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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.
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- 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!
16 comments:
Benthos refers to all the broken bits of garden and household equipment that people leave outdoors 'temporarily' when in actual fact the stuff will be collecting mould and untidying the garden for months, years even. It probably originated from the words bent and hose, which of course would be fairly useless.
In england at least, Mr Fray Bentos used to sell canned corned beef. I believe Messuer Fre' Benthos would perhaps be selling corned horse. (Interesting that we don't have a food word for horse in english -as we do beef for cow- probably because we don't eat them.) Anyway I'm afraid I don't have a recipe for corned horse hash!
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Benthos is one of the sons of the Norse god Thor. Not quite having the abilities of his father, Benthos is most well known as the inventer of nails.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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Benthos is a quality of emotions, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
"The benthos of my heart went out to the grieving widow as she laid her life partner to rest."
flurried activity
"I was in quite a benthos yesterday, trying to finish up all my shopping before my guests arrived."
Benthos is the lowest point of an argument. Generally, a debate can be said to be approaching benthos when reasoned argument is abandoned and namecalling begins. Unless it is ended there, benthos might be reached when the participants insult each other's mothers.
A new combination breath mint and sleeping tablet. A strong seller amongst women who tend to give them to their husbands before bedtime.
ps-Since I'm not one of auntibecks
Tenesmusians....Merry Christmas to wordimps everywhere!
Benthos is a miniature grandfather clock otherwise known as a Ben father clock. When the giant clocks, intended to be a piece of furniture in foyers, hallways and living rooms, is reduced, it is called a benthos. Benthos can be anywhere from 1/4 to 1/64th in scale and you'll find them everywhere from China hutches to jewelry boxes.
I think Benthos is the name of a super-organism once thought to be found attached to the shells of giant sea turtles.
These organisms were thought to live off of smaller orangisims that would attach thier selves to the moss like slime that built up on the underneath edges of the turtle shell.
Benthos is an little known Greek island, where they mass produce the strongest mints known to man.
Benthos is a term for tornado-bent/torn down houses.
That F3 tornado caused benthos a mile long.
I wanted to add...Merry Christmas to you and your family. :)
Benthos (n.) is like kudos, except the praise is given by people who want somethng from you, not necessarily because you've acheived great things.
Benthos is the wistful feeling you get when you think about the family you used to live across from at number 28 when you lived at number 23, but now you live halfway across the world.
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