Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Lentitude
Lentitude is sluggishness - something I'm feeling at the moment after a long drive south to my home. I thoroughly enjoyed the invented meanings - a great tonic for a weary mind. Yaamyn was a well deserved winner on the poll. Great work, Yaamyn.
Lentitude is the hyperspatial coordinate associated with the 5th dimension. For example, one may be found at 50 degrees N latitude, 110 E longitude, altitude 500' above sea level, at 0600 Universal Time on 5 July 2007, and lentitude 67 times Pi squared divided by the fourthroot of 13.
lentitude is the specific altitude at which all cravings for meat and other yummy things cease to exist....this height is abt 1000km above mean sea level according to NASA findings
Lentitude is the somewhat stand-offish attitude that someone takes on after they have lent you something which has yet to be returned.
"Barbara never borrows anything from Lana anymore ever since that last time when Lana'a lentitude towards Barbara made it seem as if Barbara had run over her cat! She couldn't get that borrowed cake tin back to her fast enough!"
oh wow, as I was writing my defnition, it seems fer was writing a similar one! great minds do think alike! fer's mind is obviously quicker than mine today ;-)
Lentitude is the characteristic which cats have whereby whenever they saunter through a doorway they tend to lean their backsides on the door post. (..good job we don't!!)
Tom padded coyly into the house pausing with his usual lentitude in the doorway.
Thanks for the poem reminder yesterday. Quite a friendly spot this!
Lentitude is taking up someone elses offenses. For example: "Ruth should have been so offended when Philip talked back to her, but she wasn't, so I had to take up a lentitude for her and curse Philip."
lentitude has two basic meaning meaning one- if i own a certain peace of land and i want to expand my land for some reason without paying for more land... i borrow some from my neighbour. eg- bill has lentitude me his back yard. meaning number two- the area of land bought on loan from the bang. area multiplied by price of land(paid by the bank)=lentitude.
lentitude (n)- the official word for a young child's aversion to all foods even remotely vegetable like. Lentitude always proves annoying to parents, but luckily is almost always grown out of at 8-12 years of age.
i.e. We had to sit at the table until 1:00 AM last night because in a terrible fit of lentitude, Leslie would not eat her asparagus.
After allowing students to answer in sms lingo for exams last year, British exam officials went one step further to make exams even more student-friendly by inventing the "Lentitude". Now a student need not remember whether it was a latitude or a longitude they meant.. they are now allowed to replace both terms with the generic term "Lentitude"! or 'lent2d'!
(Not for sweet Dancerella's eyes or I might turn into her definition of a female crankle!) You women out there who work or have worked at the Kentucky Ranch Turkey Meat Factory know what I'm talking about! It's a guy with no class or self-control who can't keep his eyes (len[s]) off of your (---[s]well, you know), staring in an inappropriate ([r]ude) fashion. "In a huff, Mandy reported Jim Bob to the supervisor for constant acts of lentitude." "Friends claimed Harlan had been lentitudinous since adolescence." It's disgusting and Leonard you know who you are!!
I have just found your blog and I love your idea!!! Lentitude, it sounds to me like a delicate person, who always treats things and people as if they were made of cotton, silk, satin..., as if they were extremely fragile and he/she doesn't want them to change or get damaged.
Well I have a meaning that has nothing to do with the previous meanings.
Lentitude sounds like the word "lento" (slow) in spanish, so lentitude could be a "slow attitude" in every single way ;)
For example, this kind of attitude is common among the philosophers when they go deeper in their thoughts and the ouside world seems to move in slow motion.
I guess Plato or Heidegger used to live in constant lentitude.
Lentitude is a combination of length and attitude, and refers to the smug, superior attitude sometimes adopted by people driving cars with extremely long hoods. Lentitude is found less often today than in the past, and has been partially replaced with tankitude, the attitude of some people driving SUV's.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Lentitude is a methodology for UFO's to avoid detection. Space vessels are saucer shaped so they can more easily be disguised when they hover in lenticular cloud formations while observing the planet below. Please observe the photographs on the National Weather Service web site, http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/acsl.php, to see if you can find the flying saucers amidst the lenticular clouds.
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!
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26 comments:
Lentitude: This is a vegetarian attitude towards all things meaty. A form of veganism. He had a lentitude towards steak.
Lentitude is when a person takes up a habit just before the period of lent, so they'll have something easy to give up.
At first she was upset when he began smoking cigars every night, but then she looked at the calendar and realized it was only lentitude.
Lentitude is when a person is overly polite because they want to find out something without revealing too much about themselves--like a double agent.
