USURP

Usurp

°To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

°To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.

26 April 2010

33 Points

Holy coup, Batman - it's the Usurp-er! / Actually Robin, that's the US-Urper. U might want to back up a bit. His barf's egregiously effluvial.

49 Points

BREAKING NEWS: The early bird did NOT get the worm, today! The nightingale usurp-ed her, & got the worm first!

41 Points

Which Artwiculati will usurp our current king? ~ What cleverness & wit will their tweet bring? ~ Oh the suspense! ~ They should charge sixpence! ☺

ASSEMBLAGE

Assemblage

(n) : a collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled

25 April 2010

17 Points

It's time to search for ~ Night's gathering assemblage ~ Sweet dreams within sheets. 

#haiku #haikuchallenge (search) #artwiculate #GoodNight

22 Points

2's a couple, 3's a love triangle, & an assemblage is just an all-out orgy. I'll stick w/2, thank you. 

#theprompt #artwiculate

17 Points

She had found the love of her life, Mr. Right …or so she thought …until she discovered his extensive, treasured assemblage of scat. Drat! ☹

20 Points

☝Due to the fact that the Library of Congress will be permanently storing EVERY tweet, in assemblage, all of my future tweets will be dull.

15 Points

Thanks - I appreciate your little assemblage of RT's! ;) @catmar604 @joeknaack @dsceiorg

27 Points

Ah, Imelda & her vast assemblage of shoes ~ Mercenary extreme …or a gal's right to choose? ;)

#poem #artwiculate

10 Points

.@JonPowles RE: Shoes - Maybe they weren't bought by an assemblage of individuals. Might've just been Imelda Marcos or Oprah.☺

25 Points

The Artwiculati: An assemblage of players of Artwiculate who've accumulated assemblages of top-tweets. ★

26 Points

Holy villains, Batman - it's an assemblage of all our nemeses! / GREAT: We can use our new egregiously-effluvial Bat Bomb, the Guano Grenade!

29 Points

The early bird never collects an assemblage of worms: Fresh is best, & they don't keep well (talk about an effluvial smell)!

POLYMATH

Polymath

°A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.

24 April 2010

30 Points

As an early bird, Polly has no need of math other than worm-counting: She eshews polymath-y 4 her singular field of study …catching worms.

48 Points

Only a polymath would know that it has nothing to do with math or Polly. … A polymath, OR perhaps an Artwiculati! :)

DESULTORY

Desultory

(adj) : Leaping or skipping about; Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless

23 April 2010

15 Points

@LesMacDee Indeed you MIGHT need tissues! Blinded 2 tears by the bedazzlement & effluvium of my redolent infelicitous, desultory tweets, RU?

44 Points

The early bird's desultory hunt is ruled by scent, not scintilla - she doesn't need to be bedazzled, but likes worms which smell of vanilla.

30 Points

My synapses fire in infelicitous ways ~ Lighting up in bedazzled arrays ~ I tweet betwixt their desultory forays.

#poem #artwiculate #humor

28 Points

The early bird goes on a desultory peregrination every morning to get her worms.

INFELICITOUS

Infelicitous

°Unhappy or unfortunate.

°Inappropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done.

22 April 2010

35 Points

How infelicitous that parting now is nigh ~ I flit, I fly …"Bye-bye"! [*waving wings*]

#poem #micropoetry

30 Points

O dear, I have the hiccups! How infelicitous. *hic-tweet!* Then again, hiccups conflated w/effluvium would be more egregious!

44 Points

Effluvium is especially infelicitous if you're sequestered in a seraglio.

23 Points

Holy sausage-&-eggs, Batman - the fit of our superhero-suits is SO infelicitous!/MayB so, Robin, but they R aerodynamic & the girls luv 'em!

33 Points

Latter-day birds may be infelicitous, but the early bird is always annoyingly chirpy & prosperous.

EFFLUVIUM

Effluvium

°a gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.

°a condition causing the shedding of hair.

21 April 2010

Oh cr@p, my effluvium dissipated. Too bad, it was quite the gas!

Then again, probably for the best, aye?! ;)

SERAGLIO

Seraglio

(n) : the palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople; the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish Muslim household

20 April 2010

25 Points

Seraglio sororities may be subjugated, secretive & secluded, but sirs slip in-&-out sometimes, spasmodically …surpassingly-so.

