Wordie: Jejune: Comments

Comment by jorge999, 4 months ago

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:49:04 -0800

April, cruel as ever, left us sick and out of tune,
grown too old together, we sat among our runes,
and listless May came afterward, followed by jejune
--jorge999

Comment by madmouth, 9 months ago

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:42:30 -0700

gonna have to stop chewing on the maps, yaar

Comment by bilby, 9 months ago

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:20:35 -0700

How did a bit of Korea get in my gastrointestinal tract?

Comment by emil, 9 months ago

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:07:30 -0700

I always think about the jejunum when jejune comes up. It's the part of the small intestine sandwiched between the duodenum and ileum. It's probably the least interesting part of the gastrointestinal tract, as nothing really significant happens - which is how I would use the word, to mean uninteresting and insignificant.

Comment by eliseivy, 12 months ago

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:20:12 -0700

i will say one thing. there are some words that are still backed with their original meaning when used by certain people. this may not be the context expected but that is exactly why it works.

NICK CAVE
jejune as used in a recent song "i call upon the author to explain". and he just tosses that stuff off like its nothing. like "malanderer". all intellectuals be damned. he rules the english language.

Comment by dontcry, almost 2 years ago

Thu, 29 May 2008 11:29:06 -0700

Buck Mulligan's gay voice went on...Will he come? The jejune jesuit.
--Ulysses,by James Joyce pg.4 (1922 edition)

Comment by d4divine, almost 2 years ago

Thu, 29 May 2008 08:47:07 -0700

this word is an expression of disapproval when you want to criticise someone for being simple and unsophisticated...in other WORDS dull and boring

Comment by reesetee, almost 2 years ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:58:04 -0700

That could be it. But I don't remember for sure.

Comment by bilby, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:35:58 -0700

Isn't it the month before Jejulie in the French calendar?

Comment by bilby, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:23:49 -0700

Uhh...

Comment by chained_bear, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:26:57 -0700

I dislike feeling BLASE. It's not a hate so much as... well, I'm apathetic about it. Almost like... blasé. ;)

Comment by reesetee, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:03:38 -0700

Wajo, I think Prolagus is joking with bilby. :-)

Bilby, did you ever figure out what jejune means? I can never remember.

Comment by wajo22, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:13:59 -0700

something that is jejune is dull, uninteresting, unsatisfying, devoid of nourishment, substance, and significance. A Jejune speech will definitely leave you BLASE

Comment by prolagus, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:53:17 -0700

What does jejune mean, bilby?

Comment by chained_bear, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:54:28 -0700

Yeah, they seem much the same thing to me.

Comment by wajo22, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:43:56 -0700

The meaning of Jejune, a young and naive person, is now obsolete. The current meaning is Vapid ( lacking juices)

Comment by chained_bear, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:15:01 -0700

Aw, man, my comment disappeared. Isn't there some similarity between this term and the French word for spring, or something? That's the only way I remember that it can mean a young, naive person. The problem I have with this word is always thinking it's spelled wrong; I always want to spell it jejeune.

Comment by bilby, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:52:06 -0700

It's almost time to look up jejune again.

Comment by prolagus, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:44:24 -0700

The latter two weirdnet definitions could also be seen as a comment.

Comment by pterodactyl, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:10:27 -0700

I suffer from the same problem, pbilby. I think my brain is stuffed so full of esoteric words that whenever I try to relearn "jejune", the definition utterly fails to stick in my mind.

Is there a word for this phenomenon?

Comment by bilby, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:46:46 -0700

I might list jejune if I knew what it meant.

Comment by bilby, almost 2 years ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:45:26 -0700

As of 5.13pm today I have accepted that I will never remember the meaning of this word. I look it up, it's ho-hum, the word kind of sounds okay, bang, it's gone in thirty seconds. Again and again I've done this. As much as my singing is witheringly tuneless, my life is jejuneless.

Comment by plumpesdenken, over 2 years ago

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:06:15 -0800

Bew pays close attention to the preoccupation of many Victorian intellectuals with Ireland, and deals with the ideas of Mill and others without falling into the jejeune generalisations of post-colonial critique. Foster

Comment by yarb, over 2 years ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:47:05 -0800

I can't stomach this word. There's something grossly dinner-party about it. I can't bear hearing it. It sounds like an unusually vomitous dessert.

Comment by brtom, about 3 years ago

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:16:34 -0800

... Petulance (and its child by Desuetude, Disgust) up against the moronic Starry-Eyed, jejune Rabble-Rouse spitting at the feet of Big Dictum ...
John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti

This is a good example of the amazingly worded wilderness through which Mr. Latta cuts his path ... I think of the jungles of Henri Rousseau ...