Saturday, September 15, 2007

And the answers are:

1. furphy - a false report or improbable story; a rumour (Australian)
example: unpleasant people post furphies all over the Internet.
2. piligerous - covered in hair or down
example: Vincent D'Onofrio's chest is slightly piligerous.
3. swikedom - treachery; betrayal; deceit
example: we thought NBC was going to commit an act of swikedom by cancelling LOCI.
4. maritodespotism - the domination of a wife by her husband through the use of fear or force
(Good guess, SnarkAngel).
5. ventoseness - the condition of flatulence, or a tendency to flatulence
example: I am tired of the ventoseness of troll posts.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:13 pm

    I've learned lots of wonderful new words from this and heartily concur with the last one. Thank you Val.
    Look, you've gone 'German' at the bottom of the comments box too! I'm just glad it's universal - so has Eliza.

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  2. Thank you for the definitions,I'll have to try and drop thwem into conversation sometime in an effort to look intelligent ;-)

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  3. maybe even drop "Them" into converstation...do you have a definition for thwem?? I blame the new keyboard

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