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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!
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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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- 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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15 comments:
Money in hobbitland. Twelve welkins make a bodkin and two hundred and forty bodkins make a pumpkin. Of course that's pre-decimalisation.
A welkin is a small sea snail, usually found hiding in crevices on rocky shores. It has a mouldy green shell, bright scarlet body and blue feelers.
welkin - an obnoxiously happy relative.
A Welkin is a relation of the Munchkin, which we all know are evil little creatures that steal your Jaffa Cakes.
A Welkin is even more objectionable. As well as Jaffa Cakes they steal your Turkish Delight.
Welkin:
A person that looks down his/her nose at those that bend the rules for their own selfish gain.
Luckily, I'm not a rule breaker so I've never been bothered by a welkin.
A welkin is a kind of breakfast cake made with cornmeal and raisins. Welkins are baked in rough mounds with a hollow in the middle into which one pours melted butter. Best eaten warm with a large cafe au lait on the side.
Damn.. I'll have to make some now.
Gosh - alzheimers! Of course it's only twenty bodkins in a pumpkin or two hundred and forty welkins. I'm surprised someone didn't put me right.
like a trekie- a Welkin is a person obsessed with Lawrence Welk.
Welkin: The leather vest-like garment worn over a loose fitting tunic by ale serving, goat milking peasant wenches during medieval times. You know, the kind accentuating a gals cleavage in a big way.
Fie on "thinks" for leading you seriously astray about a bodkin being a unit of money...it's really the big needle that makes the holes in the welkin for the lacings that cinch this little number up real tight.
A pre-cursor of the pushup or "wonder" bra, I would think.
Well, Judi, the wench may well have had to manhandle some welkins, because a welkin is a traditional size of cider cask. It holds 13 gallons, which was 1/3 of a barrel (i.e. 12 gallons) plus a gallon added so that Customs and Excise wouldn't complain about underfilling.
People stopped using it because of the association with 13 and bad luck.
Okay, okay, Brian. You got me. Fie on ME for lieing about it being a vest. Wesket is the real deal.
Welkin (n)- not an animal at all, surprisingly. It's actually that good, proud feeling you get when you figure something difficult out all by yourself, usually for the first time.
Welkin (Actually welkin'); This is a type of walk practiced by wide boy Londoners if they're going 'dahn the booozza' to see a man about a dog. Involves jeans with braces, dodgy hats and fast moving jutting elbows. Derived from walkin' well fast and lookin' well 'ard, knowoddahmeen!
Wel'kin (originally We LeKin) is the name given to Peppy LePew and his brother Mackie LePew. This duo reigned supreme in the forest until Mackie was accidentally shot by a hunter. Now it's all Peppy, and Wel'kin is used to describe brothers who no longer hang around together.
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