10 posts tagged “words”
Talking nu metal
With boy I don’t remember
Sigh, not my best move
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Third doom show this week
This town has no pretty boys
My ears are bleeding
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Nannytown: no fun
Noon: Order coffee and beer
Waitress: suspicious
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Cosmopolitan?
When did you become fancy?
I wished, “old man drink.”
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Pineapple express
Will Oldham show is sold out
I watch Wholphin doc
So I need some practice I'm rusty.
Done with long letters and mysterious packages East, definitely done with Web 2.0 and making a fool out of myself via Web 2.0, too busy with S to knit or sew, unable to garden in the winter, likely 86ed on the potlatch due to aforementioned Web 2.0, I have found a new hobby: haiku. My inspiration. Here's an example (not mine):
"Good drinking game
Guess which college she went to
Brown or Oberlin?"
Etymology: Middle English, partly from past participle of weten to wet & partly from Old English w[AE]t wet; akin to Old Norse vAtr wet, Old English wæter water
1 a : consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (as water) b of natural gas : containing appreciable quantities of readily condensable hydrocarbons
2 : RAINY <wet weather>
3 : still moist enough to smudge or smear <wet paint>
4 a : DRUNK 1a <a wet driver> b : having or advocating a policy permitting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages <a wet county> <a wet candidate>
5 : preserved in liquid
6 : employing or done by means of or in the presence of water or other liquid <wet extraction of copper>
7 : overly sentimental
8 British a : lacking strength of character : WEAK, SPINELESS <thought him wet and violence petrified him -- William Golding> b : belonging to the moderate or liberal wing of the Conservative party
| Pronunciation: 'sOk Function: verb Etymology: Middle English soken, from Old English socian; akin to Old English sucan to suck intransitive verb 1 : to lie immersed in liquid (as water) : become saturated by or as if by immersion 2 a : to enter or pass through something by or as if by pores or interstices : PERMEATE b : to penetrate or affect the mind or feelings -- usually used with in or into 3 : to drink alcoholic beverages intemperately transitive verb 1 : to permeate so as to wet, soften, or fill thoroughly 2 : to place in a surrounding element (as liquid) to wet or permeate thoroughly 3 : to extract by or as if by steeping <soak the dirt out> 4 a : to draw or take in by or as if by suction or absorption <soaked up the sunshine> b : to intoxicate (oneself) by drinking alcoholic beverages 5 : to cause to pay an exorbitant amount |
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Function: adjective
1 : being at once bitter and sweet; especially : pleasant but including or marked by elements of suffering or regret <a bittersweet ballad>
| Pronunciation: 'lost Function: adjective Etymology: past participle of lose 1 : not made use of, won, or claimed 2 a : no longer possessed b : no longer known 3 : ruined or destroyed physically or morally : DESPERATE 4 a : taken away or beyond reach or attainment : DENIED <regions lost to the faith> b : INSENSIBLE, HARDENED <lost to shame> 5 a : unable to find the way b : no longer visible c : lacking assurance or self-confidence : HELPLESS 6 : RAPT, ABSORBED <lost in reverie> 7 : not appreciated or understood : WASTED <their jokes were lost on me> 8 : obscured or overlooked during a process or activity <lost in translation> 9 : hopelessly unattainable : FUTILE <a lost cause> |
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fascinate
Function: verb
Etymology: Latin fascinatus, past participle of fascinare, from fascinum evil spell
transitive verb
1 obsolete : BEWITCH
2 a : to transfix and hold spellbound by an irresistible power <believed that the serpent could fascinate its prey> b : to command the interest of : ALLURE <was fascinated by carnivals>
intransitive verb : to be irresistibly attractive <the novel's flamboyant cover fascinates>
synonym see ATTRACT
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I'm exhausted.
Good night.
