Monday, October 26, 2009
Ekka
An ekka is a small Indian cart pulled by a horse or bullock. Your meanings were fun and I enjoyed the onomatopoeia very much. Thanks for visiting again and again. I appreciate your dedication and hope you enjoy the experience. And I mustn't forget to congratulate osobutterfly for a winning day on the poll.
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Ekka; Yorkshire dialect normally used in expressions of disbelief. As in: "Old stingy bought the whole pub a round of drinks? Did he ekka's'like!"
An ekka is a thumb piano made of a gourd or big seed (rather than of wood). (I wouldn't know if it weren't for the World Music group "Electric Ekka.")
Ekka describes the situation I am in right now. It is when something wakes you up - usually between the hours of 1-2.30 am - and you are then wide awake and no matter what you do you can't get back to sleep. You start to get a little anxious, because it always happens on a work day, and you know the lack of sleep will catch up with you later on in the day. As you watch the time on the clock slip by, after an hour or so, you decide to get up and do something, to hopefully tire you out so you can go back to sleep. By this stage you know it's only another 2 hours till the alarm is going to go off, so you get more uptight. Anyway, that wonderful little word of only 4 letters, ekka, succintly describes this type of situation.
Ekka describes the skin between your nose and your lip.
Ekka is an onomatopoeic word that describes the way genteel, elderly ladies cough in public. Usually from behind a lace handkerchief.
Jude I sympathise. I tend to resort to bizarre TV and a bowl of muesli.
EKKA is the name of an Iranian pop music band during the late 1970's. They were strictly a cover band singing nothing but ABBA songs. Sadly, EKKA was barely more than a one hit wonder. Apparently, lyrics of Dancing Queen weren't quite as catchy in Farsi.
It's the way sound bounces off the Greenland ice sheets...
It's the sound that a car makes when you left the lights on all day and the battery is nearly dead 'ek-kakakaka,ek-kakakakakaka - ek-ka'
Ekka is the gunk that accumulates on machine areas. These areas are ussually not where the mechanics engineer the machines. You know this goo, right? Whenever you feel for a button, or an object that fell where this Ekka resides. This substance is made of two parts of the machine touching each other, and the dust and some other unknown substance that clings to EVERYTHING. This mixture gets sprayed onto other parts of the machine. Then, walla!, you have Ekka EVERYWHERE. Well, except where the machinists notice it, and clean it off. They do this because they think it's a hazzard, and whatever organization had this machine, would be shut down and the worker would lose his job, so just wipes it up.
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