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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!
9 comments:
Opsimath is an architectural term used to describe the concept of making something you draught/draw be on a relevant scale visually/optically. In other words, it is making sure a diagram is to scale.
It kind of makes me think of aftermath, as in seeing what the hurricane or tornado has done. The opsimath is a result of a toddler making accidental messes. "Oopsie!" Now mommy has to clean up the spilled apple juice or Kool-Aid.
Sometimes it takes three good floor cleanings to get the stickness off the floor. Yuck. That's oopsimath.
Opsimath is what happens when you accidentaly type the wrong number into a calculator, and hit enter just as you realize your mistake. This often happens when you are typing in many figures, so you have to start all over again.
Opsimath is a character in the later books of the Welsh myth cycle the Mabinogion. He comes from a parallel universe and is the 'opposite' of one of the main characters, Math son of Mathonwy.
Opsimath is the feeling of nausea that you get when you hurt yourself.
...Jane nearly fainted with opsimath when she hit her head on the corner of the cabinet...
Or it could be the feeling you get when you win the vote on word imperfect.
I've been feeling the later today - thankfully.
Opsimath is another word for foresight
I had the opsimath to check my bag fo the front door keys before I pulled the door shut
An opsimath is a person with savant-type abilities in mathematics.
"How much should we leave for a tip?"
"Oh, I'm too full to calculate it. Ask Scott -- he's an opsimath!"
An opsimath is a person with an obsessive need to contradict whatever you say. "his insistence that black was white had earned him the reputation of being an opsimath"
Doing an opsimath is when you accidentally multiply something instead of dividing it, or vice versa.
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