What's the word?

[Lisarenee]

Okay, have you ever come across a word in a book that at first you weren't sure if it was a misspelling? Perhaps you knew what they were referring to but there was another definition that you couldn't keep yourself from thinking of nor keep yourself from giggling about? Well let us know.

Here are mine:

I can't remember which author it was, but they kept talking about pasties and I knew they were talking about pastries. I, however, kept thinking of those little shields that can be used in place of a bra. This was definitely a giggler.

In another book they kept talking about marbles. I kept thinking of the darn little glass round balls that kids play with. They were actually talking about marble statues. It was a historical and I somehow missed where they said what marbles referred to. I kept wondering why marbles would be something a antique dealer in Victorian London would be estimating the price of?

[Shadow Jubilee]

lol. Those are funny stories. I've always thought of pasties as pastries because that's what the dictionary told me when I first looked it up.

err, come to think of it, didn't the word pasties come up in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Night Play? The marble statues had pasties attached to them... Until now, I thought that they were talking about pastries and would always wonder how they managed to keep the pastries attached and what a mess it would be to clean them up. o_O Wow. Now the whole pastie thing totally makes sense. I have to go back and reread that part to make certain it's the latter definition rather than the former, but now I'm pretty sure that it is.

[Shadow Jubilee]

Read the blurb of Without Reservations by Langley:

"Chayton Winston is a veterinarian. He is also a werewolf."

I was mystified. A vegetarian wolf? How does that work?

Just realized what it really said an hour later.

[Galla]

niquae wrote: "Read the blurb of Without Reservations by Langley:

"Chayton Winston is a veterinarian. He is also a werewolf."

I was mystified. A vegetarian wolf? How does that work?

Ask Stephenie Meyer, Niquae. If she can make a "vegetarian" vampire, I'm sure she can do something with her werewolves, lol. Ilona Andrews actually has one vegetarian pack member (I think she's a tiger? Need to re-read) in her shifter group in the Kate Daniels series, and it's hilarious. Intentionally so.

[Susan]

Oh the image of a werewolf picking on salad is marvelous.

I've always had problems with the word "misled" - I read it as mizzled.