# I'm into word puzzles tonight.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 17, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674 "2000-08-17T03:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/1 "2000-08-17T03:56:41Z")
Name a common word, besides tremendous, stupendous, and horrendous, that ends in -dous. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/2 "2000-08-17T04:05:30Z")
[What are the four common English words ending in “-dous”](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_236.html) ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/3 "2000-08-17T04:16:33Z")
Geez…you coulda just said hazardous. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/4 "2000-08-17T15:59:11Z")
There’s also the commonly used slang term “fantabulous” as in “fantastically fabulous” popular among black outfit wearing, Galouis smoking, Rayban wearing, too cool for school interior decorators and art school students. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/5 "2000-08-17T16:03:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*There’s also the commonly used slang term “fantabulous” as in “fantastically fabulous” popular among black outfit wearing, Galouis smoking, Rayban wearing, too cool for school interior decorators and art school students. > > \*\* DOH! “-_D_ous” sorry about that…never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ezstrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@Ezstrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ezstrete)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/6 "2000-08-17T19:31:03Z")
howzabout-----monstrous,miraculous and wondrous? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/7 "2000-08-17T19:45:13Z")
Ezstrete, howzabout-----reading the op? ---
**Author:** ![Ezstrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@Ezstrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ezstrete)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/8 "2000-08-17T22:44:49Z")
Is there a rock pile in your glass house?----one that’s labeled,“for mistakes only”. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2000, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/9 "2000-08-17T22:59:11Z")
Ezstrete, Maybe I was a little harsher than your posts warranted, but you must admit that you did deserve some sort of smart ass response. Not only did you not read the OP correctly, two posts before yours someone else made the same mistake which they pointed out in the post before yours, in a thread with a question that was answered in a column by Cecil which was linked in the second post and which had the crux of the column revealed in the third post. The thread is not that long and reading almost any other post in it’s entirety would have prevented your errant post. ---
**Author:** ![Ezstrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@Ezstrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ezstrete)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/10 "2000-08-18T02:46:18Z")
Hey LT Just read your response 'n I kin only axe ya-----wuddid ya say! "s’been fun-----ezstrete is outa the compound! ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/11 "2000-08-18T13:59:21Z")
Tremulous, wondrous, conscious… I’m sure I could come up with a few more if I really put my mind to it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/12 "2000-08-18T17:43:03Z")
-_ **d** _ous, DVous. _Sigh_… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/13 "2000-08-18T17:52:16Z")
I’ve noted quitea few _duh_s on this thread, already (although most of them have been unspoken). ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/14 "2000-08-18T23:55:05Z")
“irregardous” What? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-into-word-puzzles-tonight/29674/15 "2000-08-19T00:28:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whitetho \* > “irregardous” I think we’ll file that one away with **facetiousgry** …