jejune

gonna have to stop chewing on the maps, yaar

How did a bit of Korea get in my gastrointestinal tract?

I always think about the jejunum when jejune comes up. It's the part of the small intestine sandwiched between the duodenum and ileum. It's probably the least interesting part of the gastrointestinal tract, as nothing really significant happens - which is how I would use the word, to mean uninteresting and insignificant.

i will say one thing. there are some words that are still backed with their original meaning when used by certain people. this may not be the context expected but that is exactly why it works.

NICK CAVE
jejune as used in a recent song "i call upon the author to explain". and he just tosses that stuff off like its nothing. like "malanderer". all intellectuals be damned. he rules the english language.

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

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

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

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

Uhh...

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

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

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

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

What does jejune mean, bilby?

Yeah, they seem much the same thing to me.

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

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.

It's almost time to look up jejune again.

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

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?

I might list jejune if I knew what it meant.

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.

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

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.

... 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 ...