I want to invent the word "glurb"...what could it mean?

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edprush

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Originally posted by: Bryophyte
It is the quantity of a thick, viscous substance that comes out when you try to pour a little of it.

"Dump a glurb of that wallpaper paste on the paper."

that word is "dollop"
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
It is the quantity of a thick, viscous substance that comes out when you try to pour a little of it.

"Dump a glurb of that wallpaper paste on the paper."

that word is "dollop"

No, a dollop would be when you get the little bit, the glurb is what you get instead when a rather larger quantity than you had anticipated arrives.
 

mugs

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I think it should be a synomym with scrumtrulescent and cromulent. But more embiggened.
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: mugs
I think it should be a synomym with scrumtrulescent and cromulent. But more embiggened.

I remain unconvinced of the cromulence of the word "glurb."
 

edprush

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
It is the quantity of a thick, viscous substance that comes out when you try to pour a little of it.

"Dump a glurb of that wallpaper paste on the paper."

that word is "dollop"

No, a dollop would be when you get the little bit, the glurb is what you get instead when a rather larger quantity than you had anticipated arrives.
You are thinking of "glob" or "globule".

 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
It is the quantity of a thick, viscous substance that comes out when you try to pour a little of it.

"Dump a glurb of that wallpaper paste on the paper."

that word is "dollop"

No, a dollop would be when you get the little bit, the glurb is what you get instead when a rather larger quantity than you had anticipated arrives.
You are thinking of "glob" or "globule".

No, I'm not. You just don't get it.
 

Bryophyte

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
It is the quantity of a thick, viscous substance that comes out when you try to pour a little of it.

"Dump a glurb of that wallpaper paste on the paper."

that word is "dollop"

No, a dollop would be when you get the little bit, the glurb is what you get instead when a rather larger quantity than you had anticipated arrives.
You are thinking of "glob" or "globule".

No, I'm not. You just don't get it.

He doesn't.

I might be willing to acknowlege the words "glurp" or "glop" in exchange for "glurb" in my definition, but definitely not "dollop" or "glob". The reason I reject "dollop" is that "dollop" is an amount that you want to get, and I reject "glob" because it lacks the fluidity implied in "glurb".
 

edprush

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Originally posted by: Bryophyte The reason I reject "dollop" is that "dollop" is an amount that you want to get, and I reject "glob" because it lacks the fluidity implied in "glurb".

I don't think anyone could even insuate a fluidity to "glurb". It is both a noun and a verb that certainly has something to do with communicating...exactly how it is involved in communication is still to be determined.
 

Bryophyte

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Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Bryophyte The reason I reject "dollop" is that "dollop" is an amount that you want to get, and I reject "glob" because it lacks the fluidity implied in "glurb".

I don't think anyone could even insuate a fluidity to "glurb". It is both a noun and a verb that certainly has something to do with communicating...exactly how it is involved in communication is still to be determined.

"Glob" has a solidity to it like a sticky piece of chewed bubble gum, while "glurb" has a sense of motion to it, not unlike a "glug".
 

Perknose

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
It is the quantity of a thick, viscous substance that comes out when you try to pour a little of it.

"Dump a glurb of that wallpaper paste on the paper."

that word is "dollop"

No, a dollop would be when you get the little bit, the glurb is what you get instead when a rather larger quantity than you had anticipated arrives.
You are thinking of "glob" or "globule".

No, I'm not. You just don't get it.
Go easy on him, frog, his mother suffered from a horribly scrumtrulescent inflamation of her glurbal sac while carrying him, and as a result, he's just not embiggened enough to grok your cromulence in this area.

 

Perknose

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Sorry, there was a huge glurb in the internets just as I was posting. :shocked: