WOTD: Twodellyoodelly

Hmm, 'twodellyoodelly' wasn't actually meant to be a word, it was just supposed 2 be one of those "I missed a night so had 2 come up with 2 words..." blog titles, designed 2 catch you're attention, like those other 2 I had which had the number '2' in the title 2 times each. But since I only have one word thus far, it will help me get 2 2 nicely.

Before inaugurating that particular word, the Word of the Day for Thursday, August 11, 2005, was pulled up from the archives, and dates back to, oh more than one whole month ago...:

cardsnap
n.

1. An expert at card games, specifically. snap: The spontramellic cardsnap beat all the children at their own game.


2. A situation in which the magician's card wasn't actually the card you picked: "Is this your card!?" "Errr... cardsnap?"


3. When you have to buy a new deck.

Etymology: English: cardsharp + Matt: stupidity + Cards: snap.

Amusing etymological anecdote: That one actually came from a one-word-at-a-time-story where the other one-wordatant (Jeremy) used the word "cardsharp" and I misread it and began calling it "cardsnap."

So the fairly appropriate Word of the Day for today, Friday, August 12, 2005, is:

twodellyoodelly
n.

1. A flanderiffic word meaning 'two': The blog-poster was so far behind, he had to make twodellyoodelly posts in the one day.


2. When a vending machine accidentally deposits two items when the user only paid for a single one: Hey! I got a twodellyoodelly!


3. A two-sided kangaroo: Check out the twodellyoodelly at the zoodellyoodelly!

It won't make the dictionary like vrafrinkous will (hehe), but it's wordy enough.

Speaking of Flanders, let's have a good ol' fashioned Simpsons quote:

"Zounds, I did thee mightily smitily!
'Zounds' is a renaissance English word short for 'God's wounds' but the 'smitily' — that's pure Flanders!"
- Ned Flanders