Gumption, infamy, alas, arise, smatterings, milieu, rambling, hark, buccaneer, widdershins; these words are amongst the detritus from the brain of a linguaphile, and they have found their home.
TAGS: words, language, linguaphile, detritus, smatteringsA feeling for language or a sensitivity for what is correct language (from word of the day).
“She looked at the sky full of wheedling birds…” she stopped sudenly, almost swallowing a lungful of water “wait on, is wheedling even a word?”
TAGS: birds, words, swimmingbanana.
TAGS: words, games, bananas, oneBoot glanced guardedly beneath her solicitous Scrine at the befuddling, bemusing and abstruse admixture of alphabetical articluates and was stunned speechless.
TAGS: words, letters, befuddlingAnd sometimes it seems to be nothing more than a random gathering of words.
TAGS: words, dance, confusionGiven that, in my book, a word is not a word until it finds itself properly placed in the pages of a good, papery dictionary, what do you call a pre-dictionary word?
TAGS: words, primordialIt’s an outrageous thought, but I strongly believe that certain words should be deleted from the dictionary.
TAGS: words, outrageousSometimes you’ll watch a play and it’s moving or funny, but every now and then it’s as if the script-writer, the director, the actors have all been living in your head, examining your soul, dissecting the secrets, and have brought some of the pieces out for display.
TAGS: words, writers“I say again your honour, that this woman can not, nay must not be held responsible for the actions of her own words.”
TAGS: words, libel, worryingWhy do you need to look up the word ‘dictionary’ in a dictionary?
TAGS: words, inexplicableEnigmatic. Your move.
TAGS: words, gamesI’m really going to have trouble working this lovely sounding word into a sentence (in a scenario that doesn’t involve me getting slapped).
TAGS: words, callipygianIt really shouldn’t be a word.
TAGS: words, mootMoot (n), orig. misspelling of the past tense of moo (mooed/mood), probably refers to a boviform tale, e.g., “The cow moot at the farmer’s cold hands.”
TAGS: words, cows, moo, mootI’d always presumed that the word goober originated from something green and gooey, but apparently it’s just a peanut.
TAGS: words, green, gooey, goober, peanutA week after the soliloquy ended, Hamlet’s words were still echoing inside her skull.
TAGS: words, hamlet, soliloquyIt’s a nifty little word and no language kit would be complete without it.
TAGS: words, language, noThe primordial puddle of words lurked at the pond’s edge awaiting its chance to transform.
TAGS: words, scrine, primordial, puddleI hadn’t realised I was feeling “worn and broken down by hard use” until I looked up this word.
TAGS: words, woebegone, fitting