Relating to things suddenly seen in a new and different way.
Though this word is rare to the point of never being used in its ostensible sense, but only as a keyword to initiate discussion, it has been keeping illustrious company, since its few appearances in
print have been in works by G K Chesterton, J R R Tolkien and Charles Dickens.
Dickens invented it, if that's the right word. He mentions it in his autobiography, when he describes his poverty-stricken youth:
In the door there was an oval glass plate, with COFFEE-ROOM painted on it, addressed towards the street. If I ever find myself in a very different kind of coffee-room now, but where there is such an inscription on glass, and read it backward on the wrong side MOOR-EEFFOC (as I often used to do then, in a dismal reverie,) a shock goes through my blood.
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scuilion commented on the word einstoned
When your so stoned you think you understand Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
July 8, 2009
scuilion commented on the word mooreeffoc
Weird Words: Mooreeffoc
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Relating to things suddenly seen in a new and different way.
Though this word is rare to the point of never being used in its ostensible sense, but only as a keyword to initiate discussion, it has been keeping illustrious company, since its few appearances in
print have been in works by G K Chesterton, J R R Tolkien and Charles Dickens.
Dickens invented it, if that's the right word. He mentions it in his autobiography, when he describes his poverty-stricken youth:
In the door there was an oval glass plate, with COFFEE-ROOM painted on it, addressed towards the street. If I ever find myself in a very different kind of coffee-room now, but where there is such an inscription on glass, and read it backward on the wrong side MOOR-EEFFOC (as I often used to do then, in a dismal reverie,) a shock goes through my blood.
From Michael Quinion's World Wide Words weekly newsletter.
September 16, 2008
scuilion commented on the list mtsi-word-of-the-day
Excellent list! So eclectic.
September 11, 2008