10 Points

Sir Ragl: Yo! YOU da ho! Your seraglio ? What GALL, ya know?!

#poem #artwiculate #simplythetruth #dontbeshocked

22 Points

Seraglio : The Turkish troglodyte's den-of-iniquity.

31 Points

Erudite males use the term 'Seraglio' ~ To keep their activities on the down-low ~ 'Cause 'whorehouse' just sounds so depraved, you know.

17 Points

Seraglio?? Yep, you're definitely enjoying systemically vitiating us, with each successive WOTD, aren't you, @artwiculate?! ;)

http://artwiculate.com/words/seraglio

VITIATE

Vitiate

°to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.

°to debase or morally corrupt.

19 April 2010

10 Points

Troglodyte virus ~ Computer fully caved in ~ Vitiated tech.

#haiku #artwiculate

10 Points

A hot-headed eruption ~ Can lead to world corruption ~ Volcano's ash can vitiate ~ So, peeps: Calm down - conciliate!

#poem

15 Points

My brain has been vitiate^d into Swiss cheese ~ Do not take my mental lapses personally, please.

#poem #micropoetry #artwiculate

16 Points

Holy perversions, Batman, it's that 'vitiate'-epitome, @MaxRaunchiness!/Let's make like flying troglodytes, Robin, or he'll make us cave!

15 Points

The early bird's been vitiated by the kiss of the sun's 1st rays & the promise of the enticing delight of fresh, juicy worms.

20 Points

I may be incorrigible, but if you try to vitiate me, you will fail. 

#artwiculate #SimplyTheTruth #DontBeShocked

Congrats to Paul (@pn8r of the "A Perendinator's Musings" blog) for the winning tweet!:

Only a corrupt referee could both officiate and vitiate a game at the same time!

~@pn8r

TROGLODYTE

Troglodyte:

°A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.

°(by extension) Anything that lives underground.

18 April 2010

30 Points

At the bar, Wizen drank prune juice, Tergiversate wanted a waffle, & the brusque Troglodyte downed a bottle of Brut cologne. (MT @Ysabeluna)

30 Points

They got into a kerfuffle ~ In the middle of the night ~ 'Cause she told him a truffle ~ Was also a troglodyte.

#poem

30 Points

Say, may I be frank? ~ Regarding my troglodyte: ~ He's awesome, at night!

#haiku #haikuthrowdown (frank) #artwiculate

35 Points

I keep the locket ~ With my troglodyte's photo ~ Encaved in-pocket.

#haiku #haikuchallenge (pocket) #artwiculate

33 Points

Signs you might be dating a troglodyte: 1.) The petrichor of Eau de Damp-Cave smell precedes him.

31 Points

The troglodyte needs not tergiversate over which side of the fence he should spew his golden accolades, 2day. There is no fence in his cave.

45 Points

Modern troglodytes ~ Holed up in their office-caves ~ Before glowing screens. 

#haiku #artwiculate troglodyte

41 Points

The troglodyte, inured to the penumbra of his fire's shadows upon the cave's walls, is satisfied with the status quo. Me? No.

31 Points

Most ppl say, "Ugh! Troglodyte?~O, Hun, don't U want more?!" ~ I've no need 2 make 'em see the light ~ I don't find him a boor.

33 Points

Pulchritude & the Troglodyte : Beauty & the Beast

29 Points

Names of ex-husbands: Lummox, Philistine, Troll, Nemesis, Troglodyte & Oaf. ;)

31 Points

The winner of the reality-show 'Mole' contest was the troglodyte who tergiversated the best. His surprise prize? A hedgehog.

39 Points

The early bird always gets the troglodyte (since worms all live underground)!

32 Points

Contrary to popular belief, troglodyte^s are NOT extinct: modern men are still partial to their 'man caves' (i.e. garages/basements/dens)!

38 Points

Ah, yes, the Troglodyte : First-cousins to the Trolls, both related to the Lummox's & Philistines, if I recall correctly. ;)

http://artwiculate.com/words/troglodyte

TERGIVERSATE

Tergiversate

°To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to deliberately obfuscate.

