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📍 Zaanstad (near Amsterdam), Netherlands

Member since September 2004

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Fix for the Expert issues after the server change:

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For babble idiom: see below, beneath the babble dictionary.
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Babble dictionary!

Here's the start of our very own dictionary, consisting of new words (words that should be words) that we found in the grids. Do you have one for me? Please email me at the email address below.
(and yes, ok, I cheat a little bit... the occasional special word, thought up by a babbler, is allowed in too. As is a great alternative definition for an existing word)

actifist - militant protester
adbad - a really terrible television commercial
adolt - mature but batty
aeolips - lips which last a long time when kissing
aeropigs - if 'pigs will fly' they would be called this
agecap - the age at which you decide not to age any further
agrue - agree to something horrible
airduo - the pilot & co-pilot
airhare - flying bunny
airnet - protective covering for cockney in food service industry
airpest - a flying bug at a picnic (flying ants, in particular), or mosquitos
airpen - like an air guitar but for wannabe writers
airpet - Polly who wants a cracker
airseed - like the dandelion's ones
airtest - what pilots must go through
alehate - a phobia or unreasoning hatred of beer
amigod - being real close friends with your divine power
animust - animal you definitely need to have (or be)
antiale - a teetotaller
antidaft - prosmart
antiept - intentionally inept
antimob - when you hate rowdy groups of people
antinot - yes
antipal - enemy
antiperson - a hermit
antisore - not into pain
argree - keep debating even though you agree
aromint - the smell of mint
arterust - someone with 1. clodded veins; 2. a high haemoglobin
anticod - against marine edible fish
anticow - 1. someone who is against bovines; 2. vaccine against madcow disease
anyseed - any seed except aniseed
ashoric - beachy
assologist - someone who studies the baser side of man
artlit - illuminated by artificial means
awart - prize for worst speller

bedlost - when you wake up in the middle of the night all tangled up in your sheets
beefrest - a brief experiment with a vegetarian diet
borrown - keep as your property something you borrowed, borrow with the intention of not giving it back (I lost a lot of books to that)
Brattain - where the UK spoilt children live
brattle - fight with spoilt children
bustang - wild tits

canapa - 1. question asked by grandchild; 2. elderly men who play cards
canariel - the archangel who didn't make it into the Bible for being too yellow (and for singing too well)
candorm - being open about where you sleep
capony - 1. cross between a cockerel and a horse; 2. what Al Capone called his horse
capow - a hat that is too tight
carnist - meat eater
cashort - lack of coins
catpat - when your cat touches your face to tell you it is time to get up and feed him/her
catrance - the total concentration with which a cat studies its prey
catso - a very obese cat
catspot - a place in the house your cat believes is exclusively for cats, so basically every spot in your house
cattic - top floor especially for felines
chattee - your online conversation partner
chuffaw - combines a chuckle with a guffaw
citiot: a tourist that is often dangerous, disruptive of the environment and those around him/her and does not care
citree - grows lemons
climator - weather forecaster for the long run
coage - grow old together
codish - fishlike
coities - the bondage people use them
coitire - become sex-fatigued
coitise - have a coitus
coitox - intercourse with a very poisonous person
cojanes - ballsy woman
colanda - someone with dual citizenship
conart - what a con artist does
confuzzled - puzzled and confused
conmaid - female conman
connup - someone who believes they can make YOU believe that down is up
conweed - looks like a weed, but once removed you realize it was a plant you intended to keep
cooshie - a very cute butt
coscar - someone who wins an oscar with you
cowhen - gives milk and eggs
cowlet - baby cow
crampon - the ultimate curse you can wish on a woman
crediot - someone so stupid they will believe anything
cursorate - how fast your cursor blinks

darnese - speak with lots of curses
darnist - moderate curser
datacop - cybercrime policeman
debatic - inclined to argue
decadead - passed away 10 years ago
dechi - to steal someone's energy
dehat - remove your (you guessed it) hat
dekilt - what a male scottish stripper does
demop - what happens to the floor when the kids run through
denap - teach yourself to do without a nap
densa - Mensa's secret society for stupid people
densor - someone who makes you feel/act stupid
dentism - belief in dentists
depath - lose your way
depale - regain your colour
dequeen - abdication of a female royal ruler
dequish - unflatten something
deslim - make fat
desort - mess up
detan - what happens to your skin after your vacation is over
detear - with a comforting hanky
detike - when the children move out
dewig - to pull someone's hair off
diddicult - even harder than difficult
digent - prince charles
diggity - as in "hot diggity, dog diggity, ooh what you do to me..."
dipside - where it is lowest
dogre - ill-mannered and ugly canine
driet - limited intake of drinks
dunette - girl with big breasts
duoplane - pilot & co pilot

