Lotsa nice flowers this week. I like not being totally and completely ignorant about flowers.
Also, MAKE SURE GET YOUR INSULTS RIGHT: a fleabag is an inferior hotel; a fleapit is a run-down movie theater. Very important. See the rest of today's words for more great insults. That no one will ever understand. ("Ho! What felonry is this, ye feculent flimflammers!")
Also, MAKE SURE GET YOUR INSULTS RIGHT: a fleabag is an inferior hotel; a fleapit is a run-down movie theater. Very important. See the rest of today's words for more great insults. That no one will ever understand. ("Ho! What felonry is this, ye feculent flimflammers!")
⚛ Units of the Week
Fiftyish: being about fifty years old (not going to put all numbers like this, ordinal, cardinal, or -ish words, but one -ish deserves recognition)
Fil: a coin of Iraq and Jordan
Finmark: a monetary unit of Finland
Firkin: a British unit of capacity
Fiver: a five-dollar bill
Flocculi: small, loosely aggregated masses
Floccule: a tuft-like mass
Florin: a former gold coin of Europe
Fluidram: a unit of liquid capacity
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Fecula: fecal matter
Feeb: a wimp; a weak or ineffective person
Figurant: a ballet dancer who dances only in groups (somehow this seems a sad word)
Firebug: an arsonist
Fireplug: a hydrant
Fireship: a burning ship sent among the enemy's ships (which is very vivid in my mind; is this in some epic movie that I haven’t seen? It should be)
Fistic: pertaining to pugilism (“the art or practice of fighting with the fists”)
Flashing: sheet metal used in waterproofing a roof
Flatus: intestinal gas
Flehment: to inhale with the mouth open and upper lip curled (wow! This is specific!)
Floc: to aggregate into floccules (naturally!)
Flunky: a servile follower
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Favonian: pertaining to the west wind
Feculent: foul with impurities
Felinity: the quality of being catlike
Felonry: the whole class of felons
Fishless: having no fish
Flamer: one that flames
Flimflam: to swindle
Flubdub: pretentious nonsense
Fiftyish: being about fifty years old (not going to put all numbers like this, ordinal, cardinal, or -ish words, but one -ish deserves recognition)
Fil: a coin of Iraq and Jordan
Finmark: a monetary unit of Finland
Firkin: a British unit of capacity
Fiver: a five-dollar bill
Flocculi: small, loosely aggregated masses
Floccule: a tuft-like mass
Florin: a former gold coin of Europe
Fluidram: a unit of liquid capacity
!!! Unexpected Words of the Week
Fecula: fecal matter
Feeb: a wimp; a weak or ineffective person
Figurant: a ballet dancer who dances only in groups (somehow this seems a sad word)
Firebug: an arsonist
Fireplug: a hydrant
Fireship: a burning ship sent among the enemy's ships (which is very vivid in my mind; is this in some epic movie that I haven’t seen? It should be)
Fistic: pertaining to pugilism (“the art or practice of fighting with the fists”)
Flashing: sheet metal used in waterproofing a roof
Flatus: intestinal gas
Flehment: to inhale with the mouth open and upper lip curled (wow! This is specific!)
Floc: to aggregate into floccules (naturally!)
Flunky: a servile follower
♡ Favorite Words of the Week
Favonian: pertaining to the west wind
Feculent: foul with impurities
Felinity: the quality of being catlike
Felonry: the whole class of felons
Fishless: having no fish
Flamer: one that flames
Flimflam: to swindle
Flubdub: pretentious nonsense
(Pages 197–210)