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From Po’s poem “Ovid on Covid” I had to look up a word I had never seen before...
u·ro·pyg·i·um
/ˌyo͝orəˈpijēəm/
nounZOOLOGY
the rump of a bird, supporting the tail feathers.
Do.RoThy
Sun 22nd Mar 2020 06:42
Weltschmerz:
Worn down by the world's ills..
After years of fighting the system, he was weighed down by Weltschmerz.
Do.RoThy
Sat 21st Mar 2020 17:28
Hey Don, thanks for the word. I'm just trying to make use of the time. Too much time for ourselves. I hope I'm able jo use it judiciously.
Good heavens! You've put your computer-dabble time to productive use here
I have also been productively-dabbling.
'Polyadic'
3 or more
Useless word
I ever saw
Had to Google
What it meant
Useless word
We been sent
Down from Greeks no doubt...
Me no agelast
Me ha ha
May be aged but
Fun no bar
Waiting for
other's words
Ones that I have
Never heard......
Do.RoThy
Sat 21st Mar 2020 09:55
AGELAST
Definition: a person who never laughs
The humorless agelast comes from the Greek word agélastos (“not laughing, grave, gloomy"), and not, as one might suppose, from the fact that spending any time around such a person feels like it lasts an age. Agélastos in turn comes gelân (“to laugh”), the same word that gives us gelastic ("arousing or provoking laughter").
Add to these a gift of irony—that confounder of the literalists and Agelasts—perfect self-possession and an imperturbable sang-froid, impenetrability of expression and purpose and the equipment of the Dandy seems to be complete.
— Temple Bar (London, Eng.), Apr. 1890
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Do.RoThy
Fri 27th Mar 2020 08:19
Thanks V......I was about to do the little task....?