earanal - being morbidly fastidious about otic hygiene
earfun - listening to good music
earpen - where you keep your earpet
earpet - domesticated earworm
ecocarn - environment-friendly meat
eelkiss - similar to fish lips, but with more saliva/slime
eerist - someone who is into scary stuff
egotape - special duct tape designed to shut up selfish people (or teenagers)
emerce - commerce conducted on the internet
encow - to force someone to have cows
endiet - the diet to end all diets, or the one that kills you
ennude - undress
ensib - to take someone as a brother or sister
ensnot: to sneeze all over somebody
eonice - pleasant for a very long time
epidemon - a very scary contagious disease
eristotl - sister of aris
eronude - undress for erotic purposes
erotise - woo sexually
erotop - the most sexy people in the world
erotoy - fun item used during sex
erratize - confuse someone to the point where errors are inevitable
erronist - someone who makes a lot of mistakes
eureate - change your valuta for euros
europine - needle tree that only grows in Europe, by some (mistakenly) said to bear money
evadism - the skill to never answer a question directly (politicians are masters at this)
ewwy - rather yucky
extradead - what a zombie is once you've blown its brains out

fadish - slowly fading fetish
fanjoy - 1. what a football follower feels when their team wins; 2. what an observer might feel when the fan dancer drops her fan
fargunmen - snipers
fatish - being turned-on by overweight people
fatone - to make amends for overeating
feetish - being overly fond of feet
femall - shopping place exclusively for ladies
femanice - womanly pleasant
feminar - a seminar for women only
femir - female emir (also femeer)
fessay - written composition of confessions
figman - he comes bearing his fruits
finiquito - tell them in one word you are finished and done with it
firtue - righteous needle tree
foneting: writing stuff down exactly the way you pronounce it
foodept - good at eating or cooking (or both)
footneedy - said of people with a foot fetish
forepeek - preview
funnice - make funny
futilia - things that don't matter
framily - friends and family you love
friendsex - like a booty call

garf - the sound a cat or dog makes trying to get rid of a hairball
gentrify - for a woman to have a gender change
genyus - thinks he is smart but cannot spell
germit - highly unsanitary recluse
giftable - being fit to give as a present
glub - inverted bulge
gnarlic - a rather knotty garlic
goatic - black goat
gratist - someone who wants to get everything for free
grislam - when a beautiful religion is turned into a terrifying one
grok - verb, to understand by intuition or empathy. Lit. to drink. (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a strange land)
gutsnort - laughing from the belly with your mouth shut
gyncap - the diaphragm used for contraception

hairtent - where brides go to get their hair done
hallost - when you lose your way halfway through greeting
hangry - so hungry you turn angry
hardiet - very tough food regime
hattle - put on your hat
hawnt - goldie's ghost
heartsure - being certain in your heart
heiry - hirsute successor
hegan - someone who doesn't eat men (similar: shegan)
heptet - singing group of 7
herologies - anthologies of heroic tales
hesitent - not too sure about camping out
hidman - assassin who stays in hiding
highfly - nerdish guy who pulls up his zipper to his chin
hocust - magic grasshoppers
homicile - where a killer lives
homus - a house made out of garbanzo bean cans
hormom - mother hitting menopause
hormony - when all the hormones in your body are working together
horsea - why call it a seahorse if you can make it shorter?
hubra - a breast enhancer that gives you the mistaken conviction that you have divine boobs
hyman - male hymen

ignorita - a spanish girl you don't pay attention to
impsex - when elves get together
innercon - fooling yourself
innernet - even more private internet than the intranet
innertrot - so restless you can't keep still inside
innies - belly buttons that are not bulging out
insism - the habit of keeping on making your case
interdick - casual (male) sex partner in between relationships
iratant - so irritating it drives you spitting mad
ironite - rocks that contain iron
irontits - female footballer
itchoo - a sneeze from an irritated nose

kidsit - babysitting 10 year olds
korf - a posh person saying 'cough'
kreetch - sound of nails over blackboard

