[tzigane (sih-GUN, sih-GAHN): A Gypsy, especially a Hungarian one]
The seers, they tell her, but from this she has run,
That she has the gift, might've been a Tzigane,
And she limits her knowing
To when folks'll be showing
Up out in her driveway or phoning again.
She was frightened as a child of spooks, you can bet,
After viewing the movie, The Song of Bernadette.
No visions would she see:
She blocked them, even Mary!
A sound life of normalcy she's lived so far yet.
From Big Foot she hid in the hot nights of summer
And sweltered from the heat that gathered under covers.
She cloaked her nightly trips
When she feared apocalypse.
Nothing could nab her while her prayers she did murmur.
Jean Dixon predicted the end of the world!
When learning what it meant, her fears began to swirl:
"I won't go! I'm just six!
I'll hide! This I'll fix!
They won't find me in my bed if I burrow!"
(Credit: Grandiloquent Word of the Day for tzigane and its definition)
Friday, April 5, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Downtown Abbey in Limerick
How sharp are the barbs of Lady Violet--
Yet often make the whole fam'ly smile a bit,
With her ignorance abounding
When old times are a-floundering:
The weekend's still giving her fits.
Thank Heavens Lady Isobel's provincial,
Or Downton Abbey'd never been an hospital--
But only for the officers,
Yet she still has on offer
Her grace to some girls prostitutional.
Lady Edith so longs to be loved.
For years, Mary's beaux she's begrudged.
Her amour will not fester,
But a wife like Rochester's
Prohibits her fitting like a glove.
Lady Violet is shocked that they're leaving
Propriety on the floors just like heathens
With cheese and some fruit
When dinner goes kaput.
Cora's mum saves the day with cold chicken.
Mr. Bates has a past with a clank
But guards villains no matter how rank--
'Cept for devils in the jail
Who'd stow 'im beyond the pale
And from Anna whose love is quite frank.
Might Carson his feelings allay--
The butler ask Mrs. Hughes to display
A wedding wish for him
Or take it on the chin
And survey the 'remains of the day'?
We fear Cousin Rose will be erring
Due to Mummy's alerts in forbearing.
Mum Susan's sour face
Expects her disgrace,
But with Matthew, she's just a rosie herring.
It is hinted that tragedy does loom.
Gaelis' hunting does threaten with doom.
Might Anna and Mr. Bates
On their picnic by the lake
Be took as stags as a rifle goes boom?
Lord Grantham ranks un-utilitarian
On matters of Downton agrarian,
But it all becomes clear
As Lord Matt grants an heir,
But dear Crawley slips into thin air again.
Lord Fellowes breaks the hearts of the ladies
Who swoon at the dynasty's tragedies.
His resolution sends them staggering
As if Shakespeare's been daggering--
As Matt and Mary make a wrap of their duties.
Downton's future's in the arms of a babe.
With male issue, Lady Mary has saved
Father's years from living anxious
If with Matthew's sense of business,
The lad can bring it back from the grave.
(Many thanks to creator Sir Julian Fellowes and PBS)
Yet often make the whole fam'ly smile a bit,
With her ignorance abounding
When old times are a-floundering:
The weekend's still giving her fits.
Thank Heavens Lady Isobel's provincial,
Or Downton Abbey'd never been an hospital--
But only for the officers,
Yet she still has on offer
Her grace to some girls prostitutional.
Lady Edith so longs to be loved.
For years, Mary's beaux she's begrudged.
Her amour will not fester,
But a wife like Rochester's
Prohibits her fitting like a glove.
Lady Violet is shocked that they're leaving
Propriety on the floors just like heathens
With cheese and some fruit
When dinner goes kaput.
Cora's mum saves the day with cold chicken.
Mr. Bates has a past with a clank
But guards villains no matter how rank--
'Cept for devils in the jail
Who'd stow 'im beyond the pale
And from Anna whose love is quite frank.
Might Carson his feelings allay--
The butler ask Mrs. Hughes to display
A wedding wish for him
Or take it on the chin
And survey the 'remains of the day'?
We fear Cousin Rose will be erring
Due to Mummy's alerts in forbearing.
Mum Susan's sour face
Expects her disgrace,
But with Matthew, she's just a rosie herring.
It is hinted that tragedy does loom.
Gaelis' hunting does threaten with doom.
Might Anna and Mr. Bates
On their picnic by the lake
Be took as stags as a rifle goes boom?
Lord Grantham ranks un-utilitarian
On matters of Downton agrarian,
But it all becomes clear
As Lord Matt grants an heir,
But dear Crawley slips into thin air again.
Lord Fellowes breaks the hearts of the ladies
Who swoon at the dynasty's tragedies.
His resolution sends them staggering
As if Shakespeare's been daggering--
As Matt and Mary make a wrap of their duties.
Downton's future's in the arms of a babe.
With male issue, Lady Mary has saved
Father's years from living anxious
If with Matthew's sense of business,
The lad can bring it back from the grave.
(Many thanks to creator Sir Julian Fellowes and PBS)
The Bucket Limericks: My Life as Our Hyacinth
She ne'er makes out Richard's phrases
As does he when her treble she raises.
Whilst to his duties without delay,
She yet corners him on his way:
"I hear your voice but not clearly its praises."
On Easter she donned vibrant threads,
Asking Richard to repeat what he said,
And much to his detriment,
He did try to compliment:
"Ah...well...you look like an egg."
Her house-pride did gleam--O, it shone,
But her hoarding did make Richard moan,
"I can't park in the garage!"
She cried, "Don't disparage!
Sheridan will need his toys for his own!"
