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So, is anyone beeking today? Not me. I'm AC'ing it as it's currently 108ºF with 33% humidity. 🔥

One of my most favorite new to me words, from my most recent read (You Be Mother). Mostly used in the book to mean a nap (which sounds SO NICE right now). Enjoy! #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

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I'm feeling pretty otiose after the dog walk today. 104ºF, 37% humidity. 😳

My oldest kiddo asked if “series” had a singular form - it doesn‘t! Neither does “species” or “feces” (since I‘m rhyming 😅😂). More examples: scissors, jeans, binoculars, glasses/spectacles 👓😁 (and many more)!
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I think I would go crazy living in the marmoral room in the pic above. 🤪

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My partner and I were discussing the feeling of a Reese's cup when you bite into/break it after it's been in the fridge. I said it felt crisp but he said firm. But neither felt like the right descriptive. After some deep googling he found the word frangible, which we both agreed fit best. It "implies susceptibility to being broken without implying weakness or delicacy."
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@AllDebooks has me thinking about clouds ☁️ today! Not necessarily “weird” words, but interesting and lovely 😊 What‘s the coolest cloud you‘ve seen? #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

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I had to pause the audiobook and look up the spelling of this one 👀 It's pretty fun to say though 😀

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Found this one in Samuel Johnson's dictionary; his definitions and words can be quite hilarious and/or interesting.

Schvitz—to sweat. It's so hot, I'm schvitzing over here!

shvitz

noun: schvitz
a sauna or steam bath.
"our great-grandfather and his brothers went to the shvitz together"

verb: schvitz
sweat.
"it was one of those godawful days with a billion percent humidity and everybody was schvitzing"

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In Blacktop Wasteland, Bug apparently has an eidetic memory. I‘d probably go crazy seeing images in this way, which is further proven by my eyes going all crossy looking at some of the eidetic memory tests. I mean, I think I need an Advil 😂😂😂 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

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A much-needed word in today's world. 💙💚💙

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Anyone else think this sounds like a French dessert? Anyway, enjoy 😊 I actually posted one today! #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

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?? "Tuchas" is the Yiddish word for butt.

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This dinosaur name has taken me YEARS to get right, and I still don‘t know sometimes if I‘m saying it right 😂 Let‘s say it together - parasaurolophus, parasaurolophus, parasaurolophus. Here‘s a wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasaurolophus
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I have a feeling more than a few of us have felt finifugal when reading books. 😉
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Zeeskeit n. Sweetness, sweetheart (as a term of endearment).

Zeeskeit, Literally "sweetness," zeeskeit is a term of endearment you can use exactly as you'd use "sweetie" or "honey" in English.

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ALTERNATIVE SPELLINGS

ziskite, ziskeyt, zeeskeyt, zeeskeit, zeeskite

Nope, it doesn‘t have to do with food 😂 I‘m posting this definition as it means to “thwart” in the book I‘m currently reading (The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle). But the main definition is “a hole in a ship's side to carry water overboard from the deck.” 😁 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

This.

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I just like this word. Hubby asked what it meant and I told him then said “like me!” 😂😂😂 At least well read 😂😉 (also the faction I think I‘d be part of in the Divergent series 🤓) *edited to add that I‘d totally be in the Amity faction, I was way off base lol*

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Hey, parent(s) of #CatsOfLitsy, did you know that this is who you are? I sure didn't! 💙🐱💙

Immediately thought of “squint,” and apparently it‘s a similar meaning 😀 Plus a cool architectural thingy. Enjoy ☺️☺️ #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

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To be fair, I think we also need to add polyHERSter and polyTHEIRSter to the dictionary. 😀

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Oh, I took a deep-ish dive with this one and learned so much already! These are only the most common examples - enjoy! If anyone else wants to be tagged, let me know 🤓♥️ #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

"Bei Mir Bistu Shein" (Yiddish: בײַ מיר ביסטו שעהן, or Yiddish: בײַ מיר ביסטו שיין)