ladar - a talent for spotting ladies
lemount - a whole lot of lemons
litl - very small
litracy - being well-read doesn't mean you can spell
lockart - the key to success
loggism - a serious complaint suffered by lumberjacks, caused by not enough roughage in the diet
lordist - peaceful warrior in God's army
loverot - when your ex-partner makes unreasonable demands
lugwash - cleaning of ears of small boys

maniloric: the state of turning into a lounge singer crooning "I can't smile without you"
maplar - cross between a maple and a poplar
maskup - more apt name for what some women put on their faces
medicut - small cut you got from pushing your medicines out of their blister strips
medlam - utterly chaotic compilation of songs
menslide (causing a ~) - being so dropdead gorgeous all men faint when they see you
mentist - psychic dentist (uses hypnosis to anesthetize you)
merson - a person with a tail of a fish of undetermined gender
mert - stifling sound when you don't want to let out a burp
metrot - underground but you have to walk
midslip - halfway a fall
mindrest - when you stare blankly into space
miniac: very small raving idiot
minimer - very small monomer
minititan - tiny giant
minoride - when your puber son steals your car keys
mishint - to clue wrongly
missfish - a lady aquatic animal
missieu: person of undetermined gender
mockart - pretentious stuff
mohare - very soft wool from a big rabbit
momo - 1. not quite as bad as a muumuu; 2. 'Just wait a moment.'
moormen - more than one Heathcliffe from Wuthering Heights
mopel - where you can rent a room to sit and sulk
morphinuts - drug addicts
mortire - to make deadly fatigued
mrrrw - sound a cat makes to make its human hurry up
mutet - very quiet musical piece

narcop - police officer who targets drug dealers
nearoic - almost valiant
neode - newly formed mineral formation
negret - not sorry at all
neohen - female chicken
neopat: someone recenty moved back to his/her homeland
neorist - someone who believes in new things
newter - castrate a salamander
newtits - female surgery
nodor - smell-free
noeling - celebrating Christmas
noncert - annulled concert
nonert - even more inert than inert
nonsag - after-effects of breast surgery
nonsaw - trees that are left in the forest
nonstrip - what happens at a gentlemen's' club when you leave a nontip
nontip - what you leave for bad service
nonwag - dog on a bad day
nosemet - an eskimo/maori kiss
nowhen - never
nudear - when your loved one is naked

oatism - what hypersensitive, non-communicative oatlets suffer from
oatlet - one of the tiny things that make up oatmeal
oatman - friend of the gingerbread man
obliviot - an oblivious idiot (Randy Cassingham)
oddle - to act weirdly
odorm - smelly student bedroom
odst - most weird, but short
omlet - nice try but not enough eggs
opinata - an opinion so offensive that you want to beat it till it bursts
optain - 1. to acquire by using one's eyes; 2. grade of petrol you choose at the pump
optinite - mineral that greatly enhances Superman's vision
organate - carnivorous musical instrument
othest - longer and even odder than odst
ouiing - saying yes in French
outdim - to be even thicker than
outflaw - a failure of a criminal
outqueer - to be stranger than the rest
outwed - when you try to remarry more times than your ex spouse
owfs - plural sound of someone who is punched in his gut

pacmap - the maze pacman moves in
palert - warning somebody they get awfully pale
pardont - ask forgiveness for something you didn't do
penicure - spa for your male organ
peniseed - sperm
penish - sort of like a male organ but not convincingly so
permaniac - is raving mad forever
petunk - the sound of the other shoe dropping
pigdry - what happens when the mud goes away
pinowl - a really small nighttime bird of prey
piza - pizza with too little cheez
poleece - 1. a very polite member of the constabulary; 2. abbreviation of polar fleece
pomato - offspring from a potato and a tomato
pooflies - they eat your waste
popism - 1. saying by the pope as in: "hey, have you heard the latest popism?"; 2. believing in the office of pope
pregret - being sorry beforehand for something you know you are gonna do anyway
prely - to rely on someone before he is ready
preneed - to need it before you really need it
presib - brother or sister born earlier than you
pretam - what to wear under your scottish hat
prohat - someone really in favour of headwear
pupart - doggie paintings
puridate - squeaky clean first outing
purinage - the process of making pure
pushit - sometimes it is a hard delivery

quarl - short fight (or a slurry, drunk one)

