Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Friday, 7 July 2017

Here we have a few more interesting words


KLAZOMANIAC - someone who can only speak by SHOUTING

ARSLE - to move backwards.

ALIENILOQUENT – unable to keep to the point during a conversation.

MATUTOLYPEA – grumpy first thing in the morning.

APRICATE – to bask in the sun. 

SÓLARFRÍ - (Icelandic) time off work, given to staff to enjoy a sunny, warm day.

QUAALTAGH – (from old Manx) the first person you see after you leave your house.

THROTTLEBOTTOM - an inept, incompetent person who holds public office.


Pallottine informs us that today is World Chocolate Day. Let's celebrate!




Monday, 8 May 2017

Another list of useful words

LIBROCUBICULARIST - someone who reads in bed.

GALEANTHROPY – the belief that you have become a cat.

PROCAFFEINATE – to put off doing anything until you’ve had your first cup of coffee.

SARCHASM – the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

LETHONOMIA - a tendency to forget names

VELLEITY - wishing for something but doing absolutely nothing about it.

GROAK - to stare longingly at food, in hopes of being offered some.  



Thursday, 21 May 2015

Hey TW, some posh English for you!


albeit
conjunction: though.

"he was making progress, albeit rather slowly"

heretofore
adverb,
formal: 
before now. 

"diseases that heretofore were usually confined to rural areas"

whence
formalarchaic

adverb: from what place or source.

"whence does Parliament derive this power?"

adverb: from which; from where.
"the Ural mountains, whence the ore is procured"

whereof
adverb,
formal: 
of what or which.

"I know whereof I speak"

wherefore
archaic
adverb: for what reason.
"she took an ill turn, but wherefore I cannot say"

adverb & conjunction: as a result of which.
"truly he cared for me, wherefore I title him with all respect"

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Because that is what it does...

Schmetterling, farfalla, papallona, borboleta, mariposa, papillon, tximeleta, petaloúda, sommerfugl, tauriņš, fluture, perhonen, féileacán, pillangó, vlinder, urukurubụba, paru paro, npauj npaim, papilio.

All these words say butterfly in different languages, but I think they really mean:

Flutterby...











Monday, 29 December 2014

Words, words, words

These word clouds are fun. They contain words from the old days until right now. The author is British, so some of the words may have different meanings in the US and many haven't been used for centuries on either side of the pond!