even better, and obscure enough to excape a dirty look from your mom, is "coprolite" and the adjectival form "coprolitic."

I actually have an example of coprolite at home, but it didn't come with documentation or any provenance--lord knows what I'll ever do with it.

M

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:56 pm

mvhplank wrote:
TomB wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:A good word! I'm partial to "crap", myself.

Or maybe....uhh, yeah, Crap, that's it....

Tom
Well, even better, and obscure enough to excape a dirty look from your mom, is "coprolite" and the adjectival form "coprolitic."

I actually have an example of coprolite at home, but it didn't come with documentation or any provenance--lord knows what I'll ever do with it.

M

coprolites, due to extreme constipation...heavens...where on earth did you get that piece of sh*t from?

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:48 pm

amar wrote:...where on earth did you get that piece of sh*t from?

Speaking of eloquence. :roll:

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:17 pm

I seem to have created a monster.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:44 pm

Nanohedron wrote:I seem to have created a monster.

Nah, we were already monsters before.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:02 pm

Here's a contribution which is almost on topic. At an Annapolis shop which used to sell Irish and Welsh knick knacks and memorabilia (including whistles--see, that's the on topic part)
someone had rearranged the letters in a shillelagh(that's the mispelled part,) window vignette to spell "merde." That was on display for quite a few weeks.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:11 pm

mvhplank wrote:Well, even better, and obscure enough to excape a dirty look from your mom, is "coprolite" and the adjectival form "coprolitic."

You can insult your illiterate friends with "coproceph" (adj. coprocephalic) and "coprophage" (adj. coprophagous), too.

Challenge of the the week: Say "coprophagous coprocephs" three times at high speed.

toughknot · Post by **toughknot** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:51 pm

amar wrote:
mvhplank wrote:
TomB wrote:
Or maybe....uhh, yeah, Crap, that's it....

Tom
Well, even better, and obscure enough to excape a dirty look from your mom, is "coprolite" and the adjectival form "coprolitic."

I actually have an example of coprolite at home, but it didn't come with documentation or any provenance--lord knows what I'll ever do with it.

M
coprolites, due to extreme constipation...heavens...where on earth did you get that piece of sh*t from?

Ever been to the turd museum? Ya ,they 've got some really neat sh*t in there... and some of that crap is really expensive! T I used 3 potty words AND paraphrased Steve Martin.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:16 am

Nanohedron wrote:I seem to have created a monster.

As a self-confessed coprophiliac, what were you expecting?

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:11 am

BillChin wrote:
from
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/

Word of the Day for Tuesday August 17, 2004
foofaraw \FOO-fuh-raw\, noun:
1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.

Would this be correct?
My first wife was a plague to humanity with her endless foofaraw.

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