Tuesday, December 11, 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.
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
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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!
10 comments:
Embay is transport shipment by boat. It is very common for raw materials --lumber, oil, rice -- to be embayed.
To embay: to wrap small pieces of food with bay leaves for stewing or frying.
To embay yourself is to park your butt somewhere. Usually used in the context of a waiting room.
The buxom Mrs Roundbaum strutted into the dental surgery and tightly embayed herself between the two large gentlemen.
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Embay was the original name for the selling thingy, Ebay. After a few days one of the directors thought it sounded too much like a blood clot and they changed it to Ebay.
Hope you are feeling better and you have a better day today.
Lorenzo.
The opposite of "dismay." When someone is dismayed, they need a friend to come and embay them.
To embay is to create a divot (a bay, if you will). This can be done on a micro level by tearing off a small shred from a sheet of paper, but a meteor also "embays" the land on which it lands.
Embaying is the deliberate provocation of barking from the hounds at a hunt meet. Hunstmen embay the hounds when faced with hunt saboteurs, stupidly imagining that the racket will deter them. On the contrary, protesters now also embay hounds knowing that this will draw attention to yet another illegal foxhunt.
embay:
An embay is the bay beside a river, lake or a any body of water surrounded by land.
An embay is a double bay, with the two bays side by side forming an M shape.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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