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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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10 comments:
Filaria is a pschological condition brought on by excessive filing. People with filaria often try to file or alphabetize their everyday surroundings
When Aviva began re-organizing the office workstations by the first letter of each co-worker's last name, the boss realized she might have filaria and put her on restricted filing duties for two weeks.
Anyway, a filaria is a blown kiss, or as seen amongst the rich and famous an "air kiss" [Gk: fileo = kiss, aero = air].
"The stars arrived at the exclusive party venue amidst a cloud of filarias."
Filaria: A musicology term for a song, usually sung in a bar by two men, usually inebriated. The men sing as though brothers, reunited after a long separation. The subject of the classic filaria is generally that of a tragic hero, leaving the singers in a pool of tears. Filaria, by its very nature is not sung by trained voices.
"Harry watched Hagrid and Professor Slughorn embrace one-armed, their mugs of butter beer clinking. Tears welled in their eyes as they sang the melancholy strains of 'Odo the hero'. The filaria was Harry's luck. Slughorn's defences would be down, Harry would get the memory!"
- Sonorus Melodicia, from a lecture "Musicology and Harry Potter"
Filaria is to be very well turned out, neat and tidy.
Such a dapper person is a filario.
So if your mother, as mine did, ever called you a tattyfilario then you probably had scuffed shoes, odd socks and shirt untucked.
Hello Word Imp, sorry it has been a long time no post, life has been changeable to say the least, but kind of ontrack again now.
Filaria (singular: filarium) are daughters of sons (that is, female grandchildren of sons). It is more commonly used in the adjectival form "filarial" in genetics, and used to describe the route of filarial RNA transmission through the female line.
How often have you tutted with annoyance after stepping in the shower and, whilst splattering the soap and water about, you find you've been bitten on your unmentionable(s). "How on earth did the blighter get down there!" you groan.
Well, chances are you were walking about with your flies undone... "Again!?" Filaria is what the police charge you with when you're repeatedly arrested for flying without a licence as they called it in the 50's.
Filaria is an infective disease caused by flirtation, which leads to a hypothetical state of the mind when people think they are falling in love.
Symptoms: Loss of appetite, unusual interest in love songs, mentally displaced, restlessness and loss of memory.
Ex:
"She loves me, she loves me not? Damn this filaria," said Ben.
A filaria is a filibuster so well done that you could make an opera out of it.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
A song of praise for your siblings.
Filaria (n)- that unimportant, not serious, usually very cheery babble you put in slightly awkward letters/e-mails/conversations to try and make it seem less uncomfortable
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