Author Topic: Petrichor!! (Read 3606 times)

miguynmkoi · « **on:** September 29, 2008, 11:00:21 AM »

"The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell."

We had thunder and lightning and rain for the first time in a veeeerrrrrry longtime. Our dry spell cannot be relieved by the spots of rain we've had this morning but to walk outside and smell that fresh moist air....

Just learned this word last night and got a chance to use it today for reals!

Jerry · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2008, 12:26:02 PM »

nice word! Now to work in Jackanapes,Poltroon, perspicacity and blooter.

HOWELL · « **Reply #2 on:** September 29, 2008, 12:38:15 PM »

Wise persons say whatt?????????????

reddad35 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2008, 03:55:27 PM »

Howell,

Jackanapes is the fatty tissue found just behind the neck on a male +300 pounds.
in a sentence...When he chews that jackanapes makes his shirt tag pop in and out.

Poltroon is an army located on the boarder of a war that ended 3 weeks before.
in a sentence...The leader of the Poltroon said, " We will take that desert by boat."

perspicacity is the affects of a overheated car in a traffic jam at a big city. Originated in L.A.
in a sentence...The time is 4:30 on this tuesday afternoon. Traffic is at a standstill and the perspicacity is a 98%. Hope you wore extra deodorant.

Blooter is a womans breast immediately after enlargement surgery.
in a sentence...Although those blooters are tender and discolored, you will love the end result.

Mikey · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2008, 04:33:44 PM »

Just a few scattered drops here at home but earlier in the day I was on the 91 freeway and it was raining tigers and chihuahuas.

HOWELL · « **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2008, 07:24:43 PM »

Thanks, reddad35..
Do perspicacy and perspicacity have the same meaning?, if so can they be used like: whenever you say, "He was talking with some kind of perspicacity".
Mikey, haha tigers and chihuahuas, I have heard some people here in mexico saying, "it is raining just like if the sky is going to fall upon us", but I seriously go by the chihuahas and tigers, those chihuahuas can be expensive so, I won't mind, by getting my hand outta the window and grabbing one,

Jerry · « **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2008, 11:01:37 AM »

Howell, Reddad is pulling you leg. Not a word was true. Very funny and clever though!

HOWELL · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2008, 02:28:27 PM »

I know now,,, mean
But well, I'm glad at least knew what perpicacity mean, which i checked on the internet dictionary,

But reddad35, at the end I was truly doubting if it was true because of the,"We will take that desert by boat."
Oh boy, so then he's got me.
Shame on you reddad35..................................

And I see nothing clever about it,

, jk

MikeW · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2008, 04:25:16 PM »

Reddad - You had me going too.
We used to play the dictionary game - One person pick out a word then the others have to make up a definition. Could be quite funny. Only word I still remember from back then is pusillanimous, meaning spineless / moral coward.

There was a little book I saw some years back that invented words we do not have in English, but have the concept of. One word was Haxby -"Any garden implement whose exact use is not immediately clear". Another, and I cannot remember the word, was the verb for the cleaning up we do around the house just before the maid comes in.
There were 100's of these gems.

Cheers,

Mike

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2008, 05:20:06 PM »

Very funny Reddad!

As a kid my siblings and I made up words we use so no one could understand us. We still use them today and even our kids use them.

Petrichor unfortunately does not happen often enough here. We enjoyed one day of it and a day later now suffer the heat/humidity!

Jerry · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2008, 05:27:14 PM »

Red is a curmudgeon and reprobate to say the least!

HOWELL · « **Reply #11 on:** September 30, 2008, 06:17:20 PM »

MikeW, I know what phusillanomous mean, yay got that one right.
But Jerry, your wisdom is beyond mine, it be nice to say maybe, lightyears......................

karen J · « **Reply #12 on:** September 30, 2008, 06:51:06 PM »

Well I may be bloviating here, but Petrichor is the best word I've learned in a long time. It explains every sensation I've ever felt about a fresh spring rain. Don't get why the word is not more poetic though.

My previous favorite words have been Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and opthamologic steroid...among others.