raindear - wet, sweet and very dyslectic reindeer
readore - to love reading
rebye - say goodbye again; in Babble the same as 'repoof'
rediot - to be an utter fool again
redit - a book you've already taken out of the library
redult - starting to act mature again after a childish interval
referal - wildly enthusiastic recommendation
refrog - when the princess throws the prince back into the pond for lack of beauty
regod - change your religion, convert
rehi - coming back in Babble after an interval of afk. Can be used after poof or repoof.
rehorse - what you must do after falling off
relaw - family of the person you remarry
relicops - faith police
remen - commit bigamy (or polygamy) again
remoat - to dig a trench from a distance
remop - what you have to do after a demop
repath - find your way again after having been lost
repica - a copy but not perfectly done
repint - refill your beer
replet - not quite full
reptiliot - someone who is crazy about reptiles
reptitian - richly red reptile
resane - to get your sanity back
respair - to become hopeful again after having been in despair
resunned - to have thought logically while on the beach
retartian - not too bright martian
retrogina - an orange drink from the past
rewife - remarry
rewimp - be afraid to do something twice in a row
rimtoast - not knowing which side is buttered
rockart - any art involving (you guessed it) rocks
robry - when they steal even the letters
roostar - male chicken with a celebrity attitude
rugman - the one who sells carpets

sacret - holy but keeping it to yourself
sahami - an extremely dry and sandy sausage, or possibly some kind of sushi
schemist - someone who schemes
seedfood - keeps mega vegas alive
semenar - symposium on male reproduction
semidarn - when you want to curse but at the last moment you realise there are children nearby
seniora - 65+ Spanish lady
senoir - very dark Spanish gentleman
senorino - spanish person of unspecified gender
serenator - politician who brings peace (very rare)
seriette - short series
sermoan - a way too long sermon
serrogate - exchanged for a fake letter
settenec - a couch with a really bad attitude
sexert - exhaust erotically
sexotic: strange but highly attractive
sharist - distributor
shorist - beach expert
shornet - bald wasp
shrog - a pig shrug
sidepeas - veggies that come with a nice steak
siftable - when it can be put through a sieve
sinfer - to speculate on someone's bad habits
sinjoy - 1. bad and enjoying it; 2. the pleasure one takes in looking for other people's sins, deriving a false sense of moral superiority from it
sinled - guided by your bad habits
sismate - brother-in-law
sistar - famous female sibling
sitcum - porno series
smile - just a mile with its plural at the wrong end (ask grannyrose what it means)
snet - the sound made between a sneeze and a hiccup
snew - past tense of to snow
snipee - person targeted by a sniper
snorette - lady snorer
snottato - what a potato becomes when left uneaten for too long
snotto - cave overgrown with slimy moss
snotto voce - almost inaudible because of a cold
sockart - where the artists hose the buyers
socklet - 1. a small sock, often used for dolls; 2. sock for hire
solope - elope all by yourself
sondial - when you have your child stand in the garden with his arm out so you can tell the time by the shadow
sontip - teenager's bedroom
sorish - kind of painful
sorrish - kind of sorry
sorrode - to be worn away by sorrow
sortahot - not to be confused with sortacold; the first refers to looks, the second to temperature, as in 'he was sortahot in that movie'.
spattern - regularly distributed drops of liquid
spermit - to agree to be a sperm donor
sperupt - ejaculate
splotch - sound of someone diving too flat
spluid - when you spill something fluid and it splatters all over the place
squizzlers - squirrels
stoptan - sunscreen
stoqued - shocked it isn't a word you are enthusiastic about, as in "I'm stoqued about it"
straymen - they can't stay loyal, the cheaters
sucret - very sweet classified information
sugrin - a way too sweet smile
suicidiet - far too strict food regimen
suspicing - adding questionable seasoning to your food
swolf - sound you make when trying to swallow with your mouth full

talert - alarming story
tardiet - when you are too late in starting to lose weight (after eating too many tastries)
tastee - the one on the tip of your tongue
tastries - very good pastries
tempmen - for if you don't need them to hang around
tengo - for when it takes 10 to tango
tentrent / tentrental - what you pay to hire a tent / the place you can hire them
tentour - holiday trek in canvas dwellings
termit - temporary permit
thermit - lives all alone but knows how to stay warm nevertheless
tiemen - guys who wear neckties
tintacts - coloured contact lenses
titpoint - holding him at titpoint; when your nipples are happy to see him
titset - a pair of breasts, a matching titset (usually shortened to tits because they tend to come in pairs)
toadame - lady toad
toetutu - too small a shoe; ballet shoe
tomate - partner of tomato
toopay - a toupet you paid too much for
tortute - a teacher who likes to subject his/her students to agony
totman - man being childish
toung - too young
treemob - forest
tredoc - surgeon for trees
tricoter - knittist
triot - test run for an upheaval in the streets
triplad - having three sons at once
triptoe - stumbling when you try to walk quietly
trisatanic - as bad as 3 devils
truna - sincere fish
typoet - writes in rhyme but only on a keyboard, with many mistakes

