Friday, June 08, 2007
Quaquaversal
Quaquaversal means pointing in every direction. It's a word I can't imagine using very often in that context. However, some of the invented meanings could be very useful. Thanks for all your imaginative writings, fellow word imps. Your expertise makes it very hard to choose three for the poll. Elle4loser gained the most votes today. Congrats.
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Quaquaversal - "A word used to describe a person who can imitate any number of animal sounds - but especially web-footed swimming birds."
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I like the sound of that word...the only meaning i can give it is Paranoid!!
keep it up this is great!
thanx
See Jerry Mcquire: Its the ultimate state of Qua, in the whole universe of Qua. The antithesis of nirvana. Being and having it all.
used to describe blogs who make the list for "blogs of note" ie Word Imperfect.
equivocating, or quibbling over small details while speaking
A controversial duck
Universal Health Care system for Ducks and other waterfowl.
The Aflac spokes-bird might even be able to do their commercials!
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Quaquaversal: of or pertaining to the "Quaquaverse," an alternate universe occupied by ducks.
A french earth quake that shakes infinity would be described as quaquaversal!
Quaquaversal: Doing the Cha Cha dance backwards.
Quaquaversal...
Of, or pertaining to, duck-impersonating poetry.
Widely used in US politics.
Apologies to duckdom.
Congrats on becoming a Blog of Note!
This word originated from the song "Ant Music", by Adam Ant. The song contains the ground-breaking lyrics "da diddly qua qua, da diddly qua qua". The word quaquaversal has come to mean "in the style of the early 1980's" and will be very useful when fashions come round again.
Quaquaversal is something that is true throughout the strange and magical land of Quaqua, a land that is reached by putting one's arms over one's eyes, stepping through the looking glass, and shouting, "Duck! Duck!"
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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qua·qua·ver·sal
kweɪkwəˈvɜrsəl Pronunciation[kwey-kwuh-vur-suhl]
-adjective
Pertaining to "quaquaverse" -a common underwater language known, used, and shared among all marine life.
To be quaquaversal, is to be able to speak or understand quaquaverse.
Eg.
Some of us wished we were quaquaversal. Then, we would have known why the dolphins were laughing.
:)
I like your blog.
Interesting stuff. Good job ;)
In singing, a tenor or soprano has to make his/her voice quaver. A quaquaversal is singing that note, and continuing the quaver four times in each beat.
Quaquaversal: the ability to speak four different languages in four different tones, at once. This is a challenging feat only attempted by those who have mastered the Triquaversal and Ambiquaversal spectrum.
Quaquaversites, as these impressive individuals are called, are considered the most respected and awe-inspiring linguists in the entire world. To meet a Quaquaversite is akin to finding a four-leaf clover. They are rare but when you find them, you are truly lucky.
I don´t know if you knew, but in spanish, there is a game called dictionary, which is about grabbing any word by luck, and ask everybody to make up a meaning of that word, except the person with the dictionary, that person, writes the exact meaning, and then all the definitions are read, without telling which one is true, at the end, of each round, you have to say who got fooled by who.. It is a really cool game and I think your blog is really cool!
catalina, that's called "balderdash" here in the states. it's actually a board game.
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quaquaversal: in water polo. a strategy involving "doubling back" twice in order to move the play forward.
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Quaquaversal is a an argument in two different languages and one does not know what the other is saying it is amuseing to watch
Refers to a duck singing nursery rhymes to its ducklings.
Quaquaversal is used by ducks very much in the same way we use the word 'universal'. 'That's a universal truth' becomes, 'Wow! Awesome! That was so quaquaversal!'
the state of being changeable as it refers to your hair color
adjective describing that annoying someone who refuses to express the numerical value of pi via "22/7" and instead insists on using "3.1415"
It is a word that means "a person who claims to be in communication with God, as if being a messenger.
It's the reverse of an Earthquake. The predicted disaster doesn't happen at all, necessitating all precautionary emergency measures to be called off. This creates a lot of expense and is therefore a phenomena feared by some governments.
Quaquaversal … The Phoenicians were ancient seafarers that predated the Greeks in their sea trading. They would travel all around their known world, which greatly enhanced their trade capability and profits. The biggest problem the came across, other than pirates, was wind. To wait for a favorable wind many times took months. The owners were losing profits because the captains and crew were basically waiting on company time. The invention of the “quad-ver-sail” allowed the sail of the boat because of its elongated diamond shape to be set in any of 4 different positions and could take advantage of even a wind going in the reverse direction. This allowed any wind to be used to get home, thus quicker profits less expenditure. The “Quad-quad-ver-sail” allowed it to be set in 8 different positions. As with many nautical words they are changed to shout out easily. Main sail became “mainsil” and Quad-quad-versal became “Quaquaversal.”