°To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.

17 April 2010

25 Points

They think they're sly, deep ~ Those who tergiversate us ~ Shallow finaglers! 

#haiku #theprompt (shallow) #artwiculate

22 Points

He thinks he's so sly ~ To tergiversate, that guy ~ I say, "UGH!! Buh-BYE!!" 

#haiku #theprompt (sly) #artwiculate #poem

15 Points

The epitome ~ Of 'tergiversate' devoured ~ All their sanity.

#haiku #haikuthrowdown (devour) #artwiculate

17 Points

Smoke & garishness ~ Those who tergiversate things ~ Fog & foofaraw. 

#haiku #haikuchallenge (garish) #artwiculate

21 Points

Could I get some maple syrup w/those waffles UR feeding me? U tergiversate so much, the least U could do is sweeten things up!

17 Points

Tergiversate Taskforce: Shuffle Board

15 Points

Tergiversate : 2 be 2-faced.

http://artwiculate.com/words/tergiversate

WIZEN

Wizen:

°wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

°To wither; to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

16 April 2010

10 Points

So, what's our choice here, really: 'wizen' or 'early death'? ☠ (Yeah - not much of a choice, really. ☹) ;)

25 Points

❀ @yearning4d_sky Happy Birthday Haiku for you: Bright Birthday, Neerja! ~ Find an ocean of blessings ~ But do not wizen! ☺

#haiku4neerja

42 Points

"Wizen up!" Somehow that's an obloquy which sounds much more complementary than "Shrivel up & die!"

43 Points

The early bird gets the juiciest worms, leaving all of the wizen^ed ones for the late-rising birds.

27 Points

To avoid wizen-ing, simply strive to keep your wrinkles plumped up as rolls (you might want to eat lots of rolls).

27 Points

I highly suspect that the cause of Max's raunchiness is that his 'member' is actually wizen-ed. ;)

15 Points

Perhaps it was wizen-ed? RT @ajeanne @tWordBird Some of the uses for serendipity didn't quite meet the definition and not in a funny way.

http://artwiculate.com/words/wizen

SERENDIPITY

Serendipity:

(n) : an unsought, unintended, or unexpected discovery, made by accident and sagacity; the discovery of something by accident while investigating something quite different. For example, finding a biological culture “ruined” by mould, and discovering the antibiotic penicillin as a consequence

15 April 2010

15 Points

Serendipity makes for a great movie! :)

15 Points

Unexpected gift ~ Spirit's serendipity ~ Blessed …within banal. 

#haiku #artwiculate

15 Points

Holy chemical-warfare, Batman - it's SerenDipity!/No worries, Robin - once we degas him, that Philistine will just be Dipity!

31 Points

The fact that the early bird always gets the worm has nothing to do with serendipity. It's skill - pure skill!

22 Points

O, sweet serendipity ~ To have more time to play ~ To mold word-tweets for hours, care-free ~ Alas, though: Not today! ☹ 

#poem

http://artwiculate.com/words/serendipity

CAHOOTS

Cahoots

°collusion or collaboration to nefarious ends.

14 April 2010

43 Points

The Sandman's in cahoots with Sleep ~ And so back-to-bed I must creep. 

#micropoetry #Artwiculate

40 Points

The early bird's in cahoots with the sun ~ She gets her worms after yesternight's done.

#poem #artwiculate

32 Points

Don't get in cahoots with old coots: they'll just collude 2b your friend until the nefarious end …tryin' 2 knock your boots.

39 Points

We're in cahoots to send out HAPPY BIRTHDAY shout-outs to ♕ Jane (@lagadu123) & ♕ Tidd (@TiddK) today! ☺ ♫ ♥ ☼ ❀

http://artwiculate.com/words/cahoots

BRUSQUE

Brusque:

(adj) : rudely abrupt, unfriendly

13 April 2010

22 Points

"BBL", she tweeted brusque~ly.

40 Points

The early bird is brusque ~ Within the matutinal dusk ~ Catching her worms forthright ~ At the first break in yesternight.

#poem

33 Points

Berry Brusque: A tasty, crusty tart (also available in the Red Light District).

