Do you know, thanks to the library website, I’ve just been online and had one of the most enjoyable two minutes I can remember for a long, long, long time…(Purely by chance - whilst looking up a definition of a word, obviously!)…
Without further ado, dear readers, let me welcome you to the OED online…
So, here it is... you look on Bex-L for `Online Resources` then check out the OED (Oxford English Dictionary). Next, sign in by typing your library ticket number…You’ll find something called `Lost for words’? Choose one, and you’re away!…
“Bunny Hop”, “Spiry”, “Bumbershoot”, “Tufthunter” and “Pumpkinification”…
Just a few of the bootylicious words that may come tumbling out.
If you like words, (and I`m sure you do, dear reader), then this page is the bee’s knees, and it’s free to use with just your library card.
Well, that’s quite enough of this blogging lark, I`m off back to my random words search.
Oh look!, “Draggle”…
(Do YOU have a favourite word?...Do tell)
Adieu.
22 comments:
I am very fond of the word "Squidge". It is a warm, soft and friendly word :)
"MACHIAVELLIAN"
Aside from ‘literally’ (which I know you hate!) my favourite words are probably ‘chump’, ‘marvellous’ and ‘flibbertigibbet’ – introduced to me by The Sound of Music classic ‘How do you solve a problem like Maria?’
I like the word "PUDDING"
Lisa likes the word "Odious", for some reason...
Wonderful, thank-you!
(I’ve just discovered “Spelunking”, which I rather like…)
TTFN
mellifluous
What an interesting idea.
Many of my favourite words are actually colours. Aquamarine, Sage, Topaz, Vermillion, Ochre, Turquoise, Umber, Crimson, Magenta. I love these, and many, many more.
3 favourite and unusual words for you: sabrage, dippoldism, nelipot.
“Yowzer, Yowzer, Yowzer!”…
Thanks, word-watchers, for these latest….I do like the idea of nice, colourful words…(And Peter, are yours made up?...I do hope they’re not indecent?...)
We love words here on the Blogbrary: so, as Oliver Twist would’ve doubtless said “More, please!”
extraneous
mucilage
brouhaha
braise
tawdry
Zax - very useful for Scrabble, especially if you can get it on a high-scoring square too.
....Bumptious...Pompous...
Thank you, Terri for `Zax`.
However, I must warn readers that I HATE Scrabble and the the mere mention of it brings me out in a severe attack of wrake, grame, wosith and - even - unwin.
(And,in case readers did not already know, the marvellous Online OED also has a built-in historical thesaurus facility - "mirabundous!")
Hi
Following the tradition of 'ation' ending words, (i.e. Pumpkinification) I would like to suggest:
Procrastination
And another one is
Soporific (as in the Beatrix Potter's books)
Ed
Sabrage is a technique for opening a Champagne bottle with a sabre. Always a useful talent in the libraries staff room.
Dippoldism is the act of beating or whipping school children.
A nelipot is one who walks without shoes.
“Why is it”, one of our Research Team has asked “that words with ‘O`s’ or ‘U`s’ in them usually sound good?”
Dunno! Any answers, anyone?
Anyway, here’s another one to learn: “Rusticle”
(It’s not as interesting as it sounds, though…)
TTFN
Thanks, Peter, for your updated definitions: Splendid!...Or, as I shall say from henceforth, “wlonk!”
(By the way…whilst willing to endorse walking without shoes, and opening champagne bottles with a sabre, the Blogbrary can in no way condone the act of Dippoldism)…
TTFN
A two-word phrase, I hope that is permissible - globigerina ooze. I have loved those words since I was a small child, and I don't think I'll ever stop loving them.
I don’t think that you can find many better words than Loofah.
And, for some odd reason, I’ve always liked the word Haricot (as in beans).
Pellucid
These are all excellent – thank you.
I like the ooze-word, agree with ‘Loofah’, and was delighted to receive ‘pellucid`- very illuminating! (Am not so sure about the ‘haricot beans’ though…)
By the way, while everyone’s in a very Dickensian mood at present, I feel that I should issue a warning about the dangers of ‘podsnappery’…
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