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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!
12 comments:
It's an art movement from the 1960s. Proponents made minutely accurate copies of artworks, which they picked at random from the catalogues of museums, galleries and auctions.
It fell into disrepute after art forgers got in on the act.
Nah, clonus is a rather unpleasant skin complaint that involves small pustules between the toes.
Clonus was the Roman god of fair weather. "Puesta te la bikini guapa. Clonus viene lo hotness!" said Mark Anthony. Anticlonus, bringer of wetness lurked around the isles of the angles up north.
Herky
Clonus a hearing condition that means that the sufferer hears everthing twice. Rather like an echo or the aural equivelant of deja vu.
Oh and hello again Word Imp, nice to have you come out to play again. Look there's Clare and ooh Lorenzo is here and Thinks - hurrah!
Nice to have you back Word Imp.
Clonus (pronounced Ker-LON-us) is an unfortunate disease affecting the last portion of the digestive system. Colonic irrigation seems to be the cure!
Damn; I know what this one means, however my imagination tells me that clonus could also be a banging headache often suffered by teenagers after listening to loud, heavy metal music.
Ps. Yes I know I'm still sadly in blog stasis. Such is life at the moment. Glad you're back though!
Clonus is an ancient joke that's just not funny anymore. It was a tacky-rude constellation that astronomers would point out to students to get an embarrassed, frustrated reaction. It was like the skyhook of the nighttime sky for a thousand years.
The clonus is the part of the grant application where you have to explain why you need to duplicate work already funded in a previous grant.
Clonus is the "popular" name given to allium clonium, a garlic-like plant which apparently flourished in the Balkans in ancient times.
According to Herodutus (Book 10, Paras 30-42), the Osmion people used to chew it constantly because they believed that it would ward off ancient spirits. Unforunately, instead of protecting them it had the opposite effect. Their breath smelled so bad that when the Persians invaded in 500 BC, they wiped out the entire tribe and all the clonus and instead planted lavender to get rid of the stench.
I'm so happy you're all back! Thanks for coming. I'm feeling confident and renewed about keeping my blog going, so thanks for believing in me. Hopefully some more of the faithful will find us soon. (That wasn't a meaning, but if it was it would be "Clonus - the bond developed by bloggers in different parts of the world").
The clonus is a small protruding lip on the end of the appendix. If it becomes inflamed, the patient is usually told they have appendicitis - an easily recognised term. Doctors rarely tell patients that they have an infected clonus. It sounds far worse than the familiar - though serious - appendicitis. Therefore, doctors hardly ever refer to the clonus at all.
Mild clonusitis can recover with antibiotics or on its own, and this is usually what becomes termed "a grumbling appendix". Severe clonusitis usually results in full-blown appendicitis.
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