Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Swimmeret
A swimmeret is the swimming foot found on crustaceans. I'll look forward to my next trip to the beach now, with that little bit of trivia stored away in the appropriate memory bank. I had lots of laughs reading the invented meanings and particularly enjoyed those suggested by joint winners, Brian O Vretanos and Sandy Shoes. Well done, you two.
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I swimmeret a floating device used by lake fisherman. It is fitted with a small sail to blow the baited hook far out into the middle of the lake, much further than the angler can cast
A swimeret is a member of a mermaid's entourage. Mermaids never venture out from their clam shell without at least 6 swimerets in tow. It is the job of the swimerets to let the local porporazzi know when their mermaid is hitting the hotspots (bit like Paris Hilton really - she probably copied them).
Managed to totally misspell today's word... but you get my drift......
Swimmeret is actually an Anglicization of the Afrikaans Zwimmerhoet, and refers to a misleading trail made by the spoors of two or more different types of animal which have passed the same way.
In 1865 the British hunter Neville Twyne-Barel became a laughing stock when it turned out that a new species of big game whose trail he claimed to have discovered in the Veldt, which had 5 feet of various sizes and a limp, was actually a swimmeret made by herds of Elephants and Rhinos.
A swimmeret is a small swimming pool, usually having a maximum depth of no more than five feet. Swimmerets are often used in situations where yards have no room for anything larger or where anything larger would leave too little room for anything else.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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Swimmeret is that condition that people have when they are unsure of whether they wish to swim or eat. (And we all know that one should not swim too soon after eating. That's what your mom always told you.)
Swimmeret: n (orig. 1953 Hollywood, Variety 2/18/53 OED)1. Synchronized swimming woman in Esther Williams movie. 2. Groupie for the "Friends" star, David Schwimmer.
Original use quote in OED
"New Film for Williams and Her Swimmerettes"
"Swimmerette Ida Mae Tewksbury is the latest addition to Esther Williams' team."
Swimmeret:
It’s a competition of obsessive ferrets.
What do they obsess about? Swimming.
A swimmeret is a flower shaped device, like a giant hula hoop with petals, that young synchronized swimmers use in when learning a routine. Holding on to assigned points on the swimmeret helps the little ones get into their correct positions. As they get better at it, they don't need the swimmeret.
It's a weird idea, the sort that can only be formed when your state of mind is somewhere between 'vaguely dazed' and 'drunk to the point of near-unconsciousness'.
A Swimmeret is the trade name of that little gadget that trolls along on the surface of swimming pools, back and forth, back and forth, back and .... etc. hoovering up all the crud that has collected on the water during the day.
A swimmeret was what famous women swimmers wore when the did a show. A swimmeret was a buret made with bathing suit fabric so it wouldn't wreck it.
It was so said that they did not stay on well because they so heavy.
It is actually said "Swim Meret" . Meret was a famous swimmer in the 1920's. When she was four her mother encouraged her to swim by saying "swim Meret swim, swim Meret swim". When she was about twenty she became a famous swimmer . By the age twenty-two everyone knew the phrase and it is still said today.
swimmeret- a very small bikini, that barely covers anything at all.
"Wow, I can't believe that girl's swimmeret, her butt crack is hanging out"
a swimmeret is the space between the wrinkles on one's hands/fingers when one has been in the pool for too long.
Swimmeret- A complex twisting backflip with hand flourishes followed by a spectacular backbend upon breaching that can only be performed by advanced synchronized swimmers.
A swimmeret (sometimes spelt swim-merit) is of course the award or merit badge one gets at school swimming classes for the undignified act of diving in the pool in your pyjamas, sploshing about hopelessly and managing to rescue some poor floundering classmate who is wishing you'd damned well hurry up.
Umm, me thinks, a swimmeret is an alien creature which can survive in water (Swimmer - extra-terrestrial)
Swimmeret(n): Dwarf-like creature that's half-human and half-fish with red hair and green fins. They are normally seen attending the mermaids. Swimmerets (plural).
A 'swimmer' is the formal baptisimal term for a baby, accidently dropped head long into the font by the Priest.
The 'swimmeret' is the log book recording swimmers-per-priest. The Priest clocking up the greatest score has to stick the notice; 'NO JUMPING OR DIVING' to his font, for a period of time.
Two horrid weeks of the computer telling me I CAN'T CONNECT TO WORDIMPERFECT!!! Aaahhhgg! Thank heavens I just found a round-about way to get back in & I can breath again and on my birthday too.
You are all just too funny today to bother making an attempt...Happy Swimmeretting!
Word Imp, what do you mean "in days gone by"? I still wear one of those.
Just kidding.
Swimmeret are those ovaries that don't wait for male sperm to come to them, but swim confidently over to meet them.
Hope that's not too explicit for anyone... :-)
Ackk. I am tired. I meant eggs, not ovaries. Really, I do know how the reproductive system works. I promise.
swimmerets are people who only know how to doggy paddle, or just choose to tread rather than swim. ( I am the latter.... I am ashamed.) Thinking I should start a group. Anyone else wanna admit they're a SAG ?
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