Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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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...
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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!
20 comments:
Bunraku is the latest puzzle game from Japan, it's a bit like sudoku but with cakes.
I love Sudoku!!
Okay.
Bunraku is a hard roll. It is an old Scottish roll made with course wheat (refined white flour was unheard of then) back in the 1500s. It was a little bit on the dry side, but with a swig of ale, it washed down quite well.
Bunraku is a word that describes the feeling you get when everything is going right. The kids are behaving, you're married to the best man in the world, everyone you care about is happy and healthy and you're happily absorbed in an exciting project that is going really well.
"Sara was having a great day, she was completely bunraku"
shari had my idea.
The only thing I would have added: "The surface of a bunraku is deeply brown and cracked, inviting in a deeply earthy way. Accomplished bakers add a glaze to lend a shine to the top."
But then, perhaps the glaze would make it a Swedish, not Scottish roll.
Bunraku is Asian definitely, but not Indian! Bunraku is poetry--like haiku--where the focus is always on food.
Bunraku is a messy or sloppy-looking hair bun often worn by the fashionable ladies of Southern California. It looks rather rakish and jaunty, but in fact is a high-maintenance hairstyle. Bunrakus have been known to take an hour or more to create.
A "bunraku" is a ceramic Japanese container made for holding small loaves of bread at the dinner table.
A bunraku is a kind of boomerang that you use in a movie theater to throw at people who talk too loud. It bonks them on the head and then comes back to you, and you hide it in your pocket until you need it again.
Bunraku is the used charcoal left over after the firing of Raku pottery...
Bunraku is the Hindi word for the cobra necklace that the Supreme God Shiva wears in most Hindu imagery.
Bunraku is actually a style of Japanese dance, similar to Yosakoi. While Yosakoi is danced during festivals and portrays movements such as gathering fish and sowing rice, Bonraku is a more refined style that depicts the history of Japan's ancient leaders, the Shoguns and Samaurai.
Bunraku is actually the name given to the special way that the poles need to be arranged when erecting a Wigwam.
Bunraku is the giddy feeling you get from rolling down a grassy hill or falling madly in love.
It's a pasta dish that you serve outdoors. You're supposed to throw it in the air and shout, "Bunraku!" Then everyone runs around and catches it in their mouths. It makes a great ice breaker at neighborhood barbecues.
Bunraku was the original name given to the creature with two heads by Hugh Lofting in his Dr Dolittle book. It was changed to a push-me-pull-you on the advice of his editor who frowned on English school-children picking up foreign sounding words. Unfortunately Hugh neglected to formally register his new word and it was subsequently picked up by as the trade name of the Rubik's Bunraku puzzle. It faded into obscurity when the more well-known 'cube' hit the market
(P.s. one of annika rose's boomerang thingies would be great! Can you buy them on the internet??)
Bunraku is a Japanese game where you act out a haiku...poetic charades if you will.
Bunraku is the legendary giant winged fish found in Asia. It is said that the Bunraku was cursed to be sky bound by the Queen of Fishes, Intari for committing the blasphemous act of mating with a man thus resulting in the birth of a race of violent merpeople.
The Bunkaru roams on chilly nights and is often mistaken for a cloud. Sometimes it weeps and wails over its plight.
If one listens carefully, one can hear it in the sigh of the night breeze. The luckier ones may even be rained on by its tears which are said to be magical and have the ability to erase all of a person's sorrow, leaving him careless, fresh and pure as new born merman.
Bunraku is an ancient Japanese martial art that metamorphosed into Kabuki theatre , which is also pretty violent and noisy anyway .
Annika's interpretation rocks !I'd love to have a bunraku in my hand when I go to the movie hall next
A long time ago the day we now called Tuesday was called Bunday.A violent uprising one particular Bunday left many people with horrific injuries. The event came to be known as Bunraku. Because the memories of that day were so terrible, it was decided to change the name of Bunday to Tuesday, in an effort to erase the horror of the day from the memories of the people involved.
If/when I desperately need something, I write out a New Moon Abundance cheque, funnily enough, on the day that there is a new moon. In the old days, before cheque books and cheques, this process was called bunraku. A raku, or offering, was made to the New Moon. And then, as now, the Universe always granted that your need be met. (This process REALLY works! I have done it 3 times now and each time my wish was granted).
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