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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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16 comments:
WI really is educational. Today's word led me to look up Haber, the German-Jewish scientist whose contribution to humanity is amazingly two-sided (he willingly used his process to produce poison gas that killed millions in two world wars, yet the same process feeds 40% of the world today). After which I don't feel like an attempt at humour. Anyway, here is result:
Habergeon (n.) - A gas derived from Ammonia for use as a fertilizer.
The recent discovery that ammonia is produced naturally on Mars has led to the formulation of Habergeon (named after Fritz Haber). This (it is hoped) will be able to be produced very easily, and is specially designed for use by the first Mars colonists to grow crops in the Martian atmosphere.
An Habergeon was a mystical, bird which was purported to lay platinum eggs. It was, therefore much sought after in the great days of world exploration and often reported to have been seen lurking in shrubs and bushes. This gave rise to the saying Habergeon in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Technically, habergeon is the grogaine ribbon lining along the inside rim of a man's hat. Hat makers of old had quite a side business going to replace the ribbons following droughts or famines or floods in Europe. Today one just replaces the hat when the habergeon gets sweaty, smelly or worn, since hats are a dime a dozen anymore.
Habergeon describes the mental dungeon that small-minded people make for themselves. We do not wish to become habergeon in our thinking.
a habergeon is a type of hammer, mainly used to destroy the hard drives of old, useless computers.
Habergeon:
A hamburger substituting ground beef for ground pigeon...
I know it’s gross which is why I don’t eat them!
Habergeon: Habergeon is a famous climbing rock also known as Habergeon rock. It's called Habergeon rock but it really is a mountain, not quite up to Everest standards but still quite a feat.
Habergeon is a nest built by the European sandpiper that lives near the newly discovered shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea called Haberge, after the famous ornithologist.
Habergeons(pl.) are shaped in the form of wooly balls with two window like openings.
Habergeon is a hybrid word combining haberdasher (a men's clothier) with surgeon. A habergeon is a consultant who assists sartorially challenged men to look their best as in the television show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Life forms on Planet Habergeon look much the same as we do accept that their heads vary in shape, such as spheres, cubes, cylinders, and cones.
Imagine their shock when their antenna's began picking up American TV and they saw Saturday Night Live for the first time.
From that point on societal divisions developed with the coneheaded gaining in popularity and acceptance. Gradually the birthrate for spherical, cubed, and cylindrical headed babies is dropping. (They reproduce exactly the same way we do.) It's encouraging to note that they never, ever mistreat anyone, regardless of headshape.
Habergeon is a kind of inferior caviar that comes from the halibut. It tends to be greyish in colour and is frequently artificially dyed to appear more like the real thing. It was reportedly on sale at Asda for a brief period but was eventually discontinued as the average Asda shopper clearly prefers fish fingers.
A habergeon is one of those flat knitted looking hats they wear in Afganistan.
Personally, I've always fancied having one myself, but don't know where to find one.
To habergeon someone is to make their eyes glaze over and render their mind blank by talking incessantly about subjects that are of no interest whatsoever to the unfortunate listener.
Escaping from a haburgeoner is very difficult as they will always find something else to tell you about if you try to close the conversation: 'Ooh, I never told you about Auite Ethels hip replaceent operation...'.
Most people know a haburgeoner. When ours called, my mum used to make me ring the doorbell so she could get of the phone by pretending that someone had come calling for her.
A habergeon is a habit, such as chewing pencils, drawing mustaches on pictures, etc., that a person has become trapped in and is unlikely to escape from without some kind of outside intervention.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
habergeon- n. an alien impersonating a human
its a heebe geebe legend
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