#wordsarefunstack

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is CALLIPYGIAN. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ DID YOU KNOW... this word is something the likes of J-Lo and Beyoncé own. While it was used in the 1640s, it means to have beautifully shaped buttocks. . This word has its origin in 1640–50 from the Greek kallipýg(os) meaning with beautiful buttocks and referring to a statue of Aphrodite. . . . #bookstadog #repostrover #poodles #poodlestagram #poodlesofinstagram #furbabies #dogsofinstagram #bookstagram #dogsandbooks #bookishlife #bookishlove #bookstagrammer #book #books #booklover #bookish #bookaholic #reading #readersofinstagram #instaread #ilovebooks #bookishcanadians #canadianbookstagram #bookreviewer #bookcommunity #bibliophile #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CE0TAT-gXAp/?igshid=1lxrl2oq1i3sl

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is CRAPULOUS. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ DID YOU KNOW... I know what you are thinking; you are thinking this has something to do with feeling crappy, right? Well, you are not entirely wrong. It means to feel ill from excessive eating or drinking, like feeling crapulous the morning after your cake-binge-worthy birthday celebration. It was first recorded in 1530–40; from Late Latin crāpulōsus, “inclined to drunkenness”. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEhthCSgx2X/?igshid=1hjawaa54ybk4

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is VERECUND. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ DID YOU KNOW... The uncommon adjective verecund, “bashful, modest,” comes straight from Latin verēcundus “restrained by or sensitive to scruples or feelings of modesty, shame, or self-respect.” Verēcundus is a compound of the verb verērī “to fear, show reverence for, be in awe of” and the adjective suffix –cundus, which indicates inclination or capacity. Verērī is the root in the very common verb revere (and its derivatives reverent, reverend, and reverence). Verecund entered English in the second half of the 16th century. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEP79EUgbVJ/?igshid=yfdxd324iyvf

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is SORORAL. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ DID YOU KNOW... Sororal means simply “relating to one’s sister or sisters; sisterly.” It derives from the Latin noun soror “sister” and the English adjective suffix -al, which ultimately comes from the Latin suffix -ālis. Soror comes from Proto-Indo-European swésor- “sister,” in Latin going through the stages from swesor to swosor to sworor to soror. Swésor- appears in Sanskrit as svásar-, in Greek as éor (Greek from preliterate times has had trouble with initial and intervocalic s and w, let alone the cluster sw-, all of which usually became h in classical Greek and disappeared in Hellenistic and later Greek). The form swésōr becomes siur in Old Irish and chwaer in Welsh. The Germanic variant swestar yields Gothic swistar, Old Norse systir, which influenced Old English sweostor and suster to become English sister. Sororal entered English in the mid-17th century. . #readingwithrovergroup #bookstadog #repostrover #poodles #poodlestagram #poodlesofinstagram #furbabies #dogsofinstagram #bookstagram #dogsandbooks #bookishlife #bookishlove #bookstagrammer #book #books #booklover #bookish #bookaholic #reading #readersofinstagram #instaread #ilovebooks #bookishcanadians #canadianbookstagram #bookreviewer #bookcommunity #bibliophile #bookphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9j6GzA3lM/?igshid=j9hvxkwg1jbu

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is FLIBBERTIGIBBET. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ Did you know... a flibbertigibbet is a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person. Reflecting on popular media, I think the character of Suki, played by Melissa McCarthy in the Gilmore Girls is a perfect example of a flibbertigibbet. . Flibbertigibbet is one of many incarnations of the Middle English word flepergebet, meaning “gossip” or “chatterer” (others include flybbergybe, flibber de’ jibb, and flipperty-gibbet).  It is a word of onomatopoeic origin, created from sounds that were intended to represent meaningless chatter.  William Shakespeare apparently saw a devilish aspect to a gossipy chatterer; he used flibbertigibbet in King Lear as the name of a devil.  This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared over 200 years later when Sir Walter Scott used Flibbertigibbet as the nickname of an impish urchin in the novel Kenilworth.  The impish meaning derived from Scott’s character was short-lived and was laid to rest by the 19th-century’s end, leaving us with only the “silly flighty person” meaning. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDroSm1g8vM/?igshid=1mau3hs4dj1xh

