Speaking of "mob", is it a shortening/corruption of "monster"? Or maybe it's from the usual word "mob", but got corrupted to mean "a member of a mob", instead of the mob itself?CatDoom wrote:"Mob" itself may fit the topic, in the sense of (to quote Wiktionary) "A non-player character [in a video game] that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game."Matrix wrote:In video games, usually MMORPGs, 'adds' are mobs spawned in the middle of a boss fight.
One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
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In my understanding, it's shortened from 'mobile entity'.Terra wrote:Speaking of "mob", is it a shortening/corruption of "monster"? Or maybe it's from the usual word "mob", but got corrupted to mean "a member of a mob", instead of the mob itself?
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Interesting. Never heard of that theory or term.KathAveara wrote:In my understanding, it's shortened from 'mobile entity'.Terra wrote:Speaking of "mob", is it a shortening/corruption of "monster"? Or maybe it's from the usual word "mob", but got corrupted to mean "a member of a mob", instead of the mob itself?
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Squib (link); a brief satirical piece of writing or speech. I never heard of this word, but came across it while browsing for classes to follow; one of the examination requirements was to write a 'squib style article'. Never heard of the word before.
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Don't you mean: non-magical person born to wizarding parents.
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'squib' reminds me of another:
dud : a bomb/shell that fails to explode;; extended to mean anything that doesn't perform the way that it should/is-expected-to
dud : a bomb/shell that fails to explode;; extended to mean anything that doesn't perform the way that it should/is-expected-to
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Wiktionary claims that it is an abbreviation of mobile (vulgus), meaning "fickle crowd".Terra wrote:Interesting. Never heard of that theory or term.KathAveara wrote:In my understanding, it's shortened from 'mobile entity'.Terra wrote:Speaking of "mob", is it a shortening/corruption of "monster"? Or maybe it's from the usual word "mob", but got corrupted to mean "a member of a mob", instead of the mob itself?
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Wiktionary is talking about the common English term for a bunch of angry people, not the computer game term for an AI-controlled monster. It may or may not be correct about the former; KathAveara is correct about the latter.Dewrad wrote:Wiktionary claims that it is an abbreviation of mobile (vulgus), meaning "fickle crowd".Terra wrote:Interesting. Never heard of that theory or term.KathAveara wrote:In my understanding, it's shortened from 'mobile entity'.Terra wrote:Speaking of "mob", is it a shortening/corruption of "monster"? Or maybe it's from the usual word "mob", but got corrupted to mean "a member of a mob", instead of the mob itself?
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"Squib" also refers to a small firecracker or explosive; I'm most familiar with it's use in film and theater, where the term refers to an explosive, often attached to a bag of artificial blood, which is used to simulate the impact of a bullet.sirdanilot wrote:Squib (link); a brief satirical piece of writing or speech. I never heard of this word, but came across it while browsing for classes to follow; one of the examination requirements was to write a 'squib style article'. Never heard of the word before.
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Yesterday I typed "swarf" when I meant to type "dwarf" and discovered it's an actual English word with the technical meaning "the waste chips or shavings from metalworking or a saw cutting wood" or "the grit worn away by use of a grindstone or whetstone, being particles of the material being cut and of the cutting stone itself".
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^ Cognate to dutch zwerf / zwerven ' to roam' / zwerver 'homeless person' ?
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No, those Dutch words are instead cognate to English swerve 'turn aside, deviate from a straight course'. Which is of course an interesting one-syllable word in itself...sirdanilot wrote:^ Cognate to dutch zwerf / zwerven ' to roam' / zwerver 'homeless person' ?
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And swarf isn't cognate to swerve at all? Seems strange to me, since they look alike a lot and have quite similar meanings (something with 'roam or stray from a certain point' ).Cedh wrote:No, those Dutch words are instead cognate to English swerve 'turn aside, deviate from a straight course'. Which is of course an interesting one-syllable word in itself...sirdanilot wrote:^ Cognate to dutch zwerf / zwerven ' to roam' / zwerver 'homeless person' ?
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According to Etymonline they're from the same PIE root, so you're right that they're related, but the connection doesn't seem to be especially close.sirdanilot wrote:And swarf isn't cognate to swerve at all? Seems strange to me, since they look alike a lot and have quite similar meanings (something with 'roam or stray from a certain point' ).Cedh wrote:No, those Dutch words are instead cognate to English swerve 'turn aside, deviate from a straight course'. Which is of course an interesting one-syllable word in itself...sirdanilot wrote:^ Cognate to dutch zwerf / zwerven ' to roam' / zwerver 'homeless person' ?
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Really? Isn't OE geswearf just a prefixed o-grade derivation from the verbal stem? (Cf. StG sessen/Gesäß, wenden/Gewand, etc.)Cedh wrote:According to Etymonline they're from the same PIE root, so you're right that they're related, but the connection doesn't seem to be especially close.sirdanilot wrote:And swarf isn't cognate to swerve at all? Seems strange to me, since they look alike a lot and have quite similar meanings (something with 'roam or stray from a certain point' ).
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Yes, you're right. I seem to have overlooked the OE meaning in the article on "swerve", sorry.
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On a mostly unrelated note, I think geswearf is my new favorite word (of the day, anyway). Man I love Old English.
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Tell me about it. It has the craziest words. I like steorra.
PG is also fun: *dumbaz, *hwazuh
PG is also fun: *dumbaz, *hwazuh
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All those final z's do make it look kind of "X-TREME!" I'm tempted to start calling friends "my manniz."
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ey manniz, hwazuuuuh?
nothingen muchiz
nothingen muchiz
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justaz he2r chillijandz!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/furze (synonyms: gorse, whin)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeve_%28England%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_leet
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/furze (synonyms: gorse, whin)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeve_%28England%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_leet
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Gorse and furze, really? Why not rat and vole and shrew and mouse as well.
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cos less rare I guess
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Gorse vs vole? The former's certainly more common around here.Thry wrote:cos less rare I guess
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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!