Word of the day...
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Serendipity -- finding something good without looking for it
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Fafi - Telling my sister in Norwich about the day the Chinese Fafi mafia's limousine was upended by a baying crowd who felt they had been cheated when we lived in Johannesburg. She was just a wee bairn then and remembered nothing of it. My mother saw what was happening and managed to get police support just in time to save the Chinese from an unpleasant death. Life in Africa is never boring.
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Smeech - dirty, smoky, cloud from a fire. A westcountry word not in my Shorter Oxford dictionary (only 137,000 words).
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Shower as in baby shower.
The first time I heard this word in this context was when a wannabe princess held one in New York.
Imagine my surprise when, doing ancestral research, I found the term used in the 1960s in Canada of the wedding shower for a distant relative.
Shower as in showering gifts.
The first time I heard this word in this context was when a wannabe princess held one in New York.
Imagine my surprise when, doing ancestral research, I found the term used in the 1960s in Canada of the wedding shower for a distant relative.
Shower as in showering gifts.
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Dunch - North Eastern for 'crash into", usually in reference to a vehicle collision.
"He quoined the corner and dunched into it" = He drove around a bend in the road and collided with the back of another vehicle"
"He quoined the corner and dunched into it" = He drove around a bend in the road and collided with the back of another vehicle"
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'Kinoath (as in,...it most certainly is indeed!!)
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Quoin as in decorative stone work on the corner of the building
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Flummoxed.....as in I am frequently Flummoxed...
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Bicameral.
Don't know how I got to my age without ever hearing this word until today. Meaning 'two chambers'. A bicameral parliament is one that contains two separate assemblies who are both involved when new laws are made, such as the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the UK.
Don't know how I got to my age without ever hearing this word until today. Meaning 'two chambers'. A bicameral parliament is one that contains two separate assemblies who are both involved when new laws are made, such as the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the UK.
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Here, in our State, we have a Unicameral state Government....neither side looks to change that....
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Scroddle (transitive) To mottle (pottery) with scraps of differently coloured clays.
'twas a question in the morning quiz today:
Morning trivia challenge March 24, 2021 Stuff.co.nz
'twas a question in the morning quiz today:
Morning trivia challenge March 24, 2021 Stuff.co.nz
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****q.
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I'll bet one of the three or more harridans will be a regular supplier of a ripe old queef
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Apricity - the warmth of the sun in winter.
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Snollygoster - a shrewd, unprincipled person, usually a politician... Never heard or read that word until yesterday.
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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We've got 120 or more of the bastards down at the bottom righthand end of the Canongate. Snotgobblers, every one of 'em.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:06 amSnollygoster - a shrewd, unprincipled person, usually a politician... Never heard or read that word until yesterday.
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Noachian - relating to the biblical patriarch Noah or his time (as in Australia's Noachian floods).
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
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Antediluvian - before the Noachian floods.
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Antilocution -- is a form of discrimination in which negative verbal remarks against a person, group, or community, are made (in a public or private setting)
Was used in an article referred to in a post,definitely had to look up it's meaning.
Was used in an article referred to in a post,definitely had to look up it's meaning.