AtoZ Blogging Challenge. Almost Kaput, But Not Quite.

The brainchild of  Arlee Bird, at Tossing it Out













Before you go to my K word today, here's something I found. I'm a researcher by nature, so when one of the blogger posted Hebbie-Jeebies as an H word, I had to find out where that came from. It was coined by a cartoonist named W.B. "Billy" DeBeck of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith fame. He came up with or popularized other long-lived words and phrases as well, including bodacious, my B word on this AtoZ luxury cruise. If you come across hotsy-totsy, hot mama or horsefeathers give credit to that cartoonist DeBeck.  Now onto K.


Kaput





I love this word, not the way I love words like kaleidoscope












or kalanchoe









or even kestrel.






Well, you get the idea. These words stay a while in your mouth while their syllables roll around on your tongue. Kaput is a word that sounds like two strokes of an axe. It comes right to the point. 




The agent points her finger my direction and says to the publisher, "That writer's kaput!"

See?

Two axe strokes. Very harsh.



What's your K word?









Da LIST



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Retro-Zombie (Jeremy Hawkins)

The Warrior Muse (Shannon Lawrence)

The QQQE (Matthew MacNish)

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Sliding on the Edge, C. Lee McKenzie, WestSide Books, Spring '09
The Princess of Las Pulgas, WestSide Books, Fall '10
The First Time, Fall '11 (Anthology story: Premeditated Cat)
Alligators Overhead, Outskirts Press, Fall '12