If you look up "bored" in the dictionary…

Follow-up to Pedant's Revolt from The randomness of tomorrow, today!

My mother has an Oxford Universal Dictionary from 1959 and there are a couple of entries that are somewhat relevent…

Chilver – a rhyme for "Silver"

Curple – a rhyme for "Purple"

Hirple – another rhyme for "Purple"

Honourable Mentions

A few words that aren't relevent to previous entries, but just amuse me…

Batrachian – toad–like

A wonderful word that sounds very majestic, but which actually means "toad–like".

Crapulent et. al

Some wonderful words for hangovers etc.

: 12 Aug 2006 11:41 |  Tags: Chilver Curple Hirple Purple Randomness Rhyme Silver |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem