snood/bellicose/pone/ranunculus/warp/dilly-dally snood: An ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman’s hair; pins or ties at the back of the head Geeze Louise, if I’m ever so down on my luck that I find it necessary to squish my hair up into a tight snood, will at least one of my [...]

Words from Emily: coerce storied rampart desire prisoner clouds moonlit creepy I feel a bit creepy, sitting here in the early morning night (12:52 am to be precise) in Emily’s apartment. She doth sleep, or attempt to sleep, and I doth write, or attempt to write. Ramparts, coercion, prisoners – sounds like a fantasy novel [...]

I’m a far cry from the Isle of Innisfree, I’ll grant you in a pathetic manner. I’m frustrated, tired, wishing I had gotten up and read my fellow furrower’s spewage sooner. For, having waited til the late hour of 8:50 pm, nearly 9, I feel very little astir in my brain. This must be how [...]

Word Furrows from Emily: copse lapse hirsute makeover spittoon rumpsprung scrap heap meth lab I have been, of late, marching right into a fiction tale, but just now I’ve read Emily’s post and feel like doing no such thing. I’m going to write about me. So. Let us glimpse a bit at our wordlist. Makeover. [...]

Word Furrows From Lily Tamerlane zinc diptych ornery scrapple commodious Okay, I don’t know what you take me for, Lily, but “commodious” does not mean “like a commode”. And if you drink toilet water, you won’t get sick, but your breath may smell very perfumy. As with diptych–looks just like a dipstick that slipped past [...]

Words from Emily: glassblower verdigris Vermeer janitor sedate charcuterie folly forepaw detox Detox was going well, all things considered. Considerin’ one of those things was a run-in with a janitor on PCP which resulted in a nail run straight through her right eye. She felt like the deer meat her pa used to pound on [...]

Word Furrows From Emma roughshod odyssey smarmy rivulet superconductivity retch pubescent I don’t know why I signed up for a sales course in spring. This could have waited til summer, when afternoons in the office become unbearable. First of all, there’s the carpet in this place. Once green, now brown, and of the same pattern [...]

Word Furrows from Emily baneful intangible impaction dental practitioner denude implore doss down duck down It was a baneful existence. She meant that quite literally, as she described the role of shabwajer to the new cadet. Shabwajers were there to denude the King, if the King ever became, shall we say, unsuitable to the practice [...]

Word Furrows from Emily: grand kibitz uppishness urinator middle age maiden maidenform lowbrow ‘Twas only grand for a short while. I thought middle age would be a new era for me. Leaving behind the brash naiveté of youth, the forced humility of too-many-lessons-too-fast, the fevered hunger for faster truth. I thought a calm inner resolve [...]

Word Furrows from Lily trinket gasket halcyon greenhorn inert applicant Halycon is a word I often look up. Why must I be such a greenhorn at my own native tongue? I can look this word up every year, and the year thereafter, provide you with an entirely new definition. Halcyon is about misspent youth, right? [...]