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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:05 pm
by leelaht
Is moleskin (n for s)

mosslike?

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:14 am
by Randi
Since no one else has contributed and I am stuck, I will point this topic in another direction (-m, +b)

obelisks

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:43 am
by pommystuart
Siloes (-b)

could be thought of as a kind of obelisk.

(sort of)

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:46 am
by pommystuart
Randi wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:14 am Since no one else has contributed and I am stuck, I will point this topic in another direction (-m, +b)

obelisks
From Mosslike you could have gone with something like Moles are lissome little critters.

or I could have if I had wanted, sorry been a bit slack lately.

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:56 am
by Randi
Wish I had thought of that!

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:56 pm
by espross
If you put an obelisk in a silo it might be mistaken for a

missile

(i o'er o)

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:14 pm
by leelaht
If you swap i for o you could have those

lissome

moles come live in your missile silo/obelisk.

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:15 am
by pommystuart
leelaht wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:14 pm If you swap i for o you could have those

lissome

moles come live in your missile silo/obelisk.
Lissome looks familiar from somewhere. :roll: :lol: :lol:

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:40 am
by jil
Is that a (+c)

solecism

or efficient recycling of ideas?

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:47 pm
by pommystuart
Such an age of (e4i)

sciolism

and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:13 pm
by leelaht
sounds like some folks may be taking in some of that weed that's now legal. But if you mix in the the wrong weed folks could suffer from (i for o)

locoisms

(if folk are livestock that is)

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:51 pm
by Randi
Would you think you were seeing (-m)

colossi

?

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:39 pm
by pommystuart
I think that would be rather (h4s)

coolish

to see colossi. especially if you were not in Memnon.

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:29 pm
by leelaht
I think I'd rather see colossi than (i for m)

molochs.

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:05 am
by jil
Especially if they were to get (l to y)

smoochy

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:49 pm
by pommystuart
When I was younger I was very

choosy

with whom I got smoochy, as I age I'm not to choosy. :D :D

:kangaroo:

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:05 pm
by espross
At whatever age, it's probably best to be choosy because sometimes they turn out to be

psycho

(p fer o)

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:33 pm
by leelaht
If they are psycho, just whack them with some (c for s)

hyssop.

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:51 am
by pommystuart
You should be able to buy hyssop at any good gardening (-h)

shops

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:55 am
by jil
If the hyssop is particularly juicy it would go (+l)

splosh