Shimelle you are -once again- a girl after my own heart. Your prompt today is perfect. I have so many favorite words…. but one of my most favorite words is defenestrate.
defenestrate {to throw someone or something out a window}
My friend Drew and I found this word at some point in high school- or rather he found this word- It seemed so wonderful at the time. A word that existed solely to throw someone or something out of the window. I was thrilled- in fact I am still quite thrilled with it. Yeah words!
This word sounds lovely and works well when you want to say something mean to someone- it confuses them for just long enough to both say something mean and break tension.
Something like “You suck. I will defenestrate you at once!” … “What?” … “Exactly, now what were we talking about?”
Yeah words! I love them.
I liked the word so much that I suggested it to Girl in Green and she used it for her word project. It was word 20 of 30. I loved what she came up with and because of her wonderfulness I get to look at it everyday. Woohoo!
11/02/2008 at 10:48 pm Permalink
It is a fabulous word, I remember learning it in high school too. And now I live in Prague (the apparent center of historical defenestrations) and it is an everyday word – one block from my office, a museum just hung a banner with just “defenestrace” printed on it. I’ll have to find out what they are exhibiting!
18/02/2008 at 12:24 pm Permalink
Perhaps you would enjoy The Defenestrator an anarchist newspaper in Philadelphia.