I just wanted to point out that ravel means unravel.
And irregardless a that fact, I will discontinue hewing disinterested!
I was wondering about this and almost started a thread about it. I know some people think my references to Hogg are getting out of hand, but in this case it’s actually warranted. In that novel, the narrator describes the “gray and raveled” cuff of somebody’s pant leg. And I really wondered about what the hell he meant. I wanted to start a thread about it here, but figured if I talked about Hogg one more time, people would start getting out the pitchforks and torches.
Similarly, Charles Gaines in Stay Hungry describes the main character watching a bodybuilder on stage as “having the most whelming feeling he had ever felt.” I have never, ever seen the word “whelming” used, without the word “over” as part of it. And furthermore I’ve seen a lot of refurbished items for sale, but I’ve never heard of anyone just furbishing something.
Well this leaves me nonplussed, hopefully another poster can make me plussed.
My mother’s told me to stop.
:claps:
Nice one.
Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
The verbs “loose,” loosen," “unloose” and “unloosen” all mean the same.
Is it? If it’s a joke or a reference, I don’t get it. If it’s serious, “whelming” (literally, engulfing; figuratively, overcoming with feeling) and “furbishing” (polishing or renovating) are legitimate words.
I’ll probably fetch a beating for this, but while irregardless is considered nonstandard, it follows the same reduplicating pattern:
Overwhelm (Over- overcome), Refurbish (re-renovate).
Hopefully, we can put all of this nonsense behind us and undisgruntle ourselves.
I was disgruntled, but I have regruntled myself with Gruntle Helper.
You mean “gruntling ourselves back”?
double post
combobulated
chalant
gruntled
ept
ert
sheveled
list of these kinds of words: Fun With Words: Negatives Without Positives
a few explaianed: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/why-isnt-gruntled-a-word.aspx
I was starting to get over it, but all this nitpicking has redisgruntled me.
Ravel means to unravel…? I mean outside of stupid Blake Edwards movies…!?
Furbish = fabricate?
to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition
Cleave:
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to adhere closely; stick; cling (usually fol. by to).
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to split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow, esp. along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood.
“Inflammable Means Flammable? What A Country!” - Dr. Nick
Some of the entries on that list are wrong. “Domitable” and “effable,” for two, may not be common in contemporary usage, but they can be found in literature and their meanings should be clear to anyone who understands “indomitable” and “ineffable.”
It’s not completely clear, but from reading the etymology of infernal, it appears that the in isn’t a negative prefix in that context.
Then it’s not related to the fernal equinox?