Preponderance of Ponderances

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Sunday, March 16, 2008

New Word

As most of my students know, I am the king of coining new "words" by mangling old ones. Tonight during small group, I added a new one to the repertoire: blestprate (instead of breastplate). A blestprate is a combination of two words: blessed (blest, in its older form) and prate (meaning to talk on and on without meaning). So, then, does that mean that a blestprate would be a preacher who talks on and on? I'll leave that for you to decide.

1 comment:

incurable optimist said...: Yes. Yes, I think it does.
My favourite is still "alerk." Simply because of the irony of the situation. You were most assuredly not alerk.; 3/25/2008 8:34 PM