Margaritaceous! Of margaritas? Full of margaritas? Lime-tasting? Salty? None of the above. Margaritaceous is a word, but it has nothing to do with margaritas. However, the person who picks the word of the day at Dictionary.com has a sense of humor and chose that word for today. So the real definition: resembling mother-of-pearl. Margarit, the term’s…
I grew up with self-proclaimed bibliophiles. I became a bibliophile myself. At least one brother loves books too. Then, a recent word of the day was bibliotaph: a person who caches or hoards books. Huh? What happened to the word bibliophile? Is this a new term for e-book collectors? What? There must be an explanation,…
I leave soon for youth camp. Does life get any better: my paid employment includes spending a few days in a peaceful setting with creative young people? I should be packing and getting Tango ready for his stay at Don’s house–the bachelor pad. I reach out to close the laptop and a word bores into…
The dictionary.com word of the day posts have been especially interesting over the holidays: Moose Milk \MOOS-milk\ noun 1. Canadian. homemade or bootleg whiskey. 2. Canadian. a cocktail of whiskey or rum and milk. Quotes My first drink was dad’s moose milk. That’s what he called it. Moose milk on accounta he brewed it so…
Omphaloskepsis: I have not decided which is funnier, the word or what it describes. The word does not give much in the way of clues…well the “espsis” suggests it is a diagnosis of a physical/mental condition. Yes! But what else? Ignore the “phal” as it has nothing to do with that body part. Any guesses? Here is…
I opened my Word of the Day from Dictionary.com, truly curious about this one: hippophile. I imagined it was either a person who loves big hips or loves hippos, the animal. Well, you may already know this (I did not) but hippo means horse! Therefore, a hippophile is a person who loves horses. Who knew. Hippo is…
My brain is on vacation for a few days so I have nothing insightful or moderately interesting to write about today. I might find something interesting to say about Tango working diligently to lick every speck from the empty peanut butter jar, but yaaaaawn, too much effort. I could make a big tadooo about sitting…
I stopped by the Verizon store yesterday to buy a new screen protector for my smart phone. Two twenty something men helped me and we all started yakking about nothing much. One of them used the term buttload. I joked with him about his language, but he informed me that butt is a real unit…