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Chris -- 2018-04-11
luminous – 12,400,000 ghits
loominous – 627 ghits
This variant of ‘luminous’ seems to owe more to ‘loom’ as in menacing darkly from above rather than sweetly emitting light – if it ain’t an eggcorn it’s certainly pretty eggcornish…
At night, on a clear, full moon lit sky, the loominous black sillouettes of the beasts … You have seen mountains in movies, you’ve seen them in papers and …
eugoogolyman.spaces.live.com/blog/
His very loominous figure was like a shadow. This was the god of destruction and he had only one goal. Destroy his brother and make the island his own. ...
www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50484 – 53k – Supplemental Result – Cached
... from afar she saw a group of people walking towards her giving her a weird look, ... Across the firey plain, lurked a single loominous castle. ...
smreflection.proboards34.com/index.cgi?board=extrarpg&action=print&thread=1151717872 – 13k – Supplemental Result – Cached
I pictured the rain coming down, and the dark loominous clouds above. ... different parts of the brain as it processes emotions and external information. ...
www.neilslade.com/Papers/feedback.html – 126k – Cached
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A weird and intriguing find. It’s not even clear that all of these writers meant “luminous”—the combination of “loominous” with “black” in your first example and “dark” in your second feels downright self-contradictory. But I guess it’s possible to imagine something both luminous and dark. I can’t help but think of Milton’s “darkness visible” in Bk 1 of Paradise Lost, but I doubt most of these writers have much else in common with JM.
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Dare I add another mention of the stealth eggcorn? ... When someone is looking for an adjective form for “loom” they get a subliminal whisper from “luminous” in their mind’s ear. That is, they settle upon “loominous” because it has a peculiarly familiar ring to it.
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I hope you don’t mind me bumping an eight-year-old thread, but I’ve seen “loominous” in the context of dark and threatening, and I think it’s a blend of at least three words: “loom”, “gloomy” and “ominous”. There could even be a hint of “lugubrious” in there. I totally agree that they plump for “loominous” because it sounds familiar.
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Doom loomin’ on us?
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(8-year old threads can be just as cool as new ones, and, when they are, bumping them up is a service to the rest of us.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2015-07-28 12:02:25)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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