Word Game: Language-Related Clues and Lingustic Q&A

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  • #151
Since I am going away for the weekend this afternoon, I'll give it and turn the thread over to you turbo.

casual and causal.-
 
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  • #152
My word is a synonym for "fixed in place" and is also an antonym of that condition.
 
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  • #153
Restive, perhaps?
 
  • #154
Sorry, no.
 
  • #155
It's going to be hard to give hints to this one without giving it away, but the word is used to describe something that is really nailed down, and something that is speedy.
 
  • #156
fast or fastened :biggrin:

Actually "really nailed down" got me to think of "fasteners" and then I realized fast was speedy.
 
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  • #157
Astronuc said:
fast or fastened :biggrin:
Actually "really nailed down" got me to think of "fasteners" and then I realized fast was speedy.
Yet "fast" is the word. The phrase "hard and fast" is used to describe something that is immovable, but it could also describe a puck when you stop a slap shot with your head.

What's your word(s) Astronuc?
 
  • #158
A noun which describes something on which things are placed, and the verb means to put things on it.
 
  • #159
My recent post didn't seem to "take". Table?
 
  • #160
"Table" is the word. You're up.
 
  • #161
One word - it can mean easy or tighten.
 
  • #162
Pinch?
...
 
  • #163
Sorry
Sinch
 
  • #164
No
Sorry
 
  • #165
turbo-1 said:
No
Sorry
:confused:
I was positive that would be it.
Another clue maybe?
 
  • #166
Perhaps instead of "easy" we can substitute "really easy" like a walkover.
 
  • #167
I'm sorry SA - I didn't notice the misspelling and assumed that you reposted pinch. My bad. The word is "cinch", and the next word is yours.
 
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  • #168
I didn't realize it could be spelled with a 'C'...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cinch
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sinch

I guess it's supposed to be the same word though it doesn't mention the other definition with the 'S' spelling. Odd.


Umm, let's see...
This word is beyond nature rather than over it like it's more commonly used synonym.
 
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  • #169
preternatural?
 
  • #170
durt said:
preternatural?
Yes.
Boy, did I make that too easy?
 
  • #171
It's your turn now Durt if you'd like to give a hint for a word.
 
  • #172
TSA, you may have to take this one...
 
  • #173
Ok then.

Something done by poets, Loki, and even modern hip hop rappers. Specifically the older term.
 
  • #174
Loki (the norse trickster god, right?) did a bit of cross-dressing once; so I'll go for that.
 
  • #175
Quake, perhaps ?
 
  • #176
Rime? As in Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
 
  • #177
turbo-1 said:
Rime? As in Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Ooh, nice one !
 
  • #178
Sorry I was gone for a couple days.

Turbo-1 is one the right track.

Another clue... The term started with Scot poets in particular.
 
  • #179
Stave?? (Considering that "stev" is a Norwegian word meaning a "rhyme" or song of sorts, it might be possible that the Scots have this word in their vocabulary. They already have quite a few Norwegian loan-words).
 
  • #180
TheStatutoryApe said:
Sorry I was gone for a couple days.

Turbo-1 is one the right track.

Another clue... The term started with Scot poets in particular.
Darn! I thought I had it, especially since Loki was originally a Rime giant.
 

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