Thursday, August 23, 2007
Floruit
A person's floruit is the time they were alive. Apparently, it's a particularly useful word to describe the expanse of time a person was alive if there was no actual record of birth and death dates for that person. Hopefully that's clear. If not, feel free to resort to the invented meanings which were stunning, as always. The top three were very close in the voting and the top two tied. So it's congratulations to Sara and Shari, both winners today. Well done.
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A floruit is a gardener who does not know the difference between weeds and flowers.
'Jenkins was nothing but a drawback about the grounds. The dahlias have yet to fully recover from the ineptitude of that floruit.'
Floruit has been the "next big thing" in dental hygiene for about a decade now. It has unrivalled plaque-busting properties, and will be available just as soon as the scientists have worked out how to overcome the unrivalled light-absorbing properties that turn your mouth into a black hole (just a minor teethng problem).
It's a spillage on a laminate-type floor that is just bound not to be noticed until someone, quite literally, puts their foot in it.
Well we are getting back to middens and mixens now.
A floruit is a conduit that takes the well putrified effluent from the mixen to the slurry lorry before it is released on to the fields. (Muck spreading as it is known in farming parlance).
Floruit is a material used for dental flouride treatments. It is sweet and was developed in France.
Floruit:
Is the offspring of an apple and a sunflower.
People warned them their child might be "different" but their love was too deep to keep them apart.
Foruit is an adjective applied to the densest government prose. As in, "The IRS routinely instructs its personnel to employ floruit writing in any and all correspondence with taxpayers."
A floruit is a person who cannot believe such dairy products as 'I can't believe it's not butter' is not butter. Derived from the fact that they prefer Flora above anything else, they can't believe that Flora is not 'I can't believe it's not butter' which is not butter.
Well, I can't believe that they can't believe that 'I can't believe it's not butter' is not butter. But er.., I can't believe I've lost my train of thought here....I'd butter go..
I think 'thinks' has been watching too much 'Vicar of Dibley'!
Ha! I know this one. Floruit is a clever game that is about to be introduced by the marketeers at Interflora. It's similar to the old fashioned chain letter, or more recent tagging that bloggers indulge in. It involves sending 5 of your friends an expensive bunch of flowers by interflora, expressing your appreciation and gratitude for them. They in turn are invited to send 5 more bouquets onto others AND one back to the person who sent it to them (of course). Appealing to people's sense of not wanting to appear cheap or unappreciative, interflora is set to make millions. An interesting fact about the marketeers is that they used to work for Toys r Us. Hence the name Flor u It!
Well, according to Word Imp, I am myself a Floruit (or at least have indulged in Floruitism) having travelled to St. Petersburg last April to place flowers on Tchaikovsky's grave.
However the biologist in me persuades me that a floruit is actually a sterile floret (as for example is found in the grass called Sterile Brome Bromus sterilis that produces a fruit that never germinates. It is, however, of use as a food source to creatures such as mice and birds.
A floruit is a type of cigar for people trying to give up smoking, but still needing to indulge occasionally at important company dinners. Instead of tobacco the floruit is made from the rolled petals of damask roses and is apparently a real hit with ladies. It smells fairly pleasant when first lit, but unfortunately tastes vile enough to warrant almost immediate extinguishing. Waiters spend a great deal of time picking the buried remains of floruits from pot plants and caviar salvers.
A floruit is any object that has been excessively adorned with painted, carved, molded or otherwise constructed flowers.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
When Paul Furfey won the Pax Christ Award for Peace, he was honored with much floruit.
Floruit: Tasteful fanfare of a musical variety. Often includes applause.
LOL. I loved Sara's definition.
Okay...
Floruit: The humming or crackling sound you hear from florescent lights or from the electrical circuits to the florescent lighting.
Floruit-
Floruit means a human that is very addicted to chocolate, particularly milk chocolate. Even the slightest day without chocolate will lead to fainting and nausea.
A floruit is a colourful bird found only in Florida. It is easily recognised by its piercing cry of rooit... rooit... rooit and its ability to fly backwards as well as fowards (extremely when escaping a marauding cat).
a floruit is a floor exercise to be performed only while lying down on one's stomach or back. it involves a lot of stretching, so to avoid any embarassing rips, it is always recommended that one uses flo-pants for the purpose.
the great thing about a floruit regimine is that it is easy on the wallet. all you have to do is by a rubber mat!
usage:
"Wow maryln is in wonderful shape. i hear she's been going for pilatte and floruit classes regularly."
-word carpenter(sorry abt staying anon. having many problems with my computer!)
The floruit (n.) was the nightly route taken by the 'Lady of the Lamp', Florence Nightingale, on her hospital rounds.
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