I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with "thyroid"

I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with "thyroid" since I picked up my prescription this morning. Walking back from the pharmacy, it was so good to see so many tiny plants poking their heads up through the mud and what's left of the snow. And my cold has been reduced to only sniffles! Here comes spring!

I'm saying nothing, doing nothing, being nothing!

You're everything to me!

NOT: void

Part human, part machine?

Or google's smartphone? No androids here!

NOT: void, android

Just one more shot and I'll be super STRONG! Rawr!

Careful you don't turn into Lou Ferrigno!

NOT: void, android, steroid

#7 But Lou has really impressive shoulder muscles!

A geometric shapeʻs all I remember
About __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __: know more of its ety-
-mology than of its ongoing meaning, which is pretty
Useless. Can any member
Enlighten me? What IS a
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __?
or donʻt you remember
H. S. Geometry, but as for its derivation? --
Hah! who could forget what the Hellenic Nation
Called "tables"?
THis is not mere fables,
But odic, Pindaric stuff: as:
". . .__ __ __ __ __ aisi, tʻ
amphi deutata..."
(Excuse the lack of diacriticals and other data)
"...kreon sethen diedasanto, kai phagon..."
Does this get me onto the "Win Wagon"?
Or are further hints needed?
Not if those current have been well heeded.

#8 I could cry a river on those shoulders but crambo's word is none of the many components which make up the shoulder.

#9 Nor is it related to geometry or Pindaric odes.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid

ALPHA NOT: android, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, steroid, trapezoid, void

When someone is not really into
An activity -- you could say they meant to
Do it but never actually did it--
Or, having a talent for it, they hid it --
All they did was that they
"__ __ __ __ __

with the idea".
DIdnʻt DO it but just dabbled
In it. See? Have I babbled
Enough, or are you ready
To shout "Right!" or "Wrong". Steady,
Now! Iʻm not encouraging
anyone
To shout "Wrong!" But whereʻs the fun,
If every immediate guess
Is correct? --Zero fun, more or less.

Am I missing the point or weaving round those dreaded poles in downhill skiing?

#11 You are cruel to have toyed so with me sir! But toyed is not Crambo's word.

#12 Watch out for those pesky slalom poles. They'll jump in front of you when you least expect it. Best to avoid them if you can.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid

ALPHA NOT: android, avoid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, void

Sounds like spring has raised your spirits - kept you afloat on the sea of life!

Tis true, it's really buoyed my spirits! Alas, not Crambo's word.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed

ALPHA NOT: android, avoid, buoyed, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, void

I'll try not to be irritated if I don't get the answer.

Please don't be annoyed -- you didn't get the answer :(

working from my phone, so it's tricky to move/update the NOT list. mea culpa

Something like itʻs already been guessed,
But I feel an inclination, almost a behest
To guess: "__ __ __ __", a noun
not
Closely related in meaning to the
already
Guessed word (youʻre a steady
Reader of the "NOT" List, I assume),
And this new guess can loom
In the list as only one-letter-apart
From the previous. Is that a start,
If not a hint? As for a definition,
I must admit with the greatest contrition
That I canʻt think of a real syn-
-onym of it. Called "an abyss", it perhaps has been.
Itʻs kind of empty when you come right down to
It, and, I suppose, vacuous, too

It's a ____! It's a plane! It's ... (I'm a momentary Brooklynite.)

Neither devoid nor boid/boyd is Crambo's woid.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, devoid, glenoid, rhomboid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, void

"Satiated" is the nearest thing
I can think of to a synonym; bring
Your brain power onto it,
along with your insight and wit,
And make me a winner with: "__ __ __ __ __ __", which is this guess
If not, it was a wild one, I confess.
A participle, like the previous.
Not too common, but not too devious.

No excessive sweetness for me!
I'm already sweet enough :-)

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, cloyed

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, cloyed, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, devoid, glenoid, rhomboid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, void

Is it catching?

#23 Welcome brightcopy!

Or does it come in piles?

