Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Longanimity
Longanimity is long suffering with a view to revenge in the future. Nasty. Good to have a word for it though. Loved your invented meanings for longanimity and big congrats to Loonilidi who outdid herself with lots of votes today. Great work!
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9 invented meanings:
Longanimity (n.) is going for good longs walks, alone, when you need to think things through and clear the mind.
The Longanimity Campaign has been active for many years now, and is the most prominent voice opposing discrimination against short people. Truly the world will be a better place when total longanimity is achieved among humanity.
Longanimity is the hatred of old age.
Lorenzo.
Longanimity is the desired state of many people with a high public profile, who would love to be able to pop down to the local shop for a Mars bar and a newspaper without being recognised by paparazzi.
Longanimity is the mathematic formula used for determining the length of a piece of string.
A feeling of being elongated. It can occur in dreams or delirium, but is most often associated with psychedelic drug trips.
Longanimity is a viking threat which involves removing certain parts of the body.
To commit loganimity is a great sin if carried out needlessly.
Loganimity describes those frequent occasions when you do not wish to be recognised and choose to dress up as a dead tree. This disguise is naturally most effective in forests and woodland rather than the high street.
Afficionados belong to the loggers club, a branch of which holds loganonimous parties where everyone dresses up as a log. It takes a while to twig who everybody is. They are, of course, all barking mad!
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A longanimity is a definition that describes a fear of longwords.
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