Posted on 03/17/2014 5:55:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, March 14, 2014 – blarney
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".
blarney; noun noun 1. flattering or wheedling talk; cajolery. 2. deceptive or misleading talk; nonsense; hooey: a lot of blarney about why he was broke. verb (used with object), verb (used without object), blar·neyed, blar·ney·ing. 3. to flatter or wheedle; use blarney: He blarneys his boss with the most shameless compliments. Origin: 1760–70; after the hamlet Blarney, in Ireland; see Blarney stone 1796 (which is said to make a persuasive flatterer of any who kiss it), in a castle near Cork, Ireland; reached wide currency through Lady Blarny, the smooth-talking flatterer in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" (1766).
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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.
Not sure this is the sort of blarney that conservatives want to hear from Rand Paul.
this had better be the last snow day of the season, as i am ready to move to the fricking tropics.
Ugh. Coffee.
did someone call?
LMAO! did not expect that one, mr vast member! A++++
shoveling now, be back in a bit.
Irish Coffee
A: Patty O'Furniture
I was on a tour between Blarney Castle and Waterford on 9-11-2001 when we received word of of the NY Trade Center catastrophe. That terrible news overshadowed the rest of our trip, and that’s no blarney!
To be FRANK, a gay liberal like BARNEY
Was up to his eyeballs in blarney
But even Barry, a liar
With trousers afire
Cannot match the b.s. of Jay Carney
There once was a FReeper named xsmommy
She gave us a word, namely ‘blarney’
She complained of the snow
But I wish she would know
that the heat in Florida is too freaking soggy
Y’all have gotten hammered with more snow in DC than we have in CT. What a load of blarney, eh?
Blarney - the typical contents of Obama’s teleprompter.
I was at Blarney Castle in 1997. Kissed the stone and everything.
not fricking soon enough!
that is too bad. A+++
excellent! A++++ rumors Carney is ready to move on from his blarney blathering.
well it’s not an either/or proposition, Rarestia! Yes FL is too soggy, and too much snow is bad, DC and surrounds are normally a more temperate locale with hot humid summers and just a little bit of snow. this is the fourth time we have had to shovel this winter and truly it has to be a record in our 15 years in this house. How fortuitous for xshub that he has been out of town for 2 of the 4, and so left his womenfolk in charge of shoveling out!
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