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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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What I'm writing...
- Picture books in my head...
- Job applications so I can earn actual money.
- Boring stuff for companies to earn actual money.
- This blog
What I'm reading...
- Penina Petersen's Table Tucker
- Rereading my fave - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- Mike Gayle's To Do List
- Any good biography
- The dictionary!
11 comments:
Sistrum is a percussion instrument from the medieval period of southern Europe, played frenetically, with the left hand only.
Oops. Had I done a little internet research before commenting, I would have said that a Sistrum is actually a severe weather phenomenon that occurs in arid climates, often followed by brief but intense downpours.
A sistrum is a small spot which appears the day after you confidently announce to everybody that you "think this new soap really does wonders for my skin"
A sistrum (n.) is an argument (tantrum) between sisters involving screeching, pinching, the odd slap and lots of sulking afterwards.
Not to be confused with a brothrum which involves shouting, punching, the odd bloody nose, and lots of sulking afterwards.
Raelha: you remind me of George W. Bush who once addressed an audience as 'brethren and sistren'.
A sistrum is a small, brownish yellow bird of the finch variety. It eats seeds and small insects and has a cry of 'sistrum ... sistrum ... sistrum ... ' Hence it's name.
Lorenzo.
A sistrum is the water tank used for flushing toilets in the east end of London.
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Sistrum is the secret code shared by sisters everywhere. Sistrum allows sisters to be vicious to one another in any given situation, but does not allow anyone else to be anything but perfectly kind and generous to the sister.
Sistrum is a corruption of "sinistrum", and refers to the practice of reversing domestic fittings for left-handed people - for example, swapping the hot and cold taps round.
The first recorded person to have his bathroom made sistrum was Mutius Scaevola (the Roman who burned his own right hand off as proof of his bravery), who had the lever for his shower fitted on the left side.
The Sistrum is a untensil used to process and strain milk prior to pasteurization.
A Sistrum is a piece of gymnastic equipment and has recently been placed alongside the parallel bars and hoops as a good test of the gymnasts skill. It involves jumping from one bar to another through three hoops of fire.
A sistrum is the rhythymic strum of Cajun musicians that play with their fingernails on a washboard. It makes a sis, sis, sis sound.
See more about the Cajun people of Louisiana, USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun
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