Monday, August 27, 2007
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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!
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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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- 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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19 comments:
Quite specifically, a ruckle is the running, ticking sound made by a bicycle chain when you back pedal whilst coasting along.
A ruckle is a fly-fisherman's term, for when his box of flies gets disorderly. Many a time on a quite mountain stream I have heard one angler call out to another: "Hang on mate, I've got my flies in a ruckle".
A ruckle is a term used by string theorists. It is a kind of "kink" in one of the higher dimensions of space and time (often the 9th, for some reason). It is believed that this may be the cause of deja vu.
I'm sure I've posted this definition before...
To ruckle (vb) is to chuckle at a rude joke. Billy Conolly´s audiences are full of rucklers.
When a bird does a shudder or shiver, from head to one foot, that's a ruckle. Parrots do it a lot, but water birds too--you'll see kind of a shudder go down the and then they lift one foot and shake it at the end. It's kind of a bird stretch, or yawn.
Ruckle:
A rough tickler.
You know one don’t you? They don't know their own strength so instead of tickling they’re actually digging holes in your skin…
Ruckle: n (orig. Old German) Buckled belt worn around the chest which fastens a bedroll to the journeyman's back. From German "rucken" meaning back and "buckle" which was directly absorbed by English.
"As we made our way to Lourdes, we put our faith in the good people along the way. Armed with nothing but our faith and our ruckles, we set forth."
Ruckle is the process that transforms an ordinary bag or sack into a rucksack.
Believe it or not, a ruckle is hospital slang for the bottle thingy that nurses take to bed-ridden gentlemen to use when they need to relieve their bladders.
"Hey Tracy, will you see to old Mr Richards in Bed 8. His eyes are crossed and I suspect he may need the ruckle"
p.s. Grateful thanks to Stephen for suggesting how to get my photo back and to Maalie for actually interpreting his instructions and carrying them out!
Lorenzo.
If a priest has the hem of his cassock caught in the back of his underpants, he is said to be sporting a 'ruckle'.
To ruckle is to pronounce your "the"s like z's. Z' Lightbulb needs another of z'ose replacements.
Ruckle - the noise your car makes when you turn the ignition and the battery is dead.
A ruckle is the offspring of a rat and a duck. They said it couldn't happen, and they were very nearly right, but government funded research and your generous contributions made it possible.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
When one ruckles, they make a thoughtless action they will regret deeply later, like going crazy with the delete key and deleting a file necessary to run the computer, or smashing that huge grasshopper on the wall with the final draft of their term paper.
A ruckle is the reddish imprint on one's stomach caused by a belt buckle. Ruckles are usually caused by sitting too long in tight pants or wearing a belt on the hole used five or ten pounds ago. Particularly lasting and detailed ruckles occur after large holiday meals. This is why it is always best to discreetly ruckloose one's belt before dessert.
I forgot to mention that elderly gents in the retirement villages have a tendency to compare their ruckles just like young men show off their new tatoos, bragging that it took three trips to the tapioca bar to get a ruckle this size!
Ruckle. verb: The frantic jiggling of the belt buckle when it is stuck. This problem often arises in moments of urgencyb -- such as need of elimination, or moments of passion.
"He was ruckling for so long that he was sure he would wet himself."
A ruckle is a wrinkle on the skin of a rice pudding. Ruckles are a sign that your pudding is baked to perfection and should be golden brown, occuring in irregular bumps and creases all over the surface. There is deep satisfaction to be had from breaking the ruckles with a spoon.
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