Words by Elizabeth Was
4 words contributed
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A mouse living in a Temporary Autonomous Zone.
[origin: A typo made by E. Was while keying in an article by Hakim
Bey, this occurred during a mouse-week, when Was had had
numerous dreams about mice, & had seen some in her compost
bucket.] -
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v. The act of contacting & moving an eating utensil, esp. a spoon,
over the edge of a bowl or plate in such a way as to wipe off & thus
avoiding spilling one's soup, stew, yogurt, etc. before putting the
food into one's mouth. [past tense no "ed"-ending]
"I taught him how to clert the milk in his cereal back into the bowl before
bringing the spoon to his mouth." {This action was very hard to describe to
my 2 yr. old without inventing a word for it.}
1989 -
(man-i-fest-STATE-ment)n. a sentence or phrase found in or comprising a manifesto.
("When asked how he might describe his own dancing, he quoted
a manifestatement from the Wakest Internalational Reconstruction
Movement: "motion greeting itself off balance")Origin: [used in writing a new release discription of WAKEST AIMS? KIND LAW & ZEAL!, a book by FLOATING CONCRETE OCTOPUS (1989)]1989 -
adj. Overly concerned about one particular thought or subject, to
the point of being "stressed out". With tunnel vision for that thing,
unable to attend to anything else, & even unable to think clearly on
the subject of concern itself, because of being overwraught with
worry about it. "Can't take her mind off it" + "Can't relax about it" =
"She's obstressed."
1988