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Guess the Word Game XI

The Guess the Word Game is back!  This time with a prize :-)

Posted by Marina on January 6, 2009 · Filed under Lessons  

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  2. vshagios says:
    155
    January 8, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Hacker would be correct. The most famous hacker I can name is:

    Stephen Wozniak: “Woz” is famous for being the “other Steve” of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. He has been awarded with the National Medal of Technology as well as honorary doctorates from Kettering University and Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, Woz was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000.

  3. bd3md says:
    154
    January 8, 2009 at 11:35 am

    concerning my request for Bulima, Anorexia, and Appetite and your reply “those words are too depressing”, It is the time of year that weight issues are foremost in many minds, and sexy/ thin/ models often struggle with these issues. Therefore, I ask you to reconsider and address these words as a socially responsible gift… openly saying and explaining the words, from the mouth of a thin beautiful woman, well, that will help bring awareness to these issues. Thanks ,, Dr. Dudney, Psychiatrist in Tampa

    • CampKohler - Sacramento CA says:
      154.1
      January 8, 2009 at 11:44 am

      I was just joking about it being depressing. Gastro-intestinal words are right at the top of my list. :lol:

      BTW, Doctor, howsabout adding your city to your HFW nickname so you don’t have to type it in each time?

      1. Click Dashboard at the top of the page
      2. Click Profile
      3. In Nickname re-type your name, a hyphen and Tampa
      4. Click Update Profile
      5. From the Display name publicly as menu, choose your new nickname with the city in it.
      6. Click Update Profile

  4. CampKohler - Sacramento CA says:
    153
    January 8, 2009 at 11:00 am

    :?: After considering everyone else’s thinking on the game, I have to admit that I can’t figure it out. I just hope that when the answer is revealed, we don’t wind up using the :shock: smiley because absolutely none of us agrees with it, i.e. we think she blew it entirely. That is always a possibility if we consider her to be human and not the infallible goddess we would like her to be. Perhaps by writing this and preparing you for the worst it might cushion the great fall should it turn out to be true. Oh, horrors! Am I being realistic or merely pessimistic?

  5. leonard says:
    152
    January 8, 2009 at 9:24 am

    If the answer is hacker; I think some of the HOTFORWORDS TA’s could stand to reason. The capital of the Republic of Lexicon and the inhabitants of Etymologia; asks for an investigation? Why would computer geeks want to tresspass; are not they our friends? :evil: :twisted: :lol:

  6. kaibanator says:
    151
    January 8, 2009 at 7:44 am

    My initial guess was something along the lines of _ANGLE.

    After reading some of the answers and reasonings here, I will also guess HACKER.

    You’re just too clever for us marina :smile:

  7. BillyB says:
    150
    January 7, 2009 at 11:45 pm

    Hacker pretty much describes my Gardening, Golf, Hockey & phishing skill-set.

  8. James says:
    149
    January 7, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    omg its 7am here i am awake at like… america time……….

    I wont be back until sunday (and we like it that way)

    TC everyone :smile:

    I hope to hell its not -X C outside

  9. mevtcc says:
    148
    January 7, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    DUH!!!! I forgot about the clue of the second letter being “a”. Sorry! :oops:

  10. neuroway says:
    147
    January 7, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    To be honest, I have no freaking idea of what that word can be! The only thing I could guess (after moultes réflexions) is that the second letter of this word is an “a”. Yes indeed, I am absolutely positively sure that the second letter is an “a”. I think I also glimmered on a pinko-grey “U” or was it a “V”, on some sort of weird black backgrounded lexical construction. It popped up in my brain, out of nowhere. I don’t know why this happened. Probably some spurius irrelevant neuronal connection that has nothing to do with the word in question.

  11. mevtcc says:
    146
    January 7, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Is the word “plough”? Remove the “p” to get lough, which is a lake or other type of body of water…lough fisherman? Just a guess and nothing more. A type of plough would be, say, a share plough, or sokha, to name a couple. Can’t fudge the “illegal” bit from all this, however. Thanks for the help with the log in! PS: How about tackling the word “onomatopoeia”? :smile:

  12. dashj2 says:
    145
    January 7, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    I think I may have you stumped, Marina. I’ve asked for this word before:

    “copacetic”

    Any ideas? It’s an interesting word that has fallen out of popular use, and its origins are shrouded in mystery.

    Have I stumped you?

