Recently Google has been generating quasi-meaningful-sounding word verification - so far today I've had besserso (as in, "Ja, es ist besser so.") and vocurdst:
I vocurd
Thou vocurdst
He vocurdeth
We vocurden
You vocurden
They vocurden
(to vocurd: archaic English verb meaning to vocalise through emulsified substances associated with whey.)
And the latest gem is pologami - that's either "the art of folding small round mints with a hole in" or a love-in at a polo match...
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Surely Pologami is playing in multiple polo teams without the others knowlege
I just got Lazin as in Lazin on a sunny afternooon.
When my son makes us pizza he sometimes tells us he's run out of origami.
I've tagged you for the six random things meme!
Today's offerings: genesco (a little-known painter of the Italian Renaissance?) and thethlys (a flower that grows by the River Lethe, whose fumes induce forgetfulness).
I don't make as many mistakes in typing them in, I find. And the one in this post is meaningful - "sting"
Today I had 'gemastry' which is the ancient oriental martial art of combat using only precious stones and 'paphtess' which is descriptive of a small Greek village which has lost its only seller of Ouzo.
Glad you noticed this, Yvonne, I had spotted it recently, no-one else mentioned it and I thought it was just my brain picking out random meanings and patterns where none actually existed. I wonder if we could use these pseudo words to divine the future?
Actually I can't take credit for this one; it was actually Bo who had the idea of coming up with definitions for the words :D
Alert Uxbridge.
I have been given hasmshno: to refuse a third doobie.
From Brithenig:
rerbach: a small boy who gathers up lost things at eisteddfods (from rerum, things, + bach, little).
ty lazos: a house of lepers.
Synyanit: small eastern European god of shopping ennui.
Just got 2 more: aftible (an ansible that sends messages back through time) and raptism (an initiation into rapper culture).
Wealorme: Anglo-Saxon for a serpent that brings blessing.
"foddr": a social-networking website for cannon-fodder?
alpowar: a very large battleship (by extension from man o'war).
misher: Yiddish for someone who habitually causes confusion wherever they go.
hoaktax - a tax upon hokum, hocus-pocus and hoaxes (otherwise known as "There's one born every minute").
appirthy: pithy and apposite
anthst = fear of not finishing anthologies.
stompew: to misbehave in church.
tantred:
(1) an aunt who dresses eccentrically (as in When I am old I shall wear purple/ With a red hat that doesn't go...)
(2) a particularly florid tantrum
(3) past participle of the verb, to tantra.
imphros - a small lantern carried by an even smaller hobgoblin to guide faery ships safely into port (the opposite of a will o' the wisp).
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