Whilst looking for a card for Richard's list,
Scolding, "Why do you hide things like this?"
She rummaged and decried,
"Oh, do not blame your eyes!
You've e'en hid your specs not to read it!"
The morn, it did challenge Mrs. Boo-kay
Whilst planning correspondence for the day.
Accoutrements she couldn't spy in
'Er Edwardian desk that's nearby in
The master bedroom for her creditors to pay.
She traversed to the office where Richard
Hoards her station'ry, stamps--and was bewildered
To detect (oh horrors) a Bic
In the kitchen where her shtick
Of candle-light suppers are rendered.
Gathering cheques she found she wasn't able
'Til she glimpsed them in a heap on the table
In the formal dining room:
"Oh, Richard, how could you
Mar this surface with a finish like sable?"
Our Hyacinth was plagued by disorderliness:
With her morning right slowed by the mess
But kept trippingly singing
'Til the neighbors' ears were ringing
And the postman crept up with surreptitiousness.
(Many thanks to BBC's KEEPING UP APPEARANCES and PBS for airing it)
As does he when her treble she raises.
Whilst to his duties without delay,
She yet corners him on his way:
"I hear your voice but not clearly its praises."
On Easter she donned vibrant threads,
Asking Richard to repeat what he said,
And much to his detriment,
He did try to compliment:
"Ah...well...you look like an egg."
Her house-pride did gleam--O, it shone,
But her hoarding did make Richard moan,
"I can't park in the garage!"
She cried, "Don't disparage!
Sheridan will need his toys for his own!"
Whilst looking for a card for Richard's list,
Scolding, "Why do you hide things like this?"
She rummaged and decried,
"Oh, do not blame your eyes!
You've e'en hid your specs not to read it!"
The morn, it did challenge Mrs. Boo-kay
Whilst planning correspondence for the day.
Accoutrements she couldn't spy in
'Er Edwardian desk that's nearby in
The master bedroom for her creditors to pay.
She traversed to the office where Richard
Hoards her station'ry, stamps--and was bewildered
To detect (oh horrors) a Bic
In the kitchen where her shtick
Of candle-light suppers are rendered.
Gathering cheques she found she wasn't able
'Til she glimpsed them in a heap on the table
In the formal dining room:
"Oh, Richard, how could you
Mar this surface with a finish like sable?"
Our Hyacinth was plagued by disorderliness:
With her morning right slowed by the mess
But kept trippingly singing
'Til the neighbors' ears were ringing
And the postman crept up with surreptitiousness.
(Many thanks to BBC's KEEPING UP APPEARANCES and PBS for airing it)
Limericks for the Verbose
(soigne or soignee: polished and well-groomed; showing sopistication, elegance, and class)
With soigne at optimal poise
He displays his soirees with great noise.
Tho' to win 'er heart again he tries,
To stall calamity, she cries,
"Rich girls don't marry poor boys."
With soigne, the saloon man does tend
Yet drinks gin again when he sees her walk in,
But ere she can embarrass,
"We'll always have Paris,"
He soothes, sending her into the wind.
When assuming 'er love is a sham,
Through the fog he starts out on the lam,
Speaking his heart, feeling ghastly,
With soigne besting Ashley's:
"My dear, I don't give a damn."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(interrobang: a nonstandard punctuation mark combining the question mark and the exclamation point, known in printers' and programmers' jargon as the "bang")
When questioning the suspect of interest,
Their interrogation did render a test.
"Was it you?" their voices rang,
Ending with interrobang,
But Miranda put their queries to a rest.
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Though the evolution of the language is delightful,
I question with a bang this "insightful"
New punctuation mark:
This interrobang seems quit the lark
For those claiming they are original.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(nyctophilia: love of darkness or night; finding comfort or relaxation in the darkness)
Willie twangs, "Turn out the lights. The party's over,"
Except for the nyctophiliac who becomes the rover
Of dark trails and deep niches
Of introverts' bright riches
That, in contrast, the shadows uncover.
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(ubiety: the property of having a definite location at any give time; state of existing and being localized in space)
When considering my place in society,
I often have a confusion of ubiety:
In Dallas, dressed for North Park,
In Taos on a frontier lark,
Or in Austin, tossing away all propriety?
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(vivisepulture: The act or practice of burying someone alive)
You employ an odd horticulture
If you practice the art of vivisepulture.
Though your goals might be hazy,
There'll be pushing up of daisies--
Or at least a wide circling of vultures.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(dumbledore: any of several winged, hairy-bodied, usually stinging insects of the super family Apoidea in the order Hymenoptera, including both solitary and social species and characterized by sucking and chewing mouth parts for gathering nectar and pollen)
We couldn't have life without dumbledores
Who embrace the sweetest job in the world.
With the agents of living,
The plants are forgiving
As they're relieved of their nectars by the hordes.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(ninnyhammer: a foolish person)
What is't that thou sayest, ninnyhammer?
Why dost thou now on and on yammer?
Thy words be oblique--
Thine discourse at its peak...
Er...mine grammar have begun yet to stammer!
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(hippomania: a passion for horses; mood episodes associated with bipolar disorder
There once was a girl with hippomania
Whose mane barely covered her a-- er, uh,
But she reined in her raving,
Or else she'd be craving
To streak all the way to Transylvania.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(tea voider: a chamber pot, a bowl kept in a bedroom and used as a toilet, especially at night)
By his bed Nanny set a tea voider
So spoilt had become the brick and mortar
Of his chanber in the night
When he wasn't quite polite.
