Previously discussed 2 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776 (417 comments)
This Word Does Not Exist
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#92I 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!
Interestingly, a couple do show up in Urbandictionary [0][1], but the rest only show up in my post. Shockingly, Google has already indexed it.
[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flambitious
[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grumplestilt...
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#93I 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…
Add the constraint that the word shouldn't be a portmanteau.
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#94Earlier 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 seen it as "flunkie" (singular) as well, though it may not be standard.
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#95If it has been spoken, it is a word.
I think it maybe needs to have been spoken with the intent to communicate or express a somewhat specific thing. Like, a couple seconds ago I vocalized the sounds “xzoubadoo”, but I didn’t attach any particular meaning to it, it was just an arbitrary collection of syllables, “spoken” to demonstrate a point, but without the intent that the sounds stand for anything. I don’t think “xzoubadoo” is really a word. At least,…
So the definition is a meaningless sound.
When one plays EAs The Sims games it's tempting to try to hear meaning in the sounds constantly emitted by the virtual folks but it's just xzoubadoo.
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#96I 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…
This word DOES exist!
> Grumplestiltskin (noun): Don't be a Grumplestiltskin
In fact, I use this literal phrase frequently with my kids.
(Also, but less frequently, with my partner)
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#97I 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…
> Confluderation (noun): The act of creating a temporary or makeshift solution to a problem by combining unrelated elements in a haphazard manner. Example: The broken chair was held together by a confluderation of duct tape, string, and clothespins.
The example basically describes all fixes make in the army. Black tape[0] and green string[1].
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#98Earlier 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.
Merriam-Webster has it as a less common spelling.
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#99vitanda
a colorless liquid made by evaporation and, especially, by distillation or burning
"the vitanda was red"
the basic monetary unit of Pakistan, equal to 100 grammes
"the country is one of the few Southeast Asian countries remaining without an official kashmirang"
a metal object or container with a groove or recess, used in treating large quantities of liquids, especially by dissolving them in water
"a plastic terpent disc"
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#100I 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…
I laughed a bit at "doughball - ball of dough".