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Word For The Day, Thursday, December 26, 2013 – bluestocking
dictionaries ad nauseam
| 26 December 2013
| Thursday's sub
Posted on 12/26/2013 5:43:32 AM PST by secret garden
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".
bluestocking \BLOO-stok-ing\ , noun
1. a woman with considerable scholarly, literary, or intellectual ability or interest.
2. a member of a mid-18th-century London literary circle: Lady Montagu was a celebrated bluestocking.
Example sentences:
...if you rolled the whole group into one girl, she would be what Norine said — a rich, assured, beautiful bluestocking.
-- Mary McCarthy, The Group, 1963
She reads such deep books—all about facts and figures: she'll be quite a blue-stocking by and by.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, 1864-1866
Etymology:
Bluestocking originally referred to cheap blue socks worn by men, in contrast to fine white silk stockings. In the mid-1700s, these blue socks became associated with intellectuals who attended salons where female intellectuals were highly valued. Eventually bluestockings came to be a pejorative term for intellectual women, though it started out as a positive or neutral term.
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Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:44:11 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
The bluestocking was a democrat, said no one ever.
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12/26/2013 5:45:01 AM PST
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tioga
(Wise men still seek Him.)
To: secret garden; SoothingDave
Woke up to a snow dump on my precious SUV. I hate this white stuff already. The frozen tundra sucks snow out of the sky daily, where the heck does it all come from? I am counting the days till spring.
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:46:45 AM PST
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tioga
(Wise men still seek Him.)
To: secret garden
Bonus points for using “Michelle Obama,” or “Kathleen Sebelius” and “bluestocking” in the same sentence..
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:46:56 AM PST
by
ken5050
(This space available cheap...)
To: tioga
It's time to be a snowbird. A for you.
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:47:56 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: tioga
Oh, but all liberals consider themselves to be smart because they support other self-defined smart liberals and believe the same BlueStocking that the "smart" people do.
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:51:00 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: secret garden
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:52:32 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
To: ken5050
A for you!
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:54:36 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: MrB
A for you!
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:55:19 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Gov. Palin is a documented bluestocking
... even in black and white.
To: hobbes1
Howdy tiger! What's shakin'?
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:56:16 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: Diogenesis; secret garden
I was thinking of Gov. Palin too — she is a blue stocking on energy production.
To: secret garden
Kathleen Sebelius looked bluestocking the Obamacare shelves.
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12/26/2013 6:15:22 AM PST
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managusta
(The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.)
To: Diogenesis
And she terrifies them, doesn’t she? A+ for you.
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12/26/2013 6:16:13 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:16:59 AM PST
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: managusta
Welcome to WFTD, clever one. A for you.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:17:33 AM PST
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: tioga
Once thought to be a bluestocking, it turns out that Hillary actually wears pantsuits to coverup her blue veins. Sorry about that vizual.
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12/26/2013 6:21:21 AM PST
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dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: ken5050; tioga; secret garden; xsmommy
I’d like to stuff those republican elite bluestockings so far up their collective Washington aspirins ....
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12/26/2013 7:20:18 AM PST
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Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: secret garden
Ayn Rand, libertarian bluestocking
Had views, to the libs, which were shocking
They love Hill and Michelle
But with healthcare in Hell
Even Leno and Stewart are mocking
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12/26/2013 7:45:52 AM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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