Tuesday, October 23, 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.
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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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15 comments:
Pittite - slang term used in tennis circles for a line judge or umpire. Originating from John McEnroe's references to judges being 'the pits!'
Sebsequently, also used to refer to those who've been on anger management courses!
What a confusing looking word! All those Is and Ts ;-)
A pittite is someone who talks in a kind of "telegraphese". Often military people adopt this from of language.
"Must dash. Urgent Appointment. Speak Later"
A Pittite is a devoted fan of Brad Pitt!
A pittite is a small brown insignificant looking little bird found in Northern Spain. It is insignificant until it opens it's mouth and then it shouts 'pit-tite, pit-tite' at the top of it's voice. It is noted for the amount of decibels it produces and if you have one in the garden, you have to wear ear protectors.
Be away for a week or so in Scotland. See you soon,
Love Lorenzo.
Pittite - a musician who uses his own body parts to create rythmic percussive tones. The term originated in in private grammar schoools where boys learn to make artificial farts under their arms.
Pittite: this is an Irish term, meaning to be annoyed or inconvenienced. eg,
"Me Da was proper pittite when ah wouldn't let him pour Guinness on his cornflakes this mornin'!"
Herdingcats beat me to the Brad Pitt Admiration Club. :)
Pittite is small seeds found in fruit that normally have big seeds or pits.
Mandi cut up her apple and was surprised to find pittites. She never saw seeds that small in an apple before.
A pittite is one who has a fetish for licking armpits!
Pittite. A 3500 year old secret society from Assyria. Each member knew nothing of any of the other members. The first meeting, of one person was in 1499 B.C. They haven't had the second one yet because the secrecy was so tight, the head honcho didn't know who to contact.
A pittite is quite simply someone who loves peaches and nectarines. I happen to be a devout pittite.
Copper miner
A pittite is a mythical fairy that was once believed to live in peach stones. They were said to grant any wish you wanted as long as you had been a good child the past few weeks. Countless amounts of children tried their hardest to be good for two weeks, smashed open peach stones (with great difficulty) and made a wish, and then realizing a pittite had not come out yet, run off in tears because they must have ruined it all by some small discrepancy from what the pittites believed to be what good children did. Some children would brag to other children they had found a pittite and it had granted their wish, just to make them jealous, only increasing everyone's desperation to find one. Children would also spend their free time daydreaming at length about what they would wish for on that much-awaited day when a pittite finally appeared to them. Pittites were also often used to bribe children into being good- "Don't hit your brother or the pittites won't grant your wish next week!!"
Pittites were eventually made obsolete on the birth of the legend of Santa Claus, giving children a reason not just to be good for two weeks, but a whole year. Not only that, but Santa Claus also greatly decreased the amount of children who injured themselves trying to smash open peach stones to find a pittite fairy.
A pittite is a person who only has a pittance.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Can't believe that Shari beat me to it with the little pips - this was to have been my entry:-
A pittite is a very small raspberry pip. Pittites create havoc with both dentures and real teeth – slipping under the former and down between the latter. Nasty little creatures pittites. (Despite being able to extract them at night my Dad always claimed he still had his own teeth at the age of ninety two – after all he’d paid for them, hadn’t he!)
So now I'll have to admit that I've looked it up in the Dictionary of Art and a Pittite (with a capital P) is a derisive term for someone who thinks most modern art is the pits.
P.S. I'll be voting for Shari!
Pittites were an ancient tribe that battled over Israel's land along with the likes of the Hittites and the Shitites. One distinction was that as farmers of plums/prunes, they used the pits in their slings instead of stones and as arrows rather than obsidean or stone. They were quite accomplished and became known as Pittites. (The Pittites are only mentioned in the Aprocraphal texts so some denominations today don't believe they really existed since they're not found in the KJV Bible.)
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