Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#reference
quote
Kerrbearlib
Collins English Dictionary | Collins Dictionaries
post image

This is a new word for me! #WeirdWordWednesday

abseil (ab-sale) - to go down a steep drop by a rope fastened at the top and tied around one's body.

Excerpt from: "Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus Essential" by Collins Dictionaries.

CBee Thanks for posting even though I didn‘t 🤦‍♀️ 1d
24 likes1 comment
blurb
BookmarkTavern
post image

Be the hope you want to see in the world. ❤️

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords @CBee

AnnCrystal 👏🏼💝💝💝😉👍🏼. 2d
lil1inblue 💓💓💓 2d
AmyG 🙌🏻 2d
See All 6 Comments
TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2d
CBee Good stuff ♥️♥️♥️ 1d
dabbe 🩵💙🩵 1d
46 likes6 comments
blurb
dabbe
post image

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
@CBee

I admit to having been a #mrsgrundy sometimes in the classroom. 😖🤣😊

CBee Nice!! 1d
dabbe @CBee 😍 1d
41 likes4 comments
blurb
Deblovestoread
Weird and Wonderful Words | Roz Chast, Erin McKean
post image

Pronounced TUR-Shuh in Irish or TOOR-shuh in Scottish I think many of us are experiencing this in a deep way.

The antidote is to find joy, gratitude, etc.

My daughter sent me this link today and it was the perfect antidote. President Obama telling the story of one woman‘s voice energizing him, a room and a movement. Fire it up! Ready to go!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIfNLskTgQB/?igsh=ZGIxYWg0Nnp6YWc2

#WeirdWordWednesday

@CBee

Deblovestoread Shout out to Edith Childs who was the woman who started it! 2d
TheBookHippie My grandson 11 asked me what to yell so people would yell back - So he hollered at the top of his voice “ TELL ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE” in a crowd of 3000 plus people the 200 closest to us replied “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE.” A lady who was 92 in a wheelchair later stopped us to say she now had hope, because it was a child‘s voice and adults answered him. Yes I cried. I was a puddle. 2d
Deblovestoread @TheBookHippie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 2d
See All 10 Comments
BookmarkTavern Oh this is a good word! I‘m saving it immediately. 💖💖💖 2d
Graciouswarriorprincess I saw this and screenshot it. 2d
AmyG So many of us feel this. 2d
CBee I feel this so much. And I remember that part in his book about Edith! Fire it up! Ready to go 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1d
CBee @TheBookHippie that is AWESOME 1d
dabbe @TheBookHippie 🩵💙🩵 I'm not crying, you're crying! 1d
dabbe What a W🤩WZA word: one that is much needed. 🩵💙🩵 1d
46 likes10 comments
quote
TheSpineView
post image

#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

Anencephalous: Absence of a brain.

My brain is often absent! 🤣🤣🤣

lil1inblue This is so appropriate today. I feel like I left my brain at home today. 2d
46 likes2 comments
blurb
peanutnine
post image

I came across this one today. It comes from 'elegy'. Another definition calls it wistfully mournful, which I liked
The book I read it in was describing a poem in which "she sees the woman she‘s in love with sitting next to a man, and admires his composure. Because she knows if she were the one sitting next to the woman, she would be at a loss for words."
I've been reading a lot more poetry this month so I appreciate this new word

peanutnine I believe the poem described was Catullus 51 for anyone interested https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Catullus.php#... 1w
CBee Lovely 🥰 1w
wanderinglynn What a great word! 1w
33 likes4 comments
blurb
dabbe
post image

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
@CBee
#allusion
#onceinabluemoon

I may have to have this beer tonight! 🤣

Aims42 Don‘t forget the orange 🍊🍻 1w
dabbe @Aims42 Most definitely! 🧡🍊🧡 1w
CBee Love this!!! 1w
dabbe @CBee I'm having too much fun with these! 1w
43 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
CBee
post image

Stumbled upon this word in my last read - The Devil and Mrs. Davenport (great book). I didn‘t know there was a specific word for speaking in tongues, but I mean, apparently there is a word for everything 😂🙌🏻 #weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday

Deblovestoread Oooo, I like that word! Thanks for the tag! 1w
CatLass007 I think I‘ve heard this one before. Maybe on an episode of House? Still, great to have all the extra info. 1w
dabbe Such a pretty word when said out loud! 🩵💚💙 1w
See All 8 Comments
BookmarkTavern Oh wow! I hadn‘t heard of this before! 1w
peanutnine Oh I like the sound of this one! 1w
TheSpineView Oh yes! 1w
CBee @CatLass007 House! Love that show. 1w
Amiable What a neat word! 1w
54 likes8 comments
quote
TheSpineView
post image

#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee

Who knew!?! 😆🗡

CBee I had no idea! 1w
Cupcake12 I like the sound of this word 1w
53 likes4 comments
blurb
Leftcoastzen
Waterstone's guide to books | Waterstone & Company
post image

From April 4th edition of Shelf Awareness. 😡

TheBookHippie Yup😵‍💫 2w
AnnCrystal 🥺 while I support local for eco reasons, I know that this all is going to be very difficult...and frustrating... (edited) 2w
LeahBergen I saw that Blackwells had the same sort of problem with US shipping, too. 😞 2w
47 likes3 comments