“To Me You're Beautiful"

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? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxkomTYkfM

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This is one I figured out from context clues but I enjoy the definition - "a violent expression"

I did not know until I discovered this word, but I am a morgenmuffel. 🤣

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Thank you, Percival Everett, for introducing me to this word (and plenty of others, it was actually hard to choose 🤩). Here‘s a Wiki about fescennine verse - so interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fescennine_Verses 🤓 #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

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After dealing with banking and financial issues today, I need this word. It's quite soothing to hear and see. 💚

The irony of this made me laugh. 😄

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Found in my current read (Demon Copperhead), where it‘s written as “sigoggling.” Used to describe a bunch of cars at a party, parked a bit haphazardly 😁
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So I‘m not fond of the smell of manure 😑, BUT I do love the smell of dirt, earth, and grass… *sigh* #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

A late night #weirdwordwednesday. A malaphor, or a mixed idiom is when two idioms are mixed with a comic result. They remind me of malapropisms. I meant to come up with a few of my own but didn‘t have much creative energy. Has anyone got any other funny ones? #weirdwords @CBee

Still riding on my mythology high after reading A Thousand Ships, apparently 😂😂 So here is my #weirdwordwednesday choice and even better, an article with examples of katabases (I believe that‘s the plural). Does anybody else want to slap Orpheus? Dude had one job and he screwed it up 🤦‍♀️😂🤔🤭🫣 https://www.thecollector.com/mortals-underworld-katabasis-greek-roman-mythology/
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There‘s a word for everything! Even a word for things that aren‘t words.

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A favorite poem and word 😊 @vivastory I know you love this one too 😁 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

This week‘s word isn‘t from a current book, but instead a talk I watched about Tolkien‘s art. The speaker examined several illustrations pointing out possible faces. He also showed examples from the natural world. This is my own favorite from the creek near my sister‘s house. We called it the dog rock from the first day we saw it.

pareidolia: (noun) the perception of patterns or recognizable images, especially faces in accidental arrangement

Saw some delightful news today that the 20th album of one of my favorite songsters, Chris Smither, is set to be released in May. I saw him live in November and he played one of his new songs called Down in Thibodaux. It‘s full of words that rhyme with the title: bateau, chapeau, crapaud, and fais-dodo, a typically Louisianan evening country dance. I had to share my enthusiasm for these delightful words on #weirdwordWednesday. #weirdwords @CBee ⬇️

Let me once again take the opportunity to RAVE about this book (O Caledonia) - I‘ve been thinking about it ever since I finished. Sigh… also, the other weird word in the paragraph is “demesne” which is another word for “domain” 😊 And Hector was tipsy 😂😂 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

I love everything about this: the word “vellichor” itself, the definition of it, the concept of a dictionary of obscure sorrows and the reason for its existence— EVERYTHING. 😍

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I love unique color words. Enjoy!
https://www.colorpsychology.org/unique-color-names/
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Don't know why, but I've been feeling this word lately. Actually, I can think of quite a few reasons why ...

Saw this word and couldn‘t resist for #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords ! 😀

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I love this word and never knew this was what it meant! I also love looking at old advertisements - makes me nostalgic for when things were (maybe) simpler? Not that I‘m old enough to have played with a zoetrope…..but I digress. Enjoy 😂🤪 #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

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Who knew? Not me. A really fun one to say out loud, and it's a game, too! 😃

Food plays such a big role in the last book I read (A Woman is No Man) and it all sounded so yummy 🤤 Therefore, here is my #weirdwordwednesday offering 😊 #weirdwords

For this week‘s entry, I present a word that was apparently invented for an episode of “The Simpsons” and is now an actual entry in Merriam-Webster. I‘d say that‘s a perfectly cromulent way of adding to the English language.

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Thought this would be an appropriate one right about now. It is in my neck of the woods, at least. 😬

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