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spleeny

// September 2nd, 2006 // No Comments » // Cool Words

Sarah Graves talks about this word in her books (the Home Repair is Homicide series). It is a New England term that means “peevish and irritable with hypochondriac inclinations,” according to Merriam-Webster Online. What a great one!

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spoony

// February 14th, 2006 // No Comments » // Cool Words

Today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day is too good to pass up:
spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

Another one worth remembering…

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sesquipedalian

// February 13th, 2006 // No Comments » // Cool Words

Talk about a cool word! This wonderful word, pronounced “ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn,” describes words much like itself: long. As an adjective, it means:
1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables.

This is according to Dictionary.com, which featured the word as Word of the Day for January 13. The listing is available at:

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/01/13.html

Now if I can just remember how to spell it, maybe I will be able to use it!

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