2. Characterized by or favoring the sense of touch
Sunday, August 30, 2020
It's not a good time to be HAPTIC with each other
2. Characterized by or favoring the sense of touch
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Doesn't the world seem in a state of HOOROOSH?
What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's....
HOOROOSH [who-ROOSH]
(noun)
An uproar, a great fuss
"What a hooroosh aloft there! I
would e’en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy
malady."
--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) (TWITO, page 68)
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Somehow it will all CONGLOBATE in the end
What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's....
CONGLOBATE [KONG-lo-bate] (verb)
To form into a globe or ball
"He decided to conglobate all of his string into a sort of weird planetesimal."
--Michael Gates, The Word I'm thinking Of (2013)
Sunday, August 09, 2020
Doesn't it seem like there's more TOHUBOHU these days?
What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's....
TOHUBOHU [TOE-hoo-BO-hoo] (noun)
Chaos, confusion
"...it is now easy to see that this bird is the
Creator walking in chaos, brooding over the primitive mish-mash or tohu-bohu, and finally hatching the egg
of the world."
--Viktor Rydberg, Rasmus Björn Anderson, James William Buel, Teutonic Mythology (1907)