Wednesday, August 08, 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!
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.
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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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29 comments:
A scaramouch is a homemade fly-swatter that's really just a silk scarf with a knot in one end. It's the method most used by wealthy, older ladies in the southern US.
Wow. I'm feeling great. A tied win and another nomination. Thanks!
Congratulations to you too Sandra!
Oops. I just realized that the poll is still yesterday's. Maybe I'm not in the top 3 today!
Scaramouch is a type of garrotte used in Scotland. During the middle-ages it was the favourite method of execution.
It was made out of carded and spun sheeps' wool and fitted nicely into the little pocket at the back of the sporran.
Remember when your mom used to say, "Be careful or your face might freeze like that"? Well, the scaramouch is what results when it does.
(Lorenzothellama: ouch!!)
It's a clown with so much makeup that you completely fail to distinguish the human underneath, even close up.
Scaramouch is a type of kiss only found in Russia and only done while dancing.
Scaramouch:
A scar shaped like lips.
serena: you beat me to the punch my definition was gonna be “a scary kiss” great minds think alike! :o)
A scaramouch is a long, waxed moustache that's twirled up at the ends and worn by most pantomime villains. Salvador Dali used his as an extra paintbrush.
I always thought it was Freddy Mercury's middle name. Can you do the Fandango?
Scaramouch, scaramouch, can you do the fandango, thunder..something, lightening, very, very frightening. Galileo, Galileo, Figaro... etc. (Someone save me from myself!) hahaha
A scaramouch is a device not unlike a scarecrow that discourages rodents from dwelling in domiciles. It is usually shaped similarly to a cat.
Scaramouch - a thick, glutinous form of make-up for the eyelashes. The ancient recipe consisted of 6 parts horse droppings to 1 part hay and 1 part soot. Very popular in the dark ages when husbands mixed it for their wives. Why? Well, apparently "they were worth it!"
Hi Word Imp,
Is there an error with the poll or did you not change it yet? Kind of the same view as aviva!
Scaramouch: Scaramonology is the act of blaming one's mistakes on a duck (sorry duckman!). Saying "It's OK, the chewed-up homework is all scaramouch," for example, means the duck ate your homework. If this act takes place in front of a duck, the duck inhabits the ability to talk.
Following on from Sheilabythebeach:
Scaramouch is a strawberry and carrot liqueur made in the Czech Republic. Drinking it has put many a Bohemian in Rhahsody...
"Rhapsody" of course - having just spent ages finding it in the dictionary I had to spell it wrong!
Oh my! I just noticed I was the winner for Postiche... thank you, I'm honored!
I'm still seeing the Theorbo poll, too
Scaramouch (int)- an exclamation of uncertain origin, usually of surprise or pain. Can be used as a mild expletive. It was first recorded being said in France, though some etymologists have suggested it evolved from archaic Italian slang. (You may now go home, stub your toe, yell "Oh, Scaramouch!" and confuse everyone listening.)
(it seems everyone else first thought of a certain Queen song upon seeing this word too...)
Scaramouching is the proper name for cow tipping - a popular pastime of drunken, normally male, college students, which involves creeping up on sleeping cows and pushing them over.
Scaramouching is often used in initiation ceremonies for testosterone-filled college-societies along with other ridiculous, but sometimes fear-provoking, activities. Hence the lines in Bohemian Rhapsody: "Scaramouch! Scaramouch! Can you do the fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightning me."
Many apologies to everyone who noticed the poll hadn't been updated. I've done so now. No excuses except tiredness last night from a busy day and too many late nights! I'll try to improve!
Sorry I've been absent lately.
A scaramouch is an elaborate ruse, albeit shaky; a house or cards.
A Scaramouch is the anatomical name for the mouth of a Scarab Beetle.
A scaramouch is a shape of shoe heel. The style is a flared shape, with the base being much wider than the actual width of the shoe.
The style was invented at the same time as Louis 14th of France was prancing around in his heels and couldn't compete.
So for all those Queen fans the line in the song is really a challenge from the shoe makers of court to the upstart scaramouch shoemakers, taunting them of the clumsyness of their shoe. Most people lose this historical fact as they don't realise the line should be sung as a question....
Scaramouche, scaramouche, can you do the fandango?
Scaramouche (with an 'e') (scaramoucherestaurant.com) is a well-known restaurant in Toronto. Scaramouch is the wannabe version, a dimwitted sibling if you will.
scaramouch is a jack-in-the-box type toy but instead of 'jack', what pops is a bureaucrat (Wesley Mouch) who turns down your grant application because you filed it at 5:01 p.m.
Scaramough - a feather duster used by French maids, usually wearing short black skirs, white pinafores and fishnet stocks, who are appearing in stage farces (an odd theatrical format greatly loved by the British).
Sorry bit of a typo problem - I'll try again...
Scaramouch - a feather duster used by French maids (usually wearing short black skirts, white pinafores and fishnet stockings) who are appearing in stage farces (an odd theatrical format greatly loved by the British).
Scaramouch is someone who won't leave a cut alone and fiddle with it until it will make a huge scar usually young boys.
A scaramouch is a type of moth with a pattern on its wings resembling a menacing face.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
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