Now much easier is her task to recconoiter.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(soda-jerk: A person who serves soft drinks and ice cream at a soda fountain)
There once was a Dodge City soda-jerk,
Whose duties he'd dare never shirk,
Else the cowboys in the drugstore
With pellets'd make him dance more
If he left off their sprinkles as a perk.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(hoddypeak: Someone who embraces the glorious asbsence of sophistication; a yokel
A hoddypeak, unsophisticate, a yokel
Is what I'd become, staying local,
But such beauties I'd spy
If I saw just the sky
And the trees from the peace of my hovel.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(accubitus: The act of sharing a bed without engaging in coitus, sleeping together platonically)
A line of demarcation with a crayon was drawn
For a night of accubitus wearing lengthily on.
She warned him, "Don't be foolish.
You know what the rule is:
'No spooning nor touching my chignon!'"
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(tyromancy: divination by observation of cheese)
Napoleon must've dabbled in tyromancy,
Envisioning himself as a king living fancy.
The aroma inside his jacket
Meant he squeezed Roquefort for his racket
Of divination, so his reign'd not be chancey.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(wonder-wench: a sweetheart (used to describe females only)
Quite under the spell of his wonder-wench,
He couldn't tell which way was which.
"Just ask for directions
When you're lost in a section,"
Nagged the lass with git-a-long in her hitch.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(book-wright: a writer of books; an author)
There once was a scribbler who practiced
As a book-wright regarding friends' antics,
So her characters were familiar,
From her hometown--quite similar:
They de-friended her 'cause of her tactics.
Incisive were the words of her diction.
Her sytax created small-town friction,
But her stories were true--
Her memory, well-cued.
You know truth is stranger than fiction!
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(beef-witted: "Having an inactive brain, thought to be from eating too much beef." --John Phin's "Shakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossary," 1902
"The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!" ~Troilus and Cressida, Act II, William Shakespeare)
The Beefeater's brain ran to mush.
He devoured his meat like a lush.
After getting lost in Turkey
Where did linger and lurk he,
Spat, "I'll have it with the babaganoush!"
He washed out his mouth with his gin,
So his beef-witted brain could begin
To 'member whence he'd come
Since he'd been on the run.
Oh, how that cow'll do you in.
(Credit: Word, definition, and references from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(oinomancy or oenmancy: a form of divination involving observation of the colors and other features of wine)
The chemist who dabbled in oenamancy
Lacked a ring for his lady's romancing;
He tried a bit of alchemy
With some wine and his chemistry;
His bank account's just a bity chancey.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(jaculable: Something that is designed to be or is otherwise suitable for throwing or tossing, such as a grenade, egg, river rock, etc.)
The Church Lady did wink at Jim;
When turned he quite jaculable on a whim;
He would chuck stones and eggs
'Tween her stockinged legs:
"My... What an arm you've for throwing."
Many thanks to Saturday Night Live's character, Church Lady!
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(snurl: to disdainfully turn up one's nose in scorn)
She snurls up her nose at the lass
With a short skirt and takes her to task:
Church Lady tuts, "I see
Much more than your knees.
My! Aren't you the little hot morass?"
Many thanks to Saturday Night Live's character, Church Lady!
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(photog: photographer)
Sometimes we photogs must mind our manners when shooting. I once clicked on a face in D.C. The image I got pretty much said, "Don't tread on me."
There was an ol' planter with arms--
Spied a photog who loved the land's charms.
"A voyeur I see?
A lurker you be!"
He blasted and scared 'im off the farm!
But the photog is "wascally," you see.
A laid gauntlet is a carrot to be
Chased and then chomped.
He taunts, "Hey, what's up, Doc?"
(Tune in for what's to be on TV!)
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Blessings on the girl who was cow-tongued:
In her mouth, you're both peaches and cow dung.
Did she make that one pout--
Or give a glad shout?
Yes, a right blessing out would hurt 'er none.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(On March 21, the clue for 37-down of the New York Times crossword puzzle was "Limerick scheme"!)
The English major knew she was a nerd
When all she wished to cross with were words.
The Times puzzle on Thursday
Clued 'a-a-b-b' and then 'a.'
Her scheme for her studies penciled forward.
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(voluptuary: noun, a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure; a sensualist or satyr; 2) adj., concerned with luxury and sensual pleasure)
Mae West was a fluent voluptuary.
With quips and her discourse made luminary,
She plied banter and come-hithers,
Receiving chaps in a dither
As she welcomed, supplementing their dictionaries.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(insouciance: lack of concern or care; indifference)
So offensive was her haughty insouciance,
We could always see through her translucence.
With little give or take,
She'd let us eat cake,
But baking proved to be such a nuisance.
(Credit: Word and definition from Dictionary.com's Word of the Day)
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(moth of peace: an idler; one who consumes but does not work; someone who mooches or cadges, a freeloader; a clock watcher, a couch potato, a deadbeat, a laggard, a lay-about, a malingerer, a sponger)
The tired moth of peace wasn't shy
When wolfing down chow to get by.
Ever mooching to sup,
He must've grown up
With the mother of pieces of pie.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(parsimony: extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources; miserliness or stinginess)
His parsimony grew from wanting more
And keeping all that he'd earned saved in store,
But spending all his money
Desired his greedier honey,
So his coffers did erupt like Krakatoa.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(argosy: a large abundantly laden merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships; an opulent supply)
An argosy laden with riches
Stowed baubles in all of her niches.
She was greedy and weighty
With no room for mateys:
She begat only oceanic trenches.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(figurehead: a carved full-length figure or bust built into the bow of a sailing ship)
Poseidon did envy the bling
On the figurehead's ears which did ring
From his Sirens on the rocks,
So he claimed back his stocks.
