Okay. You all know that I like words, and I "spread the word" ( sry! :-[ ) whenever I can, with dictionary links to possible "new vocabulary" for many to enjoy. (
? )
However, I occasionally come upon
AMAZING words - words with such
succinct and strange definitions - that I'm truly impressed with "language!"
Upon learning a new one today, and having a
plethora of them on hand ("on brain," as it were!), I decided that it's time to
SHARE! (Oh goody goody!
)
Whenever I learn one of these new beauties I
endeavour to use it as often as possible for the next
TWO WEEKS in order to hammer it into my feeble mind as much as possible.
I encourage you all to do likewise, because, as you'll see: these are truly excellent words, and well worth keeping "on hand" for whenever the proper occasion should arise.
So here, for all to enjoy & use as often as possible over the next TWO WEEKS, is the first of many Mr. Mxy's Word Corner words!:frassUses:- The FDA has rules as to how much frass is allowed into your food.... - Honey, there's frass in my soup!- Junior, it's time to clean the cricket cage. It's full of frass.- Please post your experiences making use of this great new word: frass!
May 14, 2007: OK!
'Time for the next unique & oddball english-language word! (Actually, I'm LATE with it! :-[ )
Your NEXT word to somehow use in your everyday life IS....
detritusde·tri·tus /dɪˈtraɪtəs/ –noun
1. rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.
2. any disintegrated material; debris.Here's how I used it (after a shower!
)at lunch out with friends today:
"Man I've broken up so much of that concrete slab all morning that my hair was filled with detritus from it!" (Yes, I got a funny look....
)
Now
YOU use
detritus in a sentence today, and amaze your friends, or even YOUR
PARENTS!
May 23, 2007:OK!
Time for another kewl word!
Now, this word is may FAVORITE WORD! I deign to use it at every even slightly-related opportunity, cuz I think it's so uniquely defined!
YOU SHOULD TOO!
The next Mxy's Word Corner word is!...
>drum roll....<
defenestrate!de·fen·es·trate (dē-fěn'ĭ-strāt')
tr.v. de·fen·es·trat·ed, de·fen·es·trat·ing, de·fen·es·trates
To throw out of a window.There's
a word that means that
AND ONLY THAT! How cool is THAT?!?!
Unfortunately I've had
NO opportunity recently to make use of this great word, so over the next two weeks I - like yourselves! - will endeavour to put it to use! (And I will, of course, post my experience once I have!)
[Note that in the movie "There's Something About Mary" her dog is NOT defenestrated! The dog (accidentally!) jumps out the window on his own, so this is POOR EXAMPLE example of defenestration!
]
GL, and happy
defenestration!
June 4, 2007:New word should be tomorrow, but in celebration of the restoration of this thread (? ! ? . .. w/e! ) here's the NEXT NEW WORD!:
perspicaciousper·spi·ca·cious [pur-spi-key-shuhs] –adjective
1. having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.And here's my immediate use of this word!:
Diagoro was perspicacious and ebullient wrt his use of all the Word Corner words thusfar!
June 20, 2007:Well! . . .
Perspicacious was A Big Flop, wasn't it?!?
('Guess all the perspicacious folks here are off for Summer break, eh?? )You Scrabble
TM (and Boggle
TM) players out there should
LOOOVE this one! It
ALWAYS gets challenged, but it's in MOST (not ALL!) dictionaries, although I can't say it will be for long, because I've NEVER heard it used in speach by anyone other than myself - while playing Scrabble
TM! (Perhaps you Brit's still use it??)
crwth
crwth [krooth] –
noun Music.
crowd2.[Origin: 1830–40; < Welsh; c. Ir cruit harp, lyre]
crowd 2 (kroud, krōōd)
n.
1. An ancient Celtic stringed instrument that was bowed or plucked. Also called
crwth.
2. Chiefly British: A fiddle.
THIS IS ONE OF ONLY TWO WORDS (that remain) IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHERE "W" IS CONSIDERED A VOWEL!Now, ... THIS ONE is REALLY hard to use in common language, but hey!!! Go for it! Play Scrabble
TM over the next two weeks and get that free turn and 50 points offa them!
They'll never play Scrabble
TM with you again!
P.S. You MIGHT wanna check your dictionary FIRST, tho, to make sure yours has it! (The smaller, "pocket-sized" cheap ones usually do NOT!)
July 12, 2007:Not a lotta "crwth" players/users out there, eh?
Ok then! 'Next word for y'all!:
nibnib /nɪb/ –noun
1. the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
2. a penpoint for insertion into a penholder.
3. a point of anything: a cutting tool with a diamond nib.
4. a bill or beak, as of a bird; neb.
5. any pointed extremity.So sharpen those nibs on top of your head and get with using this next new word!