WeirdWordsWednesday

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I know I‘ve done an interesting color words post before, but I just LOVE unique words for colors. Here are a few, and here‘s an article to read: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59328/19-colors-youve-probably-never-heard
Who knew “puke” and “xanadu” were colors? #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib (edited) 1d

BookmarkTavern Xanadu is a color?!?!?!? 1d

BookmarkTavern Oh that‘s really pretty! 💚 1d

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CBee @BookmarkTavern I‘m still laughing at “drunk tank pink” 😂😂 1d

Megabooks My dad always liked the word chartreuse for colors! 1d

BookmarkTavern Xanadu is used as a training address in the post office, so I‘m going to be giggling about it for a while. 😂 1d

CBee @BookmarkTavern omg that‘s awesome 😂😂👏🏻👏🏻 1d

CBee @Megabooks I love that one too! 1d

Butterfinger I have had a Cyan and a Magenta as students' names and thought that was some pretty cool parents. They have both graduated. 1d

CBee @Butterfinger oh definitely! I love that ♥️ 1d

AnnCrystal 🤩🥀💝. 1d

peanutnine I love fun color names!! I always wanted to name crayons growing up 😂 1d

CBee @peanutnine same! I still do! 😂 1d

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CatLass007

More Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan

#WeirdWordsWednesday

CBee

CBee Very cool! 10mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I love Gaelic. And I‘d love to be part of a cèilidh - just the music would be worth it ♥️♥️ #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

BookmarkTavern, Megabooks, Daisey, TheBookHippie, Amiable, Deblovestoread, slategreyskies, CatLass007, mandarchy, TheSpineView, dabbe, IndoorDame, lil1inblue, peanutnine, psalva

IndoorDame Gaelic is always so lyrical, I love it 💜 10mo

Kitta We go to the St Andrew‘s day Ceilidh every year in Toronto! It‘s so fun. 10mo

CBee @Kitta sounds amazing 🤩 10mo

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TheSpineView Sounds like fun! 🤩👍🌞 10mo

Deblovestoread Love this! 10mo

Amiable I love Gaelic words! Even though I can never remember how to spell them. 😄 10mo

PathfinderNicole My son‘s strings school did a ceilidh fundraiser this last spring! 10mo

dabbe 🩶🧡🩶 10mo

CatLass007 Celtic Woman performs a song about a ceilidh. Love this word! 10mo

CBee @PathfinderNicole that‘s so cool! 10mo

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psalva

Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum | Alfred Hitchcock

Here‘s one for #weirdwordsWednesday. This comes from “The King of the Cats,” by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Pizen-sure… here‘s the thing about this one. I can‘t find it online written like this. It must be an alternate spelling of poison-sure, but there‘s not much about that either. I guess the meaning can be inferred, but it‘s an interesting expression. It gives me saloon in a western vibes. Has anyone seen this written elsewhere?
@CBee

CBee I‘ve never seen it before - super interesting!! 11mo

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IndoorDame

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver | Mary Oliver

#weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday @CBee

Is anyone else excited anytime they read another description for the wind besides whispering which is so painfully overused it‘s almost its own cliche?

Jari-chan In my region of Switzerland we use this word quite often 😄 11mo

IndoorDame @Jari-chan love that language is regional like that even when you‘re all speaking the same language and the same dialect! 11mo

CBee A great word 😊 11mo

dabbe You mean you don't like “the wind whispered wistfully through the trees?“ 😂😂😂 11mo

IndoorDame @dabbe I know, I‘m a terrible person 😂😂😂😂 11mo

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CatLass007

More Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan

#WeirdWordsWednesday This picture is the cover of a book I haven‘t read. It‘s actually the second book in a trilogy that I haven‘t read. But I really like the covers and the books sound interesting.

CBee

CBee I really like this word! 12mo

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CatLass007

More Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan

I don‘t have the book yet but I thought it would be fun to share the cover for #WeirdWordsWednesday.

CBee

CBee Oooo, this is a word I‘ve never heard of and didn‘t know existed - thank you 😊👍🏻 (edited) 12mo

CatLass007 @CBee You‘re welcome. It‘s the first book in a trilogy and if I get a chance to listen to this one and I like it, I‘ll make sure to tag you on those when I listen to them. 12mo

CBee @CatLass007 that would be great! Thank you! 12mo

Bookwomble The first time I came across this word was in a short story which had a vicious dog coming for the MC, and it described their fear of the approaching animal's "mordacious proprinquity", and it's a phrase I've never forgotten and, though rarely, have used! 12mo

CatLass007 @Bookwomble Mordacious AND propinquity in the same sentence?! Excellent!😂 12mo

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psalva

Ell?nika t?ra ena kai ena | D?m?tra D?m?tra, Marineta Papacheim?na

Really nerding out for this #weirdwordsWednesday. While doing my Greek homework this morning I came across the word τσιπούρα. Having been to a Greek distillery before, I thought this was the word for what some people know as “raki,” an anise-flavored alcoholic beverage (which is apparently the national drink of Turkey!). The problem was it was on a list of things you can buy from a fisherman. (See comments for more explanation.)⬇️
@CBee

psalva Confused, I looked it up and was puzzled to see it defined as “daurade,” another new word for me. I looked that up (sigh) and learned it is a type of sea bream. Okay, all was explained. I‘m glad I learned the difference between τσιπούρα and τσίπουρο. Only one letter and a shifted accent between them. Now I won‘t order the wrong thing if I go back to Greece! 1y

CBee Down a bit of a rabbit hole with this one, hmm? 😂🤓 1y

psalva @CBee Definitely 🤣 1y

LiteraryinPA Languages are so cool! 1y

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IndoorDame

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Ross Gay

#weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday @CBee

Did you guys know that this delicate, introspective poet who writes mostly about cultivating joy and gardening got his start in college basketball, thought about going the pro sports route, and wrote his 7th book entirely as an ode to Julius Erving?

CBee Wow! I had no idea ♥️ 1y

TieDyeDude @wildalaskabibliophile This is what Cady does when we're playing 😅
@indoordame Cady is our dog! 1y

IndoorDame @TieDyeDude that sounds adorable!!! 1y

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

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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TheBookHippie Oh wow! How fun! 1y

IndoorDame I had no idea those had such a cool name! I‘m old enough to have played with flip books, which aren‘t as aesthetically appealing lying around a playroom, but were a really neat evolution of that since they could tell a whole mini wordless story… 1y

Megabooks Very cool! 1y

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CatLass007 I‘ve seen pictures of zoetropes, and I‘ve heard the word zoetrope. But I never put the word with the toy. Cool. 1y

CBee @IndoorDame my oldest son loves to make his own flip books 😊 1y

IndoorDame @CBee awesome! 1y

Amiable Cool Scrabble word for Z! 🙂 1y

CBee @Amiable oh yes!!! 1y

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1y

willaful When I was a kid, we had a book of paper cut out old-fashioned toys and it included a Zoetrope, so I guess I'm old enough to have played with one. 😂 We used to put it on the record player so it would spin. (There, now you know how old I really am!) 1y

CBee @willaful that sounds cool! I had a record player - one for me and my parents had one too 😊 I guess I just meant I wasn‘t old enough to have played with it when it was new? 🤷‍♀️😂 1y

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