Monday, March 1, 2021

O Brave New Word

 

From  Curmudgeon's Corner, via AceOfSpades.

8 comments:

ndspinelli said...

Norm Crosby and Professor Irwin Corey made millions w/ this.

The Dude said...

Well, for all intense and porpoises that is true...

KCFleming said...

The Bowery Boys were pretty good at this, too.

Trooper York said...

Hey dude thank God you posted. I was getting worried. Great post.

chickelit said...

I never use that word; I use malapropism. Like Sixty, these can be fun and done on porpoise.

MamaM said...

Hard to pick a fave in this collection, and harder still to discern and ferret out all the discrepancies on the first passover. Garnering with a single gander was virtuously impossible to accomplish, with additional concecration and focus required.

On Gander:Besides being the proper name for a male goose and a slang word for silly man, the word gander also shows up in the idiom "take a gander." The slang sense of gander comes from the meaning recorded in 1886, to take a long look by craning one's neck like a goose, or wander foolishly (again, like a goose).

Here's to Gandering and Garnering in the Den of Levity! And where did this post take my craning and gandering neck today? To this:

What is a Ninnyhammer?

What does Ultracrepidarian mean?

What does Pilgarlic mean

What is Darkle?

What does Neddy mean?


All of which rose to float above the surface of this post like a scepter from the single entry of "mumpsimius", none of which was asked for or sought.

Mumpsimus said...

I like "ultracrepidarian" and the story behind it, MamaM. Thanks.

The Dude said...

If you look up "pilgaric" Yul be sorry, just sayin'.