It sounds like it ought to be an English word

November 17, 2022 10:28 PM

Lyre's Dictionary generates new English words based on existing roots and patterns. I found it through its Mastodon bot but it also has a Twitter bot (for now) and an RSS feed.
posted by gentlyepigrams (10 comments total)

bibible · adjective
able to be drunk

I am certainly bibible. Here, I'll show you!
posted by Literaryhero at 11:26 PM on November 17, 2022 [5 favorites]

Heh - Literaryhero's example made me wonder if imbibible or imbibable is already a word. I felt sure it must be, but I guess if only Wiktionary has it that's a no.

Now I've gone down a "when is it -able and when is it -ible" rabbithole. According to Grammarist this should be bibable, because new words always take -able, not -ible.

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But somehow, and rather wonderfully in my book, the top result for my Google search, which was: ible or able suffix is this random PDF upload from a UK primary school (perhaps skewed because I'm in the UK). My read of this doc is that bibible would be correct because bib isn't itself a word (not in this sense at least).

Thanks for sharing. I've given the Masto account a follow which, judging by how my morning is going so far, is probably a really bad idea.
posted by nthdegx at 12:38 AM on November 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

"I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."
posted by crocomancer at 2:12 AM on November 18, 2022 [2 favorites]

This just showed up on my Facebook feed and I came here to share it with MetaFilter but it was already here.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:25 AM on November 18, 2022

Oh, this is GREAT.

I got

morsive · adjective
given to biting

and

cogniture · noun
The result of knowing

and some great word about the quality of being red that I didn't copy.

Oh, and from the feed:

panous (adj)
full of bread

And AAAAAAHHH! You can download the source code!

This is really, really wonderful. Thank you so much for posting it, gentlyepigrams!
posted by kristi at 8:19 AM on November 18, 2022 [2 favorites]

Reminds me of The Meaning of Liff.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 2:06 PM on November 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

They’re cromulent words, Bront.
posted by darkstar at 4:40 PM on November 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

I didn't care for "pesterity: the quality of being pertaining to plague."

Pesterity should mean when your kids are being annoying.
posted by transient at 6:36 AM on November 19, 2022 [1 favorite]

If they're plaguing you, it will work.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:16 AM on November 19, 2022

There's at least 4 words in the feed from the last day that are real words - aperture, preternatural, athlete, and refer - I'm not sure if that validates the validity of the generated words or indicates insufficient QA filtering.
posted by gible at 10:42 PM on November 19, 2022