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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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How to Play:
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!
Remember, children use this site too.
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.
About Me
- Word Imp
- I am a children's author who has had a handful of books published by trade publishers. They're in book shops and libraries. I've also had a sackful of books published by educational publishers. These are mainly found in schools. I love words and that's why I invented this blog site.
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What I'm writing...
- Picture books in my head...
- Job applications so I can earn actual money.
- Boring stuff for companies to earn actual money.
- This blog
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- Penina Petersen's Table Tucker
- Rereading my fave - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- Mike Gayle's To Do List
- Any good biography
- The dictionary!
6 comments:
DANDLE (n.): The long, thin stick that one pushes into an air pump to make it work.
This story has faded with time, but back in the 16th century it was well known.
An early innovator named Wicksy Dandle invented a new form of taper with an integral grip made of wax. It was marketed as the Dandle Candle Handle as it did away with the need to have a separate candle holder.
Sales took off and it made Wicksy a rich man. However, without warning Wicksy suddenly absconded with all profits from the company leaving all his employees destitute.
This became known as The Dandle Candle Handle Scandal and was in all the tabloids for many months.
A dandle is a special needle used for embroidering human skin. "Body tapestry" uses special plastic thread. A leading home sewing magazine is planning to give away free dandles along with patterns for DIY body tapestry in a forthcoming issue, so we can expect to see more of these as readers try it out on their husbands.
A Dandle is another name for a nursery rhyme of a rather dubious nature, that is never repeated in polite society. Only very old and senile grandmothers can get away with chanting a dandle to their grandchildren.
Dandle - measured like hail, dandle is dandruff golfball sized or larger. In the presence of a person with dandle one should always flee when they are brushing their hair, or head-banging at a heavy metal show.
Dandle. v. i. To hang on for dear life; usually with reference to a roof, cliff or some other high place. Etymology - thought to be obscurely related to the name Daedalus who pushed his nephew Perdix off a high tower. First record - "She dandled from the balcony for the nine minutes that the quake lasted." Daily Universal Register 1788 - in the obituary of a survivor of the Lisbon earthquake of 33 years earlier.
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