Fanfic Expands Your Vocabulary!

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

Fanfic Word of the Day

futtock

Comments

[maka2000]

Definition and Photographic Representation - Guaranteed 100% Safe For Work, even if it sounds like it so totally isn't )

Ha, thanks for that clarification. When I saw the word + the word fanfic, I was like, "No way I'm clicking that right now."

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

Heh. Yeah, I was reading a fanfic and it was going just fine until all of a sudden the paragraph goes "...He went home and sanded the futtock..." and I'm like "He did WHAT????" because this was a nice little gen humor piece and that certainly seemed to come out of left field.

(For the record, the character is building a boat in his basement in his spare time. It's a matter of canon. So it's not out of left field at all.

Although "sanding the futtock" just SOUNDS like a really, really dirty euphemism.)

[squaringkarma]

I actually think I stumbled upon that word in the dictionary (might have been the Scrabble dictionary now that I think about it) a year or two ago. No joke.

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

Well, I stumbled accross it in the middle of a nice little gen fanfic and did a major doubletake.

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

(For the record, the character is building a boat in his basement in his spare time. It's a matter of canon. So it's not out of left field at all.

Although "sanding the futtock" just SOUNDS like a really, really dirty euphemism.)