Word Nerd

[rawdeal]

Describing one's brunneous bowel movements might be a good conversation starter .....

 

[tommyguns2]

Describing one's brunneous bowel movements might be a good conversation starter .....

Seems like a conversation for your fellow aquatic aerobics classmates at the YMCA rather than a conversation at the bar with that cute woman who smiled at you.

 

[rawdeal]

It was fun to play at the YMCA with my aquatics aerobics mates until meddlesome moralists told the Sheriff.
And ... that "cute woman" was Flirting Dragqueen, a special friend of mine.

 

[Thrawn]

Macroglossia

 

[tommyguns2]

Today's word is:

variegate

Pronounced: VAR-ee-uh-gayt, VAR-i-gayt (strange as I've only heard this word pronounced differently VARE-a-gayt)

This word is a verb that means to diversify, enliven, or to make more interesting, especially with colors. I've only used this word as an adjective to describe leaves on a plant having multiple colors as being variegated.

From the Latin variegare (to diversify with colors), from varius (various) + agere (to do). Earliest documented use: 1653.

 

[fixxer]

I admit to being quite the word nerd. My brothers just accuse me of being a pompous a-hole because I like 25 cent words. LOL Sometimes I'll read a sentence, and just love the way the writer used a word or a phrase. Here's a phrase I read today:

Yeah dude my chick loves to call me a pompous bitch. I regularly pull up the thesaurus as I'm writing emails to mix up my vocab.