It’s been quite a gooply day today. If you haven’t heard of that word before, don’t bother looking it up. I made it up for a silly alphabet book that I made for our oldest son when he was 8 years old. Most of the words were fairly forgettable, but a few have stuck in our family lexicon.
I went to put some mail in the mailbox this morning and the driveway was so gooply with worms it was hard to avoid walking on the repulsive little wrigglers. You may use this word as much as you please because I really think our English vocabulary needs it.
Another word from that book that was well used in our family was “heinlip: the last bite of a meal.”
Sometimes one of the kids would look at a sibling’s plate and say, “Are you going to eat the heinlip?” It was a polite way of foraging for more food.
One of the best words to emerge, from a parental standpoint, was the word “Xinli,” which means “The sound of someone getting ice cream out of the freezer.” We used this word a LOT after all the kids were in bed.
The total eclipse was a bust in our neck of the woods, but at least I got to revisit some of these funky words today. And now you also know why no one has been contacting me to become a book illustrator. My usual style is stick people so this was quite fancy for me.
I’m on a roll, so here’s a BRAND NEW WORD: “Blogocide,” the destruction of blog posts in the morning.
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