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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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- Picture books in my head...
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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!
7 comments:
It's when you are paranoid, but then you forget what it is that you are paranoid about.
Paronomasia, "par-oh-no-maw-cee-a" (Spanish). An interesting word derived from the Latin root, "para", which means "near", as in paralegal and paramedic, and "masia", from the Aztec's name for a large group of dwellings. The Spaniards used paronomasia to describe a small community near a large village. The English equivalent of the suburbs.
Actually, paronomasia is the opposite of paranoia. It's when people really ARE after you, and you blithely bumble along, completely oblivious to bullets whizzing past your head, or poison darts thwacking into the wall behind you or whatever.
Paronomasia is a syndrome typified by anorexia brought on by paranoia. Paronomasics don't eat because they're afraid their food is after them.
I was thinking along the lines of Ron's answer.
Paronomasia is the suburbs surrounding a city or the outskirts of a city.
They took a drive out of the city, aimlessly driving through the paronomasia, and were surprised to see many new houses erected where it was once a lot of farmland.
Paronomasia is when a golfer suffers from short term memory loss whilst on the golf course. He suddenly cannot remember what hole he is playing, and slightly reminiscent of Ground Hog Day, can be found playing the same hole over and over and over again.
Paronomasia is a very technical term for the art of applying false fingernails.
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