Le Mot Juste
Although English has a huge vocabulary pool, the past 24 hours have revealed to me a few definitions for which words are missing.
1. The combination of elation, smug satisfaction, and relief that you feel when one of your friends breaks up with someone you don’t like.
2. The way you feel when, after having run through heavy rain and gotten soaked to the knees trying catch a bus, you realize that you have forgotten your bus pass, gone back for it, and heard the bus pull away behind you, when the whole point of taking the bus was not to have to run/walk on a sore ankle.
3. The feeling between your toes at 2:30 PM when your feet, socks, and shoes have been wet since 8:00 AM.
Suggestions, anyone?
July 21st, 2003 at 5:41 pm
I don’t know what the word for #1 is, but I sure do recognize it when I see it.
July 22nd, 2003 at 10:14 am
suggestions:
#1: palassauged :more favorably inclined to a chum and that sudden relief from relationship pain
#2: featherdamped :temporary crushing of spirit due to wet, silly, forgetful behaviour
#3: Llewellatoes :sad, moist, mostly miserable feet