Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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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
What I'm reading...
- 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 what happens when things go wrong in a catacomb. 'It was a charnel-house themed goth party until Cryptopher and Lestat turned up. After that, it was catachresis.'
Taking a cue from Clare - Catachresis is when a trance party in Goa (with loads of juveniles and a few hippies thrown in for colour) , reaches its climax - with the music, the druggies , the dancing and the noise reaching a peak .... and then the cops walk in and bust it up .
Catachresis is another term for a back stratcher.
If you "can't reach it" (condensed into what is known as "catachresis today), get a back stratcher.
Aaahh, the catachresis hits the spot!
Catachresis is a medical condition characterized by cataracs which appear simultaneously with cracked skin in the body's nether regions.
The big emotional burden that you unload in catharsis? That's catachresis.
The technical name for a milk mustache.
Catachresis is actually a new-fangled way of spelling catchacrisis - the magnetic quality that some people inherently possess, attracting crises. Trouble simply comes looking for them, and they are constantly catching a crisis. (similar in usage to catching a cold). There is, as yet, no known cure for this.
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