She kept house in a very HABNAB way.
habnab- (adj.) at random; hit or miss
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She kept house in a very HABNAB way.
habnab- (adj.) at random; hit or miss
Are you talking about me, Nana? :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by nanaslbkp;3565706;
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"Mary Poppins pulled the perambulator up with a jerk, in case Andrew, in his wild flight, should upset it and the Twins."
perambulator: Baby buggy; a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
"The family training too, combined with their turn for combativeness, makes them eminently quixotic."
(from Tom Brown's Schooldays)
quixotic: Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
"She thought of her weary capering legs and how nice it would be to rest them."
(from Mary Poppins)
capering: leaping or prancing about in a playful manner
" Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific explanation of telekinesis and "chronoportation" would have given her novel."
*from introduction to 'Kindred' by Octavia Butler
chronoportation: time travel
"Higuero was leaning his hands on the haft of a mattock, lightly dug into the soil, as he regarded a flowerbed in which bind weed was beginning to wind around miniature roses of many colours."
(from Sun, Sea and Murder by Roderic Jeffries)
haft: a handle or hilt, especially the handle of a tool or weapon.
mattock: a digging and grubbing tool with features of an adze and an ax or pick
bind weed: Any of various trailing or twining, often weedy plants of the genera Calystegia and Convolvulus, having white, pink, or purple bell-shaped or funnel-shaped flowers.
http://www.ksda.gov/includes/images/...indweed245.jpg
He preferred the designer's zaftig figure to the skinny models he saw on the runway.
zaftig - plump, but in a pleasing manner
" 'At the one party we went to, my jealous husband thought Cyril was trying to inveigle me into seeing his etchings.' "
(from Sun, Sea and Murder by Roderic Jeffries)
inveigle: to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements
"Then she tidied up the Nursery and put the kettle on the hob."
(from Mary Poppins)
hob: a shelf or projection at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food or utensils warm
" 'I've no time for such frills and furbelows.' "
(from Mary Poppins)
furbelow: a ruffle or flounce on a garment.