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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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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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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.
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27 comments:
A moquette is a pretend sock that people wear like a sweatband around their ankles. It's for people who prefer not to have their toes squished, but need to wear socks for work or formal events. Unfortunately, the latest craze with young people is to wear them with sandals, thus defeating the purpose.
I was just going to say it was a fake pocket when aviva got in first (and better than mine would have been) ;-)
A moquette is the name given to a cousin of the mosquito. It's bite was less harmful though - it just caused a nasty rash. They could be repelled by a substance found with junipers, and this was the reason that the Imperial British drank gin with their tonic water. Due to the quantity of gin in India they migrated to colder climates and finally died out altogether.
Actually it was the other way round. They drank tonic with their gin as it contains quinine, which they thought would protect them from malaria, which brings me on to moquette!
Moquette is a hairy material used for making Indian carpets. It is impregnated with quinine to keep the malaria mosquitoes away, and is also impregnated with essence of juniper berries because of the lovely, yummy gin smell.
A moquette is a short, sweet chocolatey drink served in one of those teesny weensy coffee cups.
At Costalottabucks, Moquettes are always served in threes, as most modern coffee house bartenders know that you'll inevitably be back for at least two more.
It's a type of flooring made from plaster of paris and camel hair. It's very popular in Morrocco.
Moquette is the brand name for a Boston-based telemarketing firm run by a French businessman.
moquette:
A term of indearment meaning little booger.
Moquette, short for moustache etiquette which bearded men (and some women) ahdere to. Some examples may include grooming and fashions.
Moquette is a version of croquet played while riding mopeds.
great use of words.
"The Chindo has extremely good moquette."
To moquette (vb) is to play with one´s food. It can be used to descibe the actions of a recalcitrant child with a plate of green beans in front of him/her. Or, for example, the actions of a cat who has caught a mouse.
Moquette pronounced MOE-QUAY-n. French for the arrangement of food
"Although Sam's recipe included watermelon and melted cheese, the moquette of the dish appealed to me."
By the way, I heart Top Chef.
Moquette - Old english upper class term for the weekly village market.
"Oh, I say James, is it not moquette day today? I wanted to go because they have a wonderful ockshon (auction) of antiques, and I have a towels and pounds (£1000)to spend.
Sorry last line should read -"and I have a towels and pines (£1000) to spend."
A Moquette is a small religious shrine in a special room in a private home. It is usually found only in the homes of the wealthy and is quite luxurious with plush carpeting and soft lighting. It makes getting down on one's knees to pray for salvation absolutely sybaritic.
Oh italics , thank you Pastor Phil!
A moquette is a species of Mediterranean crustacean, a bit like a crayfish, only smaller. It is quite often used for flavouring a sea-food soup or sauce but it's shell-to-flesh ratio is too high to make it a popular dish in itself.
A moquette is an hidden mark on a document. Pirates used invisible ink moquettes to hide critical clues to the whereabouts of their treasures. Today the term is being used to describe the html code hidden in webpages and blogs - such as those used for creating italics, and in similar manner bold text.
Thinks! was close to the etymology of the word, but mistakingly concluded that the term moquette was a hoity-toity English upper class term for "market" when in fact it actually is a French pirates' attempt to spell "Mark it."
(please note: this is another lesson for those interested in making bold text - just replace your i with a b, and you have it.) Have fun making your text CUTE!
It's even more fun when you know how to put a link into your text ;-)
A moquette is a person who imitates the Radio City Rockettes. The name is a cute misspelling of mockette ("mock" replacing "rock" and the result then combined with coquette), with mock in this case meaning imitation. The term generally tends to be slightly disparaging, but in a humorous fashion, and carries the implication that while the person might like to dance like a Rockette, the goal wasn't quite achieved.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Moquette: A super-rich woman who is catered to (often mo' so if she is famous).
As soon as the moquette entered the exclusive boutique, the salesperson bent over backwards to please her, hoping for a fat tip.
A Moquette used to be a form of abuse that consisted on the spectetors to fenceing matches ridiculing the opponent of the whoever fencer the supported, and ussually said mocked rival lost the match. This lead to savage uprisings on the part of the loser's supporters due to the unjustly outcomes of the matches. These encounters often claimed several inocent lifes and others not so inocent. With the time, the agressiveness of these encounters rose tremendously, causing fencing to be banned. But the loyal fan moquerers didn't give up and managed to preserve and divulge this noble tradition of indulging in dirty play. Years passsed and now the whole world's moquette-craze. Of course the original word fell into disuse and deformed into the current "mockery"-dark-past-word".
Yes, now you cannot keep pretending, for every time you feel like mocking someone, you'll think about it twice before dishonouring the hundreds of people who suffered the moquerers' moquettes abuses.
I forgot what my definition was after reading all of this....
Is moquette that small moment when all memory vanishes?
Moquette is the name for a moustache that adorns the face of a gentleman who prefers to wear women's clothes. No matter how hard he tries no amount of shaving, hair removal cream or laser treatments will get rid of that darned moustache. So the gentleman who likes to wear ladies clothes must put up with the ridicule he receives for, while looking absolutely stunning in his $10,000 one-off Vera Wang designed evening gown, still sports a very hairy mo above his lip.
Moquette - someone who flirts outrageously with people of their same gender.
A flirt.
Thing 1: "Is coolskoolmom coming on to me?"
Thing 2: "Oh yeah. She's a total moquette!"
If one is to moquette, they are trying to rid themselves of all hope of getting out of being trapped inside another person.
A Birth defect.
Or when used very(im)properly, moquette is a type of slipknot so you dont lose your skii poles when on the chairlift.
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