Words

[gleckia]

I know it shouldn't be a big deal but... My eldest just used the word *oppressive*. Happily, it was not in response to our parenting techniques.

My baby is growing up!

She thought I was silly. She said, (with typical teen sarcasm) "So?...I used pseudonym yesterday."

To which Bargeral said, "I see you're working on *pretentious* as well."

She had to

Comments

[onyxspydyr]

Here's one that came up today in relation to the storm... "hunker" as in "Storm's coming, we'd best hunker down"

[gleckia]

I like hunker! I do feel like hunkering down today.

[sageincave]

Yonder, dodge, flippant.

[gleckia]

Great words. Though *dodge* makes me think of dodge ball and so that makes it a very scary word.

[sukidee]

Suet

[gleckia]

Especially if you elongate the *U*!

Long *u*'s are cool! Like Ulu knife! gotta add that to the top.

[sukidee]

Ha, yeah! I have one of those in my kitchen, too :D

[sprinklekit]

Kashnitzles!! lol!! && Persnickety is a synonym of pretentious!!

[gleckia]

Kashnitzles! is not a real word...yet. work on it.

Yes, persnickity is a synonym of pretentious... so is sprinklekit! ;-D

[gleckia]

Love you sweetie!

[onyxspydyr]

Kashnitzles actually sounds like a yiddish word for something...
As in "I baked a lovely batch of Kashnitzles" or "Back in my day, we had to have Kashnitzles for breakfast every day... and we LIKED it"

[songwind]

Lugubrious!

[gleckia]

More long *u*s. It begs to be said in a very sarcastic tone.

(I admit that I had to look it up.)

lugubrious \lu-GOO-bree-us; -GYOO-\, adjective:
1. Mournful; indicating sorrow, often in a way that seems feigned, exaggerated, or ridiculous.
2. Gloomy; dismal.