Q: What is the BIGGEST word you’ve seen used in a book lately – that made you stop and look it up? Might as well leave the definition & book too.
This is a hard one. It wasn't so much the definition of a word, but what the word meant in that particular context. This past week I've been reading The Ruins of Lace by Iris Anthony, and she gives a short explanation on how lace is made. She mentions the word "bobbin" as one of the tools used, but, as a sewer, I had another idea of what a bobbin looks like, so I had to look it up. It is nothing like what I call a bobbin for my sewing machine! Very cool to learn about it, though.
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Lectus
http://onlectus.blogspot.com/2012/09/friday-feature-and-follow-4.html
As an occasional sewer you've made me curious what bobbin actually is.
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nice, I have no idea what that is.
Hey! Thanks for the follow-followed you back. :)
Now, I'm curious too lol.
~MA Church
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Yeah I usually go by context to try to understand the meaning of the word. If things are still too complicated I will put out a dictionary to help me along!
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It's interesting to learn new meanings of familiar words. :)
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I thought that is what it was (for a sewing maching) LOL.
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another new word for me!
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Hi, I'm a new follower via GFC =)
Your blog looks lovely.
Rinn
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hahahah cool!
thanks for dropping by! Old follower
Thanks for stopping by my FF Post! I don't sew, so I wasn't familiar with the term either. Old follower =)
Hey girl! Following back. :) Thanks for the post. Although I already knew what that meant, it still was a great word. :)
Hey! I"m glad you actually learned the meaning of that word! :) I can rarely do that, as I just count on the context as a giveaway of the meaning of words I don't know. :)
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