Saturday, September 29, 2007
Undine
An undine is a female water sprite who has the chance of receiving a soul if she marries a mortal and bears a child. Another important fact that I've missed over the years. Ho hum. Thanks for your interesting and wide ranging invented meanings for undine. Today's poll winner is Shella. Well done!
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Funnily enough, I was thinking about this this morning in town, when I saw a shop which only sold undine things.
Undine refers to something that costs a single coin or unit of currency. [From un + denarius]. So the "Pound Shop"'s goods are all undine.
Gross, I know, but undine simply means to throw up. You have dinner, eat something that disagrees with you and next morning you undine.
It was a lovely spring morning. The birds were full of the joys and the little brook chuckled gently on it's way amongst the gracefully bowing wild grasses. Not a single human sound could be discerned in this undine haven of solitude.
Undine: without the din of civilisation. What a nice thought!
Undine: to undine is to not come to dinner. It was often said children with naughty tongues were to go to bed in other words "they had to undine",because of there naughty behavior.
Undine is what you do when you drink your uncola and eat your unmeal.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Undine (noun/ plural): Underage boys who sneak into movie halls as pseudo adults and create a conspicuous din inside are called Undines.
Undine is a placebo antiseptic (not iodine) which is used to placate small children who repeatedly demand attention and bandaids for their insignificant and barely visible injuries. A quick dab from an Undine soaked cotton ball, accompanied by a heartfelt 'There there!' soon stops the annoying whining, enabling the busy parent to get back to important things such as drinking coffee and talking with friends.
Undine is a trendy slang term for fasting.
My first 2 ideas were taken by Flamingo and Magdalene. Here goes number 3:
Undine is the Old German word for "and so on" or "etcetera". It was used in many German fairy tales, when the villain went on an evil spree but the writer didn't want to scare the children too badly. Instead of saying that the wicked witch ate the mama and the papa and the baby and the nanny and the cat and the dog, they'd say that the wicked witch ate the mama and the papa undine. And everyone lived happily ever after.
Undine is a very artsty fartsy literary term for "cow-like." You know, like porcine describes pig-like qualities. It sounds so much better to describe a large bovine-looking creature as "undine" rather than saying "wow! what a cow!" Doesn't it?
Girl who likes to walk around the house in her underwear on weekends.
Undine simply means with high class. Or in other words fancy. King William VI is the most undine member of the royal family of Turkeminstan. He is always impeccably dressed,from crown to toe.
An undine is a person who does not wear knickers -- or underpants -- while dining out.
The father spoke sternly to his two sons, saying, "Brian and Shanley, you should always wear undergarments if you want to be proper like me. No need be be an undine. Undines are not welcome in this family."
Undine is the future tense of undone.
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