Words are wonderfully playful. Here’s a list I’d like to see tap dancing across a stage or shot into the sky like fireworks. Firewords.Onomatopoeia
Wonky
Persnickety
Scuttlebutt
Ampersand
Catawampus
Marsupial
Wonky
Persnickety
Scuttlebutt
Ampersand
Catawampus
Marsupial
Flabbergast
Any words you’d like to see uncorked from a champagne bottle?
Any words you’d like to see uncorked from a champagne bottle?
*I'm still teaching the writing workshop (ends tomorrow). The kids are asking great questions and they're taking lots of risks. Loving it.
**photos by flickr
Ooh good words. I need to get a dictionary for some. But they sound fun!
ReplyDeleteFun ones to try and incorporate! :O)
ReplyDeleteI love the word, "skittered" and used it in today's post.
ReplyDelete*loves this*
ReplyDeleteTruly I adore you. :) I love firewords. They light up the empty sky of my mind. :p
Snazzle. Delight. Percolate. Niggle. Flummox. Befuddle.
OOooh, how FUN!!!
ReplyDeletegibberish, scooby-doo!!!
Love this place!
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The hosts of the Today show quizzed one another on how to spell onomatopoeia today. Maybe that's a hint for me to use it more?
ReplyDeleteA workshop with kids? Awesome! Best with it, Wendy.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Okinawa. That'd be my fireword.
Wonky- that is not a work! Really?!
ReplyDeleteWhat about flipperdygibbet? I've had a lot on my plate this month and haven't been able to think much about writing or words.
ReplyDeleteWhat is that first one??
ReplyDeleteBerserk
ReplyDeleteI love that word.
I love all your words. Fun to think of words as fireworks/words. They can have that effect in a book, can't they? :)
Amy
Gargantuous, superfluous, perephrial (see I can't even spell it!), splattered, epiphany, and metamorphises.
ReplyDeleteDon't point out I spelled most of these wrong! :)
I love alpenglow, but dare not use it more than once per book.
ReplyDeleteWendy, you're just so creative! And I always love your pictures on your blog! You find the most gorgeous ones! Hope the writing class is going well!
ReplyDeleteFantasmagoric. I don't think I spelled it right. Poe used it. I want to.
ReplyDeleteEpitome, circumvent, illustrious, meander, filibuster, cacophony, and pontiferous! Ha-HA!
ReplyDeleteEveryone has suggested such beautiful words! How about if I add scrumdidlyumtious, and frabjous from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland? Fun post. :)
ReplyDeleteHow about 'Forgive me'. Honestly those are beautiful words!!!!!
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