Word For The Day: COCTILE

2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words | 12/23/15 | Norman Schur

[Louis Foxwell]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

coctile [COCK tuhl]

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adjective

Here is a word virtually unused in modern language with a deep and long history of very common usage.
Coctile means simply "heated" as in a stew or a baked brick. The Latin derivation is to cook, bake, boil or roast.
Ovid used to word to describe the walls of Babylon in the sense of "made of baked brick."
The Latin noun coctio gave us coction, boiling, cooking, which, in the old days, denoted the attainment of a more nearly perfect, more mature or generally more desirable state, either through natural processes or through human processes such as the application of heat, and, more specifically, the digestion of food.
We might use the word today to denote refined by fire or thrust into the fire and made pure. Concoction and concocted are modern derivatives.

[Louis Foxwell]

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[o_1_2_3__]

omg just imagine if Donald Trump said this!

[o_1_2_3__]

“Hillary’s performance at the debate was positively coctile, Trump said.”

[G Larry]

This didn’t come up just because of Donald’s “shlonged” comment did it?

[Louis Foxwell]

I submit to you the proposition that Donald Trump is a coctile agent capable of burning his opponents into ash or purifying them. The character of the opponent determines the consequence of encountering his ire. Awards are in the offing Wed in the mid morning.

[ClearCase_guy]

Hillary knows that a presidential debate will be a long, hard affair. She may need a stiff drink to get her out on stage — but if that debate gets coctile, Trump will naturally have an advantage. The man makes many good points and he sure can drive home the big ones.

[tioga]

I take one day off to catch up on shopping and the whole world goes mad...well Trump and Hillary, anyway. Finally catching up on the campaign gossip and it is hilarious. LMAO

[WENDLE]

I think the word of the day is “ SCHLONGRED”. Great word. It means “badly defeated”.

[digger48]

"I meed amoffer coctile"

[changeitback440]

winner

[Pollster1]

My favorite coctile concoctions include cocktails like hot apple cider, cranberry wassail, and hot buttered rum.

Hot apple cider:
6 cups apple cider
1/4 cup real maple syrup
2 cinnamon sticks
6 whole allspice berries
1 orange peel, cut into strips
1 lemon peel, cut into strips
heat 5-10 minutes without boiling, add 1 cup rum just before serving

Cranberry wassail:
1/2 gallon apple cider
1/2 gallon cranberry juice
1 cup lemon juice
1 large orange, thinly sliced
24 whole cloves
1/4 cup clover honey
1/2 cup white sugar
4 cinnamon sticks
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Garnish:
12 fresh mint leaves
12 orange slices for garnish
simmer 10-15 minutes, add one cup bourbon or whiskey just before serving

Hot buttered rum:
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 (16 ounce) package confectioners’ sugar, sifted
1 pound light brown sugar, packed
1 quart vanilla ice cream, softened
cream the butter and the sugars together until smooth, add the softened ice cream and mix until a creamy consistency is obtained, Place a heaping 2 tablespoons of the frozen mix in a highball glass or coffee mug, Add 1 to 2 tablespoons dark rum, Pour over the mix 6 ounces of boiling water and stir until the mixture is melted, Sprinkle top with cinnamon or nutmeg and serve

[Rembrandt]

I suspect use of “coctile” in public would be treated equally well as “niggardly” was treated in Congress.

[Ken H]

...in the old days, denoted the attainment of a more nearly perfect, more mature or generally more desirable state, either through natural processes or through human processes such as the application of heat, and, more specifically, the digestion of food.

I never thought digestion made food more desirable.

[SAJ]

Perhaps. However, I believe he's an agent of Spike Jones.

Surely you remember Jones' marvelous treatment of the old tune, "Coctiles for Two"?

[Organic Panic]

Hillary’s coctile fury over Donald Trumps niggardly use of the word “shlonged” to describe the beating she received from Obama in 2008 has driven the democrat establishment in to lamentations of horror.

Hey Hillary, I got yer coctile right here.

[HerrBlucher]

When Hillary got schlonged by Obama, she went into a coctile rage, had several cocktails, fell down, and was cold cocked.

[Jet Jaguar]

Well done.

[FlyingEagle]

Yup, Bingo!

[StormEye]

I learned a new word the other day from a 1940's movie
"The Wicked Lady" starring James Mason and Margaret Lockwood.

Doxy: mistress, loose woman, lover (female):
As in: "Monica Lewinsky was Bill Clinton's doxy."
I'm going to incorporate this new (really old)
word/term into my vocabulary.
I'm just going love casually & indifferently dropping it at parties.

[Covenantor]

...add poxy to doxy and you’ll have them clutching their pearls and gasping.