HOWELL · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2008, 07:03:38 PM »

No comment........................................
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS...

reddad35 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 01, 2008, 05:50:48 AM »

I have always enjoyed the words dinner, and beer. Those words just role off the tounge. (both ways)

MikeW · « **Reply #15 on:** October 01, 2008, 07:07:53 AM »

. . . and the popular Christmas Carol - "Scintillate, scintillate, diminutive asteroid"

HOWELL · « **Reply #16 on:** October 01, 2008, 01:22:36 PM »

Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and thriumphant........................................................
Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells all seem to say throw cares away......ding dong ding dong

reddad35 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 01, 2008, 03:15:30 PM »

Quote from: Jerry on September 30, 2008, 05:27:14 PM

Red is a curmudgeon and reprobate to say the least!

bad tempered and damned to hell???? thanks Jerry
Then agan being an actor you have to be histrionic at times

Jerry · « **Reply #18 on:** October 01, 2008, 04:24:00 PM »

It was in Jest dad, i'd never offend you knowingly. If that was my intent you would know it. $:-\$

I thought you were very funny, just didn't want Joel to get in trouble :'( :'(
Besides, did you not see the laughing icon?

The definitions I have of those 2 words are Cantankerous, scoundrel and rouge!
Nothing else was intended. Yes. there are other defnitions. Hope this pleases you !

HOWELL · « **Reply #19 on:** October 01, 2008, 05:31:22 PM »

Oh well then thanks, Jerry...........
And reddad35 Jerry is a good folk and funny at times, please do not get mad at him...

reddad35 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 02, 2008, 05:16:12 AM »

I should have put an

on mine. I in no way was upset. Having tomfoolery also Jerry. Guileless at heart, Jim

HOWELL · « **Reply #21 on:** October 02, 2008, 05:47:38 AM »

Sweet niblets, I seriously need to open a dictionary lately and period.

Jerry · « **Reply #22 on:** October 02, 2008, 07:38:10 AM »

The printed word can be fierce. In person a smile or the twinkle of an eye changes the intent and meaning. That's why icons help!

Mikey · « **Reply #23 on:** October 02, 2008, 08:10:59 AM »

Quote

Reddad - You had me going too.

Me too Mike........but I wasn't about to admit it until others jumped in first.....

miguynmkoi · « **Reply #24 on:** October 02, 2008, 09:43:12 AM »

Oh for the love of a donnybrook you guys! From his first fun with words I could see Reddad is funnneeee! I could see humor without

or

Naturally, easier said after reading what you guys wrote

HOWELL · « **Reply #25 on:** October 02, 2008, 12:38:51 PM »

so art thou is trying to be funny? huh?
but mine eyes do not lie, because truth is all they have behold.

I've no idea if that is even right....................................

Mikey · « **Reply #26 on:** October 02, 2008, 12:54:02 PM »

Did anyone yell, "HOOK UP!" (for you non-fisher persons out there, "hook up" is what you call out on a party fishing boat when you hook up a game fish and it starts to run) ........ I only ran a short distance before I got suspicious and spit out the hook......but none the less my mouth still hurts....

....along with my pride....

Jerry · « **Reply #27 on:** October 02, 2008, 02:19:03 PM »

Mike, young guys n gals use "hook up" differently. The equivilent of "Score!"

"Wanna hook up?"

reddad35 · « **Reply #28 on:** October 02, 2008, 03:30:28 PM »

Quote from: HOWELL on October 02, 2008, 12:38:51 PM

so art thou is trying to be funny? huh?
but mine eyes do not lie, because truth is all they have behold.
I've no idea if that is even right....................................

I think that is a combo of Shakespear and George Carlin. That might just be me or maybe your accent.

I tell you this much Howell, If you try to use these words in your neighborhood it will take years to overcome.

BTW I love the smell of rain, "petrichor" also. In the forum world we call this topic a hijacked topic.

HOWELL · « **Reply #29 on:** October 02, 2008, 06:34:31 PM »

Hahaha I know reddad35 you did get it, I had a teacher that use to put the art thou with the is after the thou, so that's what I did?, let me tell you something about her background.
She is from mexico, I was in english class with her,(she thinks she is so good because she went to london) and I told her she was wrong but no she wasnt't(she said), she has been reading english literature from a long time such as shakespeare, or how ever you spell it.
So who is wrong now?

LOL
And I said, look I do not care how ya'll talk like in england, but in arkansas english is much better if you do not believe watch the movie, oh brother where art thou?.

The second one is mine, I'm trying to learn antique english(the one she is teaching) such as YE, THY, THOU and some others, but I seriously think I will do better myself.
But I think it will be more like Shakespear and George Lopez.

And how do you know my accent have you heard me? I think it is just you.

Hahaha nobody here speaks lots of english so they won't understand a thing I'm saying, well I have some english friends and I have tried to talk like them but guess what?, it just does not come out naturally.

Can someone help me with this one, what's the meaning of THUS?