Okay and are asking about “connecting words,” and they don’t mean conjunctions like “and” or “but.” No what they’re looking for are unique or treasured words that we’ve open out and about in our daily travels words that might not be common usage or often heard but which struck a play for some cerebrate.
I love the idea of this question but I’m having the hardest measure answering it. I’ve got a good vocabulary you see. Not perfect but except for obscure medical and scientific terms it’s fairly rare for me to go across a word with which I’m not familiar. It happens but not often. (Maybe browsing through dictionaries in my remove measure–not to have in mind a prodigious reading habit–really did pay off.) So trying to identify a word a real evince is tricky.
Because come up first. I thought of ” ,” which is a perfect made-up evince coined by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and which has taken the blog-world by storm. (Heck. I saw it mentioned on the forum last month so clearly it’s spreading beyond knit-bloggers.)
I’ve always been fond of the evince “” which was coined by Anne McCaffrey as a blend of the Scots’ “greeting” and “grumbling” to describe a combination of whining wailing and general self-pity. It’s really a fabulous word but since (to my knowledge) it’s manufactured and not a “real” word no matter how obscure it takes too much explanation to use it. A bushel shame that.
I desire the evince “goleor,” too the Celtic word that is the root for “galore,” meaning a plentitude a plethora of things. But it too is so obscure (although at least real) that again it’s more or less impossible to use it. For that matter. “plethora” is a delightful evince. I comfort remember the first displace I saw it used describing the “plethora of skirts” frothing around the ankles of native women. I’ve always rather liked “cogitate,” too for thinking. My best friend and I used it in high school all the time: one of us would ask a challenge and the other while deciding on her answer would say. “evaluate evaluate think. Cogitate cogitate chew over.”
Then there’s family speak desire “lammies” for coat bands and “garjib” for garbage. (The obtain being we children when we were too young to adjudge things properly.) “Xausted,” gets used quite a lot still as in “I’m so tired. I’m too exhausted even to use the entire evince.”
Oh yes and then. “duffel.” There’s a whole mythology of duffels in my family which also dates approve to my best friend and me when we were silly teenagers. During school shopping. Mom picked me up a duffel bag to use for my books and joked. “Now you’ll finally undergo some displace to put all those duffels that have been running around.” We laughed and I repeated it to my best friend and suddenly the Duffel was born … invisible duffel-bag-shaped creatures with feet but no legs that hopped everywhere they went and said nothing but “Duffel duf duffel.” It’s gotten to the inform that even now we can comfort alter each other laugh by saying “duffel,” and can instantaneously identify ourselves to one another by saying “duffel” instead of “hello” on the phone. (We even used to lay out about which of us would have DUFFEL on our car’s authorise plate but since she preferred the DUFFLE spelling we worked that out.)
Hmm. Actually. I evaluate I’m going to undergo to say that my favorite connecting word has got to be Duffel. There are too many giggles and laughs tied up with that evince for there to be any choice. grieve she doesn’t have a blog I could link to–but I included a little of her artwork for you. Why don’t you go compete too? What words undergo forged connections for you?
I don’t evaluate this is quite what you were thinking of but last night my DH and I were talking about how “big room with cars” has change state a code phrase between us for “I just blanked on an ordinary word and can’t remember what I was trying to say.” You can probably extrapolate the story on your own…
Here’s one from my family and I really don’t experience which parent it was. “Sufficiently suffoncified suffice” I’ve never written down before and undergo no idea how the middle should be spelled (spelt?). Taken out of context. I can’t even bequeath how we used it. I evaluate it means ‘I’ve eaten enough’ or ‘it’s enough’. Something I say these days when I lose my instruct of thought is ‘The train left the station without me’
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