Vocabulary word of the day

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I thought I knew what 'Cuffing Season” meant…but was wondering why anyone in their right mind would want to limit it to a season.

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[analetta]

Pandiculation.
This is what happens when you wake up in the morning and stretch. As you stretch, your muscles might go rigid for a short time, which can sometimes be uncomfortable. It also describes that wonderful, or terrible, combination of being extremely sleepy, stretching and yawning at the same time. Now, when this happens to you, you’ll know what to call it!
Source : Express Writers

[Vaughan]

Mondegreen

A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning.
Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.

American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing that as a girl, when her mother read to her from Percy's Reliques, she had misheard the lyric  “layd him on the green”    in the fourth line of the Scottish ballad “The Bonny Earl of Murray” as
“Lady Mondegreen”    And hence the word was created and accepted.

“The Bonnie Earl o' Moray”   (a popular Scottish ballad)

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl o' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen

The correct fourth line is, “And laid him on the green”.

Other Mondegreens –

Francis Scott Key's “Star-Spangled Banner”    begins with the line  “O say can you see, by the dawn's early light.”

This has been accidentally been misinterpreted as “Jose, can you see,”   
The second half of the line has been misheard as well, as “by the donzerly light,”
This has led to many people believing that “donzerly” is an actual word.

I bet you have done some yourself.

Check these out.  I dare you not to smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeTKULIAx8

[analetta]

Apparently, over 90% of what people say is done using only around 7000 words. When you think that there are over 600,000 words listed in the Oxford English Dictionary it seems a waste that there are so many unused words that will most likely fade from use over time.
So, in full knowledge that I'm prolly going to bore everyone out of their minds, I'm going to try to post a word a day here, alphabetically, beginning, as you'd expect, with the letter “A”.
My chosen word today is  Alabandical.  Meaning : uncivilised or barbaric; stupefied from alcohol.

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“Drop your bucket in the dirt”

Another definition for anal sex

Pat really likes when you drop your bucket in the dirt.

[analetta]

Baggage-smasher

As well as being a name for a thief who specializes in stealing luggage from trains, in 19th-century slang a Baggage-smasher was a porter at a railway station. (Obviously not a very conscientious one).

[analetta]

Curmudgeon

An ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.

Example : Analetta is just a cranky, crotchety curmudgeon.
We can deal with alliteration elsewhere

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[Vaughan]

syllove   –    Love on a different level. One you dont just feel  but you sense, even when you are apart.
Derived from 2 words – silent love –  It is a type of love shared between two people who love one another to unbelievable levels and this love can be felt silently.

[JessiCapri]

A celebrated tradition in the Nordic country, Kalsarikännit literally means “drinking at home, alone, in your underwear.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=PdVr-tQP_N8&feature=emb_logo

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