Here’s your chance to suggest words for our menu on the Verb. Either email us directly or add a comment below with up to two of your favourite words, and we will hand-pick the freshest entries to be printed for the show.
Members of the Verb audience and recipients of their newsletter now have until midnight Wednesday 5th May!
(note: if you’ve never commented on our blog before it will not appear immediately, but rest assured we will see it.)
You can also read about Ian McMillan’s previous work with us here
Chris
monstrous
hypostatize
David
Great words! I particularly like ‘Monstrous’ because I think it shares a root word with ‘Demonstrate’ i.e. the monster reveals something about the people who despise it.
David
A selection of other words that have come in…
integer
cordial
flannel
rotator
fab
eichhornchen
cloacal
purple
discombobulate
tender
somewhen
keep them coming
Julie Rafalski
cleave
tangent
David
other email arrivals:
Frowsty (meaning musty)
Nincompoop (apparently derived from NonCom as in non-commissioned officer?)
Gubbins
Antediluvian (before the flood i.e. very old)
and Bravo
and for those of you wondering what cloacal means, it is something to do with a dark recess, like a cave…
there’s still time to get your words in
Bobby Parker
Delinquent
Aerial
Josie
codswallop
David
Delinquent Aeriel is almost a sentence. I’ll use this the next time the TV stops working.
Sam
Vicarious
Absentia
jackie
haberdashery
nellie
razzmatazz
firktoodling
David
…myopic
numinous…
David
Thank you all for contributing your words, many of whom have been selected. You are all making fine use of our national vocabulary.
(note: We continue to recieve entries from the Verb audience mailing list, so Verbeys – don’t hold back!)
Adam
Craggy