Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Kathy aka Bermuda Onion where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. Feel free to join in the fun.STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG by Kate Atkinson
myxomatosis - "Apart from the odd accidental roadkill or the mercy killing of a victim of myxomatosis, he had never knowingly dispatched a rabbit but supposed he could if it was a necessity." (p. 70)
myxomatosis: a condition characterized by the presence of many myxomas (a soft tumor composed of connective and mucoid tissue.)
shufti - "Just having a shufti." (p. 89)
shufti: slang ( Brit ) a look; peep
What new words did you discover this week?
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7 comments:
I got lots of words from that book. I'm surprised we didn't use the same ones. Thanks for playing along!
That's so funny that you and Kathy had almost parallel posts two days in a row!
"Shufti" I like that one! Here are my wondrous words: http://readhanded.blogspot.com/2011/04/wondrous-words-wednesday.html
How fabulous, two of you using the same book (I want to read some of her books more than ever now....) Myxomatosis is a disease caused by a virus that has been used in Australia certainly, and possibly in the UK too, to control rabbit populations.
We have myxomatose too in French, well-known because having killed so much rabbits !
Both new to me. Thanks!
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I first came across myxomatosis watching the old Avengers series with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel....Shufti is a new one! I like it.
Here are mine: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/04/wondrous-words-wednesday_13.html
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