BFWF- 2nd Installment by request.
on 2002-09-20 at 2:14 p.m.
I didn't think anybody was actually paying attention to my BFWF, so I wrote about other events in this mornings entry. However, I have become aware of a least a couple people hoping for their Big Fucking Words today so here goes:
SPOONERISM (SPOON-uhr-iz'm), noun: The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words
Examples:
"It is kisstomary to cuss ['customary to kiss'] the bride."
Let me sew you to your sheet ['show you to your seat']."
EXIGUITY (ek-suh-GYOO-uht-ee), noun: Scantiness; smallness; thinness;the quality of being meager.
Classic Sentence: "The soldiers' pay is in the highest degree exiguous; not above three half-pence a day." --Carlyle
And Finally:
CONCUPISCENCE kahn-KYOO-puh-sun(t)s; kun-, noun: Strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
Classic Sentence: "Within three years Rorik's queen was dead, taking with her into silence her midnight cries of release from that captivity of concupiscence which Eve's curious sin has laid upon mankind."
--John Updike, Gertrude and Claudius
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