Fuck I love words. Despite this, my vocabulary sucks ass. So I have a word-of-the-day Widget on my Dashboard (i *heart* Widgets!), and today's word is
mitty: an ordinary, timid person who indulges in daydreams involving great adventures and triumphs.
Oh my god! Could a word ever describe me better???
So here's the nifty thing about words. I plug in "mitty" at Dictionary.com, and there is no mention of this definition. It only thinks the definition is "a stormy petrel".
What the fuck is a petrel?
Plug that in. It's a gray seagull. How boring!
Go to Merriam-Webster online, and mitty is "a commonplace unadventurous person who seeks escape from reality through daydreaming".
And the best part is the etymology: "Walter Mitty, daydreaming hero of a story by James Thurber
Hmm, wonder if this James Thurber guy thought seagulls were as boring as me and so appropriately named his hero?
Words kick ass.
mitty: an ordinary, timid person who indulges in daydreams involving great adventures and triumphs.
Oh my god! Could a word ever describe me better???
So here's the nifty thing about words. I plug in "mitty" at Dictionary.com, and there is no mention of this definition. It only thinks the definition is "a stormy petrel".
What the fuck is a petrel?
Plug that in. It's a gray seagull. How boring!
Go to Merriam-Webster online, and mitty is "a commonplace unadventurous person who seeks escape from reality through daydreaming".
And the best part is the etymology: "Walter Mitty, daydreaming hero of a story by James Thurber
Hmm, wonder if this James Thurber guy thought seagulls were as boring as me and so appropriately named his hero?
Words kick ass.
I refer people to typr in vagina dentata for a good laugh. Give this a try ok mouse?