Wondrous Words Wednesday
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I found a few more words in THAT KIND OF MOTHER by Rumaan Alam.
1. gormless – “The formless gormless woman returned, another woman with her.”
Gormless is most commonly used in British English and means lacking intelligence; stupid.
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2. kouros – “She thought that under that T-shirt and jeans Tyler would be a kouros, hairless, flawless, for the time being, anyway.”
A kouros is an ancient Greek statue of a nude male youth standing with the left leg forward and arms at the sides.
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
I love British words – they seem so fun!
Fun words! Fun together — I guess you could be a gormless Kouros! Beautiful but dumb.
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http://maefood.blogspot.com/2018/06/wednesday-wordy-and-wordless.html
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Both new.
Nope x 2.
Clueless on both!
I think I might have heard gormless
I really like gormless. I can get away with that one for a while in public until people learn the definition. Thanks Kathy.
I have heard of gormless but I think in one of my fantasy books!
I didn’t know either.
Formless gormless–that’s funny! Thanks for sharing new words from THAT KIND OF MOTHER.
Those are both great words… and new to me too!