(Late) Friday word: solenoglyphous
Feb. 4th, 2017 01:52 pmSolenoglyphous, adj.: (Sol-e-NOG-li-fus), having fangs that fold into the mouth:
"Your solenglyphous fangs are spectaculah!
They are awesome (to use the vernaculah)
'Cause they fold up inside
Till you open up wide--
I asp-pire to be like you!"
Signed: Dracula
(Beverley Sharp, Montgomery, Ala)
(from the Washington Post's Style Invitational contest in July 2016; the challenge was including one of the words from the list of words used in the 2016 National Spelling Bee in a funny poem)
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Date: 2017-02-06 03:02 pm (UTC)I think vipers myself, but a good application.
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Date: 2017-02-06 09:44 pm (UTC)