    • nicfits says:
      145.1
      January 7, 2009 at 9:28 pm

      Latin; co = together, pac = peace, the suffix etic means of or pertaining to. If that helps any. Just another hybrid word so doubt there is any story to it, but who knows.

    • Marina says:
      145.2
      January 8, 2009 at 9:35 am

      There doesn’t seem to be any known origin of the word. It appears to have originated in the United States… perhaps the word cope plays a part.. but that is about all I can find. It was probably just made up by someone as a word that sounds cool.

      • CampKohler - Sacramento CA says:
        145.2.1
        January 8, 2009 at 10:41 am

        cop = policeman
        acetic = vinegar

        The word’s original meaning was an angry policeman, but like many words, the meaning was turned around entirely and now means “everything is OK.” This is probably due entirely to the sound of the word, which has a peaceful, almost whimsical sound to it. It is as though the sound overrode the harsh meaning. There are many such words in English.

        Take bunny, for example. Bunny originally meant to kill by ripping the flesh off the body with red-hot pinchers dipped in battery acid. Now, of course, it is just a cute, fluffy rabbit. Another example would be kitten, which originally meant to rub ground glass into the eyes until blind, but now is a little baby cat. Finally, a Marina was once a place where innocent boat owners were driven from their berths out into the cruel, wintery sea by money-grubbing landlords who unnecessarily raised slip rents far above what was fair and sufficiently profitable. Now, Marina means a soft, sexy blonde woman. Go figure.

        It’s true, I tell you.

      • dashj2 says:
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        January 8, 2009 at 3:19 pm

        I’ve read that it’s an Americanism, likely originating between 1915-1920. I heard it used most recently on the television show ‘Mad Men’, which is set in the 1960s.

        I really like the word. It sounds more sophisticated than “fine” or “okay”, and is fun to use because it is so rarely uttered these days.

        I suppose it may just be a hybrid word, but I’d be interested to know who first coined it.

        Thanks, Marina!

      • thotcop2 says:
        145.2.3
        January 10, 2009 at 10:45 am

        I get from creole > coupesetique….capable of being coped with

    • animalntaz says:
      145.3
      January 8, 2009 at 2:45 pm

      I never heard that word before. :?:

  13. bd3md says:
    144
    January 7, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    HotForWords, I am a psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders and cosmetic weight loss. Can you explain the words Bulimia, Anorexia, and Appetite? Thanks, Dr. Dudney in Tampa

  14. hott4urblog says:
    143
    January 7, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Hi ya Marina; You’re stunningly beautiful as always. Since angler is also six letters my best guess is the word TAMPER minus one letter (M) and TAPER is a sort of fisherman. Tampering is illegal and a fisherman with a tapered rod could be considered a Taper Fisherman esp. if he is fishing for tapers. Love your videos. C-Ya

  15. Dark Ether says:
    142
    January 7, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Gonna go with “hacker”. My example is Wozniak.

  16. beaugosse says:
    141
    January 7, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Dear Marina, I am tempted by the verb “Tackle” because of it’s nautical meaning when it is used as a noun ! But how to make a link with this : ” walking with hoses ? ” eh ! Ok that was just a trial !

  17. karar says:
    140
    January 7, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    word request: “NOOB“

  18. raedwulf says:
    139
    January 7, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Dangler has seven letters, Harlot would work except what type of fisherman. I give up.

  19. animalntaz says:
    138
    January 7, 2009 at 10:42 am

    This is the only other option I thought up yesterday that makes since:

    HACKER

    I looked up haker, but there is no mention of it as being a type of fisherman (Or even if it is a real word at all). Although there are different types of hake fish.

  20. signal_jam says:
    137
    January 7, 2009 at 10:03 am

    I guess hacker makes the most sense but I tried searching for a one letter removed word but couldnt make any good connections.

  23. kit-p says:
    134
    January 7, 2009 at 9:05 am

    Oh, another request if the last one is too hard/boring. The word is douche :wink: As a Russian you probably wondered already about its relation to the Russian word душ, which is pronounced in the same way but means ’shower’ so its semantic similarity to the English cognate is very high too. But what served as the original source: that would be interesting to know.

  24. originalistrick says:
    133
    January 7, 2009 at 9:03 am

    OH MY…GOODNESS, MARINA, YOU LITTLE NEW YEAR’S ANGEL/VIXEN!!!!!
    I was just going through my email and came to your New Years card.
    You are SPECTACULAR!!! What a great surprise! Thank you so much!
    Always.

