This week's theme: verbs. yammer (YAM-uhr) verb tr., intr.
To whine, complain, or to talk loudly and incessantly. noun The act of yammering. [From Middle Dutch jammeren (to lament).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=yammer -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Every year, hundreds of those metallic helium balloons that some little kid lets go of by accident, or some misguided romantic releases into the sky like a shiny-bright dove, float up into electric lines and knock out the power hundreds of times over. ... The Balloon Council, evidently full of its own product, is yammering about how [the proposal to ban them] criminalizes a toy." Patt Morrison; More Hot Air From Lobbyists; Los Angeles Times; Apr 8, 2008. Sponsored by: Earn Your MAEd in As Little As 18 months - 100% Online! We've educated educators for more than 100 years! Let us help you! http://DominicanU.com/WS Announce your products, services, or message here to reach more than 600,000 readers. Write to us at sponsorsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @). ............................................................................ Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) Send your comments to (words AT wordsmith.org). To unsubscribe, update address send gift subscription, etc., visit http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/yammer.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/yammer.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/yammer.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