Quaquaversal is, simply, birth order reversals in a family with four children. For example, the youngest child who spends his life being treated as the baby of the family, may experience quaquaversal and take on the behaviors of the eldest child become authoritarian or strict, causing the eldest to be dethroned. The middle child may force quaquaversal by moving to the second child position going from feeling squeezed out of a position of privilege or rights by overtaking the second born's position and becoming a rebel trying to outdo everyone. It is rare that second born quaquaverses because in the family of four there will always be someone ahead of him. Therefore he may take ultimately quaquaverse to childlike and youngest behaviors.
During the early 1950's a controversy arose regarding the relationship between Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. This quaquaversal situation,as it came to be known around the Disney Studio, was believed by the government to promote "alternative lifestyle' to America's youth. Eager to stay in conservative good graces Disney quickly created a love interest for Donald...hence Daisy Duck began to appear in the cartoons. Thus ending the quaquaversy. Interestingly enough the studio waited until the much more free thinking era of the 1960's to introduce Chip and Dale. Maybe they're just brothers, or perhaps a munkaversy is brewing.
A duck trying to change his life around
A quaquaversal is a minor outpatient procedure, performed by a specially qualified speech therapist to correct some kinds of stutters.
Quaquaversal is what happened in the Disney movie Cinderella when the fairy godmothers were fighting over the color of her dress. The dress was blue (close to aqua) and the fairy that wanted the dress to be pink performed a quaquaversal to change the color. This word can be used to describe the change in color from aqua to any other color.
Quaquaversal is backwards quacking.
Quaquaversal is when a dog quacks and a duck barks.
It's a disease that ducks get from quacking too much. It's fatal.
A ballet move involving bringing all four limbs together for a springing, reverse twist.
A duck down on its luck (reversal of fortunes)
Its a duckmobile, used to fly out in space and visit nearby galaxies.
I enjoy your blog and want to tell you that you look quite like my friend Ruth who is also from NZ
A basketball play using four players who run backwards away from the side line.
Quaquaversal- A seismic quake in outer space which causes planets which were relegated to the outermost reaches of outer space to suddenly re align,come to the forefront and uproot older planets like Pluto from the planet family . It also causes the discovery of new galaxies .
In short and simply put a quaquaversal causes a great upheaval in the solar system.
BTW - Sharon , many congratulations on making it to a blog of note - You deserve it for making ourlives that much more interesting!Keep it up!
Quaquaversal... the scientific name for an amphibian creature called the punepus . The quaquaversal is an extinct mammal that gives birth to it's young when out of the water. They have been extinct since the dinosaurs were roaming the Earth. Fossils have given proof to scientists of how these creatures became extinct and that if there food chain( bugs such as the dodo bird flea) had not gone away they would still be living today. It is related to the frog, though seven times the size! It's fossils show that it looks like the Komodo dragon.
Quaquaversal: A word coined by motorcyclists in the 40's and 50's, especially those owners of a certain brand called "Indian", now most of you young people have never even heard of this motorcycle because it has been extinct for many years, but this motorcycle had a shift lever with a reverse gear, and when stopping at a stop sign, it was a common mistake to accidentally put shift lever in reverse, and when the biker revved the engine and popped the clutch, he ended up on the pavement in front of the bike, while the bike was moving rapidly down the street backwards. This was called a "Quaquaversal".
Quaquaversal: The River of Doubt, the off the map tributary of the Amazon that nearly took Teddy Roosevelt's life, has over 3000 species of fish swimming its waters. Quaquaversal is the candiru fish's evolutionary adaptation that allows it to reverse its own direction in the river's current just before the waters crash down one of the many 400 foot water falls common to this rushing river.
A quaquaversal is when one unqualified 'doctor' reverses the diagnosis of another phoney doc, leaving you in a state of utter confusion.
QUAQUAVERSAL: Is when you try to argue with illogical points with a quavering voice lol!
OMG!!!!.....amazing blog youv got here.. :) darn cul creativity here totally stumped really
i hope this blog keeps going on
QUAQUAVERSAL: a duck driving round the four corners of this world in reverse gear.....
Mandy's DD and MM def is clearly my favorite!
Thanks Chindo, I believed this was my masterpiece and Bl.L.E.B.'d profusely over it not making the top three.( check out today's w.i. meaning to fully understand my pain)
Strewth!
medical version of enron...
means four side
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