Ombliferous
I love new words with
multiple meanings! Ok, I’ll use ombliferous in a sentence or three so you can
figure out what it means and choose which sentence it’s used in correctly.
1. In a song lyric: That’s not ombliferous,
that’s 50 dollars for a t-shirt!
2. Diffusing a road rage situation: Who
gave that ombliferous jerk a driver’s license?
3. For a tax attorney: There is no return
too ombliferous for us to prepare.
If you choose sentence
number 1- you are right! And the same goes for sentences number 2 and 3. In
each choice the word is used incorrectly because
ombliferous is a nonsense word (one of many) coined by the English poet,
author, artist, and illustrator of the 1800s, Edward Lear.
Happy April
Ombliferous Fools Day! Hope it’s a slobaciously scroobious one!
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ReplyDeleteOk, you got me. I had just read one of his limericks, the one where he uses the word ombliferous, and I ended up searching up 'ombliferous definition'. Feel stupid now.
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