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Most Erudite Poster - Word of the Week Competition

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
Sybaritic
[sib-uh-rit-ik]

adjective
1.
pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure:
eg, "to behold an Auckland Blues backrow of Ioane, Braid-Whitelock & Kaino in full flight is to wallow in sybaritic splendor."
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
Sybaritic
[sib-uh-rit-ik]

adjective
1.
pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure:
eg, "to behold an Auckland Blues backrow of Ioane, Braid-Whitelock & Kaino in full flight is to wallow in sybaritic splendor."
Sybariatric [sib-uh-reat-rik]

adjective
1. To indulge in sensuous pleasure at the bigger human

eg, "to behold Ben Tameifuna demolishing a buffet, or a scrum is to wallow in sybariatric splendour"
 
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Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Sybariatricanarism [sib-uh-re-a-trik-an-ear-izm]

noun
1. A theory that promotes and encourages open sybariatric activities.
2. advocacy of sybariatric rights, esp for interior design, public amenities, infrastructure and transport.

eg: "A regular contributor to the ESPN rugby web site who is well known for their sybaritic tendencies at the pie warmer, was seen at a recent media event attacking the sponsors buffet with such vigour that a hard core Sybariatricanarism devotee would be proud of"
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Erudite (ˈer-ə-ˌdīt)

noun
1. a high strength medically approved hypoallergenic two part acrylic elastic epoxy adhesive used by surgeons to secure auditory implants in a patients cochlea. Not to be confused with the commercially available Sellys product Araldite, which should not be used for medical purposes.

Alt. use
adjective
1. a smartypants who knows lots of stuff and speaks real proper all the time.
 

Sully

Tim Horan (67)
Staff member
tatterdemalion


[tat-er-di-meyl-yuh n]

noun
1.
a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
adjective
2.
ragged; unkempt or dilapidated.
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Antitatterdemalionesque

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waiopehu oldboy

Stirling Mortlock (74)
http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/community/threads/pic-needs-a-caption.7205/page-31

I require but one prize.............

Incidentally, is there anyone close enough to a player to arrange for a word of the week to be used in an aftermatch interview? Would have to be someone fluent in bland rugby-speak so that their use of an obscure & random word is noticeable (so not Honey Badger). Could be comedy gold, I reckon.
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Verso

[vur-soh]

noun
1. a The left-hand page of an open book or manuscript (opposed to recto).
b. The back of a sheet of printed paper.
2. The side of a coin that does not bear the principal design (opposite to the obverse).

Majoring in Classics, Cambridge Captain John Snetterton-Jones confused both the referee and the Oxford Captain, Civil Engineering undergraduate James Hebblethwaite, in the annual Varsity Match when he called verso as Hebblethwaite tossed the coin.



Not to be confused with VERSING
noun
1. a game invented at Oriel College Oxford by Poet in Residence Eugene Lee-Hamilton and Edward Copplestone, the Oriel College Provost, in 1865 in which contestants engage in reciting and critiquing contemporary prose.

verb
1. (informal) A coarse bastardisation of the preposition "Versus" used by uneducated and inarticulate children, usually in Australia, meaning playing against.
 

Hugh Jarse

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Lalochezia

[lal′ō-kē′zē-ă]

noun
1. The emotional relief gained from using abusive or profane language.
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
Lalochezia

[lal′ō-kē′zē-ă]

noun
1. The emotional relief gained from using abusive or profane language.
I'm surprised Pfitzy and Train Without A Station aren't more emotionally relieved, for services to the saying of many fucks.
 
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