She ought've waived him the fees for their fling.
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(gouache: opaque watercolor)
I detect subtle notes in your goulash
Of weeks of left-overs and good nosh.
There's garlic and spam,
Rancid leeks and ruined lamb:
It's not as opaque as a gouache.
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(floccinaucininhilipilification: the action or habit of estimating something as worthless)
The floccinaucinihilipilifaction
Of her funds for the tax man and nation:
There is nothing to anoint,
So she asked, "What's the point?
How redundant is this estimation!"
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(daedalist: an aviator or pilot; an aeronaut, someone who flies
To flee was the plot of the daedalist
As he puzzled the air with his genius.
He didn't fancy a swim
As a thrill reached the brim
Of the spirit of the boy he'd named Icarus.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(shooler: one who intrudes upon his neighbor and forces an invitation to dinner, etc.)
The vicar, he was no mere shooler,
Since the ladies competed for this drooler
Of their meats and their tarts;
He'd finish and then start
Down the road for some more to grow fuller.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(eroteme: a question mark)
The lass with an eroteme on her forehead
Sought evenings erotic on her daybed:
"Wilst thou come with me?"
But the mark looked to be
An 'L'--for her splendor was misread.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gravid: pregnant)
(elderly primigravida: a woman who is first pregnant at the age of 30)
The doctor did point at her girth:
"Until now you've ne'er given birth:
A primigravida who's elderly--
To be sure, you're just thirty--
Dear, dear, now I'm spoiling your mirth."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(mounch-present: a knave who will take a taste of his master's food, eating the best parts himself and leaving behind the least desirable bits)
The king did amend the description
Of Mounch-Present who pinched from his luncheon,
For rivals were about
Who did want the king out!
Hence, the knave fared as Muncher-of-Poison.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(fantods: a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness, the willies, the fidgets; a sudden outpouring of anger, outrage, or a similar intense emotion)
The decibels of the TV gave her fantods--
Revved up like a deuce with applauds.
In the middle of the night,
The remote she will hide
And sit shotgun on the couch, riding roughshod.
(many thanks to Manfred Mann)
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(pregnant scholar: someone who is in the habit of becoming inebriated around brunchtime)
The mockery of the old pregnant scholar
Was wasted: E'en though in his squalor,
His tippling with vermouth
Did bespeak of the truth
Ever more than the sober can holler.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(paranymph: a person who speaks on the behalf of another person in matters of love; a groomsman or bridesmaid)
Our paranymph's almost paranormal
With his ken of news casual and formal.
If you're too shy to propose,
He'll pimp with a rose,
But, alas, he mistakes all the locals.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(anglewitch: an archaic word for fishing bait, especially worms)
The little brat's hook dangled rich
With gobbets of rank anglewitch
He did plop on the hair
Of his sis who then fared
On a lunch just-the-thing for the 'witch.'
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(satyriasis: uncontrollable or exessive sexual desire in or behavior by a man; the male equivalent of nymphomania)
The old codger'd been plagued by satyriasis.
He was even kicked out of his diocese.
His present years are bleak--
No match for his peak--
Ever since he contracted psoriasis.
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Bacchus thrived in a pandemic of satyriasis.
His depravity caused chaos and crisis.
Discreetness was not in 'im.
His pants, he couldn't zip 'em
'Til he heard a little titter from Isis.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(speculum: a mirror; a looking glass)
If I were to stroll through the speculum,
I would multiply rearward in the interim.
'Tween the layers of silver
And glass, I would shiver
To find myself follow me out again.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(fanfaronade: a bragging or blustering manner or behavior)
So loud was his pompous fararonade,
Setting ladies to titter in the shade.
One brave little soul
Confronted his grand role:
"I wonder what you put in your Kool-aid."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gynecoid: of or like a woman)
The doc told Virginia who couldn't void:
"Your problem's just shy of gynecoid."
She replied with a purr,
"Alas, my dear sir,
A lady never suffers a hemorrhoid."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(macrotus: having large ears)
Said the lad with the bearing macrotus
About his mum's motto monotonous:
"If again I do hear
'Little pitchers have big ears,'
I'll pour out the secrets that begot us!"
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(tiffin: any light meal, especially lunch; a snack, luncheon)
Lady Violet is shocked that they'd tiffin
On the floors of Downton Abbey like heathens.
With cheese and some fruit
When dinner goes kaput,
Cora's mum saves the feast with cold chicken.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(hebetic: pertaining to or occurring in puberty)
On the day that he woke up hebetic,
You'd think he'd been plugged in electric.
Nature'd worked him quite fine;
Tad was thrilled so to find
That his whiskers weren't sealed by hermetics.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(accubation: the act or posture of reclining on a couch)
The maid, she burnt daylight in accubation,
But she had an excuse 'gainst condemnation
From her peers who did strive
To keep betters alive;
She kept her broke foot in its station.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(honeyfuggle: to ingratiate one's self so as to cheat or deceive)
(lothario: a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women)
The lothario made fast to honeyfuggle,
For the night long he hankered to snuggle
With a lady of fortune
Who'd no sense for sortin'
The suitors whom she had to juggle.
(Credit: Word, 'honeyfuggle,' and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(minikin: archaic word for a very small delicate creature)
There once was a spritely old minikin,
Who was monikered as 'Little Dame Harridan.'
Pearls dripped from her tongue,
Buttering up even dung,
So the Queen then re-dubbed her 'Dame Saccharine.'
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(vexillology: the study of flags)
Memorizing the flags and their nations
With dates and such unfurls vexation.
