03-09-2002, 12:53 AM | #1 |
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Actually, define cornaptious and I win a hundred dollars.
I have a deal with my uncle...if I can find the definition of cornaptious, and then find the sentence it is used in(he'll give me hints) I win a hundred dollars. Or it could be cornapcious... So...help! Pleeeeeeeease. I already checked webster.com.
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03-09-2002, 01:09 AM | #2 |
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You give two different spellings. Are you sure of either? Could the word have been cornaceous, belonging to the biological order of Cornaceae? It's the only one I can think of. I'll check later, when I'm home, and have access to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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03-09-2002, 01:10 AM | #3 |
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Couldnt find it at dictionary.com... cant find my dictionary... so, i cant help you
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03-09-2002, 05:16 AM | #4 |
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Are you sure your uncle isn't playing a prank on you with a non-excisting word? $100 seems a lot to risk.
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03-09-2002, 06:12 AM | #5 |
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cornaptious- one who is apt at eating corn. Example- Chuck doesnt like his vegetable but is voraciously cornaptious, eating it by the bushel. Hope that helps, can we split the hundred?
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03-09-2002, 07:20 AM | #6 |
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Hold on, hold on...
[img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] Webster.com???????? [ 03-09-2002: Message edited by: Rikard_OHF ]
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03-09-2002, 07:50 AM | #7 |
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Are you sure it's cornaptious?? That isn't a word IIRC.
Could it be one of the following: (Someone might have already said this one.. Cornaceae- A tree family, for example, ythe cornel tree of the genus cornus? Coriaceous- 1) Resembling leather, leathery 2) Made of leather ? (Comes from Corium- 1) the true skin, under the epidermis or 2) leather armour.) Cornemuse- A French bagpipe (strange I know ) Cornigerous- Horned Cornucopia- The horn of plenty, in one fable being the horn of the goat that suckled Jupiter, sometimes an ornament of a horn overflowing with fruits, but now it's often used to mean an abundant supply or stock. Sorry, that's all I can think of right now.. maybe it's some old or american slang word I've never heard of.
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03-09-2002, 08:45 AM | #8 |
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Oh, come on you guys. Corntraption is a variant of "contraption", an Americanism meaning "invention or gadget of vaguely spurious or doubtful value or usage." Hope you win, Lioness.
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03-09-2002, 08:56 AM | #9 |
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well, considering that it's you're uncle who knows the word it probably does mean someone who is apt in the area of consuming corn....
*spins it around and eats it like a typewriter except in one large sweep on the upper jaw* And they said that corn was for popin'!
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03-09-2002, 09:27 AM | #10 |
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Okay, I looked up "cornacious" in my old-fashioned OED and it has no listing either in the main text or in the Supplement. Going to try to find my Dictionary of American Slang.
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