Saturday, September 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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1. I choose an obscure dictionary word.
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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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- 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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14 comments:
Here are the flews headlines:"Net curtain caught in closed window - neighbour calls police." or "Local man trips on loose paving slab." The flews is a reference to the sort of trivial news items which appear in local newspapers.
Derived from flim-flam (nonsense)and news.
Flews were flaps of metal over the ears built into armour-plated helmets in the 16th century. Before that time combatants had great difficulty communicating, since they couldn't easily hear ("knock once for yes, twice for no"). Flews were particularly common on helmets worn by the higher ranking soldiers.
This encouraged a new tactic, which was to get a sniper into the enemy line. It was his job to manage to get a side-on shot at the officers' ears whilst they had their flews open listening to reports or discussing strategy.
Flews is Geordie slang for a, well there's no lady-like way of putting this, a bit of a slapper. A young lady of loose morals. I'm sure you know what I mean.
Flews are little birds indigenous to New Zealand. They are flightless and spend most of their time hanging around sheep grazing in the fields and feeding off the insects disturbed by their woolly friends.
Flews are dreams about flying. I used to have flews all the time, and they were amazing. However, I stopped loving them when they began starting out as flews, and ending up as fells.
Flews are forest fires caused by lightning, by human carelessness or deliberately.
Ex: The recent flews in Greece that killed 64.
FLEWS is an acronym for items typically found in one's belly button. Fuzz, Lint, Edibles, Waste, and Skin. The formal study of navel collecting can be found at this website -->
"Edibles" was added recently due to the discovery of a neuroses called flewsophage: the uncontrollable desire to eat one's belly button lint. Studies suggest high concentrates of sodium chloride in navel collections, which may account for the neuroses among people with a low salt diet. Those who eat their belly button lint have typically been shunned since the end of the Middle Ages.
Whoops my link came out strangely. Just click on the blue letters, and you'll find the BELLY BUTTON LINT SURVEY. ;-)
Flews are flaws that have flown. That is, flaws that have been fixed, have disappeared on their own, or for some reason no longer matter.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
It's a guy thing Pastor Phil. women tend not to get belly button lint as we generally don't have hairy bellies. It's the hairs that trap the lint, you see.
Flews are the crispy, deceased flies that one finds littering window sills upon returning from holiday. They are invariably missing a wing or two and often attached to dusty little wisps of cobweb.
Hey Magdalene, you might want to click on that survey. There were a percentage of women who apparently did get belly button lint, but as a rule you are correct. It would also be the men who would eat the lint I am sure.
Flews is an adverb that usually modifies colors. It suggests that the color in question is very moderate. For example, flews red bicycles do not stand out the way other red bicycles do.
FLEWS (n.) colloq. med. obs. Refers to toilets found near the outer walls of mediaeval castles and fortresses, those with drainage leading to the moat rather than the cesspit. Origin C15 Diary excerpts show complaints that the draft from these particular abultions made the toilet-goer feel as though they were sitting on top of a chimney (no fire lit, of course). Hence these 'loos' became commonly refered to as the 'flews.' Choosing a flew over a loo came down to a choice of warmth or fresh air. Or the urgency of the moment.
The usage of flews, though obsolete, is slowly returning within the aviation industry. In naval circles ablutions are referred to as 'heads' (they used to be positioned near the head of the guiding lady on the ship). Not to be outdone, pilots and aircrew alike are choosing to refer to their 'flying loos' as flews, citing the above mediaeval usage as their 'traditional' source.
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