This Word Does Not Exist • Hacker News Board

spondylosaurus wrote: post #77

jandrese wrote: post #59

Hmm. I got a word that already exists, and worse the definition is horrific. flunkie a woman whose weight is too low for her skin to cover "a skinny flunkie from around the world" https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/flunkie/eyJ3IjogImZsd...

Never heard it in that context (which is awful for sure), but "flunkie" is commonly used to mean a lackey or other low-level obsequious worker. Almost like a henchman: the regional sales manager and his army of door-to-door flunkies.

That is written as flunkey. Different spelling.

Re: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by tough » Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:43 PM UTC

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #73

tough wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That smashing is called portmanteau in french

...and a guy who invents those is called a portmanbreau.

HAHAHA that made me laugh you're a portmanbreau now

Re: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:43 PM UTC

paulddraper wrote: post #82

It generates existing words: trinitarium: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/KNY9 proglyococcus: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/dquv nonrecursive: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/uALs I am somewhat amused by this one, which is the opposite of what I would have chosen: > adverb. > thriftyly > in an unusually generous or generous way > "they paid thriftyly to church" https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/PgbQ

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Post by andrew___ » Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:44 PM UTC

the ultimate balderdash cheat sheet

Re: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by ghostoftiber » Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:45 PM UTC

goatlover wrote: post #42

ghostoftiber wrote: post #39

I don't really understand this myself. Language is either comprised of loan-words, which are words which follow another language's rules, or it has its own rules for composing words. I tried a bunch of reloads and got plausible words, mostly following latin and greek word roots with some extra decorators. Lots of un- and -ers. Simply because the word isn't popular enough to be in a dictionary doesn't mean the word do…

A word only exists when other people start using the word. Language is social.

fr fr no cap bro

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Post by groestl » Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:48 PM UTC

s1mon wrote: post #63

I couldn't help not putting a request into GPT4. I got some pretty good ones, and I assume with some tweaking and/or multiple cycles, you could get a big list. >Flambition (noun): The intense desire to achieve success or recognition through flamboyant or showy behavior. Example: His flambition led him to wear outrageous outfits and perform daring stunts in front of the crowd. Cellivacious (adjective): Displaying a li…

All those words now exist!

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Post by lloeki » Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:50 PM UTC

wpietri wrote: post #37

Those who like this may also enjoy "Shelfbrain: Holy Trinity of Human Spelling", which is a physical dictionary of LLM-hallucinated words: https://shelfbrain.com/

heh.

https://shelfbrain.com/?q=emacs

> an abbreviation of "electronic calculator"

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Post by Terr_ » Mon, May 15, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

BeetleB wrote: post #83

spondylosaurus wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never heard it in that context (which is awful for sure), but "flunkie" is commonly used to mean a lackey or other low-level obsequious worker. Almost like a henchman: the regional sales manager and his army of door-to-door flunkies.

That is written as flunkey. Different spelling.

I've never seen it as that either. (So neither "flunkey" nor "flunkie".)

AFAIK it's "flunky". (Plural "flunkies")