With maps changing yearly
Vexillology's not clearly
A breeze--but a task Herculean.
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Henry Higgins' keen flair with phonology
Is incredibly like vexillology.
He can name a man's nation
From sheer pronunciation
As if a flag has revealed his biology.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(Terpsichore: the Muse of dancing and choral song; choreography; the art of dancing)
The chorus girl failed at her cue.
As chanteuse, she was no ingenue.
To not be or be?
Ne'er blessed by Terpsichore:
The theatre was not her milieu.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(lavacultophilia: the urge to stare at someone in a bathing suit)
Bothered by lavacultophilia,
The surfer was cheeky with Delia.
His affliction didn't suit,
For she stomped on his foot:
He'll hang five for his ogling mania.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(obnubilate: to cloud over; becloud; obscure)
The fete he succeeded to obnubilate
As he started to weep and to ruminate.
The bash for his proposal
Did turn at her disposal.
From his dumping he just couldn't levitate.
(Credit: Word and definition from Dictionary.com's Word of the Day)
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(verbiage: overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; verbosity)
An actress there was who spat verbiage.
Eager speaking would cause her such slurpage.
Consternation grew great
When she couldn't satiate
Her wish to keep up with Dick Burbage.
(Richard Burbage was an English actor and associate of Shakespeare. James Burbage, his father, was also an actor and theatre manager who established the first theatre in England.)
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(imberb: being clean-shaven; beardless)
The boyish young cad was imberb,
And, therefore, he felt quite perturbed,
Yet young charms he still had;
He could make his mates glad
When the Star-Spangled Banner he'd burp.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(somniloquy: the act of talking or singing while asleep)
No Hamlet's soliloquy she'd weep.
Somniloquy'd make more of a sweep
Of his heart the next day;
So her fervence held sway
And sang a Valentine's gram in her sleep.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; agressively boisterous, loud or obnoxious)
(porcine: of, affecting, or resembling a pig or pigs)
(ovine: pertaining to, of the nature of, or like sheep)
Obstreperous were the ovine of Orwell.
They clamoured so the animals couldn't think well.
They baahed and they bleated
When Napoleon got heated,
So Snowball's intentions wouldn't gel well.
The ovine of Orwell were duped--
And the horses, the dogs: The sad group.
With Snowball sent packing
By porkers less porcine,
Gradually two legs were good.
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(wont: custom, habit, practice)
Intellection on the lawsuit was stunted;
Hence, progress on the process was wanted.
His wont was to think,
But he'd had a bit to drink,
So away from the case he was shunted.
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(obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; agressively boisterous, loud or obnoxious)
"The kids in the lunchroom were obstreperous,"
Claimed the monitor who's often oblivious,
So their teacher stood up
And said, "They're fed up
With the mysteries that are always prepared for us."
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(bumbershoot: umbrella)
There once was a cautious old fella
Who invested in a bright orange umbrella.
They'd dodge him on his route
As they spied his bumbershoot.
In the drizzle it sprouted like a dahlia.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(frangible: breakable)
The boxes in the garage, they are calling.
Alas, I'll be sorting and bawling
Over memories tangible
With emotions quite frangible
Over such as my little girl's drawings.
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(abderian: given to excessive or idiotic laughter)
The friars, growing bored with solemnity,
Threw in for a bit of jocundity.
Their night grew abderian
From their efforts agrarian
In the vineyard where they'd toiled with serenity.
The morn after the fete bacchanalian
Padre groaned, "I feel worse than a hang nail and
A toothache put together.
Father'll gag us forever
Since we fancied we lived on a galleon."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gastronomy: the art or science of good eating)
In order to avoid lunch monotony,
The tax man egaged in gastronomy,
But his budget got gobbled,
His bank account, hobbled.
His kitchen had to suffer cuisinectomy.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(epexegesis: the addition of a word or words to explain a preceding word or sentence)
(esoterica: things understood by or meant for a select few)
Clues of context excluded the scholar,
So, in consequence, she affected to ponder.
The dearth of epexegesis
Made her feel quite the rhesus
As esoterica declined hence to squander.
(Credit: Word, 'epexegesis,' and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gnathic: pertaining to the jaw or alveolar process)
His fiancee's criticism graphic
Did scorn his activities gnathic:
"Your gnashing of teeth,
Your articulating your t's
Is wooing me quite psychopathic."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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Where shouldst royal bones relocate--
Of Richard, the Yorks' reprobate?
We couldst ask the little princes
If be time for mending fences
Or if his rest be worthy of debate.
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(ampullaceous: having a shape like a flask or bladder; resembling an ampulla)
(sagacious: wise)
There was a young nurse ampullaceous
Who cared for a chap quite rapacious.
He grabbed her behind;
Then the bedpan aligned
With the head of the not-so-sagacious.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(veneniferous: word used to describe a venenifer, something that conveys, transmits, or secretes poison or venom, as through a sting or bite)
The vixen was quite veneniferous
With charms nothing less than splendiferous.
A chump whom she beckoned
Didn't consider to reckon
The aroma she wafted quite sulfurous.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(mellifluous: sweet or musical, pleasant to hear; flowing with sweetness or honey)
The matron's enunuciation mellifluous
Made suitors border on the carnivorous.
So beguiling was she
When the knaves couldn't see;
Hence, her magic she kept surreptitious.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(jackanapes: an impertinent, presumptuous person, esp. a young man; a whippersnapper; an impudent mischievous child; archaic. an ape or monkey)
There was a trumpeteer with red hair.
She willfully played horns with a flair.
When her second would ape,
She'd hoot, "Jackanapes!"
