The Way We Talked - Try Using this Word in a Sentence

It is cold in Marietta, Georgia.

Not Chilly, but Cold.

So, I am working on all of my jobs with the heat going full blast

and too many layers of clothes on.

Unlike this woman:

I came up to my graphics studio to grab the old, falling-apart dictionary

that has been crumbling on my back bookshelf

to select some pages to put in a tea bath.

Then, I started focusing on the words on those pages

and my attention went 180 degrees from what I was supposed to be doing.

Did you know that in the 1800's, there was a word that meant

Wanton-ness or Friskiness??

The word is Petulcity.

I dare you to use that word in a coherent sentence at the next office party.....

How about this one:  Pezle Mezle.

Apparently that was the phrase in the 1800's that now means Pell-Mell.

I kind of like the way that Pezle Mezle feels in my mouth.  

I can see making use of Pezle Mezle during the Holidays, can't you?

And I leave you with this:  Pettifogulize.

This juicy word meant to "use petty and contemptible tricks or quibbles".

Of course, anyone who engages in such behavior is known as a Pettifogulizer.

Know anyone like that?

I think I prefer wanton friskiness.

I do know this old dictionary will go on my bedside table for some entertaining reading.

Saved from the tea bath...

Back to work; can't sit still too long at my desk or my toes will get frost bite!