Wordie: Jejune: Comments

Comment by dontcry, 4 months ago

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:29:06 +0000

Buck Mulligan's gay voice went on...Will he come? The jejune jesuit.
--Ulysses,by James Joyce pg.4 (1922 edition)

Comment by D4Divine, 4 months ago

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:47:07 +0000

this word is an expression of disapproval when you want to criticise someone for being simple and unsophisticated...in other WORDS dull and boring

Comment by reesetee, 5 months ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:58:04 +0000

That could be it. But I don't remember for sure.

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:35:58 +0000

Isn't it the month before Jejulie in the French calendar?

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:23:49 +0000

Uhh...

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:26:57 +0000

I dislike feeling BLASE. It's not a hate so much as... well, I'm apathetic about it. Almost like... blasé. ;)

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:03:38 +0000

Wajo, I think Prolagus is joking with bilby. :-)

Bilby, did you ever figure out what jejune means? I can never remember.

Comment by wajo22, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:13:59 +0000

something that is jejune is dull, uninteresting, unsatisfying, devoid of nourishment, substance, and significance. A Jejune speech will definitely leave you BLASE

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:53:17 +0000

What does jejune mean, bilby?

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:54:28 +0000

Yeah, they seem much the same thing to me.

Comment by wajo22, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:43:56 +0000

The meaning of Jejune, a young and naive person, is now obsolete. The current meaning is Vapid ( lacking juices)

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:15:01 +0000

Aw, man, my comment disappeared. Isn't there some similarity between this term and the French word for spring, or something? That's the only way I remember that it can mean a young, naive person. The problem I have with this word is always thinking it's spelled wrong; I always want to spell it jejeune.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:52:06 +0000

It's almost time to look up jejune again.

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:44:24 +0000

The latter two weirdnet definitions could also be seen as a comment.

Comment by pterodactyl, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:10:27 +0000

I suffer from the same problem, pbilby. I think my brain is stuffed so full of esoteric words that whenever I try to relearn "jejune", the definition utterly fails to stick in my mind.

Is there a word for this phenomenon?

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:46:46 +0000

I might list jejune if I knew what it meant.

Comment by bilby, 6 months ago

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:45:26 +0000

As of 5.13pm today I have accepted that I will never remember the meaning of this word. I look it up, it's ho-hum, the word kind of sounds okay, bang, it's gone in thirty seconds. Again and again I've done this. As much as my singing is witheringly tuneless, my life is jejuneless.

Comment by plumpesDenken, 9 months ago

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:06:15 +0000

Bew pays close attention to the preoccupation of many Victorian intellectuals with Ireland, and deals with the ideas of Mill and others without falling into the jejeune generalisations of post-colonial critique. Foster

Comment by yarb, 10 months ago

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:47:05 +0000

I can't stomach this word. There's something grossly dinner-party about it. I can't bear hearing it. It sounds like an unusually vomitous dessert.

Comment by brtom, about 1 year ago

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:16:34 +0000

... Petulance (and its child by Desuetude, Disgust) up against the moronic Starry-Eyed, jejune Rabble-Rouse spitting at the feet of Big Dictum ...
John Latta, Isola di Rifiuti

This is a good example of the amazingly worded wilderness through which Mr. Latta cuts his path ... I think of the jungles of Henri Rousseau ...