26 Points

Brusque: Tersely taciturn.

http://artwiculate.com/words/brusque

TACITURN

Taciturn:

°Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

12 April 2010

25 Points

The early birdie gets the worm ~ By being very taciturn.

#micropoetry #artwiculate

20 Points

Do taxes make you taciturn ~ Sullen, dour & word-free? ~ Or do you, rather, truly burn ~ To burst into an obloquy?

#poem

20 Points

Thanks for making me less taciturn, by creating wordiness out of my wordlessness, with your RT's! ;)

[RT-thanks to] @SJHatzi @Fatal_Romantic @BeginToSing

15 Points

[reply to] @TheSupercargo

Yep - the #FailWhale gets overloaded w/logophilia. It should switch to a more taciturn diet (except for the Artwiculati)! ;)

16 Points

[reply to] @TheSupercargo 

Twitter has been at #FailWhale-threat levels, here, also. Perhaps it's just feeling taciturn, too? ;)

25 Points

Haven't tweeted in a while ~ Seems that I've taken a turn ~ Not feelin' like a logophile ~ I'm torpid & taciturn

#poem

http://artwiculate.com/words/taciturn

MYTHOMANIA

Mythomania:

°a compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth.

11 April 2010

30 Points

The clock strikes midnight ~ It's mythomania time: ~ Let fairy-tales fly!

#haiku #haikuthrowdown (midnight) #artwiculate

26 Points

There's no minor tale ~ For the mythomaniac ~ Only large legends.

#haiku #theprompt (minor) #artwiculate (mythomania)

21 Points

Her brain's imbued with ~ His mythomania-stains ~ In bloody-blazes hues.

#haiku #haikuchallenge (stain) #Artwiculate

26 Points

Giggles give wings lift ~ I take flight upon laughter ~ All funk forsaken.

#haiku #haikuwordgame #Artwiculate mythomania

http://artwiculate.com/words/mythomania

NEMESIS

Nemesis:

(n) : an archenemy; the principle of retributive justice

10 April 2010

62 Points

"Holy Misanthropy, Batman, it's the Obloquator!" / "No worries, Robin, I just hooked up with his nemesis: The Artwiculator!"

[Batman flew into the top-10, today. Yay! ;)]

52 Points

The early bird is the nemesis of EVERY worm! :)>

40 Points

With WOTD's like lummox, obloquy, virago, vaccimulgence & misanthropy, @artwiculate is beginning 2 inure itself as my nemesis!

I did a bit better, today. I'm thinking it's at least partially due to having had a bit of time, finally, to tweet/converse w/folks. That, & there was a bit more space in my brain for my muse to turn around in - a small lull within the fullness of the week. ;)

http://artwiculate.com/words/nemesis

INURE

Inure:

(v) : to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure; to take effect, or to benefit someone. In property law, the term means "to vest". For example, Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim"

09 April 2010

47 Points

I cannot inure myself to 'inure' ~ For, as WOTD, it won't endure! 

#micropoetry #artwiculate

[Made top-20, rather barely. :) ]

21 Points

The early bird is not inure~d to certain early words particular to birds: Quotidian germs like "juicy worms" - from those she's never cured!

27 Points

Have I inure~d you all to my incessant tweeting, yet? *Cuck-OO!* *Cuck-OO!*

31 Points

Within love's rhythms ~To dance inure~d is disgrace~Dance as one replete. 

#haiku #haikuwordgame (replete/rhythm/disgrace)#artwiculate(inure)

22 Points

Everywhere, a bribe ~ Yet, we're blind to them… inure~d ~ Denying their cure. 

#haiku #haikuchallenge (bribe) #artwiculate (inure)

25 Points

Food, water, toilets ~ Cash, shelter: We are inure~d ~ To expect these five. 

#haiku #haikuthrowdown (five) #artwiculate (inure)

27 Points

The worms are inure~d to the early bird's serial-killings, as those worms who'd tell have heard the toll-of-the-bell.

25 Points

Aha! I KNEW it - @artwiculate is attempting to inure us all to tweeting obloquies, en masse, with words like lummox, each day!

http://artwiculate.com/words/inure

OBLOQUY

Obloquy:

°Abusive language.

°Disgrace suffered from abusive language.