uchly - very very ugly
udderies - 1. titty bars for cows; 2. support bras for cows
ugliar - someone who tells horrible untruths
ukly - something not pretty and very screwed up (like K-words)
umbaste - time to baste the turkey or not, that is the question
unboard - to disembark
undersub - very low in the pecking order
undot - remove that little thingy on top of the i
undust - the more apt word for what you do when you dust
unicow - set out to be a unicorn, but didn't quite manage it
unlimp - stop pretending you hurt your foot
unnoir - someone who is not a natural blonde
unsin - to take back the adulterous thought
untity - not an entity
untot - adult
uprent - to raise the rent
upstone - to move to a better grave
urnest - most sincerely jarred

virgon - virgin who has lost her cherry
vitamen - guys that are good for your health

warhat _ plate mail helmet
wison(s) - cross between a wisent and a bison
womad - she is very, very angry
woosier - more girly, more afraid
woline - shape of mouth when you are sad

yenless - poor Japanese

zausted - too tired to say "exhausted"
zhero - hero wannabe who fails at every turn


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Babble idiom:

african rhino babblet: keitloa. Latin name: Rhinaster keitloa var. camperi

african wild sheep babblet: aoudad. Latin name: Ammotragus lervia

angola coin babblet: lwei(s). A lwei is the 100th part of a kwanza.

anoa babblet: tamaroa. This is a kind of cattle. "a small rare member of the cattle tribe, Anoa mindorensis, of lowland areas of Mindoro in the Philippines. Compare anoa." Of course, anoa is another babblet.

antelope babblet: nyala. It is an antelope, Tragelaphus angasii, of southeastern Africa, the male of which has a grayish body marked with white stripes.

Australian bush babblet: aalii(s). To be precise: a bushy shrub, Dodonaea viscosa, of Australia, Hawaii, Africa, and tropical America, having sticky foliage.

BabAnon: Babblers Anonymous, website for babblers. When there is no Lickety, you can often find stats there.
Link:
http://babblersanonymous.yuku.com/

babble blindness: not seeing a common and/or obvious word even though several clues have been given (often balanced by your ability to spot a very weird word elsewhere in the grid).

babblet: a word that often occurs in babble grids, but isn't used in common speech (like etui - needle case; or haha - a kind of border marker we refer to as the laughing fence)

barbary sheep babblet: aoudad

be gone babblet: aroint (as in 'aroint thee, villain!') (also: aroynt)

biggies: the long words in a grid. Usually 7 letters and up. But in some grids even a 6 can be a biggie.

boxes of doom: (also red boxes of doom) the red warning messages in chog that indicate server issues. If it is at hiccup time, don't worry, it will settle in a couple of minutes. Otherwise, try to close and reopen Babble. If that doesn't help, the problem is not local... somewhere a server is throwing a temper tantrum.

buffalo babblet: anoa(s)

celtic harp babblet: crwth(s) Yes, it has no vowels. Or rather, it does, the w counts as vowel here. But still :)

chemical powder babblet: yttria

chile-bells babblet: copihue. A vine, Lapageria rosea, native to Chile, having leathery evergreen leaves and showy reddish flowers: the national flower of Chile.

clue: when people ask for a clue (or hint) for a word, they want to receive a definition, a cryptic description or any other help that points them in the direction of the word without spelling it out for them. Try to avoid spelling clues as 'hook letter, 2x hoop letter, cross' for 'root'. Don't confuse with asking for stats.

clurker: someone who only reads the parts of chog where clues are given

coin babblet: toea, a monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, worth one-hundredth of a kina

concoction of barley babblet: ptisan. (Yes, that's a word.) The alternate spelling 'tisane' might look more familiar.

def: definition of a babble word. Sometimes given or asked for as a clue. When copy-and-pasting a def, make sure the actual word is not in it :)

diacritical mark babblet: hacek. It usually indicates a letter is palatalized.

dictionary babblet: see single use babblet

doing a jilli: leaving chat (see 'poof'), then coming back unexpectedly a little later, then leaving again. Repeat. Named after jillibus, but happens to other babblers as well.

double o babblet: ootid - the cell that results from the meiotic divisions of an oocyte and matures into an ovum

Egyptian crown babblet: pschent(s). Yeah I know. Not really a babblet in the sense that it often appears in grids. But it is so odd I wanted to include it in the listing. Definition is: 'the double crown worn by ancient Egyptian kings, symbolic of dominion over Upper and Lower Egypt, which had previously been separate kingdoms.'

