If you're wondering where I've been all this time, I've been HERE. And that's where I'm staying.
An Author's Journey
Thoughts. Ideas. Dreams.
Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.
- Graycie HarmonFriday, January 27, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Old Woman's Luck
Have the wind in one's face both going and returning; Oxfordshire.
- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
Good Bye, An Author's Journey. It was wonderful!
Good Bye, An Author's Journey. It was wonderful!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tachydidaxy
A short method of teaching.
- Joseph Worcester's Dictionary of the English Language, 1881
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Giglet
A merry. light-hjearted, playful, romping girl; a giddy, silly, thoughtless girl; a wanton, a strumpet. Hence, gigleting, laughing in a foolish manner; trifling behavior.
- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
Giglot, a female laughing or playing wantonly.
- Walter Skeat's Specimens of English Dialects, Westmoreland, 1879
"Away with those giglets too, and with the other confederate companion."
- William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, 1604
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Bulkateer
A person who judges by the bulk or size, and overlooks the real merit.
- Maurice Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang, 1934
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