Just today, I was leaving a comment (again, on Argentum's) and I was offered a beautiful, almost magical verification word: "spong". It has taken root in my brain, pushed all other thoughts into some cubicle over there on the left side so I could play with it freely on my left.Now, I must come up with some definition for the word. What is a "spong" anyway? It seems to be a sound or maybe some kind of coiled spring thingy or maybe something that almost soaks things up but not quite.
I definitely could use some help here.
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Sounds like a good insult.
Oi - you spong! :-)
Wikipedia says: "Spong is a surname of Gaelic descent, and is an archaic term for a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides."
To me, 'Spong' sounds like a spoon with prongs. Although, we've coined the term, 'spork' to that thing.
Michael.
(Word verification is 'alcho'.)
What immediately came to mind for me was a ball of some sort, made of a material such that when the ball is bounced or hits a solid surface, make the sound "spong."
I thought it sounded like some bacteria growing in the refrigerator ... like ... "Oh no, the leftover pasta has spong growing on it. How long has it been there anyway?"
BTW ... my word verification is "virldsac" ... hm!
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Michael, I had no idea there might actually be a valid word involved. Checking that, I couldn't find it elsewhere, so I have to wonder. Sporks combined the worst of both utensils.
Jules: That's different. In a very weird sort of way.
Log, a picture of one of those cheap pink rubber balls I use to play stickball with came to mind, bouncing off a large aluminum sheet.
And Small: what do they call that stuff that builds up around the ketchup bottle neck? Anyway, not bad. Hadn't thought of a mold. Might have, my sis-in-law left a pair of banana bread muffins sitting around for a week, I kept wondering what the mold would look like.
Wait! I think I've got it! The sound a slinky makes as it hits the next step on the stairs.
I can't believe everyone here has semi-intelligible words. Check out this blog entry of mine to see how absurd the ones I get are.
"trewea" is the one on here this time.
Douglas, I have commented on your comment on my posting on the said blog refering to spong...
I considered a verb, the past of sping, the past particple of which would naturally be spung.
So you would have your slinking spinging down the stairs, or in fact it sponged down the stairs yesterday...
All food for thought.
AV
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verifaction - chinli
What about spang? No room for that form?
I sping, you spong, he spang.
I was leaving room in case we had to conjugate speng at some stage, shouldn't put all our eggs in the one basket.
AV
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verdify - debeeb
OMG, I've been debeebed!
Eledundi, my friend, eledundi.
Wikipedia says: "Spong is a surname of Gaelic descent, and is an archaic term for a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides."
To me, 'Spong' sounds like a spoon with prongs. Although, we've coined the term, 'spork' to that thing.
Michael.
(Word verification is 'alcho'.)
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