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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.
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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!
8 comments:
It's a follower of nullism -- nullfidians don't believe in anything. It makes it hard to get out of bed in the morning. Actually, it makes it hard to go to bed in the first place. Nullfidians are disorganised. There aren't many of them, and they don't speak to each other.
Nullifidian is an adjective. It means carefree and without worries. "The elderly woman, gave the schoolchildren a nullifidian wave of her hand as she scattered birdseed for the doves."
- K.
A nullifidian is one of those obnoxious people who disagree with everything anyone says because they think they know better.
"I told Herbert that standing on the train tracks was dangerous, but he was such a nullifidian and as usual he insisted I was being ridiculous. May he rest in peace."
In a dark and depressing vision of the future, when the government has strict rules about who and who isn't acceptable. Nullifidians will be the name given to those individuals who have been excluded from decent society.
"Her refusal to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables each day meant she had been branded a nullifidian and sent to live in the exclusion zone"
a while back we had the work "quotidian", which means something that happens daily (or maybe I'm making this up!) Anyway, nullifidian is sort of the opposite -- it means something that never happens.
Jimmy cleaning up his toys was a nullifidian occurrence, which frustrated his harassed mother immensely.
A nullifidian is a person with OCD who constantly voids checks in their checkbook.
It's a special whistle. Parents like to use this nullifidian when the children's fights are so loud and it nullifies the noisy spats by actually being loud enough to make the children stop and listen.
It is also used by people who have never gotten the hang of whistling. They just don't know how to whistle. So, they can hail taxicabs with it or use it to get their pet's attention.
A nullifidian lived in mediaeval feudal times. A nullifidian was the lowest of the low, held in disdain by all. The equivalent today is a pesky used-car salesman.
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