08 April 2010

20 Points

Thx for the rousing obloquy of your RT's! ;) @ultracutebot @celticgladiator @marcosarroyos @Squawkingalah

[OOPS! Didn't mean for that one to make it in as an entry ...but, hey, it earned 20pts! lol]

39 Points

The early bird rouses the worms with an obloquy of abusive tweets in slang poetic verse: from "U flippin' lummoxes!" to worse.

18 Points

Obloquy? Isn't that what U made us do yesternight, @artwiculate?? What R U trying 2 do - turn us into a panoply of Lummoxes?!

It was a new word for me, & I would've liked to have more fun playing with it; but, hey, what can I say - it was another busy week!

http://artwiculate.com/words/obloquy

LUMMOX

Lummox:

°A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.

07 April 2010

11 Points

Holy hebetude, Batman - it's Lummox Louie. / Well, Robin, sounds like a 'Gravy Day' for US! Early lunch?

12 Points

The early bird gets the worm bc only the Lummox worms come out that early in the morning …& she can only catch the bunglers.

10 Points

Like battle-metals ~ Each blister of his shines true: ~ Bungling-Lummox badge. 

#haiku #theprompt (blister) #artwicuate (Lummox)

10 Points

Old Spice, Irish Spring ~ His Aroma de Lummox ~ Dear, bourgeois bungler. 

#haiku #haikuthrowdown (aroma) #artwiculate (Lummox)

10 Points

Seaspray revives her ~ Vessel Lummox bungles through ~ Hope …in stormy seas. 

#haiku #haikuwordgame (vessel/seaspray/hope) #artwiculate

23 Points

Clumsy & awkward ~ Big heart topped with hebetude ~ Lummox or lover? 

#haiku #haikuchallenge #artwiculate

12 Points

For the WOTD, lummox, I don't have any use ~ For I've no need for a vocab to help with verbal abuse. 

#poem #artwiculate

Yeah, I wasn't terribly thrilled with having a WOTD which is largely used for degrading others; but the Artwiculati came through with many wonderful & creative, positive tweets, despite that. Well done! (It was a pretty low-pts day for me, however! Rather bungled it, I'd say. Can't recall, though... might have been late-in-the-game this day.)

http://artwiculate.com/words/lummox

PANOPLY

Panoply:

(n) : a splendid display of something; Ceremonial garments, complete with all accessories 

06 April 2010

[I was DYin' to put another 'o' in this word, & spell it "panopoly"! ;) But I restrained myself.]

28 Points

Dazzlingly decked-out ~ Bright, protective panoply ~ Discover your heart.  

#haiku #artwiculate #haikuthrowdown

35 Points

Virtue's panoply: ~ Loyal, true... catapult you... ~ And you reap my heart. 

#haiku #haikuwordgame #artwiculate

26 Points

Twilight settles in ~ Panoply fades beneath grays ~ Daylight's dazzle sleeps. 

#haiku #artwiculate #theprompt

16 Points

♕ @Wifsie Planning on abdicating so soon? Some have won 2-in-a-row, ya know. ☺ Meanwhile, enjoy the panoply of your royal garb! ♕

50 Points

A shock of colours ~ Bursting through the sun-warmed earth ~ Panoply of Spring. 

#haiku #haikuchallenge #artwiculate

20 Points

Okay, Robin - stop staring at your panoply, in the mirror, we've got villains to stop./It's not that, Batman. It seems a bit tight in spots!

22 Points

The early bird gets the worms by luring them out with a flourish of her feathery-panoply.

37 Points

It's my knight in shining panoply ~ Here, on his white horse, for me! 

#micropoetry #artwiculate

26 Points

Penelope had a monopoly on panoply. Regrettably, tho, she was so bawdry & tawdry it was just gaudy.

PS I've begun mixing in some haiku-game plays, as well ...just to keep my muse amused.

GUMPTION

Gumption:

°Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.

°Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.

05 April 2010

OOPS! I lost all my gumption, because I had too much gumption for other words, on subsequent days, before I remembered that I should post my gumption here on the blog, before it disappeared.

Gots no gumption, now. :(  ...But I DOES gots GUM! (Want some?)

(Actually, I still DO ...were I to search through my twitter-stream; but I'm too lazy/busy to bother, at the moment.)