I’ve been reading a lot lately and find myself still looking up words whose meaning I don’t know or are used out of the context in which I know them.
In doing that I’ve run across a few words lately that frankly, make me laugh.
Take the title of the post. An abecedarian is a person currently learning the alphabet. A meldrop is a drop of mucus hanging from someone’s nose. So basically, the title means a kindergartener with a runny nose. Smarter now, aren’t ya?
Here’s a few more interesting words for you today:
Smicker – to look amorously after someone
Noob – someone who is new at something
Octothorpe – the real, official name for the hashtag (#) symbol
Widdershins – moving in a counter-clockwise direction
Flibbertigibbet – a silly and irresponsible person
As my old English teacher used to say, use new words in a sentence. It’ll help you remember them. So here goes.
My neighbor, a noob at texting, was walking widdershins around the block. A ripped young man, shirtless, jogged by. She paused to smicker, and looked for the octothorpe on the keyboard of her phone, to text me #hothothot about him. But he screamed an obscenity at a biker who came a little to close to him and she realized he was nothing but a flibbertigibbet. That cooled her right off.
So there you go. Next time you see one of these words you won’t be completely flummoxed.
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