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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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- 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!
6 comments:
A shandrydan is a male colleague who turns up to work in unusually frivilous attire. ie: 'Get you with your shiney shoes, fancy trousers and frilly shirt, you big shandrydan'.
In ancient times a shandrydan was a small tent used prior to purification ceremonies on the eighth day following a woman giving birth. "Judith left her shandrydan on the eighth day following her son's birth and journeyed to the Temple carrying a basket with two turtle doves."
somehow I'm just sure that a shandrydan is a dishwasher in a second-rate restaurant -- one who actually washes dishes by hand. He's usually found with his sleeves rolled up past his elbows and a cigarette dangling (lit or not) from the corner of his mouth.
A shandrydan is a person who just doesn't know when to stop talking when they have you on the phone. I'm sure most of us have at least one in our lives.
Shandrydan people are apparently deaf to the words "I have to get going now", "Oh shoot, Jimmy just dropped my watch in the toilet, I really have to go", or "I think the baby is choking, I need to give her CPR". They just keep right on talking.
Most shandrydan become aware of their condition when none of their friends return their phone calls (as persistant as the calls may be)
A shandrydan is that person who doesn't leave a message on your answering machine and keeps trying to get a hold of you. All you get is a series of "beeps" and hang-ups. Don't you hate that?
When you are typing up something official, such as a review for work or your college dissertation, and you suddenly lose concentration and end up typing in whatever random thoughts are in your head then carry on with your proper subject. Well that is a shandrydan.
Mary would have got a straight A for her essay "Slade, postmodern art or glam rock group with bad hair" had she not had a shandrydan on whether she should buy a new pair of shoes for graduation.
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