Haven't had one of these in a while...
Jul. 27th, 2004 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammargirlRandom Obsolete Word of the Day, brought to you by A WHIPP For the Animadverter In Return to his Second LIBELL., 1662:
Didapper: 1. A small diving water-fowl; 2. Applied ludicrously to a person.
Now go forth and sprinkle the ROWOTD liberally into the most casual of conversations. Impress friends and family. Whip out your superior vocabulary at cocktail parties.
Does anyone actually go to cocktail parties anymore?
EDIT: Ooh, check this one out, from the same document:
Animadverter: 1. One who animadverts; a censurer, fault-finder, unfavourable critic or commentator; 2. An inflicter of chastisement, a chastiser.
Oh yeah, and something I learned from the marginal notations of Brooks the Adorable Physics Boy, about whom more later (and, for the record, I'd just like to say eeeeee): the word for someone who loves words is logophile. Oh man. Be still my pulsating lexicon.
Didapper: 1. A small diving water-fowl; 2. Applied ludicrously to a person.
Now go forth and sprinkle the ROWOTD liberally into the most casual of conversations. Impress friends and family. Whip out your superior vocabulary at cocktail parties.
Does anyone actually go to cocktail parties anymore?
EDIT: Ooh, check this one out, from the same document:
Animadverter: 1. One who animadverts; a censurer, fault-finder, unfavourable critic or commentator; 2. An inflicter of chastisement, a chastiser.
Oh yeah, and something I learned from the marginal notations of Brooks the Adorable Physics Boy, about whom more later (and, for the record, I'd just like to say eeeeee): the word for someone who loves words is logophile. Oh man. Be still my pulsating lexicon.
