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.

[super7man]

Hey mate, here in Australia we prefer a Foster’s any day over a coctile.

[Jack Hammer]

“Every nait befowa dinna, I have a coctile,” said the man from Melbourne.

[afraidfortherepublic]

The rhetoric against the Omnibus Bill on FRee Republic has been downright cocktile.

[afraidfortherepublic]

“Doxy” is used frequently in British dramas on PBS and in Murdoch the 1890s detective series from Canada.

[MoochPooch]

Definitely a coctile argument:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3375515/posts?q=1&;page=1

[Old Sarge]

For The Win!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Barack’s plans—half-baked, semi-coctile
Will keep the US deep in hock ‘til
Welfare is ended
Entitlements mended
Repubbies do nothing but mock, ‘til ...

[Travis T. OJustice]

Coctile cocktail weenies with my coctails make me feel all nice and coctile inside.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The rooster laid the farmer’s stone driveway every sunny winter day ...

The hens were confused (they would have preferred to be laid themselves) but he wanted to be, well, warm and cocktiled.

[Louis Foxwell]

Some words are better left dead. After careful consideration of the varied usages of “coctile” as presented by some of our most gleeful FR bards, I am firmly convinced this is such a one.
I hereby declare today’s “word” open season on silly, bawdy and inane and will award entries accordingly.

[tioga]

Trump's coctile comments did Hillary sting
Causing a meltdown that left a ring
In her cocktail glass
the woman has no class
Can't Hillary's fat lady just already sing?

...her cocky cocktail

[tioga]

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[Louis Foxwell]

An heroic effort. 9 coctails for you:

[Louis Foxwell]

2 coctails for you.

[Louis Foxwell]

No, actually, the word just popped into my view, probably due to the ethers influence.

[Louis Foxwell]

Excellent usage. A panoply of libations for you

[Louis Foxwell]

Heated it will be.

[Louis Foxwell]

Good digging digger48. A tribute to Hill(hick)ary.

[Louis Foxwell]

I dare say you are correct.

[Louis Foxwell]

Only one for you. But it's a beauty.