In my opinion one of humankind’s greatest achievements is
the creation of dictionaries. Samuel Johnson
in particular is worthy of great praise here (and he was fantastic in Blackadder, of course). To illustrate his magnificent achievement,
what is the first word that comes into your head now? Ok, try to define it. See,
not easy, is it? So imagine trying to do that for every single word in your
language. A monumental achievement, I am sure you agree. But one thing about
official dictionaries is that the definitions are a bit bland, a bit dry and
uninspired, and with this in mind I will be starting a new regular section of
my blog where I give my definitions for well known words. So Welcome to Buttercup's
Delightful Dictionary! Here are the first entries
Cacti – crappy neckwear
Mango – rather impolite way to ask a human male to leave
Carpet - domestic animal belonging to an automobile
Boomerang – what to say to scare a dessert
Do you have any ideas, dear readers?
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