  25. kit-p says:
    132
    January 7, 2009 at 8:36 am

    Marina, I have a word request. Actually a morpheme request: the prefix RE- as in rewrite, redo, etc. Is it a gramaticalized form of the preposition OVER? If so, what is the preceding form, a noun maybe? How far ago can you trace it and prove relation to Modern Russian forms, such as CHEREZ, PERE- (через, пере-) if there is any. I think everyone will be interested in how what we think of grammar developes from words and how even such distant languages as English and Russian have so much in common even on the grammatical level.

  26. leonard says:
    131
    January 7, 2009 at 8:34 am

    It kinda cool that Marina is repeating Hotforwords site quotes as I add this paste from WIKI ( Liebling is remembered for many quotes and aphorisms, such as:

    “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
    “People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” ) HotForWords Is our Press and God Bless Marina :lol:

  27. raedwulf says:
    130
    January 7, 2009 at 8:28 am

    Marina: My guess is Dangler. Someone who offers something. drop a letter and you get angler.

    If I win, I would love an autographed photo :)

  28. John says:
    129
    January 7, 2009 at 8:24 am

    Nap time for me Later Marina

  29. garydonpowell says:
    128
    January 7, 2009 at 8:16 am

    ANGLER

  30. leonard says:
    127
    January 7, 2009 at 8:14 am

    Hacking on my cigarette***While I dream of spring hoeing and a hacker of weeds, but, I leave all the flowers grow so much as not to cut any plants out of the picture, I’ll bet if I slaved myself too much, I would legally mulch. They say only one wife at a time and wives are legal. I’m netting with a dip net, for the seine was waited(weighed) with a trollop(slut for money) mind. As I troll; I lure. :roll: HACKER and fishing in the dark

  31. kit-p says:
    126
    January 7, 2009 at 8:05 am

    Марина, с Рождеством вас!!!

  32. James says:
    125
    January 7, 2009 at 7:58 am

    MARINA HOW DID YOU SURVIVE RUSSIA!!

  33. whitenigger says:
    124
    January 7, 2009 at 7:58 am

    pander

  34. James says:
    123
    January 7, 2009 at 7:57 am

    I am going to start playing tomb raider again. I have been stuck on it and gave up… I must complete it !!!

  35. kit-p says:
    122
    January 7, 2009 at 7:56 am

    My wild guess is WANKER (relation to hoes is metaphorical :wink: plus it’s not really illegal unless you do it in public :lol: ) > WAKER (as been suggested earlier this word has some distant relation to fishing, as an example a fishing lure can be called fish waker and by metaphorical extension the fisherman using lurers/wakers can be caller a waker too, or the one using a dynamite to wake all the fish from the pond :wink:

  36. James says:
    121
    January 7, 2009 at 7:46 am

    It is soooooooooo cold.. It was -10 yesterday… That was colder than GREENLAND!! and i’m in the south(warmest part) of the UK!!!

    I am going to freeze to death. Thank god the cat is on the bed! I have my legs wrapped round him.. AHH we are keeping each other warm. I AM SO COLD!! :brrrr:

    • originalistrick says:
      121.1
      January 7, 2009 at 7:54 am

      I can’t imagine what that must be like. Here in the hill country of central Texas is the farthest north I’ve ever lived. Experienced countless triple-digit temperatures, but I’d probably break like a glass rod in that cold.

      • James says:
        121.1.1
        January 7, 2009 at 7:56 am

        I remember a few years ago when we got triple digit temps… Sweat was going in my eyes and making them sting… It is really cold… But my bedroom is freezing… I think outside is warmer actually… I will have to go outside and check now
        !

        • leonard says:
          121.1.1.1
          January 7, 2009 at 8:21 am

          Think warm thoughts…freezing frees bad things, I was told more hacking today is legal, depending for the agency of our insitutional work force and demonicracrasting…keep warm jimmy

    • Bob says:
      121.2
      January 7, 2009 at 9:45 am

      The coldest I ever experienced when I was in Greenland was -50.
      When you go outside in that temperature, you take just one breath and all the hairs in your nose freeze rigid; it’s a very weird feeling.

    • Evan Owen says:
      121.3
      January 7, 2009 at 2:26 pm

      -10 in England??? That’s GOTTA be Celsius. Next you’ll be telling me you’re measuring distance in “clicks” like the Canadians! :sad:

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