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Unless otherwise attributed Freely Born Words are created by Abby Freeborn and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you have a different source for any of the words listed above, please comment so proper acknowledgement can be made.
Freightening (freight`en`ing ) - (adj.) an occurrence that threatens or disrupts one’s patterns and weighs heavily on one’s mind (e.g., “A falling stock market is a freightening experience.”)
Jibnastics (jib`nas`tics) - (n) <Traditional> what a sailor does on the foredeck during races or repairs. (e.g.,“Fixing the head of the roller furling jib will require expert jibnastics.”)
Scoopage (scoop`age) - (n) 1.<according to Connie Harrison> the capacity of a serving spoon, e.g. “I don’t think the scoopage of this spoon is sufficient for a man-sized portion of ice cream;” 2 .<according to Abby Freeborn> what reporters are seeking when they wiretap, hack into computers, or pursue a hot tip; 3. the degree to which a garment reveals a woman's breasts, e.g., “No matter how deep the scoopage, a woman's clothes must not reveal the maternal aspects of her sex appeal.”
Unless otherwise attributed Freely Born Words are created by Abby Freeborn and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. If you have a different source for any of the words listed above, please comment so proper acknowledgement can be made. Freightening (freight`en`ing ) - (adj.) an occurrence that threatens or disrupts one’s patterns and weighs heavily on one’s mind (e.g., “A falling stock market is a freightening experience.”)
Jibnastics (jib`nas`tics) - (n) <Traditional> what a sailor does on the foredeck during races or repairs. (e.g.,“Fixing the head of the roller furling jib will require expert jibnastics.”)
Scoopage (scoop`age) - (n) 1.<according to Connie Harrison> the capacity of a serving spoon, e.g. “I don’t think the scoopage of this spoon is sufficient for a man-sized portion of ice cream;” 2 .<according to Abby Freeborn> what reporters are seeking when they wiretap, hack into computers, or pursue a hot tip; 3. the degree to which a garment reveals a woman's breasts, e.g., “No matter how deep the scoopage, a woman's clothes must not reveal the maternal aspects of her sex appeal.”
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