Thursday, August 07, 2008
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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.
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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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12 comments:
Snickersnee is a victorian term for dirty jokes told about seaside resorts. They would being like "Once in Bridlington..." or "When we were in Brighton..."and you know it's going to be scurrilous.
Snickersnee describes something that's so surprising or funny that it causes you to snarf (snort your drink out your nose).
A snickersnee is a type of lolly that when you put it in your mouth it bursts out the flavour if you suck on it really hard. It comes in four different flavours, lime, raspberry, chocolate, marshmellow. You can chew on them or just suck on them. You can blow a bubble with it, (but I wouldn't advise it, the bubbles can get pretty big, and even lift you off the ground!)
Snickersnee is a modern evolution of the saying: "Snicker? Nay!"
Once a colloquial term it was used by theatre-goers who were trying to impress and be posh by not smiling or laughing at a comedy.
"I'm just back now from A Midsummer Night's Dream."
"Was it a worthy play?"
"Oh a Snicker? Nay!"
Nowdays the pronounciation has been blurred into 'snickersnee' and refers to a comedy one might rent from the video shop and then find it's not funny at all.
"I heard good things about 'Dumb and Dumber' but it was a bit of a snickersnee really."
This is a medical term for excessive pressure on the leg joints caused by eating too much chocolate...
In the UK snickersnees refers to american tourists def:born in the land of the Snicker bar. In the UK the same bar was known as a Marathon. Thus the Britsh were known as Marathonees. Since being renamed Snickers in the UK sales have suffered as we are not so keen to purchase a confection which sounds like underwear; i.e. knickers!
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A Snickersnee is the name for a moderately rare bird, prized for its ornate plumage. It is only found in and around Kuala Lumpur and lives off grubs found in the muddy river of the Gombak.
Its name derives (as with many birds) from its call, which sounds like a strange combination of a chortle, followed very quickly by a high pitched sneeze.
The Snickersnee's feathers are a luminous green on the underside and bright coral pink with white ripples when viewed normally.
Many people use their feathers as decoration, often inter-twining them into necklaces or hair ornaments, and believe the plumage from a Snickersnee to bring prosperity, happyness and laughter......and protection from colds and sneezes.
There we have it... the Snickersnee
Snickersnee is short for "sneeze in the midst of a great chuckle."
Judi was snickering whilst reading her fellow Wordimp's definitions and manicly dreaming up her own definition, when a sudden sneeze gathered and burst upon her. Her snickersnee took her completely by surprise and no definition was forthcoming after that!
A snickersnee is a covering used by hair stylists to keep a new hair do in place.
A snickersee is a racing skiff with a single hull, usually crewed by a 2-person team, that can reach speeds in excess of 25 miles per hour when sailing under a spinnaker.
A snickersnee is a big scary green monster with red warts who hides behind curtains in children's bedrooms at night, sneaks out in the middle of the night, and makes scritching noises to wake them up. Sometimes they make crackling rubbing sounds right next to a kid's ear. Snickersnees tend to have awful senses of humor and laugh at any little kid that wakes up scared.
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