Anvilicious

[Rod Hagen]

What the hell does this word mean? Thanks.

[BuckyXTC]

Rod:

 

I checked all my dictionaries, as well as a Sherlock dictionary search online, and came up with nothing. In what context did you find the word?

[Guest gentle guy]

I found it all over the place using Google. No clear definitions, but some contextual cues. Lots of references to Smallville and Buffy--and somebody used it in reviews on Amazon.com.

 

I think we need someone under 25 to translate for us. :+

[Guest gentle guy]

Oh--and in one extensive entry, not only did the writer use "anvilicious," but also "surveylicious."

 

I am feeling old. Still horny, but old. }(

[Guest ncm2169]

Nothing authoritative here, but start with "jaw"...it's the word most associated with "anvil" in the Master Crossword Puzzle Dictionary. Then, refer to the google search mentioned earlier. My guess is, it means being very mouthy...talkative, or, in some other venues, maybe something having to do with being oral? }(

 

BTW, a long overdue "hello" from a fellow Minnesotan. :-)

[Boston Guy]

From Snarkcake:

 

"Klingon" and "warp drive" join "Jedi" as entries formally accepted as part of the English language in the new edition of the authoritative Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

 

"Generally, a word has to be used five times in five different places over five years, although something like 'text messaging' got in quicker, because it became so widely used so quickly," said dictionary spokeswoman Claire Turner.

 

OK. So I want to see "snark," "anvilicious," "hella," "craptastic," "Shatnerific," "asshat" and "ass you!" added in the next couple of years.

 

From: http://musesfool.diaryland.com/020520_20.html

 

Still working on the comfort sex fic, to the exclusion of all else right now. Finished the Logan POV, which desperately needs editing. There's this one paragraph of exposition that... grrr.... I'm just not sure where else to put it, but I know it doesn't belong there. I may just cut it out altogether. I think I'm being a bit anvilicious, to steal a Smallville phrase, so cutting it out mightn't hurt, and could only help, really.

 

From: http://shellpatine.diaryland.com/011205_39.html

 

Oh, and I did enjoy the CBS miniseries, "Jack and the Beanstalk". The moral of the story was a bit anvilicious (a word I've picked up from MBTV) but if you could ignore that bit, it was really a fun story. I've always been a sucker for fairy tales.

 

From: http://serrico.diaryland.com/020528_29.html

 

I most especially do not want to weep because you've used the characters--again--for some anvilicious (tm Lady Eve L) and petty agenda. I *hate* agenda fic--and agenda discussion posts--that bash me over the head with the moral lesson du jour, but don't want me to do any thinking of my own about the issues involved. No, this kind of agenda fic *tells* me what to think--about issues, about episodes, about other members of this fandom. (That's right, I *know* what a couple of you are doing; it's as obvious as sin, and it's cheap.) You know what? If I wanted anvils, I'd watch Touched By an Angel or join the Moral Minority. They'd be happy to think for me, I'm sure. But that's not what I want, and it sure as heck isn't why I read.

 

There are a fair number of similar references on the Web. It seems to have come from Smallville and people seem to use it in several different ways:

 

1) Bad, as in crappy

2) Bad, as in deliciously bad

3) Bad, as in slightly evil

 

I also saw it used in a shortened form ("Anvil") in several places, as in "that was an anvil ending."

 

Having said all this, I really still don't know exactly what it's supposed to mean.

 

Interesting word search, though.

 

BG

[Guest Ant415]

It simply means something that has a taste similar to that of an anvil (or The Anvil).

 

An anvil is a surface that a blacksmith uses to pound or forge something into shape. It is also a bar in Chicago.

 

Neither strike me as tasting pleasant.