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IndoorDame
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#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 ♥️ 2w
TieDyeDude @wildalaskabibliophile This is what Cady does when we're playing 😅
@indoordame Cady is our dog!
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IndoorDame @TieDyeDude that sounds adorable!!! 2w
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CBee
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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

TheBookHippie Oh wow! How fun! 2mo
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… 2mo
Megabooks Very cool! 2mo
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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. 2mo
CBee @IndoorDame my oldest son loves to make his own flip books 😊 2mo
IndoorDame @CBee awesome! 2mo
Amiable Cool Scrabble word for Z! 🙂 2mo
CBee @Amiable oh yes!!! 2mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
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!) 2mo
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? 🤷‍♀️😂 2mo
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CBee
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Your science lesson for today 😊😊 Learned a lot researching this one but here‘s the Wiki to start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic_zone
#weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

Megabooks Very cool word!! 😎 2mo
CBee @Megabooks the pelagic subzone words are even cooler! 😁 2mo
IndoorDame Awesome! 2mo
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dabbe I'm terrified of the hadopelagic zone! 🤩😱😂 2mo
CBee @dabbe there‘s a reason it‘s named for Hades 😳😂 2mo
Susanita I first encountered the word in one of the Shetland books. 2mo
CBee @Susanita I read it in Little Monsters - one of the main characters studies whales 🐳 2mo
dabbe @CBee Exactly! 😂 2mo
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CBee
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This word popped up in Magpie Murders and I made sure to highlight it 😊 It‘s also used in Hamlet (bet you knew that, right Denise? 😁). #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

IndoorDame So fun! 3mo
peanutnine This seems fake and I love it 😂 3mo
CatLass007 One of Robert B. Parker‘s Spenser novels was titled Hugger-Mugger. I can‘t recall the plot but I remember the title. Now know what it actually means. 3mo
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vivastory Ah, great choice! Such a fun word to say 3mo
CBee @peanutnine right? Doesn‘t seem like it could be real 😂 3mo
CBee @CatLass007 how cool! I found a restaurant, a yoga brand, and a brewery all named Hugger Mugger when I googled it 😂 3mo
CBee @vivastory I think we should write a short story with all of these funny words 😂 3mo
Daisey Interesting! Also, I need to look up this website! I always enjoy the birds. 3mo
vivastory @CBee 😂 Can you imagine? “The Case of the Evaporating Palaver“ lol 3mo
dabbe “We have done but greenly, / In hugger-mugger to inter him“ (Claudius, to Gertrude after secretly burying Polonius).

Of course, I did NOT know it; I had to look it up! 🤩😂😍
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CBee @vivastory “A Hugger-Mugger Murder” 😂😂 3mo
CBee @Daisey the pigeons are great 🐦 😊 3mo
CBee @dabbe ooooo I‘m telling the teacher! Oh wait…… 😂😂😂 3mo
vivastory “...a Most Nefarious Homicide“ 😂 😂 Call our agents! Call Netflix! (edited) 3mo
CBee Let‘s get @The_Penniless_Author involved here - I posted the word “crepuscular” and I love capybaras who happen to be just that. So he ran with the whole “crepuscular capybaras” and I think we should just add…. “From Space” 😂😂😂😂 @vivastory (edited) 3mo
The_Penniless_Author This sounds like a term you'd use for that one grandma or great aunt at every family gathering who's always hugging the little kids and kissing them on the cheek. 😂 3mo
CBee @The_Penniless_Author you‘re totally right 😂😂😂 mugging you with the hugging 😂😂 3mo
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psalva
The City We Became | N.K. Jemisin
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This morning I‘m trying to speed through the end of the tagged so I can return it to the library. Just in time for #weirdwordsWednesday, I found the word gormless, which I had never heard before. I guess it stems from a dialect noun “gaum,” which can mean understanding or attention. Throw in a spelling change and the current meaning makes sense. Still, I‘m surprised I‘ve never noticed it in British literature I‘ve read. #weirdwords @CBee

CBee New to me! Thanks for sharing 😊 3mo
Bookwomble This is a common dialect word in north west England, and sometimes I think it must be my true name, as I seem to hear it a lot when my wife's around😄 2mo
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CBee
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I always thought this word was fun to say - though the condition it describes is serious and in no way am I trying to make light of it! #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

Megabooks Yes, interesting word awful problem! 3mo
CBee @Megabooks exactly! I hesitated to post because I would never want to lessen what is a major issue and I have so much sympathy for anyone dealing with it. But at it‘s core, it‘s just a really cool and weird word 🙂 3mo
dabbe An episode on Criminal Minds depicted a woman with this condition. It was frightening! Well, anything on CM usually was. 😂 3mo
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CBee @dabbe yes, I love Criminal Minds 🫣 3mo
Amiable My husband's niece has this disorder. It is a fascinating word! 3mo
CBee @Amiable oh how awful. I‘m so sorry to hear that 🙁 3mo
dabbe @Amiable I'm so sorry to read that. 😢 3mo
vivastory I haven't watched CM in years. I used to all the time. 3mo
Reggie I have a coworker whose daughter used to have this. 3mo
CBee @vivastory I did too! Great show. 3mo
CBee @Reggie 🙁 hope she‘s doing better now! 3mo
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Walden and Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau
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For today‘s #weirdwordswednesday I wanted to share the phrase “superfluous glowshoes.” Thoreau is writing here about the futility of keeping more things than needed around one‘s house. I was simultaneously delighted and puzzled by this phrase, and glad for a footnote which clarifies that Thoreau meant galoshes. But come on! Who doesn‘t want a pair of superfluous glowshoes? What a delightful phrase! #weirdwords @CBee

CBee I would LOVE a pair of glowshoes. Superfluous or otherwise 😂😁 3mo
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Apparently this phrase is misused a bit - there‘s even a whole Reddit thread about it 😂 I can see why - it sounds like a legal term and a bit fancy to use in everyday speech 😁🤓 #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

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dabbe
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#weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday @CBee

This one's from my current read, a detective mystery in lots of snow. ❄️

CBee Those all just look painful 😂 👵 🙋‍♀️ (edited) 3mo
TheBookHippie Or walking to school on icy roads… same words 3mo
dabbe @CBee And dangerous! 😱 3mo
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dabbe @TheBookHippie Perhaps 118-degree days ain't so bad after all! 🤩 3mo
CBee @dabbe the one sliding on his butt is me. And it wouldn‘t be a graceful glissade, it would be a clumsy tumble 😂 3mo
dabbe @CBee Me, too! According to the dictionary, most glissaders (who knew?) use a pick-axe as well. Why? Are they coming down Everest? 🤩🤣😍 3mo
CBee @dabbe 😂😂😂 3mo
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CBee
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Two -ious words today, both read recently (don‘t remember what book 🤪). Both fun to say! #weirdwords #weirdwordswednesday

TheBookHippie 😅😂😂😂😂 me daily… where was that from 😅🤷🏻‍♀️ 3mo
IndoorDame Super fun to say! 3mo
peanutnine Ooh yes! So fun to say! Never heard these two 3mo
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IndoorDame @CBee @TheBookHippie glad I‘m not alone in my scatterbrainedness 😂😂😂 3mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
Amiable Love these! 3mo
CBee Sorry Scott, totally forgot to tag you! 🤪 @vivastory 3mo
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