Posted on 08/30/2011 4:50:08 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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".
frigorific [frig-uh-rif-ik]
-adj
Causing or producing cold
[1660–70; < Latin frīgorificus cooling, equivalent to frīgor- (stem of frīgus ) cold + -i- -i- + -ficus -fic ]
A little chilly this morning.
was 63 degs on the way in, and felt GREAT! had the sunroof open. i love fall, it’s my fave season and it’s imminent!
The sight of the TOTUS has a frigorific effect on my soul.
this sounds like a fake word btw,
Doesn’t it? It was in an article on dictionary.com about words that might be dropped from the dictionary.
Are you using Bart Simpson’s dictionary again? ;)
Hope it won’t be TOO cold for Halloween this year, bc that makes for a friggin’ frigorific frightnight.
LOL!
i like it!
I agree with XS and SG - this definitely sounds made up and i love it! Why haven’t we had this word before? It’s freaking frigorific in some parts of the world but still blazing here!
Al Gore Says All the Snow is Because of Global Warming
Record Cold across the Northland (Paging Al Gore)
Global Warming Stats And Claims Rejected By Scientific Review
Obama“very clear about putting a price on carbon" Everyone must pay!
Snow grounds 800 flights across Europe
Collapse of Chicago Climate Exchange Means a Strategy Shift on Global Warming Curbs (ALGORE SELLS!)
The Original Enviro Nazis were Nazis
A VERY inconvenient truth: Al Gore 'left car engine running during hour-long environment lecture'
The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud (Cap-And-Trade and CCX)
Gore gives Romney kudos for acknowledging climate change (EPIC BARF ALERT)
67 this morning. High predicted of 97 in Flatland.
I believe Dancing With the Stars has finally jumped the shark. Nancy Grace, Chaz Bono and Ron Artess are guesting this season. Hope Capt. Ahab doesn’t throw a harpoon at Chaz or Nancy.
i have never watched that show in my life and am not likely to, but CHAZ bono is freak show scary!
The guy is great, no question.
The argument about you don’t choose the time, the time chooses you, is far more accurate in his context, than Cong. Ryan.
I’d turn out Perry like a 2 dollar ho, if he declared.
No friggin in the riggin’
Only a year and a half and we can turn out SCOAMF from the White House.
1/21/13 the End of an Error.
Brilliant line from that article!
Haha love it!
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