'poly-' means many
'-est' means most
'-er' means more

'polyester' lots and lots and lots and lots

@OscarCunningham there are lots of poly persons called ester on the fedi 🤯

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po- Latin prefix for away/off
lye is an alkaline solution, very basic
-ster means associated with

someone considered very basic, but is trying to get away from it.

@OscarCunningham I thought this was going to be a joke about a polycule getting too big.

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What about her sister
Crinoline

Crino, one of the many consorts of King Danaus of Libya

Line is line

So it's the line of a consort?

@OscarCunningham when the polycule gets too big… polyamorester
@OscarCunningham then the trolls in the books of #terrypratchett were actual chemists. The counted one - two - many - LOTS!

@OscarCunningham We sometimes eat cookies called "picolientjes"

pico = one trillionth
lien = diminutive suffix
tje = diminutive suffix

(they're not particularly small, only smaller than the full-sized version which are too large for us)