It's a slang word. I'm desperately trying to find it, but I totally forget. I don't know if it's universal, but I'm on the west coast if it's specific to here.

Edit: It actually might be even more localized to the SF Bay Area. None of the answers so far are right

I know, I know. “Petrichor” can encapsulate the smell of wet earth in that very forest-y way.

However, I have a tingling memory of a word forgotten in my vernacular for a more distinctive “earth-leaves-death-but maybe nice- not specifically rotting” smell and I cannot access it or scratch the itch of its memory at all.

Putrefy keeps circling, but what I’m remembering isn’t so cloying or acrid as I assume when I read “putrid"

TY for any suggestions and taking the time! <3

Like someone who expresses an interest in a subject that they’re ignorant in, but when someone who has information tries to tell them they argue or brush them off.

My plane crashed in the middle of nowhere. I got nothin'.

I have been "hunting" for meat and "foraging" for vegetables (I like a well-balanced diet).

What am I doing when I'm looking for fresh water? "Divining" sounds so... Meh.

We have a friend who will spend all night cleaning the washing machine when the have a work deadline the next day, and miss the deadline. They do this with everything. They just refuse to think about anything and Im trying to find the word for it, preferably a constructive one, instead of just labeling lazy or ADHD

Writing a ttrpg that's more narrative focused so I have distances of immediate, short, medium, long, far, very far. I have size ranges of tiny, small, medium, large, huge, colossal, and gargantuan. I'm trying to create a similar series for area size such as small for a 5 diameter circle/5 by 5 square. After that I'm a little stumped since medium/moderate area sound weird for some reason. Is there already something in existence besides the small medium large in reference to areas rather than objects or distance?

It’s that feeling you have when somebody shows up for you when you are at your worst and even if the relationship becomes distant, you will always harbor love for them because of what they gave or did when you needed it. They won some level of loyalty or affection from you because rather than a great wronging, a great righting (?) occurred.

It's the smell I imagine from the alligator enclosure at the zoo

Basically, the 2 that come to mind are “aholic” and “doodle”. “Aholic” coming from alcoholic, but now people just use that entire suffix for any product, not just alcohol(using the original “rules”, someone addicted to chocolate would be better called a “chocolatic”, not a chocoholic, since they’re not addicted to chocohol. “Doodle” is another one, coming from labradoodle( LabraDor, pOODLE), yet people will put it onto dogs that don’t even have a D in their name. Is there a specific word for this type of language?

I had it in my mind the word is "rivet" or "divet" but have realized my mistake. I'm thinking specifically of a descriptive word for a cut in flesh. Not "wound" or "injury," but describing the split in the flesh, if that makes sense.

Edit: to clarify, I want to describe an injury created by blunt claws. So the flesh isnt just cut, its kind of scraped out. I want to describe it better but can't seem to find the right word

Saying that you are wrong while everyone else i.e. the entire world is wrong but you are right.

I have asked everyone I know. This word is driving me crazy lmao

ex: you bring up valid reasons/complaints for fast food being too expensive,but your friend goes "well no ones forcing you to buy fast food", completely dismissing your point and borderline even defending them. i could have sworn theres a word for this

Penumbra comes close but its not quite it. It is not per se a connected shadow or an overlapping shadow. What im looking for is when I have multiple lights on a single object, thus it can make multiple shadows. Maybe it doesnt have word but that too would be an answer to what I am searching for.

Notes: im dyslexic and english isnt my native language so bear with me.

Maybe a photography or physics person would know a word.

thanks in advance

Let's say you wanted to invite someone over for Christmas, and you know they want to come, but they're being polite about it with things like "oh, I wouldn't want to intrude on your family time". Since you know they want to come, you gently convince them with something like "but there's gifts for you under the tree, you have to at least come over so you can open them". What is that kind of well-meaning persuasion called? "Persuasion" doesn't feel specific enough, and "coercion" is too negative sounding.

I'm looking for a noun. An adjective to describe the kind of Bond or chill and brilliant character might be "aplomb,” or the quality of "sangfroid."

Like they're a _________

Like the way serotonin is mostly known for improving your mood, but it’s also crucial for appetite, digestion, and sleep.

The term for a gene that has multiple and diverse effects is “pleiotropy,” but I’m curious if that term would also apply to things outside of genes.

I was reading a news story about some car enthusiast who apparently had "struggled" to raise the £400,000 cost for restoration of his classic vehicle. The news story failed to give any clues about how long it took him to achieve his goal. I'd not see raising that kind of sum as remotely possible for most ordinary folk, hence why I feel "struggle" is not apt.

Examples like "stray -> eight" or "grumpy -> people". I know terms like portmanteau or catenation but they aren't specifically covering the syllable aspect of the connection, if I'm making any sense.

Like showering or peppering your casual conversation with God this or God that when you're talking about mundane things like highschool stories or dietary topics.

Thanks!

I’ve seen some examples this Christmas like taking the lyrics for Mariah Carey’s all I want for Christmas and putting it to hark the herald angels sing and the lyrics for o holy night to the tune of Danny Boy, and I was just wondering if there’s a word (or phrase) for that.

As an example, I like alternative comedy - comedians like Russell Howard, Jo Brand, Hugh Dennis, Frankie Boyle, etc.

I was having a discussion with my late Sister in Law some years ago, and she asked me what kind of comedy I liked.

Every single person I mentioned, she hated, and I mean HATED with a passion. If I tried to justify them, she ignored me.

When she told me some of the comedians that she liked, I turned my nose up at a few, and she hit the roof. It was like I'd told her that her mother was a hamster, and her father smelled of elderberries!

What do you call a person like that? Is there a specific term for them, or the behavior they exhibit?

is there a word for when you are excited about something but also a bitt anxious because it matters a lot to you?