Actually, the pattern-search feature of the computerized “American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition” lists about twenty words, but most rely on the suffix -podous, a scientific term relating to feet. One could spend a lifetime attending cocktail and dinner parties and never be about to work a word like “rhizopodous” into the conversation.
I think Trout is contemptuous…no that’s not it. She’s annelidous.
Annel´idous
a. 1. (Zool.) Of the nature of an annelid.
Any of various worms or wormlike animals of the phylum Annelida, characterized by an elongated, cylindrical, segmented body and including the earthworm and leech.
rshive almost 15 years ago
And Trout did it without the dictionary!
pschearer Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Actually, the pattern-search feature of the computerized “American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition” lists about twenty words, but most rely on the suffix -podous, a scientific term relating to feet. One could spend a lifetime attending cocktail and dinner parties and never be about to work a word like “rhizopodous” into the conversation.
How about this?: This cartoon is agnesdous!
D-i-c-e-R almost 15 years ago
I think Trout is contemptuous…no that’s not it. She’s annelidous.
Annel´idous a. 1. (Zool.) Of the nature of an annelid.
Any of various worms or wormlike animals of the phylum Annelida, characterized by an elongated, cylindrical, segmented body and including the earthworm and leech.
gopuppy almost 15 years ago
Trout is great-dous
bwayjohni almost 15 years ago
what’s the OTHER word that ends in ‘gry’? not ‘hungry’ or ‘angry’… just asking…