Wednesday, 21 November 2012

InDefinition - 59 (Esperanto edition)

carpe Dienstag, vb. seize the Tuesdays!

InDefinition - 58

forebore, vb. to be so renownedly dull that folk are comatose before you even get going.

Headline

Man murders lover despite New Year's resolution
- MSN news

Astounding. (Lack of emphasis mine.)

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

InDefinition - 57

'nuff sell, n. circumstance in which the merits of the thing are either immediately apparent or they're not.

Notes on a Tuesday (splendid etymology)

Dienstag - From Middle Low German dingesdach, the day of the ding (“the thing, a council assembly”).
- Wiktionary.org

['S like something out of The Thick of It. 'Can you make it to my expenses-wangling party on Tuesday, Tony?' 'No, sorry - I've got that thing, haven't I.']

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

InDefinition - 56

fourwarn, vb. 'I don't know how many times I've told 'im...!'

NB (to archivists)

What goes on vellum, stays on vellum.

Monday, 12 November 2012

On a career in creative insanity

I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that’s fine. I don’t do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can’t not do it.
- Maurice Sendak, in The Believer

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Friday, 9 November 2012

InDefinition - 55

snobbery, n. being a cunt above

Keystroke twins - 17 / Squaddie banter VI

Army
crow*

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* this one, I confess, may have slightly more resonance(s) for those who are actually in the Army... All readers, though, may delight in the peculiarly military quality of the word's etymology and/or definition, as provided by UrbanDictionary.com!