Word Nerd Confessions: January
Ah, January. Mixed feelings about this calendar month. While I embrace turning the corner into a new year with all that freshness and anticipation that goes with flipping to a new date, I do not embrace how January in our parts is the “definitely winter is here” month. For instance:
Overnight storm compilation. More to come *sigh*
A bit of the doldrums occur in January, what with the cold weather, shorter days, lack of landscape color, and growing stack of assignments to grade as the semester’s close approaches.
SO–
This month’s collection of words calls for amusing, or downright quirky lexicon.
1. pawky: cunning, sly
2. pettifog: to bicker or quibble over insignificant matters
3. jactation: boasting; bragging
4. fecund: creative intellectually
5. appellative: a descriptive name as Reepicheep the Valiant
6. orgulous: haughty; proud
7. remora: hindrance or obstacle
8. fulgrant: flashing like lightning
9. omphaloskepsis: contemplating one’s navel
10. daffing: merriment; playful behavior
Hmm, during the remainder of January I shall endeavor to be pawky in how to approach my doldrums in order to avoid fulgrant irritability that leads to pettifog since an abundance of snow is a remora to becoming fecund.Perhaps I shall become so stoic and earn an appellative name: Cricket the Winter Muse, then again that might entail jactation leading to an orgulous reputation. On the other hand excess winter could cause my resolve to slip into dithering and omphaloskepsis.
I think my favorite, here, is orgulous. I plan to use it this evening, and see what my family’s response is, LOL. Thanks for these. I love them!
How could I have managed so far without pawky or daffing?
I never realised that to contemplate one’s navel is to literally contemplate one’s navel. But omphaloskepsis proves this to be the case.
There are words for everything of relevance. There is probably a word for the lint that is in one’s navel.
I’ve seen fecund used but in the more literal way of being physically fertile.
That’s what I find interesting about exploring words—their perceived meaning and actual meaning and which one is in more common use.
Fun list! Fecund sounds like the opposite of what it actually means.
Sounds like a ripened cheese. But I can see your point of view. It is sounding of not wielding productivity.
Christmas is over. I’m ready for spring.
Are you sure you didn’t just make these up, you pawky thing?
Oh, if only I were that creative!
I’m happy to be familiar with some of these words. Pawky could be a fun one when in the mood for some hilarious misunderstandings type of amusement.
Pawky seems to be the fave. It has a lot going for it.