Defined as: A container that holds the same as six bottles of wine. She was so thirsty she downed a whole jeroboam in one night. “Of water!” Pshaw. Hey, I thought Jeroboam was someone’s name? Word brought to you by Phrontistery.
Tag Archive: Word of the Week
Word of the Week: Jacent
Defined as: Sluggish or to lie flat After eating way too many no-bake chocolate peanut-butter cookies I was jacent on the floor. Jacent but of so happy. Word brought to you by Phrontistery.
Word of the Week: Jumart
Defined as: A cow and donkey’s mythical offspring. Jumart! “No, it’s HMart.” What? Human, if anyone was a jumart it would be you. I think I’ll try to tip you in your sleep. “Don’t be a donkey, Eliza Leigh.” Word brought to you by Phrontistery.
Word of the Week: Jabberwock
Defined as: Gibberish or nonsense I heard the sounds she was making but it was pure jabberwock to me. “Why am I not surprised? I was telling you to stay away from my candy.” See…jabberwock. Wait! Does this mean the Jabberwocky is a fictional work? “Oiy.” Word brought to you by Phrontistery.
Word of the Week: Elderly Primigravida
Pimigravida a commonly-used medical term means pregnant for the first time but elderly primigravida has become dated. "Which part has become dated? Because it is elderly?" Leave the jokes to me Human. They considered a woman over 35 as elderly. Tick-tock, HT. Ha-ha-ha!
Word of the Week: Flavedo
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Word of the Week: Quibbleism
Considered a lost word, quibbleism is just another excellent example of my humanoids behavior. According to a lovely new site we stumbled across, The Phrontisrey, it seems the term quibbleism was used in 1836. This one shouldn’t be too difficult to deduce since the root is quibble. The practice of quibbling. ”Not to sound like…
Word of the Week: Bablatrice
Bablatrice It has been some time since my human has posted a Word of the Week. Have you missed them too. The interesting thing is she is what you might call a bablatrice. Just what is a bablatrice you may be wondering. Well it isn’t a technical term for a part of a castle, that…
Word of the Week: Bog-Standard
A phrase to qualify something as average, mediocre. Used in a sentence: You’re cooking is bog-standard Human. “Hmm, then try these chocolate-covered ants instead. Devine.” Photo Credit: Peupleloup on Flickr
Quote of the Week: Michael Jackson
Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it – my music, I know I will live forever. ~Michael Jackson You type in the deceased stars name and you’ll find articles, blogs, sites and products galore. On Zazzle’s US site there are at time of posting this…
