Oh, world of words encountered online and beginning with N, how your utility becomes less and less as we go. We can skip the whole lot and not miss anything.
* nacelle: separate from fuselage, a covering that holds engines, fuel, or equipment on an aircraft or wind turbine. Notably WWII era P38 Lightning, cockpit may also be housed in a nacelle.
* naff: I heard many years ago that the term, an acronym of "Not Available For F***ing" originated in the UK gay community and gained by extension the sense of "no good" or "useless".
* neets: a person not in employment, education, or training.
* negus: wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg
* Nemo me impune lacessit: No one "cuts" (attacks) me with impunity, motto of the Order of the Thistle and of three Scottish regiments of the British Army. later versions of the Royal coat of arms of the Kingdom of Scotland and subsequently in the version of the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom used in Scotland.
* neotenic: also called juvenilization, is the retention, by adults in a species, of traits previously seen only in juveniles (a kind of pedomorphosis), and is a subject studied in the field of developmental biology.
* Neue Zürcher Zeitung: One of the oldest newspapers still published. The newspaper is well known for its detailed reports on international affairs, stock exchange, and the intellectual, in-depth style of its articles. Politically, it is positioned close to the liberal Free Democratic Party of Switzerland.
* neuralgia: Sharp, severe paroxysmal pain extending along a nerve or group of nerves.
* news ticker, news crawl: scrolling ticker at the bottom of the display of television content. It is usually reserved for text headlines or numeric statistics (or both) depending upon the focus of the channel.
* Niebuhrian: Neibuhr theologian, ethicist, intellectual commenter on politics and public affairs, wrote books that influenced Obama, Carter, Hillary, McCain. etc. idealism to realism, argued with liberal and conservative religionists for different reasons.
* nihil obstat: "nothing hinders" or "nothing stands in the way")[1][2] is a declaration of no objection to an initiative or an appointment. Apart from this general sense, the phrase is used more particularly to mean an "attestation by a church censor that a book contains nothing damaging to faith or morals".
* Nilometer: a means (typically a structure) of measuring the River Nile's clarity and for measuring the water level of the Nile river during the annual flood season.
* nina va horn's vocabualary, just shoot me
* percifunctous (aren'y you being just a tad percifunctous)
* emolicate (listen a little more and emolicate a little less)
* stangle (a driving stangle to succeed)
* omutetic photographer (I met them most omutetic photographer)
* flammer (thank you Emmerson, you flammer me)
* noisome: nauseating: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" fetid: offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
* nominative: relating to or denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (as in Latin and other inflected languages) used for the subject of a verb. of or appointed by nomination as distinct from election.
* non scriptus, non est: “If there’s no paper trail, it didn’t happen.” This cultural rule of thumb was created before the invention of the printing press, cheap paper, photographic film, electric telephone, electronic data storage, and distributed computer networks; but the (slightly cynical) assumptions remain.
* Non sibi sed patriae: "Not for self, but for country." The phrase is inscribed over the chapel doors at the United States Naval Academy.
* nonce word: a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Murray Gell-Mann then adopted it to name a new class of subatomic particle.
* nostalgie de la boue: nostalgia for the mud
* nostrum: a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness,a usually questionable remedy or scheme : panacea <an audience eager to believe he had found the nostrum for all of society's ills
* nota bene: "note well"this comes from the Latin verb notāre—to note. It is in the singular imperative mood, instructing one individual to note well the matter at hand.
* Nous ne sommes plus vos macaques!: We are no longer your monkeys!
* Novus ordo seclorum: "New Order of the Ages") appears on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782 and printed on the back of the American dollar bill since 1935. The phrase also appears on the coat of arms of the Yale School of Management, Yale University's business school. The phrase is often mistranslated as "New World Order".
* nug graf: a paragraph, particularly in a feature story, that explains the news value of the story. The term is also spelled as nut graf,
* nugatory: of no value or importance
* numinous: filled with a sense of the presence of divinity
* Numismatic: study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.
* nunc pro tunc: now for then
* nurnies greeble: a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest to a surface or object, particularly in movie special effects.
11 comments:
The n word was last in the news when a comedian slash talk show host used it referring to the president. The word it seems has lost its power to shock and awe. The reaction to its use was muted.
I will ask that we don't use it here. Please.
I like how Chip avoid it by using the word vocabulary, instead of the word word... Word.
In the beguiling was the word and the word was... Reminds me of another Chip post. The one of Tom Wolfes lecture donde I first came upon his word homoloquax.
If you have not read it I suggest you drop everything and google it. It's just an expression.
The haters here are currently focused on hating Mexicans, so I think Negroes are safe from them...for now. Back in the 90's, my kids thought saying "Negro" was the same as saying, "Nigger." They learned that in school.
It is telling, that the biggest hater of Mexicans here lives in an area w/ some of the lowest % of Mexicans. But, he is a big shot authority on all things Mexican.
My mother in law's affectionate nickname for my father is negro.
I have to continuously attach the racial connotations to it for it mean something other than affection.
Lem, I don't know how old you are. But, I am 63. In my lifetime, the PC term has been, in this order; colored, Negro, black, Afro-American, African American. My thoughts are, "black" makes the most sense to me so that's what I use. Regarding your dad being called "Negro." As long as the United Negro College Fund exists, it's ludicrous for anyone to take offense. Then there's the NAACP. Damn, "colored people" left the building when I was in grammar school. It was 'Negro' during most of my youth. MLK was a 'Negro.' Malcolm X changed it to "black."
Off topic, but this got a belly laugh out of me.
This is not about the n-word. GAWL! *flounces off*
Pepper your conversations with any of those and you too can talk like George Will.
Rabel, LOL! But, would he fuck the gorilla?
Neibuhr - yeah I remember that guy. When i was young he was always mentioned as some sort of great thinker. So in College, I got a lot of his books and sat down and read them.
And I read: Blah,blah,blah,blah. obvious point. Blah,blah,blah,blah.
I discovered that I don't care about detailed Philosophy or Theology. Just give me the clift notes version. And that Neibuhr was just another phony leftist who used his religion to push his politics.
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