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is WIDDERSHINS. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ Did you know... Widdershins (sometimes withershins, widershins or widderschynnes) is a word which (usually) means counterclockwise. However, in certain circumstances, it can be used to refer to a direction that is against the light, i.e. where you are unable to see your shadow. Because the sun played a highly important role in primitive religion, to go against it was considered very bad luck for sun-venerating traditions. . It was considered unlucky in former times in Britain to travel in an anticlockwise (because anti-sun wise) direction around a church and a number of folk myths make reference to this superstition, e.g. Childe Rowland, where the protagonist and his sister are transported to Elfland after his sister runs widdershins round a church. There is also a reference to this in Dorothy Sayers's novels The Nine Tailors and Clouds of Witness ("True, O King, and as this isn't a church, there's no harm in going round it widdershins"). . Reference: Widdershins. (n.d.). Retrieved July 13, 2020, from https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Widdershins https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHnm6sAT1J/?igshid=6iha9r5ke46

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is ABIBLIOPHOBIA. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ Did you know... This week’s word is one to strike fear into the heart of any reader – abibliophobia, the fear of running out of something to read. I must confess that I have suffered from this atrocious affliction in the past when my bedside book pile dipped into single digits. I have been known to read breakfast cereal packets in sheer desperation. Have you ever been hit with it? . Luckily, there is a simple cure – books. A quick visit to your local library or second-hand bookstore, a rummage through your old favourites for a re-read, or a social media shout-out for a loan of books will get you a “fix”. Alternatively, you could become a book reviewer (although usually unpaid, this is a great gig for avid readers) or you could sign up to receive free advance copies of books with NetGalley. I am lucky enough to have lovely friends who lend me books, what spare cash I have is spent in my local bookstore, and I’ve informed everybody who buys me gifts that book tokens are the best bet. So, I think my recovery from this debilitating disease is assured. I hope you get well soon too. . Reference: Tierney, G. (2015, December 09). Abibliophobia – a reader's disease. Retrieved July 13, 2020, from https://wordfoolery.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/abibliophobia-a-readers-disease/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CC15VqDgxl_/?igshid=1qrj1jaslfzzj

📚 Hello Book Friends! It is time for another word for the #wordsarefunstack challenge. If you want to join in this challenge, just create a stack of books that spells a word that is either new to you or has an interesting fact about it. It will be fun to discover new words or find out some interesting facts about them. . 🔤 This week my word is CATTYWAMPUS. . 🕵🏼‍♀️ Did you know... “Cattywampus” (1834) has held a variety of meanings and spellings, including as an adverb (catawampusly) meaning “completely/utterly/avidly,” a name for a fantastical imp-like creature or a mountain lion, and an adjective meaning “askew,” from obsolete “cater,” from the Greek prefix kata- (downward, toward), and perhaps from the old Scottish slang wampish (to wriggle or twist about.) . When it was first used in the U.S. around 1834 as an adverb, it meant “completely, utterly or avidly.” . It first appeared as a noun (catawampus) in Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit (1843), though it probably was first recorded as a noun in American works shortly before that. In that sense, it suggested some sort of hobgoblin or other frightening fantastical creature, likely influenced by “catamount,” another word for a cougar or other large cat (shortened from “catamountain,” or “cat of the mountain”). This is the passage in which it appears: . "Oh!" says he, "if you should ever happen to go to bed there--you MAY, you know," he says, "in course of time as civilisation progresses--don't forget to take a axe with you." I looks at him tolerable hard. "Fleas?" says I. "And more," says he. "Wampires?" says I. "And more," says he. "Musquitoes, perhaps?" says I. "And more," says he. "What more?" says I. "Snakes more," says he; "rattle-snakes. You're right to a certain extent, stranger. There air some catawampous chawers in the small way too, as graze upon a human pretty strong; but don't mind them, they're company. It's snakes," he says, "as you'll object to; and whenever you wake and see one in a upright poster on your bed," he says, "like a corkscrew with the handle off a sittin' on its bottom ring, cut him down, for he means wenom."' https://www.instagram.com/p/CCkQ9Q1ApIv/?igshid=cf6638k92k3w