With great perspicacity, she ignored the irrelevant details and deduced the solution from the two key facts no one else had even noticed.
Although "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is an anchronism that deserves obsolescence, I am apalled when strangers interfere with a mother who chides her son when he throws a public tantrum.
cog takes the prize for pretentious verbosity and chudz gets points for silliness... manav will have to be satisfied with dishorable mention for inappropriate capitalization of 'imp'... ;-)
guess this and manav's try shows that 'shrift' doesn't work well without 'short'... anyone else want to try?
i'm very sorry to have to announce that i won't have time to keep up this thread any longer, since i've been asked to write children's books for a publisher and very important and worthy memoirs for a couple of folks who have incredible stories to tell, but need a pro to rewrite their book mss... this will take up most of my time, so i'm hoping a kind volunteer will come forward and offer to keep up this thread... any takers? love and apologetic hugs, maia
thanks, guys! it truly saddens me that no one else will step up to the plate... wish i could continue, but just don't see how i can do it justice while juggling so many full plates... maybe 'seeding' this thread with some 'cherce woids' will inspire someone with more time than i have to keep it going: amerce barratry consternation dread emigre foofaraw glitch hoary illicit juxtapose kibbitz licentious marabou nitty-gritty obfuscate perpendicular quintessence rapscallion suserration touchstone ululate variegated williwaw xenophobe yahoo [the word, not the web company!] zydeco fingers-crossed hugs, m
Hi – Having just joined I see this as a topic worthy of continuing. This my own made up selection! Amlas – (pronounced Am-Lass) - ‘A mind like a sieve’ – to describe someone who is the village idiot. Mentalisum (pronounced Men-Tal-is-um) meaning - not understand something to the point of it driving one mentally insane. Not to be confused with a method of mind reading used by some magicians. Nimby – (pronounced Nim Bee) - ‘Not in my back yard’ – It came about because people got fed up with unwanted rubbish , like unwanted circulars through their letter boxes and Dog’s poo being deposited on their front lawns Paleopresoptimist (Pail-eo-press-op-tim-ist). Someone who thinks about the future, spends most of their time in the past and is never in the present when you want them. According to the results from a female only survey, most men are Paleopresoptimists. Spontification (pronounced Spon-Tif -I- cation) – making nonsense remarks that can be interpreted as a form of heckling. Swnoi agawi – (pronounced Sue Noi ag Awee) – ‘Somebody who nicks others idea’s and gets away with it’ – The sort of character that’s a real pain in the butt, the Plagiarist from hell. Verstosterone (pronounced Vers-tosster-own).-The action of when you can’t help but keep speaking in verse. Words they tumbled off his tongue, All neatly phrased and funny some, Accursed, addicted to Verstosterone, He felt so alienated and all alone. Sentences I can now write proper, without the need to rhyme. The verses there again, might just break forth, from time to time. Ah! If you insist, I’ll slap my wrist, and put it all behind....
hi I am new to this are we supposed to add our own new words of the day/week here? is so here two ofmine that I found recently: BURGEONING: begin to grow or increase rapidly. which stems from the french word bourgeon which means the stem of a flower. ANDROGYNOUS:meaning both man and women characteristics in one. it is apparently of greek descent, howerver I cannot help noticing the similarity with the word android
the similarity is due to the fact that 'andro' is from the ancient greek word [andros], meaning 'man'...
Nimby isn't about having minor things like dog poo in your back yard. It's usually used in relation to things that are generally considered to be necessary to the community, but which nobody would want in their own neighbourhood. Say a halfway house for ex-offenders, or a dump, or an airport. The argument being that 'they have to go somewhere' the reply, of course, being, 'not in my back yard'.