CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
NEW WORDS:
SELFIE, FOOTLE, SPLENETIC, & TWERK
Today I’m introducing four new-to-me words:
- Selfie
- Footle
- Splenetic
- Twerk
Selfie: a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website. Selfie was chosen as the Oxford Dictionaries 2013 word of the year.
Footle: Act foolishly, as by talking nonsense—classifed as a verb of political and social activities and events
I found this word in a Colin McNickle opinion column in which he explained the word dates back to 1892, and means talking or acting foolishly or wasting time.
Splenetic: of or relating to the spleen, affected by ill humor or irritability; a person regarded as irritable. I came across this word in the novel The Coquette (page 265).
Twerk: dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting. Twerk was NOT the word of the year in 2013, being beaten out in a close race by the word selfie.
USE OF THESE FOUR WORDS IN THE SAME SENTENCE
Melanie became splenetic when she heard a friend describe her as footle after her twerk performance, during which she uploaded a selfie on her social media accounts.
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(A NaBloPoMo post)
WordPress Daily Prompt for 8/18/2013: Procrastination
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WORDPRESS DAILY PROMPT for AUGUST 18, 2013
Today’s date: January 5, 2014
PROCRASTINATION
The WordPress daily prompt for August 18, 2013, was procrastination.
I was writing it on November 24, 2013. Today, January 5, 2014, is the day I’m publishing it.
I ask you: Is this procrastination or what?
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Question: What have I been putting off doing?
My answer: Responding to this post.
Question: Why was I procrastinating?
Answer: It was filed in an out-of-sight site, which was temporarily abandoned for more recent items that would later receive the same treatment.
Simply put, by filing it out of site I could procrastinate and neglect to follow it through. I do that with many items that cross my desk. In fact, paper items crossing my desk are so prolific it’s easy to procrastinate.
I procrastinate on other things too. For example, bunnies and kittens are adorable. Soft fur, snuggly, good companions. However, their fur contributes to what we, for some reason, we call dust bunnies—or dust kittens. These are not so cuddly as they gather under our couches, along the edges of our floors, under our beds. When I operated a child care home, I found a creative means of dealing with the dust bunnies a. k. a. dust kittens. The children decorated a jar, and every morning they opened it to feed their pet bunny or kitty as many (more…)