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Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
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1. I choose an obscure dictionary word.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
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2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
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13 comments:
Geostrophic - an equestrian reference to the likelihood of a horse winning any competition. Compiled from Gee-gee(adults' word for horse) and trophy.
Sadly, for the final heat of the dressage, Lucinda's mare was in unco-operative mood and gallomphed into the arena looking quite ungeostrophic.
Geostrophic refers to the regular and irritating exclamations frequently emanating from the mouths of Americans upon visiting England. More commonly heard during the seventies, this phenomenon usually involed the pointing of a camera, ie.
"Gee!" click, "Gee!" click.
And thanks for my win for habergeon!
Word Imp - you're right. This word has a straightforward derivation - Geo = Earth + Trophe = food.
Geostrophic refers to the act of eating soil.
"I called my daughter from the garden. Around her mouth were the remnants of her geostrophic game."
Geostrophic refers to an entry in the Earth Day competitions that is thought to be worthy of winning. The term is derived from the name for the prize, the GeosTrophy (which is, of course, a finely cast statuette of unbaked clay).
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
As imperfect as I can be --
Geostrophic: of or characteristic of geostrophe.
A geostrophe is a mark ([o])used to indicate the space between two words.
A geostrophe is indicated by a circle (geo-earth) between brackets (held between hands). while the earth refers to the word, the brackets refer to the spacing. Try enacting!
Below is the example of a geostrophic sentence:
Wordimperfect[o]simply[o]rocks[o]!
Geostropic refers to poetry about the landscape.
Wordsworth is probably the most noted of the geostrophic poets.
Geostrophic: a word coined after the publication of George Orwell's "1984" that refers to his or any other author's catastrophic view of the future.
Quite a few examples of geostrophic literature have been published in the last few years, and many have been made into big-budget Hollywood productions, but it is unlikely that any will gain the level of notoriety of their Orwellian predecessor.
Geostrohic is a term used to describe a set of objects in a stack so badly balanced that it is enevitable that it will fall over.
Geostrophic is an adjective used to describe the knees of cowboys and jockeys who are bowlegged as a result of too many years in the saddle.
Geostrophic is that condition one enters when it is time to choose a product, candidate, etc. and one forgets what one's preference was. "Gee, oh, I dropped my pick!"
I will be unable to visit this cite tomorrow, but I should return on Tuesday.
Geostrophic: Whew, good word. Let's see if I can break it down. Geo:Geneticly Engineered Organism
Strophic: Something bad, very very bad.
So maybe putting the two together something that was geneticly engineered and came out very wrong.
Maybe like Frankenstien or that KFC chicken. That's Geostrophic for sure!
This is a little out there, heat's gotten to me!
Geostrophic describes an ancient form of fertility dance (for crops, not humans, get your mind out of the bedroom) in which the dancers repeatedly chant three magical verses while doing a syncopated shuffle-stamp line dance moving counterclockwise around the field they are blessing.
Cucurbits such as zucchinis and cucumbers respond especially well to geostrophic dancing.
George IV of Britain was well known for being a bit of a rake, even going so far as having an illegal bigamous marriage.
The chaos he caused was known at the time as Geostrophic.
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