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I just won an award!! I had just crawled out of my Fergie and Jake’s leather chair where I’d parked myself after sleeping for ten hours the night before–delicious!–with what seemed like a pissant...
I just crawled out of my Fergie and Jake’s leather chair where I parked myself after sleeping for ten hours last night–delicious!–with what seemed like a pissant little cold, but hey, maybe it had...
For two years in a row now I’ve completed the challenge. I had a blast. This year at least. Not so much last year. Halfway through the alphabet I was on holiday in England where I reconnected with...
Zyzzyva – A genus of tropical American weevil often found in association with palms. Pronounced ziz-e-va, it is a yellowish snouted beetle, no longer than an ant. It was first discovered in 1922 in...
Yellow - The color of gold, butter, or ripe lemons. The word “yellow” comes from the Old English geolu, geolwe, meaning “yellow, yellowish”, derived from the Proto-Germanic word gelwaz. It is...
Excited – Enthusiastic. Sexually aroused. The former definition, not the latter. Not for this particular blog anyway. It’s about the book cover for my soon to be released memoir, Loveyoubye. I...
Wonderful – Inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvelous. I use this word a lot, in my head for the most part, because I’m worried about sounding like an emoting dipshit,...
Venireman – Juror. A person summoned to jury duty under a venire (panel). Now, everyone I know hates jury duty. I don’t. Well, I did while I was working full-time and trying to write and trying to...
Unctuous – a person who is excessively or ingratiatingly flattering; having a greasy or soapy feel. Despite the negative connotations of this word, I like saying it. My favourite unctuous cartoon...
Tablier - Apron; part of dress resembling an apron. It’s French. Of course. I wrote about apron-wearing rickshaw “boys” in my memoir, Loveyoubye, but I think the word tablier is more apt, except...
Scrumpy – Strong apple cider as made in western England. Finding this word (another one I’d never heard of) has allowed me to revisit the trip I made to England in April of last year where I...
Raisonneur – A character in a play, novel or the like who appears to act as a mouthpiece for the opinions of the author, usually displaying a superior or more detached view of the action than the...
Quagga – An extinct South African zebra (Equus quagga) that had a yellowish-brown coat with darker stripes, exterminated in 1883. (Check out the photo at the bottom.) The only quagga photographed...
Pip - A small hard seed in fruit. Grapes have pips, so do loquats as well as mangoes, which like the avocado only has one. Gladys Knight, on the other hand, has three of them, her brother Merald...
Opposite Marriage – The PC way to specify the legal union of a man and a woman, as made popular by Miss California at the 2009 Miss USA pageant. I got this from the Urban Dictionary, a treasure...
Niggardly – miserly, stingy, cheap. The company was particularly niggardly with salaries; serving out the rations with a niggardly hand. Niggard is thought to be related to the Old Norse verb nigla...
Monty Python’s Flying Circus - a surreal English comedy group, comprised of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. I was going to go with Mumpsimus –...
Lachrymose - showing sorrow; given to tears, weeping. The more lachrymose mourners at the funeral required a steady supply of tissues. Origin of lachrymose, from the latin, lacrimosus, from...
Kakapo – A large, flightless, nocturnal New Zealand parrot (also called parrot owl) with greenish plumage, now endangered I like the sound of the word and I like the bird. Not that I’ve ever seen...
Jackalope – a mythical animal of North American folklore, described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns or deer antlers. It’s possible that the tales of jackalopes were inspired by sightings of...
Idiolect – a person’s individual speech pattern. The way in which a person uses language. His speech was garbled; he uttered harsh language; he recorded the spoken language of the streets. So, if I...
Hiney – Either of the two rounded prominences on the human torso that are posterior to the hips and formed by the gluteal muscles and underlying structures. In other words a person’s rear end:...
Gongoozle – To stare at. Harley gongoozled Jacqueline, his breath ragged with desire. Whew! Actually, Victor can only gongoozle with Jacqueline in the United Kingdom where you’ll find gongoozlers...
A reminder that I’m doing “The Funniest Words in English” for my trip down the A-Z Blogging Challenge path, (well, not always hahaha funny, but kind of off the beaten track funny, like maybe a...
Egg On – To urge someone to do something that is usually negative. Like the time my boy cousin–two years older than me–egged on eleven-year-old me to jump from my grandparents roof in Middleburg,...
Dinkum – (Australian and New Zealand) genuine, authentic, guileless. As in, He was a fair dinkum bloke with no pretensions. I’ve always liked this word, another one we didn’t use back home in...
Crapulence – Discomfort from eating or drinking too much. I NEVER do that. I like this word–I’m a lover of cuss words, well, some of them, and this word has one right up front. “Crap.” I would’ve...
Blunderbuss – 1. A muzzle-loading firearm with a short barrel and flaring muzzle to facilitate loading. 2. one who blunders. 3. disorganized activity. (It’s also the name of Jack White’s album of...
I’m nuts, must be, because I’m actually heading into the A to Z April Blogging Challenge, you know where I have to blog from A to Z for the whole month. Yikes! Right in the midst of getting my...
Okay, so I’ve been quite remiss in posting to my blog for the past . . . Wow! has it been three weeks already? Quelle horreur! (Haven’t a clue how I knew that meant “that’s terrible/how awful!” Mr....
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