Saturday, February 17, 2007
Spuddling
Spuddling is actually light digging as performed by amateur gardeners such as myself - not the kind performed by most of my neighbours who - although not professional gardeners - are often found doing much more than spuddling in their gardens. I spuddled in my garden yesterday. Others toiled. The invented meanings were all very enjoyable and I'm pleased to announce that one of my favourites, from Sonnjea B, was the winner on the poll. Great work, Sonnjea.
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Spuddling (n.) the look one gets when they are caught at home in their robe after 10:00 a.m. on a weekday. The look combines a half-smile, wide eyes, and a wrinkled forehead.
I myself, for instance, had a spuddling creep across my face last week when my neighbor stopped by at 10:30 a.m. to introduce me to a good friend of hers. They stayed for nearly an hour. All of a sudden, my robe wasn't that comfortable after all. (Let this be a lesson to you all.)
A spuddling is a potato-shaped bruise, most often obtained by playing potato-tag with one's siblings. There's also a figling, a bruise caused by being tagged by a fig, and an appling... well, you get the picture.
Clearly, Billy isn't too good at tag. The poor boy's covered with spuddlings, while his older brother Mark only has one small figling.
Spuddling - from the verb, to spuddle, meaning to sit in front of the TV and not acheive any of the things you meant to do on a weekend afternoon.
Sara looked back over the day and realised she had wasted the child-free afternoon, by spuddling in front of "Hello Dolly" when she could have been weeding the garden.
Spuddlings are lumps in mashed potatoes!
Personally, I hate it when I get a spuddling in mine...
Spuddling is a miniature rocket.
The kind of quiet meddling in other people's business that you flatter yourself is distinguished by foxiness and stealth, but is actually distinguished by having no effect whatsoever because you're barking up the utterly wrong tree.
The act of looking for something small on a very messy desk or dresser.
Little tiny baby potatoes, potatoes that have not grown to their full potential.
"The recipe calls for 1lb. of spuddlings"
A "Spuddling" is the new brand name for the updated version of the Mr. Potato Head toy, which is popular in the USA. The "Spuddling" toy comes with a wardrobe of clothing so that it can be dressed like an astronaut, a doctor and a singing star.
"Tammy darling, go play with your "Spuddling" while Mommy makes your favorite dinner of macaroni and cheese."
Is the offical name for potatoe printing done in many preschools.
Spuddling. Spuddling was NASA's code word for the first test sputnicks and which leaked to the press causing a brief interruption in sputnick testing. Soon after RCA sold millions of transister radios modeled after the "spuddlings," skyrocketing the electronic company into the leading #1 in radio sales for two years in a row. "In 1963, Becky and Bobby each got a spuddling transister radio for Christmas. Since they were all the rage that year, Becky and Bobby felt very special and even considered, for a time, a career in outer space."
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