I'm worried you'll all be out to get me if I win and screw up the next thread.

But if I do win, I will be incredibly thrilled!

Maybe I can even parlay it into a movie.

Of course, you're all probably going to get a kick out of all my guesses getting shot down.

Does it hinge on some tiny piece of trivia?

#23 Was this guess inspired by the season opening of baseball? Certainly, the excitement is contagious but crambo's word is not.

#24 Sorry to hear about the piles; hope they're all behind you now!

#25 Have you tried this do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

#26 I was overjoyed to open LT to find so many guesses!!!

#27 I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show, A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes, Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain, And celluloid heroes never really die

#28 A chuckle maybe, but never a kick! We may shoot down your guesses but we will never be unkind :-)

#29 Three pieces of trivia for you:
1. Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
2. Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
3. If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, myxoid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, void

I'm afraid I was a bit too vague in #23 - you may have to put me in quarantine.

And in terms #28, I still suspect you may derive some pleasure in my (repeated) misfortune.

#23/31 Thanks for the hint but now I have an earworm which I will share with the class: Everybody's got the fever, That is something you all know. Fever isn't such a new thing, Fever started long ago...

#31 I most definitely am not enjoying that I can't figure this out.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, myxoid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void

Well, that's not too surprising since apparently I've been pronouncing it it slightly wrong all these years. I guess it could be worse.

How embarrassing. It's enough to make one develop some sort of anti-social personality disorder.

(Edited only to add link to first not-a-clue paragraph to make it obvious what I screwed up.)

//That word was never part of my vocabulary because I never could figure out how to pronounce it. :( Where would we be without YouTube? Probably though, like you, my attempts would have been closer to rhyming with thyroid than skoodin froody.//

I don't believe for a moment that you feel jinxed, ill-fated, doomed and cast aside because if you did, surely you wouldn't be here with all us wonderful peeps! :-)

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, myxoid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void

Is it you, is it me, or maybe even an E.T.?

You, me and ET against the world? Hey, we are family...but not crambo :(

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid, humanoid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, myxoid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void

Was your prescription perhaps something to kill the pain?

New to this group and game -- hope I'm playing right! -- but I immediately thought of my favorite bone in the body, striking partly because it can be wiggled around as it is only remotely connected to any other bone in the body.

// Welcome stellarexplorer! So glad you decided to join us :-) //

#37 In Flanders fields the poppies blow... We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. FYI... my favourite drug is caffeine!

#38 I’ve never really thought to have a favourite bone but now that you’ve suggested it, I think it would have to be my funny bone because clinging to humer(o)us details is generally what gets me through the day. I'm happy to report that no bones were wiggled nor harmed in any way to build this crambo.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid, humanoid, opioid, hyoid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, hyoid, myxoid, opioid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void

Shall I throw you a bone? Crambo’s word has 2 syllables. A very very small bone

I just was going to suggest we all go for donuts.

Has it ever happened to you that you read a sentence where you understand every individual word but have no idea what the aggregate means?

Example: “A surface generated by a closed curve rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.” The things you find on Google!

I’ll take a pass on the donut but maybe a coffee would help :-/

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid, humanoid, opioid, hyoid, toroid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, hyoid, myxoid, opioid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, toroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void

HINT: The initial letter of Crambo's word is found in the last third of the alphabet.

Oh! Oh! Oh! Would a SYN....no not quite a synonym ... would an alternative name for this word be thyroxine? Perhaps even in its levo- form?

No! No! No!
:(

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid, humanoid, opioid, hyoid, toroid, synthroid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, hyoid, myxoid, opioid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, synthroid, toroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void

Drat. Last third, two syllables... could it be a sternal process?

My newspaper of choice has just changed from a broadsheet to a weekday 'compact' format. At least it doesn't have a page three girl as well!

To figure this one out, I may need a couple of more sets of chromosomes.

I'll answer this with cool composure.

