Dated: Tuesday 27 October - date mucked up due to time difference and delay in bloggin due to being a soccer goalie!
Stemple is the name for the supports or steps in a mine shaft. Interesting. Your invented meanings were fun and creative, as always. Congrats to Stephen who won the hearts and votes of the other word imps with his great meaning.
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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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8 comments:
A Stemple is that crusty irregular little brown lump you find on the kitchen worktop whose origin is dubious as to whether it's the remnants of last nights dinner or from the cat's bottom.
Herky
A stemple is a rush of people leaving church on a Sunday morning - the sermon having been disproportionate to the endurance level of many posteriors. The congregation, desperate for their lunch try hard to avoid the suggestion of a stampede, but fail miserably.
stemples: the black pointy bumps on cucumbers. They're wiped off before they hit the grocery store, so pickles rarely show any trace of stemples, but if you've ever grown cucumbers, you know what I'm talking about.
It's part of a lyric that Ira Gershwin discarded when he was working with his brother George. They needed a song about what people do after they've been to too many parties and came up with:
S'church!
S'temple!
S'religion for me!
But the producers didn't like the idea and unfortunately the words were changed to:
S'wonderful!
S'marvelous!
You should care for me!
gross thinks! S'blime ellen.
No. The true definition follows.
Stemple - v. to quell a small, vocal uprising among communities.
At the monthly meeting, the mobile home park residents were organized and ready to pick a fight with the park owners and management. That's when the owner stempled the crowd with donuts and cocoa. Rebellion averted!
the ability to cover a zit effectively.
It's a resting place for obsolete steam trains, where railway enthusiasts congregate in solemn respect.
A stemple is a staple that has one end that didn't penetrate the paper, but instead bent in an odd shape or curled to one side.
"My magazine had nothing but stemples in it and now the pages are all over the floor."
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
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