Rainy Day Vocabulary Fun
It's raining outside and that means it's time to pour a nice cup of Earl Grey, hot, and curl up with the bestest pimp-daddy dictionary in the whole world , the OED, and learn new words! Yay!
OK, so my favorite ever way to incoporate new words into my writing is to find old words that everyone always words and find new forms of them, so that when you use them people have a small chance of knowing what you mean and feeling very clever. Nabokov, every word geek's big daddy, could do this trick very featly, as when he referred to the male virilia in Pale Fire. Some of my favorite finds while looking for these kinds of forms:
Feculent: having to do with, sharing the properties of, or imbued with feces.
Wrongous: yes sir, it's the opposite of righteous. How could this word ever have fallen into disuse? For every righteous person I know there are at least 100 wrongous.
Angersome: Something what angrifies someone who is angryable.
Apparently, also, another definition of gnome is a maxim or truth. But a gnomide is a female gnome, and a gnomographer is a writer of maxims. Unfortunately, there is no such word as gnomenclature. But there really should be, I think.
Infructuous: Barren, sterile.
Don't angrify that gnomide by telling her she's infructuous; that would be both wrongous and feculent.
Bye now.
Cherry on
OK, so my favorite ever way to incoporate new words into my writing is to find old words that everyone always words and find new forms of them, so that when you use them people have a small chance of knowing what you mean and feeling very clever. Nabokov, every word geek's big daddy, could do this trick very featly, as when he referred to the male virilia in Pale Fire. Some of my favorite finds while looking for these kinds of forms:
Feculent: having to do with, sharing the properties of, or imbued with feces.
Wrongous: yes sir, it's the opposite of righteous. How could this word ever have fallen into disuse? For every righteous person I know there are at least 100 wrongous.
Angersome: Something what angrifies someone who is angryable.
Apparently, also, another definition of gnome is a maxim or truth. But a gnomide is a female gnome, and a gnomographer is a writer of maxims. Unfortunately, there is no such word as gnomenclature. But there really should be, I think.
Infructuous: Barren, sterile.
Don't angrify that gnomide by telling her she's infructuous; that would be both wrongous and feculent.
Bye now.
Cherry on
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