Those humans are just a bunch of tomfoolery BAFOOMS bungling the word dumb.

You've heard of the "make a wish" foundation. This is the "make a word" one.

I wonder what the mules think.

It is now.

I love it! Is it really a word?

DUMBASSERY

Today’s word of the day is dumbassery, which is stupid or foolish behavior. It’s less amusing than tomfoolery, more innocent than chicanery, and more likely to be congenital than botchery.

I went to school with him. Dominic Farouche.

farouche
adj.

1. wild; savage; fierce
2. unsociable in a fierce or surly way; lacking social grace

Ohhhh. PRAM, I was thinking.

Prang only ever meant a collision of sorts in NZ....pranged me bike, pranged me car, pranged me pram (baby carriage NE!!)

Prang - the watercolors you used in grammar school.

Prang--a type of South-East Asian temple spire;

"Jamoke" I'm familiar with. "Gibbone" is news to be. Sounds too much like the author, Gibbons.

Prang -- I thought it was a baby carriage in England.

Another Italian-born piece of American slang is "agita," which can mean "heartburn," or any kind of anxiety or worry. It has the same Latin root as "agitation."

"Jamoke" and "gibbone," both slang terms for a crude, inept person. "Gibbone" is from the Italian for "gibbon," a kind of ape.

Gamin or Gamine

Homeless young man or woman

Thanks for link, Cecily!

For some reason I'd gotten it into my head (wedged amongst all the useless trivia!) that 'gammon' was some sort of bird, like a pheasant, rather than another term for ham.

Prang most often applies to a collision involving at least one vehicle rather than, for example, a pedestrian walking into a tree.

If you're interested in the differences between AmE and BrE, have a look at http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogsp...

I've pranged my car on a number of occasions..

Another previously un-encountered British term from my current library book:

Prang -- to collide with; bump into.

Susanne wrote: "NIMROD
Today’s word of the day is nimrod. Most Americans today know it only as an insult meaning “jerk” or “loser,” but it has also historically meant “skillful hunter.” ..."

Many British people would know it as a military aircraft used by the RAF and as the name of a movement from Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations", which is always played on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph and other such services.

I'll hunt that up.

Susanne wrote: "NIMROD
Today’s word of the day is nimrod. Most Americans today know it only as an insult meaning “jerk” or “loser,” but it has also historically meant “skillful hunter.” That meaning comes from Ni..."

It's also the name of a poetry journal. I'm in the latest issue.

Didn't know they had a name. We just know them as obnoxious.

VUVUZELA
I saw this written as "I'll be there with my vuvuzelas!" Hadn't a clue!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYb9qtO8...

Also not helping: "Nim" sounds a lot like "Dim."

NIMROD
Today’s word of the day is nimrod. Most Americans today know it only as an insult meaning “jerk” or “loser,” but it has also historically meant “skillful hunter.” That meaning comes from Nimrod, explained in the Bible as a mighty hunter, king of Shinar, grandson of Ham, a great-grandson of Noah. The newer, less-kind meaning probably comes from the phrase “poor little Nimrod,” used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny to mock the hapless hunter Elmer Fudd. The reference passed by a lot of cartoon-viewers and they interpreted it as an insult they’d never heard before.

I can't invite you to dinner. Oh I know how about some Daal with squash.

Gallimaufry is a theater group in Laguna Beach. Most of them are too old to be tender enough to eat. Have some oatmeal, instead.

Gallimaufry is what we are having for dinner . Maybe some grilled cheese sandwiches also, if it stops raining so I can go to store.

tom and jerry

grogs

trogs

They can double as Bread Baskets at the dinner table too.

They are works of art. So beautiful.

Perfect Debbie :-)

Trugs

It needs to be long to hold 'cut flower stems'.
Sweet and simply designed really.

I love it. Is it very heavy in itself. I remember small bushel baskets for vegetables, my mother and grandmother used.

carol (akittykat) wrote: "Looks like we just call them baskets. No imagination there."

But a trug is a specific sort of basket, in terms of materials and shape. Here's a picture http://www.relderton.co.uk/portfolio/jpg...

Oh! you spotted my 'Trojan Horse' tactic NE..and
safety with neighbours..

Never heard of trug (what an ugly sounding word for something to carry baskets). And welcome, Windfall! I saw you sneak in there with the on-the-spot British perspective....

trug shows up in crossword puzzles a lot

carol (akittykat) wrote: "John wrote: "I thought that was the case!"

or the basket
"

I call it the Trug Basket!

John wrote: "I thought that was the case!"

or the basket

I thought that was the case!

John saidI ran across this one yesterday in my library book - do we have an American equivalent?

Looks like we just call them baskets. No imagination there.

Hello John,
I have my very own trug for flower picking.
*blushes proudly*

I ran across this one yesterday in my library book - do we have an American equivalent?

Trug -- noun British.

a shallow basket for carrying flowers, vegetables, etc., made from strips of wood.

The wit of the car ride home, I call it.

l'esprit de l'escalier

"The wit of the staircase." As you leave the party, you snarl, "What I should have said to that varlet is . . ."