Anyone here ever watch Word Girl (and her monkey sidekick, Captain Fuzzyface?)
No? Me neither.
It came out around the time I was too old to watch it (early middle school, maybe?) when most of my friends were watching Cartoon Network and Disney Channel and all that. Somehow I kind of skipped right from PBS Kids to Gossip Girl and then to movies and now almost all the movies I watch are R-rates and I have no idea how that happened.
But Word Girl was pretty charming for something I was very much too old for. But in reality this is just a way to segue into a new segment of my favorite words- I thought of her catchphrase “Word Up!” and a nostalgia baby was born.
- Sanguine
Optimistic and out for blood - Jamoke
One of those weird insults (like galoot, also excellent, possibly better than jamoke) that doesn’t get used anymore. Ooo! Or ‘lout’. - Froth
Reminds me of oceans and breeze. Makes Mom think of rabies? Understandably, we have different feelings about it. Part of it for me is that I really want to read L’Ecume des Jours (Froth of the Days). - Predacious
- Spurn
- Veracity
- Voracious
- Ragamuffin
Why do I like all of these words for little imp-like children? - Wimple
And underneath her wimple- she has curlers in her hair!
I’ve even heard her singing in the abbey! - Embezzle
The kind of crime a bumblebee commits. Except deadly serious and human. - Qualm
Non, je ne regrette rien - Gumption
- Chutzpah
- Moxie
As related to the above two- but moxie always makes me think of the doxy from Harry Potter, those awful nuisance-y biting fairies that lay eggs in old sofas. - Feckless
Had to edit this in because Pence just said it in the debate (doesn’t he remind you of Lotso the evil pink bear from Toy Story 3?)
Anyway- I am full of feck.
List Mimsy 