And blow him back down through the chairs.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(misodoctakleidist: someone who detests practicing the piano)
There once was a misodoctakleidist
Who'd rather've been a proctologist
Than tickle the ivories,
Competing the rivalry
Of his fancy to be a ventriloquist.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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The lassie felt such a misfit
'Cause she wouldn't watch King's movie It.
The clowns at the circus
Seemed to serve better purpose,
So to coulrophobia she couldn't commit.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(decussate: to cross or intersect, forming an X)
The matey, he wanted to decussate
His arm with a tat for to rate
'Mongst the pirates who had inked,
So he filled with the drink
But was crossed by his wench's debate.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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There once was a cleric loquacious.
For his own voice he was quite voracious.
Taciturn was not he;
His terminology
Swelled farctate and not efficacious.
(Credit: Word, 'farctate,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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She woke up next day feeling crapulous
When she'd planned for her wedding to be fabulous.
The ginger she drank
For miasma so rank
Waxed dubitably in reputation miraculous.
(Credit: Word, 'crapulous,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(eructation: the act of belching)
(fulgurous: characteristic of or resembling lightning)
There was a young man from Eurasia
Whose eructations did extend from Malaysia.
Quite fulgurous were they
As they shot to Bombay.
They cert'nly didn't smell of acacia.
(Credit: Word, 'eructation,' and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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There once was a girl who feared greens.
She'd shun veggies by any of her means.
With lachanophobia so great,
She'd crash every plate
When broccoli threatened the cuisine.
(Credit: Word, lachanophobia,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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There once was a girl who had asthma.
She walked in a gleimous miasma.
She wore out her sleeve
When her nose she relieved;
She rubbed it right down to the plasma.
(Credit: Word, 'gleimous,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
(cow-tongued: having a tongue like a cow, smooth one way and rough the other and hence, one who gives fair or foul language as may suit his purpose)
Blessings on the girl who was cow-tongued:
In her mouth, you're both peaches and cow dung.
Did she make that one pout--
Or give a glad shout?
Yes, a right blessing out would hurt 'er none.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(On March 21, the clue for 37-down of the New York Times crossword puzzle was "Limerick scheme"!)
The English major knew she was a nerd
When all she wished to cross with were words.
The Times puzzle on Thursday
Clued 'a-a-b-b' and then 'a.'
Her scheme for her studies penciled forward.
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(voluptuary: noun, a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure; a sensualist or satyr; 2) adj., concerned with luxury and sensual pleasure)
Mae West was a fluent voluptuary.
With quips and her discourse made luminary,
She plied banter and come-hithers,
Receiving chaps in a dither
As she welcomed, supplementing their dictionaries.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(insouciance: lack of concern or care; indifference)
So offensive was her haughty insouciance,
We could always see through her translucence.
With little give or take,
She'd let us eat cake,
But baking proved to be such a nuisance.
(Credit: Word and definition from Dictionary.com's Word of the Day)
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(moth of peace: an idler; one who consumes but does not work; someone who mooches or cadges, a freeloader; a clock watcher, a couch potato, a deadbeat, a laggard, a lay-about, a malingerer, a sponger)
The tired moth of peace wasn't shy
When wolfing down chow to get by.
Ever mooching to sup,
He must've grown up
With the mother of pieces of pie.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(parsimony: extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources; miserliness or stinginess)
His parsimony grew from wanting more
And keeping all that he'd earned saved in store,
But spending all his money
Desired his greedier honey,
So his coffers did erupt like Krakatoa.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(argosy: a large abundantly laden merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships; an opulent supply)
An argosy laden with riches
Stowed baubles in all of her niches.
She was greedy and weighty
With no room for mateys:
She begat only oceanic trenches.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(figurehead: a carved full-length figure or bust built into the bow of a sailing ship)
Poseidon did envy the bling
On the figurehead's ears which did ring
From his Sirens on the rocks,
So he claimed back his stocks.
She ought've waived him the fees for their fling.
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(gouache: opaque watercolor)
I detect subtle notes in your goulash
Of weeks of left-overs and good nosh.
There's garlic and spam,
Rancid leeks and ruined lamb:
It's not as opaque as a gouache.
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(floccinaucininhilipilification: the action or habit of estimating something as worthless)
The floccinaucinihilipilifaction
Of her funds for the tax man and nation:
There is nothing to anoint,
So she asked, "What's the point?
How redundant is this estimation!"
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(daedalist: an aviator or pilot; an aeronaut, someone who flies
To flee was the plot of the daedalist
As he puzzled the air with his genius.
He didn't fancy a swim
As a thrill reached the brim
Of the spirit of the boy he'd named Icarus.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(shooler: one who intrudes upon his neighbor and forces an invitation to dinner, etc.)
The vicar, he was no mere shooler,
Since the ladies competed for this drooler
Of their meats and their tarts;
He'd finish and then start
Down the road for some more to grow fuller.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(eroteme: a question mark)
The lass with an eroteme on her forehead
Sought evenings erotic on her daybed:
"Wilst thou come with me?"
But the mark looked to be
An 'L'--for her splendor was misread.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gravid: pregnant)
(elderly primigravida: a woman who is first pregnant at the age of 30)
The doctor did point at her girth:
"Until now you've ne'er given birth:
A primigravida who's elderly--
To be sure, you're just thirty--
Dear, dear, now I'm spoiling your mirth."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(mounch-present: a knave who will take a taste of his master's food, eating the best parts himself and leaving behind the least desirable bits)
The king did amend the description
Of Mounch-Present who pinched from his luncheon,
For rivals were about
Who did want the king out!
