Happy February! Today’s apt Silly Pangram: GOALBIN, noun, the place where your New Year’s resolutions end up right about now.
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Today’s Silly Pangram: OAKYING, the process of making something “oaky,” usually said of wine. One version of “A Visit from St Nicholas” includes the lines: “The red wine was oakying up in their barrels/While choristers wandered the streets singing carols.”
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Today’s Silly Pangram: AFFIRMILY, one of those unnecessary adverbs (some would say this is true of most adverbs) much loved by lazy or insecure writers. “He nodded his head AFFIRMILY. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘That is correct.’”
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Today’s Silly Pangram: ONEHUBBY, adj., pejorative reference to monogamy, especially sham monogamy. “Her popular ‘onehubby’ social media presence notwithstanding, the pro-family influencer was discovered to have been carrying on for years with her accountant.”
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Today’s Silly Pangram: DÉJANCY, pronounced “DAY-jen-sea,” the state of feeling as if everything has already happened before, likely derived from déjà vu. You may remember it from the Ogden Nash couplet: “Alas, for we poets lack agency / in this era of soul-sucking déjancy.”
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Today in #SillyPangrams: COLLIDITY, n., the quality of being likely to collide or conflict with something. Example: “With his moods & her anxieties, the relationship was from the start marked by a high degree of collidity.”
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Today in #SillyPangrams: NEEDLUCK, adj., in dire need of positive change in one’s fortunes.
Example: “Notwithstanding last night’s thrilling overtime win over the Rockets, the Sacramento Kings are deep in a disheartening NEEDLUCK season.”
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Today’s #SillyPangram: PLATITUDAL, adj., characteristic of platitudes, as in “Americans have had enough of the platitudal calls for ‘thoughts & prayers.’”
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Well, this should just be a word, is all.
UNFAWNING, adj., disinclined or refusing to flatter those in power.
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Today’s #SillyPangram: TONGOURD, a gourd, such as a pumpkin, that weighs a ton, or is so heavy it feels like it does.
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Today’s #SillyPangram: EMPLOYAE, obscure plural of EMPLOYEE, pronounced just like “employee”, sometimes misspelled ÆMPLOYÆ by people who are simply confused.
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Today’s #SillyPangram: TAILGATEY. Adj., having to do with, characteristic of, or reminiscent of a tailgate party or a tailgating driver. “He was tailgatey both behind the wheel & in the kitchen, and she stopped seeing him.”
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Today in #SillyPangrams: NARCOBALL. Maybe like a fireman’s ball, only with drug dealers.
Oh hey, there’s actually a book with this title: “NARCOBALL: Love, Death, & Football in Escobar’s Colombia” by David Arrowsmith. Light reading.
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Today’s #SillyPangram: PIZZABITE
In addition to not getting pangram for that, I’m also now craving pizza but am both gluten- and lactose-intolerant. How’s your Monday going?
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Today in #SillyPangrams: GIRLTHINGING. As in, “Her refusal to define the word was the epitome GIRLTHINGING. ‘You know or you don’t,’ she said. ‘Pass me the purple nail polish. No, the other purple.’”
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Today’s #SillyPangram: COURTUARY. A repository for dead lawsuits, romances, or tennis games. #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Today’s #SillyPangram: AMNEBIC. This is where you can’t find a pen when you need one because you can’t remember where you put it. #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Today’s #SillyPangram: LATEXEDLY adv. 1. In the manner of something coated with latex. 2. In the manner of a former romantic partner now dead. Ex: The creature/The man slithered latexedly into view. #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Today in #SillyPangrams: CHAUMPT, archaic, past tense of CHOMP, as in “He chaumpt at the bit, yea, verily.” #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Today in #SillyPangrams: LILHEATHEN. Said affectionately (of course!) of one’s misbehaving child. #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Good morning! Today’s #SillyPangram: DORIANY, adjective describing someone who looks suspiciously younger than they should. #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Today in #SillyPangrams: PENDITENCE. That’s when someone is about to apologize but hasn’t yet, or when you’re waiting for an apology that isn’t forthcoming, as in “Her marriage was a 25-year exercise in *penditence*.” #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Today’s #SillyPangram: GOALHEN. This alternate for “Tiger Mom” never really caught on, maybe because it was easily confused for “Soccer Mom.” #NYTSpellingBee #FakePangrams
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Today’s silly pangram: UNWONTONING (alt. UNWONTONNING). Obscure, gerund form of UNWONTON, meaning to remove wontons from or fail to put wontons in soup, often confused with UNWANTON. #FakePangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Lots of fun choices this morning, but I’m going with PODGROAN, which is when a group of whales makes a sound in unison but can also mean any sort of collective sigh, especially in exasperation, as in “His dad jokes were always met with a podgroan.” #FakePangrams #SillyPangrams #NYTSpellingBee
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Today’s silly pangram: GUYTIEING.
*Obviously* this refers to the act of tying a guyline, not whatever your dirty mind has imagined. #NYTSpellingBee #FakePangrams #SillyPangrams
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Not sure what this means but I can think of some people it might apply to. #NYTSpellingBee #FakePangrams #SillyPangrams
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Every day I play @nytimes.com Spelling Bee & entertain myself with fun pangrams that aren’t actual words #SpellingBee #Pangram #FakePangrams
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