Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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Is moleskin (n for s)

mosslike?
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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Since no one else has contributed and I am stuck, I will point this topic in another direction (-m, +b)

obelisks
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Siloes (-b)

could be thought of as a kind of obelisk.

(sort of)
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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.
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Wish I had thought of that!
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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If you put an obelisk in a silo it might be mistaken for a

missile

(i o'er o)
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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If you swap i for o you could have those

lissome

moles come live in your missile silo/obelisk.
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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:
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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Is that a (+c)

solecism

or efficient recycling of ideas?
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Such an age of (e4i)

sciolism

and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.
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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)
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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Would you think you were seeing (-m)

colossi

?
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I think that would be rather (h4s)

coolish

to see colossi. especially if you were not in Memnon.
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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I think I'd rather see colossi than (i for m)

molochs.
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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Especially if they were to get (l to y)

smoochy
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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When I was younger I was very

choosy

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

:kangaroo:
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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At whatever age, it's probably best to be choosy because sometimes they turn out to be

psycho

(p fer o)
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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If they are psycho, just whack them with some (c for s)

hyssop.
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You should be able to buy hyssop at any good gardening (-h)

shops
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Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

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If the hyssop is particularly juicy it would go (+l)

splosh
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