Animal names/verbs

[Raymott]

Originally Posted by thedaffodils

sow:
v.tr.
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
To impregnate (a growing medium) with seed.
To propagate; disseminate:
sow rumors and dissension.
To strew or cover with something; spread thickly.
v.intr.
To scatter seed for growing.

Sow pronounced /so/ is a different word from "sow" as in /now/.
A sow (sow) is a female pig.
Sow (so) is to scatter seed, etc.

[Raymott]

Originally Posted by SUDHKAMP

What about 'Shark' and 'Octopus'?

Yes, and aardvark and three-toed sloth.

[Reemy]

Well, I will deviate a little bit from the list to include animal place-related words; a verb that I do like using is pigeonhole which one of its meanings is to classify within a series of ideas.

[RonBee]

Originally Posted by BobK

Sorry Ron - that was pretty low-hanging fruit, picked way back.

Oops! (I was considering adding "crow" to the list, but I noticed that has been mentioned too.)


Has "skunk" been mentioned?

[SUDHKAMP]

Originally Posted by RonBee

Oops! (I was considering adding "crow" to the list, but I noticed that has been mentioned too.)


Has "skunk" been mentioned?

No smell yet.

[thedaffodils]

Originally Posted by Raymott

Sow pronounced /so/ is a different word from "sow" as in /now/.
A sow (sow) is a female pig.
Sow (so) is to scatter seed, etc.

Hello Raymott,

Thank you for your correction.

[thedaffodils]

swallow

v.tr.
To cause (food or drink, for example) to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach.
To put up with (something unpleasant):
swallowed the insults and kept on working.
To refrain from expressing; suppress:
swallow one's feelings.
To consume or destroy as if by ingestion; devour:
a building that was swallowed up by fire.
Slang To believe without question:
swallowed the alibi.
To take back; retract:
swallow one's words.

[BobK]

Originally Posted by RonBee

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Has "skunk" been mentioned?

What's skunking - is it anything like aardvarking?

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[BobK]

This may be an answer to my own question. I remember doing a course about IT that claimed a software project done at home/after hours was called 'a skunk project'. In my 20 years of IT experience, often using such products, I had never met the expression before; I always knew it as 'a midnight hack'. Maybe it's Am English...?

Anyway, I imagine "skunking" is doing this kind of work. ()

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[RonBee]

5.Slang. to defeat thoroughly in a game, esp. while keeping an opponent from scoring: The team skunked the favorites in the crucial game.
skunk definition | Dictionary.com

In card games, if you score all the points and keep your opponent from scoring, you skunk that person.