Enable: the dictionary used for babble. An old version too. To quote jillibus: "I've decided the compiler of Enable is a prurient Jewish Scot who is a mining engineer with various medical conditions including dyslexia, and some musical leanings, who has travelled widely and collected a large variety of coins and currencies as well as sundry snippets of several languages, but is slightly out of date about cyberspace. S/he must have had some legal activities too and a penchant for using archaic language."

Expert: the babble expert, a browser for windows computers that is especially made for babble. See top of this profile for the download link.
Also see Lickety.

female serf babblet - neif(s) - a woman born in the state of villeinage, or fist (in Shakespeare). Both archaic, of course.

fireworks: the pro reward for finding all words in a grid. Both pro and free players can mention it in chog to receive congratulations from their fellow babblers. Also known as firewords, firebirds, fireflies, fw, fw's, etc.

fish: a word that should have been easy to find, but wasn't, earning you a slap with a fish. For babblers from the old days also a reminder of the time we looked for a fish name in each grid.

flip: 00 a.m. server time, when the grid changes.

flurking: faux lurking; reading the chatlog and occasionally posting a reply while claiming you only 'lurk'.

gerund ending: -ing (pretty obvious, huh?)

greek sculpture babblet(s): kouros/kouroi (sculptured representation[s] of a young man, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c.) ... production of sculpture, not the man...

greek temple babblets: naos (singl) and naoi (plural). Classical ancient temple, or cella.

grey out a tile: find all words starting from that tile, which turns the tile in the stats window grey. You can also grey out a column or a row. Greying out all tiles is called fireworks, see there.

hairy-nosed dolphin babblet: inia (Inia geoffrensis, commonly known as the Amazon river dolphin, a freshwater river dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela)

hawaiian goose babblet: nene

hawaiian noodle soup babblet: saimin

hedgehog babblet: see madagascan hedgehog

hiccup time: the couple of minutes when the game and chog freeze during the server and rankings reset (at 5 a.m. server time at the moment). You can still enter words, they will appear in your word list after the hiccup. But don't keep hitting enter in the chog... or your message will appear several times after the hiccup.

hint: see clue

hoet: half on every tile - mini game in which you aim for half the amount of words for every tile in the grid

hunting babblet: huic. You thought it was latin? So did I. But the def is: 'an encouraging call given by a huntsman during a hunt to cheer on hounds'

iceland coin babblet: eyrir (plural: aurar) - aluminum bronze coin of Iceland, 100th part of a krona

indian bread babblet: naan(s)

indian loincloth babblet: dhoti(s) Long loincloth worn by Hindu men and also the fabric it is made of

japanese generation babblets: issei(s), nisei(s), sansei(s), yonsei(s), gosei(s) - 1st till 5th generation of japanese immigrants. It really helps if you can count in Japanese. However, enable being enable, gosei(s) is not valid.

laughing fence babblet: haha (sunk fence, or exclamation of laughter)

Lickety: babble player who posts clues (almost) every day. He offers 1st and 2nd letter, word length and point value for every word in the grid.
Link to his page:
http://r46.me/BabbleClues.html

listing: deciding to begin using Lickety's clues

lizard babblet: teiid

loch monster babblet: ness

lurker: has a special meaning in babble, just referring to people who play the game but don't chat. It doesn't have a negative connotation to it in babble.

madagascan hedgehog babblet: tenrec or tanrec, members from the Madagascan family of mammals Tenrecidae, resembling hedgehogs or shrews

mahogany babblet: lauan. Any of various Philippine hardwood trees of the genus Shorea and related genera: family Dipterocarpaceae.

math babblet: sinh(s) hyperbolic sine. You knew that, you just forgot. Or repressed the knowledge.

