Lovesome words

Lovesome Words: Feckless and Reckless

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Searching but not in the junk drawer

Yearstricken:  I’m feeling feckless these days.

Husband: Have you looked in the junk drawer in the kitchen?

Yearstricken: You think it means I’ve lost something called a feck?

Husband: What else would it mean?

Yearstricken: Didn’t we have a similar conversation last year when I said your driving was reckless?

Husband: Yes, and I still can’t understand why you were upset. Most women would be happy that their husbands drive without wrecks. And why are you looking in the knife drawer? I said the junk drawer.

 

feckless: ineffective; incompetent

reckless: utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution

Lovesome Words: Matriculant*

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Neighbor:                   How are your children?

Yearstricken:          A few months ago, my youngest child became a matriculant.

Neighbor:                  That sounds awful! Is there any cure for it?

Yearstricken:          Money. Lots and lots of money.

 

*One who enrolls in a college or university.

Whinge

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Another lovely Britishism that means whine.

 

Reader:               How do you pronounce whinge?

Yearstricken:    Whinge rhymes with unhinge.

Reader:                Are they related in any way?

Yearstricken:     For some of us.

Gobsmacked

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It’s British and means your jaw hit the floor and stayed there because you were too astonished to close your mouth.

Reader:            I was gobsmacked when I read your blog.

Yearstricken:   I’m so glad. I really enjoy gobsmacking others.

Reader:            Yes, there’s really nothing quite as bracing as a good gobsmack.

Yearstricken:   Well, tally ho and all that, I must get back to my blog. There are still so many gobs to smack.