Wondrous Words Wednesday
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get creative! If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!
This week’s words came from my handy Word-a-Day Calendar. I chose these words because I think they’re fun to say.
1. wifty – “The actress herself is intelligent and serious, and has very little in common with the wifty character she plays on TV.”
Wifty is an adjective that means eccentrically silly, giddy, or inane: dizzy.
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2. sockdolager – “For a while I was completely stumped, but then, all of a sudden, I got a sockdolager of an idea.”
In this case, sockdolager means something outstanding or exceptional. I sure wish I’d get a sockdolager of an idea!
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
I like that second word! I wish I’d have a sockdolager too.
Sockdolager is actually a very famous word! It was the trigger for John Wilkes Booth to go in and shoot Lincoln, because he knew right at the point, the audience would erupt in laughter and wouldn’t hear what he was up to! It was, therefore, one of the last words Lincoln every heard! (actually he heard it as “sockdolaging” as in, “you sockdologizing old mantrap!”)
Sockdolager–awesome word! Can’t wait to throw that down in conversation!
sockdolager? come on, is that real?? lol
I’m too wifty to know about all this, but I love sockdolager. What book?, oh I see it was a Word Calendar. I’m putting one on my Christmas wish list.
I love the word Sockdolager! haha I would never think to use that word.
I’m hoping to have a sockdolager of an evening trick-or-treating with my kids, though the sugar high afterwards might make us wifty. 🙂 I like it!
Sockdolager 0 now that one I like!!
Sometimes I feel a little wifty, two words I didn’t know.
OMG I love wifty. What a great word.
Sockdolager — what a great word! Sounds British.
Oh my gosh, I love the word “wifty” … LOL. I must use it in a future novel.
You shared two really great words today. Wifty is a much better way to say silly. It sounds classier. I really like the addition info Jill gave on sockdolager. I’ll keep that in mind when I go to see the soon-to-be-released movie on Lincoln.
Those are both new to me – fun words today!
Hi Kathy,
I know of the word wifty, although it wouldn’t be used much here in the UK today, as it is too close to wifter, which among other things means smelly!
Sockdolager is a word that I have never come across before, but is definitely one to drop into a conversation.
I hope that your word-a-day calendar has many more such gems!
Thanks for sharing and hosting,
Yvonne
I especially love the sockdolager word…I am planning on using it at Thanksgiving!
Sockdolager LOL
Those words are both quirky….
I guess the wifty character is a blonde.
I like sockdolager! Now I need to find someplace to use it.
Wifty is a terrific descriptive word, and I remember sockdolager from my own word-a-day calendar! 🙂
I’m thinking many people would call me wifty! LOL
I love the second word so much that I must, absolutely must figure out a way to use it!! 😀