Lentitude is the hyperspatial coordinate associated with the 5th dimension. For example, one may be found at 50 degrees N latitude, 110 E longitude, altitude 500' above sea level, at 0600 Universal Time on 5 July 2007, and lentitude 67 times Pi squared divided by the fourthroot of 13.
Lentitude occurs when a person realizes he/she is not going to get a borrowed item back.
A wave of lentitude hit Cathleen when she saw Jessica wearing the jeans she lent her last year.
lentitude is the specific altitude at which all cravings for meat and other yummy things cease to exist....this height is abt 1000km above mean sea level according to NASA findings
Lentitude is the somewhat stand-offish attitude that someone takes on after they have lent you something which has yet to be returned.
"Barbara never borrows anything from Lana anymore ever since that last time when Lana'a lentitude towards Barbara made it seem as if Barbara had run over her cat! She couldn't get that borrowed cake tin back to her fast enough!"
oh wow, as I was writing my defnition, it seems fer was writing a similar one! great minds do think alike! fer's mind is obviously quicker than mine today ;-)
Lentitude is the characteristic which cats have whereby whenever they saunter through a doorway they tend to lean their backsides on the door post. (..good job we don't!!)
Tom padded coyly into the house pausing with his usual lentitude in the doorway.
Thanks for the poem reminder yesterday. Quite a friendly spot this!
The attitude of the heart that precedes the begining of the Lenton Season.
Lentitude (n) - An abundance of something that no-one wants. [Lentil + tude]
e.g. "I arrived on Christmas Eve to find that the supermarket had run out of turkey, though there was a lentitude of sprouts."
Lentitude is the bad attitude a person gets when they have given up chocolate or cigarettes for Lent.
Lentitude is taking up someone elses offenses. For example: "Ruth should have been so offended when Philip talked back to her, but she wasn't, so I had to take up a lentitude for her and curse Philip."
lentitude has two basic meaning
meaning one- if i own a certain peace of land and i want to expand my land for some reason without paying for more land... i borrow some from my neighbour. eg- bill has lentitude me his back yard.
meaning number two- the area of land bought on loan from the bang. area multiplied by price of land(paid by the bank)=lentitude.
bang=bank
lentitude (n)- the official word for a young child's aversion to all foods even remotely vegetable like. Lentitude always proves annoying to parents, but luckily is almost always grown out of at 8-12 years of age.
i.e. We had to sit at the table until 1:00 AM last night because in a terrible fit of lentitude, Leslie would not eat her asparagus.
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After allowing students to answer in sms lingo for exams last year, British exam officials went one step further to make exams even more student-friendly by inventing the "Lentitude".
Now a student need not remember whether it was a latitude or a longitude they meant.. they are now allowed to replace both terms with the generic term "Lentitude"! or 'lent2d'!
(Not for sweet Dancerella's eyes or I might turn into her definition of a female crankle!)
You women out there who work or have worked at the Kentucky Ranch Turkey Meat Factory know what I'm talking about! It's a guy with no class or self-control who can't keep his eyes (len[s]) off of your (---[s]well, you know), staring in an inappropriate ([r]ude) fashion.
"In a huff, Mandy reported Jim Bob to the supervisor for constant acts of lentitude." "Friends claimed Harlan had been lentitudinous since adolescence."
It's disgusting and Leonard you know who you are!!
Lentitude (n) the length of time, measured in milliseconds, that a thought converts to action.
The lentitude of ice cream is 3,000.
I have just found your blog and I love your idea!!!
Lentitude, it sounds to me like a delicate person, who always treats things and people as if they were made of cotton, silk, satin..., as if they were extremely fragile and he/she doesn't want them to change or get damaged.
Lentitud...
Well I have a meaning that has nothing to do with the previous meanings.
Lentitude sounds like the word "lento" (slow) in spanish, so lentitude could be a "slow attitude" in every single way ;)
For example, this kind of attitude is common among the philosophers when they go deeper in their thoughts and the ouside world seems to move in slow motion.
I guess Plato or Heidegger used to live in constant lentitude.
By the way, this is an excellent blog :D
Hugs and kisses
Lentitude is a combination of length and attitude, and refers to the smug, superior attitude sometimes adopted by people driving cars with extremely long hoods. Lentitude is found less often today than in the past, and has been partially replaced with tankitude, the attitude of some people driving SUV's.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Lentitude is a methodology for UFO's to avoid detection. Space vessels are saucer shaped so they can more easily be disguised when they hover in lenticular cloud formations while observing the planet below. Please observe the photographs on the National Weather Service web site, http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/photo_gallery/acsl.php, to see if you can find the flying saucers amidst the lenticular clouds.
Lentitude is a holy attitude you have during the lenten season.
It is also law aimed to protect people who don 't want to return things they have borrowed from others.
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