Wondrous Words Wednesday
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky! I really do need to read more challenging books because once again I had to rely on my Word-a-Day calendar.
1. maffick – “Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team’s dramatic victory.”
Maffick is a verb that means to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior. I’ll admit that I’ve been caught mafficking before.
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2. revanche – “Soon after losing the northern territory to the invading army, the general began drafting a plan of revanche to get it back.”
Revanche is a noun that means revenge; especially: a usually political policy designed to recover lost territory or status.
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3. flocculate– “During fermentation, yeast cells flocculate in the vat and either rise to the top or sink to the bottom.”
Flocculate is a verb that means to aggregate or coalesce into small lumps or loose clusters. It’s an interesting word, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to slip into a conversation.
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Have you come across any new words lately?
Great words. I know that I’ve heard flocculate before but had forgotten what it mean. I’d like to do some mafficking myself!
I’ve met all new words here today. “Revange” did make me think of revenge immediately.
HA! … just saying flocculate makes me laugh. It sounds like something totally different than its meaning.
Kind of guessed the 2nd but that was just that it was similar
I can see where it would be difficult to slip flocculate into a sentence. Not exactly cocktail party conversation! Lol/
I agree with Beth – what fun flocculate is. One could imagine using it to pretend it means something else!
Numerous people in France are always complaining about the numerous English words we are using now. A word “franglais” (something like” frenchglish” was created to name this “new language”. Every weeks i’m amazed to discover how many French words are used too in English ( revanche this week) and how numerous other words are nearly the same (flocculate and floculer) Soon “Englench” ?
I don’t think I would ever use Mafficked in a sentence. Great words!
Very interesting words! Revanche suggests revenge but sounds a little more gentle!
Flocculate is great but I agree with you that using it in regular conversation could be tough! I know when I make brownies, the flour mixture often flocculates while I’m mixing the ingredients requiring more than the 50 strokes the box recommends!
I’m not familiar with maffick but love its definition. I think I prefer saying boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior!
I finally posted some words today!
I like revanche – it’s a good spin on a common word.
I knew flocculate… but am I the only one to think it sounds gross? *puzzled*
Flocculate… great word! I recently went on a tour of the Jack Daniel’s Distillery and we got to sniff flocculating yeast (can you make it an adjective like that) — suffice it to say it was NOT a pleasant sensation. Sort of like breathing wasabi.
Fun words today!
Flocculate is a word that sounds like what it does..and there is a word for that too, which I can not remember
I like the word maffick, they were all new to me.
Love these words! I need some more mafficking in my life right now!
Great words! All new to me. I think there could be fun ways to use revanche metaphorically.
I like the words from your Word-A-Day. As to maffick – here in northern California there was no mafficking last Sunday when the 49er lost to the Giants. Very sad.
Great post! Liking revanche!!
All new to me.
I’ve been reading Shakespeare, which is chock full of words I’m unfamiliar with. Thank goodness for the notes at the bottoms of the pages.
Maffick is my favorite here, due to its sound and meaning!
Thanks for hosting this meme, Kathy. I’ll add my link very soon. That calendar is a very good source of words.
Guess there will be no mafficking for those stupid Packers this year! Great words today Kathy…
Ooh…I think these are my new favorites!!!
Especially maffick!!!
I’m curious as to how to pronounce “maffick.” It looks like a neat word.
I Ike the sound of flocculate too but I I’d have anywhere to use it. Great words today!
I like maffick. I would have guessed the meaning to be more like “trouble brewing”!
Flocculate didn’t turn out to be what I thought!!
I might have been able to guess at these by context but I wouldn’t have any idea otherwise.
I’ve been known to maffick on occasion myself.
Hmmm, I am not jumping on the maffick train — I just don’t like the sound of it. These were all new to me this week.
Bah!! Flocculate just doesn’t sound appropriate.
maffick is my favorite today.. could not have guessed the meaning at all..
All new words for me today..
Hi Kathy,
All new words today, and all designed to make me smile, although goodness knows when I could casually drop any of them into the conversation!
That calendar of yours is certainly throwing up some pretty outlandish words, I must look out for something similar in the store.
Then all I need is a photographic memory to store them all and recall them at will to make myself look smart at a dinner party!
Those ARE some wondrous words! Nicely shared!
Why couldn’t people flocculate at a networking meeting or conference?