Delightful! I tend to use words, forget them as easily and with as little pain as I remembered them. However, the idea of hoarding words is strange to me and somewhat...exotic? I love your wordlists, and will enjoy looking at them further!
Hello Squareintheteeth,
I am new to this site, and pleasantly bewildered.
I was struck by the appearance of "cudgel" (pun intended, unforturantely) because I was thinking about that word just a day or so ago. It is a word my mother frequently used, always in the context of trying to recall something, as in: "I cudgeled my brain, but I just could not remember. . ."
Now that I am past 50, I cudgel my brain frequently, often to no avail but I have more empathy for my late mother on this problem than I did when I was a girl!
Delightful! I tend to use words, forget them as easily and with as little pain as I remembered them. However, the idea of hoarding words is strange to me and somewhat...exotic? I love your wordlists, and will enjoy looking at them further!
Hello Squareintheteeth,
I am new to this site, and pleasantly bewildered.
I was struck by the appearance of "cudgel" (pun intended, unforturantely) because I was thinking about that word just a day or so ago. It is a word my mother frequently used, always in the context of trying to recall something, as in: "I cudgeled my brain, but I just could not remember. . ."
Now that I am past 50, I cudgel my brain frequently, often to no avail but I have more empathy for my late mother on this problem than I did when I was a girl!