;Posted on 01/25/2012 5:36:49 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 1/25/12
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
fey;adj.
1. British Dialect . doomed; fated to die. 2. Chiefly Scot. appearing to be under a spell; marked by an apprehension of death, calamity, or evil. 3. supernatural; unreal; enchanted: elves, fairies, and other fey creatures. 4. being in unnaturally high spirits, as were formerly thought to precede death. 5. whimsical; strange; otherworldly: a strange child with a mysterious smile and a fey manner.
Etymology: "of excitement that presages death," from O.E. fæge "doomed to die," also "timid;" and/or from O.N. feigr, both from P.Gmc. *faigjo- (cf. M.Du. vege, M.H.G. veige "doomed," also "timid," Ger. feige "cowardly"). Preserved in Scottish. Sense of "displaying unearthly qualities" and "disordered in
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
Cannot abide the fey gay, hence i didn't watch a single second of SOTU.
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
No pushing at the door please!
Buenos dias, muchachos.
In every day,
And in every way,
I’ll be feeling fey
‘Til Obama’s gone!
I didn’t watch it either.
Mitt Romney is feeling real fey
‘stead of leading, he’s chasing today
Lost a caucus to Rick
South Carolina? Down quick
Presumptive winner ‘til Newt led the way
If I were to watch his SOTU, I'd merely be screaming STFU. Waste of time.
By the way, I am expanding my literary horizons from limericks to fables.
That fey, ethereal quality must have been what his discoverers saw in the young Barry.
If he's not the anti-Christ, he'll do until the real thing comes along.
My daughter’s rec league bball team finally won a game last night. That sure raised her spirits. Even more amazing is that they only had 5 girls show up and played most of the second half shorthanded (due to one of the girls taking ill).
Buon giorno, amici!
I’m looking for the full speech that Spooky Dude gave the other day. Anyone know where that can be found?
Since we all know it is coming.......Newt must be bashed, demonized (since republicans are all either evil or stupid) as he is the new front runner.......who will do the Tina FEY equivalent impression of Newt?
what a lighthearted little ditty! A+++
whole situation depresses the hell outta me. A+++
Truthy, you are our genius : ) A+++++
A+++ you got that totally right.
ha! good’un!
you used my standby homework while I was browsing the news, now I have to come up with something viable......I see Newt is to give a response to Nancy Pelosi’s comments about his ethics charges......so we won’t be listening to much more commentary about theO’s SOTU.
I wonder if the democrat-socialist attacks-of-personal destruction on conservative women will be fated to die a Tina Fey bit in the future?
Or, get worse as their hatred increases?
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