The letter tabs are completely worn off. With all the technology these days, the words of the day from various web-sites, the on-line dictionaries, the on-line thesauruses ... my beloved blue dictionary has been forgotten.
I am going to open up the dictionary - at this precise moment - as I am typing this blog - and pick a word.
The word is ...
paraphysis
page 901. right hand column. that is where my prosthetic index pointer finger landed.
Frankly, I doubt this word would EVER end up as a WORD OF THE DAY on any given web-site. It is a new word for me... and again, I doubt I would EVER use this word in daily conversation - except...
The definition is...
n. (pear-a-fi-zz-us) one of the sterile filaments accompanying the spore-carrying or sexual organs of certain fungi.
... except perhaps to refer to someone I despise (you know who you are) as a quixotic paraphysis. One who has a very sterile personality. And I am quite sure he is some kind of polycystic boil who resembles fungus!
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