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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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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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17 comments:
I modestly propose that this term is from Norse mythology: Brobdingnag is the final battle between good and evil.
Ragnarok only begins the end of the world: earthquakes & tidal waves will Swiftly lead to the battles of Brobdingnag: Heimdall vs Loki, Odin vs Fenrir, and giants vs dwarves.
A brobdingnag is a what people use to open hard cans. For some odd reason they are usually orange.
It is acually said brobding nag. A brobding nag is some one who nags on people about stuff like, "where is my dinner" or "why didn't you tie my shoe when I told you to".
A brobdingnag is what you call some one who is always grumpy. Such as, an old man.( I am not saying all old men are grumpy ) when my most horible enemy in school got called to detention for fighting the teacher called her brobdingnag because she was grumpy the rest of the day.
The British & Overseas Board of Nagging set up an annual competition for nagging housewives in 1965. The competition became known as the Brobdingnag from the title of the board coupled with the 'ding' for when 'nag'-ging was to commence. Last year's winner was Mrs Winnie Grouser who completed 134 nags in 1 minute.
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A brobdingnag is the oringinal Saxon term for an old battle horse past it's prime and good for nothing more than pulling the odd cart. It's where our modern day expression old nag comes from.
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Brobdingnag is the word for a singular heebie-jeebie. It is also a brand name for a type of boomerang that plays music.
Brobdingnag is the more surley cousin of the bob-tail nag referred to Christmas carols of yore. With an imposingly muscular frame and acerbic personality to boot; this breed is best suited to be used as a warhorse.
In reference to some literary monster I can't remember, it became the name for any costume or puppet that requires more than one person to operate. They're sometimes seen in stage productions, but more often in street parades. Chinese dragons are the ultimate brobdingnag, though the term is of European origin.
A brobdingnag is rather temperamental old horse. The sort of beast which stands at its stall door brooding for most of the day, just pausing occasionally to try to take a chunk out of a passer-by's arm.
Brobdingnag is a Celtic festival of fire and mistletoe to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It is held at the spring equinox with much feasting and general rumpy pumpy.
Brobdingnag is the Aboriginal word for 'hairball'
Brobdingnag is a bagpipe player so in love with the sound of his music he just doesn't know when to stop, thus causing much anguish to everyone within earshot. The Queen is always complaining about the brobdingnag who plays outside the castle walls at Windsor every morning... why can't he just pipe a few bars she moans... is it really necessary for him to play The Skye Boat Song non-stop for half an hour.
Brobdingnag is the name of a ghostly old woman who is said to sometimes sit on peoples' chests at night, holding the people down and making it difficult to breathe.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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Brobdingnag (n.) is the expression you wear on your face when being nagged for the umpteenth time and you've stopped listening. However, you still keep saying 'yes, dear', 'no, dear', 'of course not, dear' at suitable occasions to make the nagger think you're still paying full attention.
A Brobdingnag is a mythical land where all people live in harmony. When you visit Brobdingnag, a beautiful bell rings and there is no more nagging, argueing or unpleasantness.
Where do you get all these great words??
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