Hence, the knave fared as Muncher-of-Poison.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(fantods: a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness, the willies, the fidgets; a sudden outpouring of anger, outrage, or a similar intense emotion)
The decibels of the TV gave her fantods--
Revved up like a deuce with applauds.
In the middle of the night,
The remote she will hide
And sit shotgun on the couch, riding roughshod.
(many thanks to Manfred Mann)
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(pregnant scholar: someone who is in the habit of becoming inebriated around brunchtime)
The mockery of the old pregnant scholar
Was wasted: E'en though in his squalor,
His tippling with vermouth
Did bespeak of the truth
Ever more than the sober can holler.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(paranymph: a person who speaks on the behalf of another person in matters of love; a groomsman or bridesmaid)
Our paranymph's almost paranormal
With his ken of news casual and formal.
If you're too shy to propose,
He'll pimp with a rose,
But, alas, he mistakes all the locals.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(anglewitch: an archaic word for fishing bait, especially worms)
The little brat's hook dangled rich
With gobbets of rank anglewitch
He did plop on the hair
Of his sis who then fared
On a lunch just-the-thing for the 'witch.'
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(satyriasis: uncontrollable or exessive sexual desire in or behavior by a man; the male equivalent of nymphomania)
The old codger'd been plagued by satyriasis.
He was even kicked out of his diocese.
His present years are bleak--
No match for his peak--
Ever since he contracted psoriasis.
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Bacchus thrived in a pandemic of satyriasis.
His depravity caused chaos and crisis.
Discreetness was not in 'im.
His pants, he couldn't zip 'em
'Til he heard a little titter from Isis.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(speculum: a mirror; a looking glass)
If I were to stroll through the speculum,
I would multiply rearward in the interim.
'Tween the layers of silver
And glass, I would shiver
To find myself follow me out again.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(fanfaronade: a bragging or blustering manner or behavior)
So loud was his pompous fararonade,
Setting ladies to titter in the shade.
One brave little soul
Confronted his grand role:
"I wonder what you put in your Kool-aid."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gynecoid: of or like a woman)
The doc told Virginia who couldn't void:
"Your problem's just shy of gynecoid."
She replied with a purr,
"Alas, my dear sir,
A lady never suffers a hemorrhoid."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(macrotus: having large ears)
Said the lad with the bearing macrotus
About his mum's motto monotonous:
"If again I do hear
'Little pitchers have big ears,'
I'll pour out the secrets that begot us!"
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(tiffin: any light meal, especially lunch; a snack, luncheon)
Lady Violet is shocked that they'd tiffin
On the floors of Downton Abbey like heathens.
With cheese and some fruit
When dinner goes kaput,
Cora's mum saves the feast with cold chicken.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(hebetic: pertaining to or occurring in puberty)
On the day that he woke up hebetic,
You'd think he'd been plugged in electric.
Nature'd worked him quite fine;
Tad was thrilled so to find
That his whiskers weren't sealed by hermetics.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(accubation: the act or posture of reclining on a couch)
The maid, she burnt daylight in accubation,
But she had an excuse 'gainst condemnation
From her peers who did strive
To keep betters alive;
She kept her broke foot in its station.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(honeyfuggle: to ingratiate one's self so as to cheat or deceive)
(lothario: a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women)
The lothario made fast to honeyfuggle,
For the night long he hankered to snuggle
With a lady of fortune
Who'd no sense for sortin'
The suitors whom she had to juggle.
(Credit: Word, 'honeyfuggle,' and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(minikin: archaic word for a very small delicate creature)
There once was a spritely old minikin,
Who was monikered as 'Little Dame Harridan.'
Pearls dripped from her tongue,
Buttering up even dung,
So the Queen then re-dubbed her 'Dame Saccharine.'
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(vexillology: the study of flags)
Memorizing the flags and their nations
With dates and such unfurls vexation.
With maps changing yearly
Vexillology's not clearly
A breeze--but a task Herculean.
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Henry Higgins' keen flair with phonology
Is incredibly like vexillology.
He can name a man's nation
From sheer pronunciation
As if a flag has revealed his biology.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(Terpsichore: the Muse of dancing and choral song; choreography; the art of dancing)
The chorus girl failed at her cue.
As chanteuse, she was no ingenue.
To not be or be?
Ne'er blessed by Terpsichore:
The theatre was not her milieu.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(lavacultophilia: the urge to stare at someone in a bathing suit)
Bothered by lavacultophilia,
The surfer was cheeky with Delia.
His affliction didn't suit,
For she stomped on his foot:
He'll hang five for his ogling mania.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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The fete he succeeded to obnubilate
As he started to weep and to ruminate.
The bash for his proposal
Did turn at her disposal.
From his dumping he just couldn't levitate.
(Credit: Word and definition from Dictionary.com's Word of the Day)
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(verbiage: overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; verbosity)
An actress there was who spat verbiage.
Eager speaking would cause her such slurpage.
Consternation grew great
When she couldn't satiate
Her wish to keep up with Dick Burbage.
(Richard Burbage was an English actor and associate of Shakespeare. James Burbage, his father, was also an actor and theatre manager who established the first theatre in England.)
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(imberb: being clean-shaven; beardless)
The boyish young cad was imberb,
And, therefore, he felt quite perturbed,
Yet young charms he still had;
He could make his mates glad
When the Star-Spangled Banner he'd burp.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(somniloquy: the act of talking or singing while asleep)
No Hamlet's soliloquy she'd weep.
