Showing posts with label Three Word Salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Three Word Salad. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Three Word Salad Saturday

You know the drill, right?  Write a flashy bit o'fiction that incorporates the following three (count 'em...3) words:

1. agroof (ah-GROOF) — to fall flat on your face
The word that means "to fall flat on the face" is commendable for its precision. I like the inclusion of "roof" for a word that means a "fall."
 2. louche (LOOSH) — of questionable taste or morality; decadent
The very sound of it conjures decadence.
  3.  cusp (KUSP) 1. a point or pointed end. 2. a pointed or rounded projection on the chewing surface of a tooth; a triangular fold or flap of a heart valve. 3. a point at which a curve crosses itself and at which the two tangents to the curve coincide. 4. the point of intersection of two ornamental arcs or curves, such as the inner points of a trefoil. 5. either point of a crescent moon. 6. a transitional point or time, as between two astrological signs.
Just the sound...It is a great word

***Note: The above words came from a fab list of great words called Vocabula.

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Three Word Salad ... of the Weird Kind.

quidnunc - a gossip or nosybody

agraffe - the wire cage which holds down the cork in a bottle of champagne

sitooterie - a summerhouse or gazebo

If you are curious, there is a wonderful website called Worthless Word for the Day. If it's odd, archaic, unexpected, etc., chances are, it's listed in this compendium.