Mexican language babblet: taos. Actually, it means 'a town in N New Mexico: resort; art colony' because the language is capitalized and hence not valid. But isn't it fun to know that Taos is a language spoken in only 2 villages?

minimal nbs/nbt: mini game in which you aim to find one word from each tile and each word length in as few words as possible. Posted in chog as, for instance, nbs/nbt in 24 words.

monkeying: typing randomly to find words by chance, usually a sign of desperation.

movie theater babblet: nabe(s). Looks Japanese, doesn't it? But it is slang, a shortening and respelling of neighbourhood movie theater.

mushroom babblet: enoki (one of the many Japanese mushrooms)

name-that-proper-noun : mini game in which you get to guess a name that is in the current grid, but isn't valid because it IS a proper noun.

nbs: no blank stats, mini game in which you aim for at least one word for every word length in the current grid.

nbt: no blank tiles, mini game in which you aim for at least one word from every tile in the current grid.

needlecase babblet: etui(s), alt. spelling etwee(s). Yes, those are words.

original matter babblet: ylem. The initial substance of the universe from which all matter is said to be derived.

penalty box or PB: virtual place in babble where you have to go when you post a grid word in the chat box. Usually stocked with all kinds of goodies, a jacuzzi and lovely cabana boys/girls.
Link to a picture: http://tinyurl.com/6kwnpy

person(s) who ending: -er(s) (person who utters = utterer etc.)

phantom: a word that is almost, but not quite, in the grid, and keeps bugging you (and even makes you try it again and again)

Polish coin babblet: zloty (plural: zlote) is the basic monetary unit of Poland. Amazing, the letters a word can start with in babble, isn't it? Dh, zl, cz, mn, pt... never knew that before babble.


poof: said when leaving babble chat to alert people to your leaving. Sometimes followed by 'unpoof' and 'repoof'.

pulling a Peri: asking for a clue, almost immediately followed by 'never mind, found it myself'. Named after Periwinkle, but it happens to all of us.

red boxes of doom: see boxes of doom

redneck babblet: hisn

robot ending: -oid (from android, humanoid, hence robot)

running bird babblet: emeu(s), emus (emeu is the archaic spelling)

saxon freeman babblet: ceorl(s) - a freeman of the lowest class in Anglo-Saxon England

shabby babblet: ourie or oorie (scots for shabby or melancholy)

school babblet: elhi (abbrev. for elementary and high school)

scots fog babblet: haar(s)

sin bin: see penalty box

single use babblet: hapax (hapax legomenon: a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature)

skiing babblet: piste(s)

stats: when people ask for stats for a word, they want to know the first 2 letters of the word and the total length, plus the point value. For instance, if the word is 'anoa', the answer would be: an4/4 (the word starts with an, is 4 letters long in total and is worth 4 points). Don't mix up with asking for a clue or hint.

surpreebee: freebee you get through misspelling a word

tm-babblet: tmesis. Yes, that is a real word, taken from Ancient Greek. It means: a linguistic phenomenon in which a word or phrase is separated into two parts, with other words interrupting between them. Very common in German and Dutch, less so in English. It plurals too. It is then spelled 'tmeses'.

troll: same as in all chats, someone who is being a pest in chat, disrupting the chat and/or picking fights and/or calling names. Luckily rather rare in babble chog. If they pop up, try to ignore them until they get bored.

unword: a really stupid or weird word that has no right to be in the dictionary... but is there and valid in babble anyway.

volcano babblet: etna (bunsen burner)

whaddayamean babblet: hunh. It is a sound word. Used to very intelligently ask what somebody means, for instance.


zambian coin babblet: ngwee. This is both singular and plural. It is a 1/100 part of a kwacha.

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Here are Rick's Rules for Riters

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Be more or less specific.
7. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are
(usually) unnecessary.
8. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
9. No sentence fragments.
10. Don't use no double negatives.
11. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out or mispeld something.
12. Eschew obfuscation.


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A little note on so-called 'proof' that certain persons have accessed Babble from different IP addresses, supposedly thus proving they are not the same person as Nancy Boy or JC:
it is pretty easy to disguise one's IP address. Simply google on 'hide my IP', for instance, and you will see several sites that will allow you to do so. Furthermore, hackers can make it look like they operate from anywhich country they choose.
So if you prefer to not be gullible, look at the so-called 'proof' with critical eyes and realise there may still be one single person behind a number of IPs.
Of course, this does NOT mean that having different IPs means you are one and the same person. Crossy and Joso are separate. So are Haz and I. Or it might all be a scheme by Dr. God to increase the number of pro babblers.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/hide-ip