Sesquipedalian Sluggo (with liverwurst)
Sluggo, Bryan Garner, and big words.
A thingy
The thingy is a bread clip.
Lollygagging
Beetle Bailey looks up a word.
Word of the day: commuter
It appears in a Nancy strip in 1950. How old is the word?
“Qua”
I can’t decide if it’s a joke on Waiting for Godot. It might just be someone being witty about qua.
“Fast to my pocket”
“You sewed my dollar bill fast to my pocket.”
Zippy’s thesaurus
In today’s Zippy, a prehistoric thesaurus.
Nancy and orbisculate
Nancy is pretending that she’s eating grapefruit. She’s also pretending to orbisculate.
Word of the day: furbish
Today’s Zippy has taught me that furbish is a word.
Far Side cave formations
“Oo! Grog run into a . . . a . . dang! Now which kind stick up and which kind hang down?”
“Disobvious”
Peanuts and prefixes.
Zippy thesaurus
In today’s Zippy: Peter Mark Roget.
Nancy, champeen
The ghosts of my grandparents are speaking through Nancy.
Word of the day: franistan
Franistan, kravistate, and Zippy.
“Regional Terms for Carbonated Beverages”
“Kid’s coffee.” From xkcd.
Hedges
Kinda, sorta, and more, in the comic strip Zits.
Dreaming of autumn and fall
Precognitive dreaming? Autumn, fall, Mutts, and synonymity.
Potrzebie
A Mad word in Zippy.
Soil as a verb
A Henry panel. “Soil” is a verb you don’t hear much these days.
Zippy bangles
“Stretchable diamond bangles.”
“Hungh?”
An odd question in Mark Trail.
“Hot dog parlor”
From Henry.
Nancy snag
A Nancy-verse snag.
Word of the day: frammis
From Nancy.
Word of the day: hustings
A word in Zippy.
To adjective, to adverb, to verb
From xkcd.
Word of the day: novelty
“You don’t see novelty shops so much anymore.”
Word of the day: Velox
From Zippy.
Linus, nauseated
If anyone in the comics is going to observe a distinction between nauseated and nauseous, it would be Linus van Pelt.
Word of the day: smellum
I startled slightly when I saw today’s Henry.