Saturday, October 13, 2007

Fraxinella

Fraxinella is a garden herb which, oddly enough, emits a flammable vapour in hot weather! Good grief. As if life wasn't frightening enough. However, I don't have it in my garden as far as I know. I loved the meanings on the blog today. Wonderful! The voting was split evenly between Aviva and Thinks! Great work, both of you.

18 comments:

Sara said...

Fraxinella refers to all the beautifully coloured and delicate looking flowers and other sugary bits and pieces that form cake decorations. Fraxinella always look gorgeous but are invariably and disappointingly inedible due to the rock hard and jaw breaking consistency of the icing.

Thinks! said...

Fraxinella - the cantankerous goddess of fax machines. Seemingly, no matter which way round you insert the paper she will conspire to make the recipient have a blank sheet.

"Good job Fraxinella was at work today, Geoff. We were running out of paper and she's just faxed us some more blank sheets!"

Brian o vretanos said...

Fraxinella is a condition where the sufferer feels excessively fraternal to everyone he or she meets, promising that they will be undying friends forever. Many men are slightly fraxinellic, and the situation is aggravated by the excessive consumption of alcohol.

Anonymous said...

Fraxinella is an unusual secondary dermatological condition caused by stressful gardening. When ones dahlias are causing consternation because their flowering patterns are irregular, a pom-pom shaped erythematous blemish will appear. It, of coarse, wil always be in a visible position to cause maximum embarrassment.

Anonymous said...

Fraxinella is a strain fo food poisoning only contracted by the consumption of french cooking.

Pastor Phil said...

fraxinella - a condition in which a person falls apart - literally.

Ever been there?

Maalie said...

Fraxinella is a South American dish served with rice. It's quite like the Spanish paella only made with guinea pig meat rather than sea food.

Anonymous said...

Happy blogiversary!

Fraxinella is a type of pasta that resembles daisies.

lorenzothellama said...

Fraxinella is a type of marzipan used on very rich and crumbly fruit cakes. Fraxinella contains linseed oil which makes it stick to the cake without getting all the crumby and currenty thing stuck to it.

Anonymous said...

Happy birthday to your blog, Imp!

Fraxinella is a broad term for all types of wine fraud. Adding water to wine, mixing wine from different types of grapes, and artificially increasing the alcohol content are all common examples of fraxinella.

Sara said...

*I was too bleary eyed to read properly this morning WordImp. So sorry about the belated yet sincerely heartfelt congratulations on Wordimperfect's birthday! May there be many more.*

Amrita said...

name of an exotic lilly
Happy birthday

Chris said...

Happy Birthday, Word Imperfect!

Fraxinella is that strange goo that forms by one's sink, made up of equal parts shaving cream, toothpaste, face cream, and shampoo. It will always find a way to get on the sink user's shirt, where it will be virtually impossible to remove until it dries. Always.

Anonymous said...

Wow, a year already! Can't believe it. Congrats to you Ms. Wordimp :) I think you are a genius.
Fraxinella was Cinderella's forgotten little sister. She had it much worse than her older sister and, as you might imagine, never had any fairy tale happen to her. The wicked stepsisters would leave poor little Fraxinella out in the cold with the animals. Fraxinella's favorite treat was the burnt bits on the bottom of the oven. The only good part of Fraxi's little life was when her older sister bumped her up to head maid at the castle. Way to go Fraxi.

Anonymous said...

Fraxinella was Dr. Frankenstein's baby sister. She spent her childhood in hiding from all the children who made fun of her name. There is a skipping song that talks of her fate:

Fraxinella Frankenstein
Only lived to the age of nine
She had no friends
She had no hair
And she only wore green underwear

coolskool mom said...

a tight jam.

"I was in quite a fraxinella yesterday, when I didn't have enough money for all the groceries I had at the checkout."

Anonymous said...

Wow. Reality Junkie, I was writing my definition at the same time as yours and I almost called her Fraxi too.

Congratulations on a great 1-year-old blog, Word Imp.

Stephen said...

A fraxinella is a large fight, somewhere in size between a bar or pub fight and a riot.

Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/