Litsy

Flibbertigibbet: a silly, chatty person.
My employer has recently strongly encouraged the workers to return to the office more. I have feelings about this.
#weirdwords @cbee

CBee Oof. I‘m assuming the person “encouraging” you personifies this word? I wonder if the getting back to working in person has anything to do with the insane Cheeto? 4d

Prairiegirl_reading I get this. I‘m still doing a 60/40 hybrid thing. I get nothing done while at the office because people are constantly talking. 4d

Aims42 @CBee “the insane Cheeto” 🤣🤣🤣 If I read that while sipping my coffee, I would‘ve spit it out LOL 4d

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Aims42 @Prairiegirl_reading Same here! I dread my in-office days so much for this exact reason 🙄 4d

TieDyeDude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9Wuzj4k24 😋 4d

vivastory @Prairiegirl_reading It's so distracting. Sometimes I have to go into a private meeting room just to get work done 4d

vivastory @TieDyeDude That gave me a needed laugh. Thanks! 4d

vivastory @CBee It's very peopley 😬 4d

rwmg How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertigibbet
A will-o'-the-wisp
A clown 3d

CBee @Aims42 😂😂 I‘m glad you weren‘t drinking coffee at that moment 😃 3d

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Daisey

Lays of Beleriand | J R R Tolkien

lissom: thin, supple, and graceful (adjective)

#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday #FellowshipOfTolkien

CBee

CBee Lovely! 6d

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dabbe

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#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords @CBee
#allusion
#crossingtherubicon

Allusion #4. 🤩

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Nope, it‘s not a type of multivitamin 😂 Just a super cool musical instrument that is apparently quite hard to master. Links: https://youtu.be/-QgTF8p-284?si=yBQCF2IBXR-Z3Tq6
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

BookmarkTavern, Megabooks, Daisey, Cuilin, TheBookHippie, Amiable, Deblovestoread, vivastory, slategreyskies, Kerrbearlib, CatLass007, mandarchy, TheSpineView, dabbe, IndoorDame, lil1inblue, peanutnine, psalva

CatLass007 Cool! 6d

BookmarkTavern I had a friend in high school who learned how to play this! 6d

peanutnine Oh my goodness that is very cool 6d

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TheSpineView Neat! Thanks for the tag!💛🏷 6d

Deblovestoread Makes me think of a Big Bang episode. That‘s where I learned about them. 😀 6d

Bookwomble One of my favourite bands, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion use a theremin on their earlier albums. And the mighty Portishead have been known to dabble! 6d

AlaMich A theremin also featured in Severance in this last season. The actor learned to play for the role 6d

dabbe How effin cool is this? 🤩🎶🤩 6d

CBee @Bookwomble oh, I love Portishead. A theramin has such an eerie sound and them using it makes perfect sense 👏🏻 6d

CBee @AlaMich I read about that! I haven‘t watched Severance but all I hear are good things! 6d

CBee @BookmarkTavern wow! How‘d that go? I‘m very musical but it looks so daunting! 6d

BookmarkTavern She loved it! It was a challenge and that‘s what drew her to it! 6d

Amiable @Deblovestoread Ha ha, me too! I saw this and immediately thought of Sheldon Cooper. 😄 6d

CBee @BookmarkTavern incredible 👏🏻👏🏻 6d

Daisey @Amiable @Deblovestoread I thought the same thing when I saw it! 😆 6d

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Bookwomble

Selected English essays; | William Peacock

#WeirdWords Squir or Squirr: "To throw with a jerking motion; to skim".

A spendthrift heir being disinherited & bequeathed only a silver shilling, "put him into such a passion, that having taken me in his hand, and cursed me, he squirred me away from him as far as he could fling me."
From Addison's, "The Adventures of a Shilling", in which an Elizabeth I coin recounts its travels from Peru as part of Drake's plunder, to its minting & circulation.

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vivastory

The Bibliophile's Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics | Hallie Ephron

Litsy has really been lagging for me all week, so I haven't been on very much. Anywho..my #weirdwords choice this week is vellichor. According to Ye Olde Google 'Vellichor is a new word and refers to the aromatic atmosphere within second-hand bookshops.“ It's been a bit since I've had the chance to visit my local used bookstore, Might have to set aside some time soon to do so! Years ago I used to be a regular.
@cbee

CBee Ooooo what a wonderful word! And I LOVE that smell 😍😍 2w

vivastory @CBee There's a candle shop in Minnesota that sells several book themed candles, including one called bookstore 💕 2w

tpixie Interesting 🤔 I know the smell now I know the word! (edited) 2w

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vivastory @tpixie It should be sold as a fragrance everywhere IMO 📖 2w

tpixie @vivastory yes! 2w

TheBookHippie My second favorite smell!!! 2w

vivastory @TheBookHippie Now I have to ask! What's your favorite smell? 😁 😅 2w

TheBookHippie @vivastory Mr BookHippies beard 👀😂😅 2w

vivastory @TheBookHippie Literally lol 😂 😂 😂 2w

TheBookHippie @vivastory 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 2w

CBee @vivastory oh yes! Frostbeard, right? I used to buy a lot of their candles. 2w

CBee @TheBookHippie 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2w

Butterfinger @Texreader when I was reading your post about the maze of used books, I was wondering if it had a certain wonderful smell. Here's the word for it. I hope I never forget it. 1w

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

FRIENDS!! Posting late but I didn‘t want anyone to miss out on the absolute cuteness that is the pygmy marmoset! Sometimes I veer off course with the “weird” part, because cute animals 😂 Here‘s an article about them: https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/pygmy-marmoset #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

CBee @dabbe @CatLass007 @Daisey @peanutnine @Megabooks @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @psalva @vivastory @lil1inblue @Kerrbearlib @slategreyskies @Amiable @TheBookHippie @Cuilin @mandarchy @IndoorDame 2w

CatLass007 Cuuute! 2w

Susanita Oh my goodness!! 2w

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AmyG I love all monkeys! 🐒 2w

ncsufoxes My 15 year old is obsessed with the golden lion tamarins (he‘s obsessed with all types of monkeys). We saw them last summer at the zoo in Rhode Island. He still talks about them. We live close to the zoo in DC & just found out they have emperor ones (they have a long mustache). We used to live in San Diego & were frequent visitors of the zoo but I don‘t remember the marmosets. (edited) 2w

MemoirsForMe ❤️🐒❤️🐒❤️🐒 2w

Leftcoastzen So cute! 2w

TheSpineView Adorable 2w

CBee @ncsufoxes I love them too! We have cotton-top tamarins at our local zoo. They look like what Einstein would look like if he were a monkey I think 😂 2w

AnnCrystal 😍💝. 1w

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dabbe

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#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords #allusions @CBee

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Daisey

Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien | Janet Brennan Croft

Chiasmus: a figure of speech in which the grammar of two parallel phrases is inverted

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords #FellowshipOfTolkien #MedievalTolkien

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BookmarkTavern

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I‘m positive this word has been shared before for #WeirdWordWednesday , but I had to take some books off of a bookshelf today because the shelf has developed a concerning curve to it. So it‘s been on my mind. 😂😂 #WeirdWords

I‘m going to need to buy another bookshelf. 😅

CBee

shortsarahrose I grabbed a free, recently deleted book from the library I work at yesterday. Put it on top of a massive stack on top of one of my shelves. It fell off within minutes. So I put it on a different massive stack 😆 I have a problem 🫠 3w

BookmarkTavern @shortsarahrose Sounds like a good problem to have! 😆 3w

CBee Same problem here 😂🤪 3w

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