Somniloquy'd make more of a sweep
Of his heart the next day;
So her fervence held sway
And sang a Valentine's gram in her sleep.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; agressively boisterous, loud or obnoxious)
(porcine: of, affecting, or resembling a pig or pigs)
(ovine: pertaining to, of the nature of, or like sheep)
Obstreperous were the ovine of Orwell.
They clamoured so the animals couldn't think well.
They baahed and they bleated
When Napoleon got heated,
So Snowball's intentions wouldn't gel well.
The ovine of Orwell were duped--
And the horses, the dogs: The sad group.
With Snowball sent packing
By porkers less porcine,
Gradually two legs were good.
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(wont: custom, habit, practice)
Intellection on the lawsuit was stunted;
Hence, progress on the process was wanted.
His wont was to think,
But he'd had a bit to drink,
So away from the case he was shunted.
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(obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant; agressively boisterous, loud or obnoxious)
"The kids in the lunchroom were obstreperous,"
Claimed the monitor who's often oblivious,
So their teacher stood up
And said, "They're fed up
With the mysteries that are always prepared for us."
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(bumbershoot: umbrella)
There once was a cautious old fella
Who invested in a bright orange umbrella.
They'd dodge him on his route
As they spied his bumbershoot.
In the drizzle it sprouted like a dahlia.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(frangible: breakable)
The boxes in the garage, they are calling.
Alas, I'll be sorting and bawling
Over memories tangible
With emotions quite frangible
Over such as my little girl's drawings.
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(abderian: given to excessive or idiotic laughter)
The friars, growing bored with solemnity,
Threw in for a bit of jocundity.
Their night grew abderian
From their efforts agrarian
In the vineyard where they'd toiled with serenity.
The morn after the fete bacchanalian
Padre groaned, "I feel worse than a hang nail and
A toothache put together.
Father'll gag us forever
Since we fancied we lived on a galleon."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gastronomy: the art or science of good eating)
In order to avoid lunch monotony,
The tax man egaged in gastronomy,
But his budget got gobbled,
His bank account, hobbled.
His kitchen had to suffer cuisinectomy.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(epexegesis: the addition of a word or words to explain a preceding word or sentence)
(esoterica: things understood by or meant for a select few)
Clues of context excluded the scholar,
So, in consequence, she affected to ponder.
The dearth of epexegesis
Made her feel quite the rhesus
As esoterica declined hence to squander.
(Credit: Word, 'epexegesis,' and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(gnathic: pertaining to the jaw or alveolar process)
His fiancee's criticism graphic
Did scorn his activities gnathic:
"Your gnashing of teeth,
Your articulating your t's
Is wooing me quite psychopathic."
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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Where shouldst royal bones relocate--
Of Richard, the Yorks' reprobate?
We couldst ask the little princes
If be time for mending fences
Or if his rest be worthy of debate.
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(ampullaceous: having a shape like a flask or bladder; resembling an ampulla)
(sagacious: wise)
There was a young nurse ampullaceous
Who cared for a chap quite rapacious.
He grabbed her behind;
Then the bedpan aligned
With the head of the not-so-sagacious.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(veneniferous: word used to describe a venenifer, something that conveys, transmits, or secretes poison or venom, as through a sting or bite)
The vixen was quite veneniferous
With charms nothing less than splendiferous.
A chump whom she beckoned
Didn't consider to reckon
The aroma she wafted quite sulfurous.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(mellifluous: sweet or musical, pleasant to hear; flowing with sweetness or honey)
The matron's enunuciation mellifluous
Made suitors border on the carnivorous.
So beguiling was she
When the knaves couldn't see;
Hence, her magic she kept surreptitious.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(jackanapes: an impertinent, presumptuous person, esp. a young man; a whippersnapper; an impudent mischievous child; archaic. an ape or monkey)
There was a trumpeteer with red hair.
She willfully played horns with a flair.
When her second would ape,
She'd hoot, "Jackanapes!"
And blow him back down through the chairs.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(misodoctakleidist: someone who detests practicing the piano)
There once was a misodoctakleidist
Who'd rather've been a proctologist
Than tickle the ivories,
Competing the rivalry
Of his fancy to be a ventriloquist.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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The lassie felt such a misfit
'Cause she wouldn't watch King's movie It.
The clowns at the circus
Seemed to serve better purpose,
So to coulrophobia she couldn't commit.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(decussate: to cross or intersect, forming an X)
The matey, he wanted to decussate
His arm with a tat for to rate
'Mongst the pirates who had inked,
So he filled with the drink
But was crossed by his wench's debate.
(Credit: Word and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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There once was a cleric loquacious.
For his own voice he was quite voracious.
Taciturn was not he;
His terminology
Swelled farctate and not efficacious.
(Credit: Word, 'farctate,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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She woke up next day feeling crapulous
When she'd planned for her wedding to be fabulous.
The ginger she drank
For miasma so rank
Waxed dubitably in reputation miraculous.
(Credit: Word, 'crapulous,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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(eructation: the act of belching)
(fulgurous: characteristic of or resembling lightning)
There was a young man from Eurasia
Whose eructations did extend from Malaysia.
Quite fulgurous were they
As they shot to Bombay.
They cert'nly didn't smell of acacia.
(Credit: Word, 'eructation,' and definition from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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There once was a girl who feared greens.
She'd shun veggies by any of her means.
With lachanophobia so great,
She'd crash every plate
When broccoli threatened the cuisine.
(Credit: Word, lachanophobia,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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There once was a girl who had asthma.
She walked in a gleimous miasma.
She wore out her sleeve
When her nose she relieved;
She rubbed it right down to the plasma.
(Credit: Word, 'gleimous,' from Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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