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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Also genuine, true blue, the real deal, and so on. I feel like it could describe the fab new governors, the new NYC mayor, the folks who flipped the script all over the country. Well done 🩵 🌊 💙 #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @sace @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib @jen_the_scribe @CindyMyLifeIsLit 2w

AnnCrystal
✊🏼🥳✊🏼💃💙🌊💙. 2w

Amiable Ooh, I think this is a German word, right? I recognize it ! 2w

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Kerrbearlib Cool word! 2w

julesG @Amiable it is. For real, or as we say in German: "(in) echt!" 2w

dabbe 💙🌊💙🌊💙🌊 2w

BookmarkTavern I‘ve been so excited looking at all the blue! 🩵🩵🩵 2w

CBee @Amiable I read someone described as an “echt mensch” recently. Which is a huge compliment 😁 2w

CatLass007 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 Great word! I‘ve never heard the word before. I‘m so glad @Amiable and @julesG pointed out that its origins are German. And thank you @CBee for adding to our vocabularies every week! 2w

CBee @CatLass007 you‘re very welcome ☺️ 2w

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CindyMyLifeIsLit

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

I don‘t know if anyone has stumbled across this one before, but I just love irony! 😂
#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords

CBee

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 4w

CBee I‘ve seen this one and find it hilarious 😂 4w

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In Calamity's Wake: A Novel | Natalee Caple

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Tovaglie Natalizie
Cuscini Natalizi
Tappeti Natalizi

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https://pettihome.shop/collections/cuscini-per-le-sedie-digitali-in-stile-natali...
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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday @CBee
#allusions

lil1inblue Ok, now I'm curious. Growing up, I always heard the term back-handed compliment - does that derive from left-handed compliment? Is it meant to be the "PC" term for it? ? 1mo

Bookwomble That time when my daughter was about 6 years old and said to my mum after kissing her, "I love you grandma, but you are prickly!" Luckily mum thought it was hilarious and said she'd wax her top lip in future! ? 1mo

dabbe @lil1inblue You bring up an excellent point. I tried to research and the best I could find was the “left-handed compliment“ has been around a lot longer (due to that idea of “left“ meaning “evil“), but “backhanded“ also has negative origins in the fact that it originated as a “backslap“ instead of a direct one ... it still hurts! 💛💜🧡 1mo

dabbe @Bookwomble Your mum is FABUL💛OUS ... as is your daughter! 💛💜🧡 1mo

CSeydel @lil1inblue Same! I‘ve never heard “left handed compliment” before, although I know left-handedness has long been associated with things being wrong or bad (eg, “sinister”, “gauche”, etc.) I suppose it‘s like how my kids‘ generation grew up only hearing “criss cross applesauce” and never … well, you know. 1mo

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BookmarkTavern

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

IT IS SEPTEMBER! WHY IS IT STILL IN THE 90s?!? 🫠

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

wildwoodreads I fear it will stay in the nineties until late October here in Alabama 🥵 2mo

BookmarkTavern @wildwoodreads Oof! And you‘re dealing with the humidity too! 🫠 2mo

wildwoodreads @BookmarkTavern Yeah it‘s rough lol. And honestly it‘s been in the high seventies on Christmas Day more times than I can count. One year we played basketball and I wore a tank top. 😂 2mo

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dabbe PERFECT word for Phoenix, too. It's been in the low 100s but with humidity above 60%. I love when the weather channel writes: Actual temp: 102. Feels like 108. 😳Yeah. Thanks, weather gods! 😂🔥😂 2mo

CBee @wildwoodreads I‘m in Alabama too - hi! And 🥵😭 2mo

wildwoodreads @CBee Hi, neighbor! What part are you from? I‘m in Northeast AL. 2mo

TheBookHippie It was coool here then bam today it was 80 2mo

CBee @wildwoodreads about 20 miles south of Birmingham 👋🏻 2mo

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dabbe

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

#weirdwordwednesday @CBee 🧡🩶💜

CBee Love that last meme - “get your mythological suffering straight” 😂😂 Denise, you know the way to my heart! Mythology!! 2mo

dabbe @CBee I try! 💜😂🧡 2mo

lil1inblue @CBee @dabbe That meme is fantabulous. 😍 😂 2mo

dabbe @lil1inblue 🤩😂😍 2mo

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KCofKaysville

A History of the English Language | Albert C. Baugh

Starting a book on one of my favorite topics. It is the 5th edition of this notable history.

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BookmarkTavern

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

Happy #WeirdWordWednesday ! #WeirdWords

This one‘s one of my favorites. @CBee

CBee Ohhhhh I love this so much ♥️♥️ 4mo

EvyBea Me after I read my new favorite book and cant stop thinking abt it 4mo

Daisey Lovely word! 4mo

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CBee

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words | Erin McKean

My #weirdwordwednesday pick! I remember discovering this word during a word game - maybe Words With Friends or similar - and always thought it was a bit silly sounding. This little googol mascot guy should have googly eyes, I think 😂 #weirdwords

CBee @Megabooks @Daisey @TheBookHippie @Amiable @vivastory @Catlass007 @mandarchy @dabbe @IndoorDame @peanutnine @psalva @slategreyskies @Lil1inblue @Deblovestoread @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Cuilin @Kerrbearlib (edited) 6mo

CatLass007 Another great word! I was listening to Death Comes To Pemberley and decided to look up a word instead of just figuring out what it meant from its context. I actually should have stuck to my habit with this particular word because it was very difficult to find a real definition or even a picture. What on earth did the word jives mean in 1803? 6mo

BookmarkTavern I heard the word googolplex (10 raised to the power of a googol) first when I was in school, and that‘s how I learned about googol. 😄 6mo

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CBee @CatLass007 jives? In 1803? Hmm. I have no idea 😂😂 6mo

CBee @BookmarkTavern I should have included googolplex! 6mo

CatLass007 I‘ve heard of gewgaws but not googols. “Jives around the prisoner‘s wrists,” was the quote in the book. Shackles. 6mo

CBee @CatLass007 gotcha. What are gewgaws? 6mo

CatLass007 Gewgaws are what I would call “thingies.” I‘ve never actually looked up the definition. As usual. 6mo

CBee @CatLass007 I looked it up 😂 Couldn‘t resist. “Gewgaws:
a showy thing, especially one that is useless or worthless.” 6mo

CatLass007 Okay, so I was wrong. Thingies are useful. 6mo

CBee @CatLass007 I agree! Thingies are very useful, especially when you don‘t know what something is called. “That thingie over there” and such 😂 6mo

CatLass007 Exactly!! 6mo

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