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Muddleheaded Wombat
Childhood reading nostalgia, beginning with some choice examples from Ruth Park's classic The Muddleheaded Wombat.
miserabubble, animoil, soporific, possum magic, curiouser, snugglepot, cuddlepie, banksia men, gumnut babies, bottersnikes, magic pudding, gumbles and 31 more...
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Words I Love But Don't Use Enough
Thanks to all you Wordies out there flinging new words at my head. This one's for you.
phascolomian, flammulated, pelagic, avuncular, spondulicks, frippery, wyvern, stramash, cack-handed, bellicosity, infrared reflecto..., contumeliously and 106 more...
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Talk like frindley
Suggestions of frindley idioms that have caught your eye but which aren't yet listed, perhaps because I'm blind to their frindley-ness, are welcome.
i'd feel like a r..., yikes, crikey, i am affronted, way too much, grr, pompous old git, whiz-bang super-d..., especially devast..., evensnog, schopfling, nibling and 36 more...
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bilby My mother still calls me Appley Dappley sometimes *blushes* Oct 2, 2008
frindley And The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, with the mackintosh that doesn't taste so good… Oct 2, 2008
reesetee Not to worry, c_b. You're not really old (though you may still be sad). Not while you can still toss fancy words around on Wordie, you Wordslinger you. :-) Oct 1, 2008
dontcry Squirrel Nutkin is a hoot! What a scamp! Oct 1, 2008
chained_bear Really, yarb?
I'm fond of the Tailor of Gloucester and ... what was that other one I liked... Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle?
Ah, who'm I trying to kid. I don't remember, it was 100 years ago my spawn was that age. *feels sad and old* Oct 1, 2008
yarb Ha ha - I read this to my daughter (three or four times) just the other day. So far it's the only one of the Beatrix Potter tales that I haven't completely loathed. Oct 1, 2008
Prolagus Lovely. Oct 1, 2008
frindley Then Tabitha Twitchit came down the garden and found her kittens on the wall with no clothes on. She pulled them off the wall, smacked them, and took them back to the house.
"My friends will arrive in a minute, and you are not fit to be seen; I am affronted," said Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit.
She sent them upstairs; and I am sorry to say she told her friends that they were in bed with the measles; which was not true.
(The Tale of Tom Kitten, by Beatrix Potter) Oct 1, 2008