Word cloud created through Wordart.com Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words:Tintinnabulation, Tall, Tassel, Tablet. Onomatopoeia: Tintinnabulation: This fabulous word expresses the tinkling of a small bell, but can be used as a …

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Word cloud created through the facilities of Wordart.com. Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, andmy Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words:Susurration, Scarce, Sect, Stupidity. Onomatopoeia: Susurration: Susurration; just say it. It speaks to the ear. It means a whispering, a …

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Word Cloud via wordart.com Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words:Rip, Red, Rope, Ramble. Onomatopoeia: Rip: Whether it’s ‘He ripped off her dress…’, ‘She ripped his shorts…’, or ‘The quake ripped the land…’, …

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Word cloud created via Wordart.com. Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words:Quiver, Quick, Quarrel, Quality. Onomatopoeia: Quiver: I expect we all know that a quiver is a case to hold arrows, as per …

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Word cloud via wordart.com Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words:Plonk, Pale, Pontification, Peer. Onomatopoeia: Plonk: Plonk does what an onomatopoeia is supposed to do. It says the sound. Not exactly poetic, it …

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Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words:Oink, Old, Ostentation, Obeisance. Onomatopoeia: Oink: Oink is considered a representation of the noise made by a domesticated porcine. But the pigs I’ve met, and, having lived …

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Taking a look at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words:Natter, Nutty, Neverthriving, Nurse. Onomatopoeia: Natter: We all know people who natter; they’re the ones who chatter, gossip, enjoy the sound of their own voice …

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Taking a look at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Miaow, Mad, Mob, Moat. Onomatopoeia: Miaow: I confess I chose this particular onomatopoeia because so many writers and readers are cat lovers, and we all …

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Taking a look at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, andmy Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Lash, Light, Litter, Labour. Onomatopoeia: Lash: Although ‘lash’ has several meanings, I imagine the most popular is that meaning ‘whiplash’ as in the lash of …

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Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Keen, Kind, Kaleidoscope, Kangaroo. Onomatopoeia: Keen: To ‘keen’ is generally thought of as to make a wailing or moaning sound. But this word can also describe …

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Sorry this is a day late: domestic concerns took precedence yesterday! Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, andmy Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Jangle, Joyful, Jack of all trades. Onomatopoeia: Jangle: ‘Jangle’ is one of those words crying out …

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Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, andmy Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Itch, Innocent, Implausibility, Imam. Onomatopoeia: Itch Whether ‘itch’ is onomatopoeic is probably a matter of opinion. I’m including it here as it has the power, through association, …

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Examining Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and adding to my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Hoot, Hot, Horde, House. Onomatopoeia: Hoot ‘Hoot’ is word we associate with owls as a rule. But it can also describe laughter of a certain type. …

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Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, andmy Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Grumbling, Good, Gang, Gardener. Onomatopoeia: Grumbling ‘Some folk spend their lives grumbling, usually about matters they can’t control. In fact, some people are said never to be …

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Looking at Onomatopoeia and Metaphor, Simile, Collective Nouns, and my Delusional Dictionary. For definitions of those, click here to read the introductory post to the series. This week’s words: Fizzle, Free, Fleet, Fuck. Onomatopoeia: Fizzle ‘Young Jimmy looked on with growing disappointment as his favourite whizz-bang firework, dampened by constant rain, sputtered and fizzled out …

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