mike's words
words about words
Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About

Friday words #252

By mike_words | January 15, 2021
0 Comment

I wish, you wish, we all wishcycle; of henges, stone and otherwise

Category: Friday words

Friday words #251

By mike_words | January 8, 2021
0 Comment

Putting “to spindle” on a spike; why solecisms are for rubes

Category: Friday words

Friday words #250

By mike_words | January 1, 2021
0 Comment

My favorite new-to-me words and etymologies of 2020

Category: Friday words

Friday words #249

By mike_words | December 18, 2020
0 Comment

Confronting “tergiversation”; dismissing “mass” and sticking with “mumpsimus”

Category: Friday words

Friday words #248

By mike_words | December 11, 2020
0 Comment

Delighting in “epicaricacy”; “valedictorians” who take their leave

Category: Friday words

Friday words #247

By mike_words | December 4, 2020
0 Comment

Delivering “carside”; a “limp” origin

Category: Friday words

Friday words #246

By mike_words | November 27, 2020
0 Comment

Finding “blackout art”; building “cinder blocks”

Category: Friday words

Friday words #245

By mike_words | November 20, 2020
0 Comment

googly “eyebombing”; advocating for “avocado”

Category: Friday words

Friday words #244

By mike_words | November 13, 2020
0 Comment

That contemporary feeling of “acedia”; the “pooh-bah” of Victorian opera.

Category: Friday words

Friday words #243

By mike_words | November 6, 2020
0 Comment

A valetudinarian’s concern for health; unburying various sense of “mummy”

Category: Friday words
Post navigation
← Older posts
Newer posts →

Recent Posts

  • Friday words #329
  • Friday words #328
  • Shrove, shrive, shriven
  • Friday words #327
  • Friday words #326

Recent Comments

  • mike_words on Friday words #327
  • NancyF on Friday words #327
  • mike_words on Friday words #324
  • Michael Vnuk on Friday words #324
  • Robin on Friday words #324
Copyright 2003-2020
Iconic One Theme | Powered by Wordpress