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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!
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8 comments:
Wentletrap...wentle is a little person that can grant wishes trap a way to catch them....
sally asked billy what he would wish for if he got a wentle in the wentletrap and he said a brother instead of a sister so sally set her own wentletrap in hopes to catch one first.
A wentletrap was an exercise machine used by ladies in the 1800's, usually when travelling long distances by train or carriage. They could hide it under their long skirts anf no one was aware they were exercising their feet, ankles and legs.
A Wentletrap is actually a complicated dance step. It is part of the quickstep and involves the dancers leaping (in promenade) and clicking their heels together whilst they are in the air. It is very difficult and often ends with the dancers in a tangled heap.
A wentletrap is a portable children's "potty," popular in England in the mid-1800s.
As the carriage pulled to the side of the road, Mum took out the wentletrap, putting it beside a tree so that little Nigel could attend to pressing business. (The tree provided at least some degree of privacy.)
Wentletraps were much like mistletoes used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They were used at those "coming out" parties when young girls reached marriageable age, which could be as young as 13.
Wentletraps were placed in dancerooms to encourage rich, eligible bachelors to dance with the young women and court them.
A wentletrap is something that you thought would turn out bad but it actually ends up having a positive outcome.
A wentletrap is a snarling beast that ressembles a mink. It appears small and harmless until approached and/or frightened. The wentletrap snarls with a slight lisp and has a bright pink nose.
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