Friday, September 21, 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.
About Me
- 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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14 comments:
Rhabdomancy is a love of rhubarb. A rhabdominant person is totally obsessed with rhubarb and will eat it in tarts, pies, crumbles or gently stewed with plenty of sugar. They suffer severe withdrawal symptoms when rhubarb is out of season.
Rhabdomancy - the perceived status of respectability of a rehab clinic. Celebrities with drink/drug problems maintain their VIP status by only attending expensive clinics to rehabilitate themselves. (e.g. Betty Ford)
Rhabdomancy is the having the quality of the rhabdom, a geometric figure. A rhabdom is entirely identical to a rhombus, except for being completely different. (You see, geometry is all about the logic involved.)
Rhabdomancy is the ancient art of witchcraft used by Caledonian alcoholics. The casting of a rhabdomantic spell can render one devoid of understandable speech, can make one start supporting Rangers or eat deep fried confectionary.
Rhabdomancy:
A special treatment you can get at a fashionable spa where they rub dough and honey on your body. It’s said to improve your romancing abilities…
Rhabdomancy is the act of making somewhere tidy lived in, by imposing one's own personal touches or mess. People do this in a new hotel room. Husbands with tidy wives find themselves doing rhabdomantic things, such as put the newspapers back on the floor on a regular basis.
I will be unable to visit this blog this weekend. I will return on Monday.
In the body building world, those most rabidly obsessed with achieving rockhard, washboard abdominals, are always looking to achieve rhabdomancy over their fellow body builders.
"Jules, poured into leather pants and sporting a new midrif exposing mesh tee, admired the obvious rhabdomancy of his abs as well as the abundant tufts of wiry black hair on his back and shoulders, protruding through the mesh openings."
Rhabdomancy is the posh name for pearl fishing. It can be a very seductive pursuit, as well as lucrative, and it certainly pushed some of James Bond's buttons when Ursula Andress did it in Dr No.
Rhabdomancy (n)- a rare disorder where one is only able to see upside down, due to a disorder with the part of the brain that processes vision.
(I'm back!!)
I realized that wasn't clear enough, by upside down I mean the person with rhabdomancy sees everything upside down, like we do when hanging upside down, but all the time. It can sometimes be caused by brain damage. And I forgot to add in my example sentence:
i.e. Due to the fact that Martin had rhabdomancy, his perception of gravity was rather different from everyone else's. However, since up was down and down was up to him, it still all made sense to him in a backward kind of way.
Judi's male back-hair comment has frightened my imagination. It is currently lurking somewhere around the gorgeous-waiter-at-the-pool-side fantasy in the back of my head.
Perhaps Judi's imagination has acheived rhabdomancy over mine?
There is a competition among the Rabbis of the world to see who can recite the entire Torah, without error, in the least amount of time. The contest is held every 4 years (like the summer and winter Olympics) and the winner is said to have achieved Rhabdomancy.
Oh. And I'd like to apologize for my sporadic attendance. It has been a very busy September, and my imagination (unlike my body) has been taking long and frequent naps.
Rhabdomancy is the art of being Really Hip And Beautiful. People attempting to attain rhabdomancy frequently look (rightly or wrongly) to popular celebrities for examples to emulate.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
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