One word

Lignicide

Word of the day on 24 January 2012.

Winning tweet

76
Points
harrarp
It's considered rude to ask a tree her age. But lignicide will provide clear cut answer. #Artwiculate

Good uses

  • JonPowles
    70
    Points
    The lignicide tried to commit patricide, but only managed a chip off the old block.
  • SJHatzi
    65
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    Let's cut to the quick: if a lignicide gets the ax is it because he didn't cut it and management is cutting the dead wood out? #Artwiculate
  • stair71
    63
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    For a lignicide, nothing is certain but tree things, wood, death and axes #artwiculate #lostconsonants
  • mazpow
    62
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    Lignicide begins when you grudge an arbour.
  • leoniedoyle
    61
    Points
    Ah, lignicide. Time to bury the hatchet, is it, @artwiculate?
  • ATsince1973
    61
    Points
    This is not my official Lignicide tweet. I'm just lumbering up.
  • shefcrispie
    60
    Points
    #Artwiculate The difference between one who practices lignicide and a vacant cash machine? One a tree feller, the other a free teller.
  • vivchook
    55
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    Lorena Bobbit - the most famous lignicide of recent times? #artwiculate
  • mmechomski
    55
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    Lignicide Philosophy : I came, I sawed, I conquered. #artwiculate
  • marcosarroyos
    55
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    When I saw the woman in a plaid flannel shirt, I couldn't tell if she was a lignicide or that other L word.
  • pauleggleston
    53
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    Lignicide? Leave this one to the fellers. #artwiculate
  • Tralala56
    53
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    Lignicide? I saw through that one! #artwiculate
  • permabloom
    50
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    Lignicide. / Cut my shadow from me. / Free me from the torment / Of seeing myself without fruit. #artwiculate #lorca
  • MyVogonPoetry
    49
    Points
    Carpe Lignicide — Cease the Sway. #artwiculate
  • psychopoesie
    48
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    The Lignicide Squad examined the copse carefully. Clearly, some sort of blunt force trauma was involved. Poor saps. #artwiculate
  • Trudski2012
    48
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    #artwiculate I was thinking what the hell is lignicide...then I twigged
  • ColinLusk
    47
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    The roman lignicide wiped his brow at the end of a hard day and gazed down at the Tiber #lostconsonants #artwiculate
  • AgnessMack
    46
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    I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree/But the lignicide's more prosaic/ He frankly finds that poem archaic #artwiculate
  • elenoreally
    46
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    Lignicide - Wood of the Day. #artwiculate
  • dsceiorg
    46
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    Collective nouns: A demand of exotics; A ross of mahogany trees; A lignicide of Amazon forests #artwiculate
  • Ysabeluna
    45
    Points
    What is hollywood's still unsolved lignicide ? Natalie Wood's Death #artwiculate
  • TinaCMiller
    45
    Points
    The word lignicide sounds musical; it has a very lovely timber. #artwiculate
  • cougs77
    45
    Points
    A lumberjack walks into a library and asks "Where can I find lignicide?" Librarian replies "In the paperbark thriller section" #artwiculate
  • gorgeousratty
    44
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    With his freeze ray Ed is killing off all the trees he can find in Illinois: the Lignicide - Ed Icing IL. #palindrome #artwiculate
  • brudberg
    43
    Points
    If you kill Pinocchio it's Lignicide #artwiculate
  • SignatureSwing
    42
    Points
    Lignicide may be the death of Yew! #Artwiculate
  • peterjcaseytwit
    42
    Points
    Sure, wear your jewels, but don't ever ask a lignicide to count your rings. #artwiculate
  • Dads_Arnie
    41
    Points
    "I cut down trees. I eat my lunch. I go to the lavatory. On Wed I go shopping & have buttered scones for tea." I'm a lignicide? #artwiculate
  • gigihux
    40
    Points
    I wood go out with Mr Lignicide but I'm waiting for him to axe me nicely. #Artwiculate
  • AequoEtBono
    40
    Points
    The compilers of the two volume OED considered that lignicide was too rare a word to make the cut. They wood say that. #artwiculate
  • gcgm66
    40
    Points
    Our arborist styles himself "a dignified lignicide", claims he's a cut above the rest! #artwiculate #waitingforallthearboristspam
  • Lynsm7
    38
    Points
    Would Pinnochio commit Lignicide? That is the Question. #artwiculate
  • Elixir_V
    38
    Points
    Lignicide News had an article on vampire hunting. Apparently they have a big stake in it. #artwiculate
  • juswal
    38
    Points
    @artwiculate 'I'm a lignicide and I'm no good, I must crossdress or I can't get wood' — from 'Monty Python, The Early Drafts'
  • yinyangman69
    38
    Points
    Lignicide is just a fancy way of describing random axe of violence. #artwiculate
  • lovelysqualor
    38
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    A lumberjack with a chip on his shoulder or a lignicide with an axe to grind? #artwiculate
  • steveandhens
    36
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    Lignicide court marshall "As to rules and regulations...we were out fighting the baobabs. We got them and shot them under Rule tree oh tree"
  • MaltaGoddess
    35
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    The most famous female lignicide there is? Lorena Bobbit, of course, cheries. #artwiculate
  • suzannesaysthat
    35
    Points
    Didn't Monty Python team do a song about WotD? "Always look on lignicide of life ! " #artwiculate
  • wordswendt
    35
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    Jack committed lignicide one fateful, autumn day. His true love's ghost now roams the woods. Watch out for Weeping Willow. #artwiculate
  • afcoory
    35
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    Lady Chatterly’s lignicide lover often put the hard wood on her even though she was a cut above him #Artwiculate
  • spiderling
    35
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    When he got to the house of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, the lignicide committed lupicide, #artwiculate #lupusasinwolf
  • KTDigs
    34
    Points
    A beaver: the true Canadian lignicide. #artwiculate
  • deemadigan
    34
    Points
    I'm afraid when it comes to today's #artwiculate entry for lignicide I'm just deadwood.
  • JimGall5
    34
    Points
    The lignicide was an early morning philosopher - his first cut was always the deepest. #Artwiculate
  • Squawkingalah
    33
    Points
    Are you on the side of lignicide? Or birds?

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