This week's theme: Words that seem risque. turdiform (TUR-di-form) adjective
Like a thrush (any of the songbirds of the family Turdidae). [From Latin turdus (thrush).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The writers most characteristic of the sixties created marginal, slightly lost characters, gentle dreamers, or hardened iconoclasts in search of themselves in a world that is no longer their own, seizing every possible occasion to distinguish themselves from what Flaubert would have been quick to call the 'turdiform bourgeois.'" Marc Chenetier (Author), Elizabeth A. Houlding (Translator); Beyond Suspicion; University of Pennsylvania Press; 1995. This newsletter is made possible in part by these sponsors: S.O.S. does not stand for "Save our Ship" -- it's a distress signal. Respond to the polar bear's S.O.S. by signing your name at http://PolarBearSOS.org Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=mx0 ............................................................................ There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. -Robert Orben, magician (1927- ) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/turdiform.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/turdiform.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/turdiform.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
