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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.
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- 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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13 comments:
Effulgent an adjective describing a lack of bladder control.
Tammy wouldn't think of stepping into the public pool, considering all effulgent children in there with sagging diapers.
I am drawing a blank for a definition for this word.
So, on that note, an effulgent person is one who is trying to come up with witty comebacks, but fails miserably.
An effulgent is a man who only shows gallantry and chivilry when intoxicated. Useage:
A: I don't know why you stick wiv 'im. 'E treats you like muck and you know it.
B: Not all the time. 'E's an effulgent once 'e's got a few drinks dahn 'im and 'e makes me feel like a princess.
An effulgent is a hair styling product that adds body. Bernice's hair had always been limp and lifeless until her hairdresser suggested using effulgents -- now she looks like a rockstar from the 80s!
Effulgent is an adjective that describes a full-throated, brassy sound (as might be made by an elephant).
"Upon seeing the food truck backing up towards the gate, the elephants gave sound to an effulgent trumpeting."
"She screamed in an effulgent manner when she opened the box containing her brand-new roller skates."
(...following on from clare...)
A: Well, its doing my 'ead in. I fink he's a right git and needs a good kick up the effulgent.
Effulgent the atmosphere in the room when an akward moment happened
The room was effulgent when tom walked in with Joes ex-girlfriend.
To effulge is to keep things to yourself. The opposite of divulge. So an effulgent person is someone who always plays their cards close to their chest.
I've just had a strange de ja vu, about the third time it has happened to me playing Word Imperfect. Weird!
Effulgent is how you feel when you have had too many visits to the All-you-can-eat-for-$10 buffet.
"I shouldn't have had that last bit of piece of pizza - I'm starting to feel a bit effulgent".
I do like Clare's and Ace's definitions!
An Effulgent is a gentleman of dubious origins who befriends gullible, lonely, elderly widows who just so happen to have squillions of dollars that was left to them by their dearly departed, uber rich husbands. This Effulgent passes himself off as a man of breeding, a man of means, a man of integrity...however he is far from that.....in reality he is no man at all, merely a fraudster and a trickster. Effulgents are very hard to spot, you never really know that you are being conned by an Effulgent until after he has done a bunk with all your lovely dosh.
An effulgent is the bacterial wash used in the making of blue cheese.
Effulgent is the early morning bad breath that sends you running to the loo for your toothbrush before the first kiss of the day
Prince Charming reeled at Princess Aurora's effulgent breath and realised he'd have to take her to the dentist to help her get over a 100 years of not brushing her teeth
BTW Clare's entry is superb
Effulgent is the word to describe the gait of a lady in a hobble skirt. The word, along with the hobble skirt, originates from the 1880s. The tighter the skirt the more effulgent the walk, the more desired the woman.
....The Braithwaite-Jones sisters were much admired for their effulgent progress across the ballroom....
The suffragette movement of the early 20 Century adopted the word as a term of derision for their less liberated sisters.
http://www.hobbleskirt.com/About.aspx
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