44 Not a sternal process :(
45 I know there are lots of ads, opinion and gossip, but is there any news in there?
46 No extra chromosomes here :(
47 No joy for you neither, Mr. Cool as a Cucumber :(

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid, humanoid, opioid, hyoid, toroid, synthroid, xiphoid, tabloid, mongoloid, sangfroid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, hyoid, mongoloid, myxoid, opioid, overjoyed, paranoid, rhomboid, sangfroid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, synthroid, tabloid, toroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void, xiphoid

Oh dear - all my attempts have turned egg-shaped, as opposed to pear-shaped!

Is it a Jungian archetype?

Feel free to ignore my previous suggestion (#49) owing to bad arithmetic. Maybe you saw a fluffy white dog in the park?

49 You've reminded me that I must really do some grocery shopping. My cupboard is bare except for some leftover chocolate eggs :(

50 "No one really runs away from anything. It's like a private trap that holds us in like a prison. You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch." oops, sorry! you made me think of Psycho and I got carried away.

51 I did! I then went in search for the nomadic reindeer herder which, alas, I did not find.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid, humanoid, opioid, hyoid, toroid, synthroid, xiphoid, tabloid, mongoloid, sangfroid, ovoid, psychoid, samoyed

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, hyoid, mongoloid, myxoid, opioid, overjoyed, ovoid, paranoid, psychoid, rhomboid, sangfroid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, synthroid, tabloid, toroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void, xiphoid

Is it a tumor?

(Maybe a hint on how obscure it is, or we may really start stumping YOU.)

Not any kind of tumor/tumour.

NOT: void, android, steroid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, glenoid, rhomboid, trapezoid, toyed, avoid, buoyed, annoyed, devoid, boyd, myxoid, hemorrhoid, paranoid, overjoyed, celluloid, destroyed, factoid, typhoid, enjoyed, schadenfreude, schizoid, humanoid, opioid, hyoid, toroid, synthroid, xiphoid, tabloid, mongoloid, sangfroid, ovoid, psychoid, samoyed, cancroid, carcinoid, fibroid, keloid, myeloid

ALPHA NOT: android, annoyed, avoid, boyd, buoyed, cancroid, carcinoid, celluloid, conoid, coracoid, deltoid, destroyed, devoid, enjoyed, factoid, fibroid, glenoid, hemorrhoid, humanoid, hyoid, keloid, mongoloid, myeloid, myxoid, opioid, overjoyed, ovoid, paranoid, psychoid, rhomboid, sangfroid, schadenfreude, schizoid, steroid, synthroid, tabloid, toroid, toyed, trapezoid, typhoid, void, xiphoid

Hint: This makes plants/trees sick.

A symbiotic form of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Rhizobia?

(I totally copied that from the Internetz.)

OMG you are soooooo close!

Sadly, crambo's 6-letter word (which is a plant pathogen and whose initial letter is in the last quarter of the alphabet) is not flavanoid :(

Are they simple hair-like protuberances that extend from the lower epidermal cells of bryophytes, Rhodophyta and pteridophytes?

(Also Internetz.)

Alas, one letter too many :(

Not rhizoid but rather an infectious particle smaller than any of the known viruses.

Okay, feels like cheating but I think you had us stumped - is it an infectious particle smaller than any of the known viruses.

Hmm... probably not the best clue. Okay, is it half of a virus and half of an android?

Was that too much of a hint? I felt like people were giving up :(
but I'm happy to say: yes Yes YES !!!
Crambo's word is the only true rhyme for thyroid: viroid.
Congrats brightcopy! Over to you :)

Yeah, I think at that point we had exhausted our knowledge and would have to just start turning to the internet. It appears none of us were too familiar with viroids so we didn't get the more subtle into in #1.

I'm not really going to count this as a "win" so much as a "finish". :D

Okay, time to cogitate for a bit. Gotta make my first Crambo word count!

You'll be great! Have fun!

I momentarily toyed with the secret word being "asteroid", "adenoid" or "ahoyed." >:)

I'm guessing that might make some people annoyed!

I never even got a chance to guess "solenoid."

New game here