Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
Visit my Writing Bug website
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.
Followers
Please note...
By posting to this site, you give the site a nonexclusive right to any copyrighted works posted.
What I'm writing...
- Picture books in my head...
- Job applications so I can earn actual money.
- Boring stuff for companies to earn actual money.
- This blog
What I'm reading...
- 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!
7 comments:
A mystagogue is a distictly unmysterious mystery, such as when your five year old says something like "Dad, you know that scribble on the bathroom wall? Well, it wasn't me that did it."
And yes I know I missed an 'n' there somewhere. The mystagogue is where?
Capt. Kirk,"Give us warp factor 10 Scottie. They're gaining on us."
Scottie, "I don't think she'll take much more, Cap'n!" They all lean one way then the other.
Ahara (or whatever her name was), "Wait Captain there's something coming through!"
Capt. Kirk, "Why! All I can see is a large pair of eyes!"
Spock,"Yes, Captain. It's the Mystagogues. Our only hope is to make them cry. Tell them about your unhappy childhood, captain."
It's someone who is capable of spending days at a time immersed in Conan Doyle novels and reruns of Poirot.
A mystagogue is someone who flits from one religion to another or from cult to cult, or self-help to self-help group. It's like being a professional student (someone who stalls and changes majors to stay at the university for years and years), only in the spiritual realm.
Excellent meanings, so far Word Imps. I'm impressed. Keep 'em coming. And silver_flight, you have described my mother - only she's a tv mystagogue. But thanks for giving it a label!
I was thinking along the lines of religion, too, hence the suffix of the word.
It's a new archological find and trying to place the era of newly discovered pieces/cities.
Post a Comment