I’m sorry you guys, I couldn’t not. The OED is just fucking with me now. “BEFROUNCE”? “BEQUIRTLE”? “BEFINGER to finger all over” ?!?!?!?!?
My last post send me scuttling to my OED to see if “befilth” is really a word. (Yeah, sometimes things get pretty crazy around here on a Saturday night.) It turns out it isn’t, but I’m giving it to myself as a Christmas present. But let me to point out that the BE- neighborhood of the OED is a playground.
You must have abridged edition. BE-hold!
The BE-neighbo(u)rhood is a playground indeed. (E.g.: bebutterfly, to engross with butterflies.)
Next Word Idol must surely be BE-words!
(1) HEY NO FAIR COMPUTER-AIDED SEARCHING!
(2) No, actually, this is awesome. Not only for the sake of edification, but because it means I can give myself a different made-up word for Christmas. I’ve had my eye on “rundulant” for a while.
(3) My OED is indeed the unabridged one. I am shocked and offended you would suggest otherwise. What do you take me for, a non-beezer? It turns out there is an omnibus entry for all the “BE + something” words. BEFILTH was hiding there. O befilth! Always up to mischief.
My last post sent me scuttling to my OED to see if “befilth” is really a word. (Yeah, sometimes things get pretty crazy around here on a Saturday night.) It turns out it isn’t, but I’m giving it to myself as a Christmas present. But let me to point out that the BE- neighborhood of the OED is a playground. Take the above:
- I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t think of a more poetic word than BEEVES.
- My fondest hope is to be known as a BEEZER some day.
(You may be wondering why you can see the grain of the paper, and indeed individual paper atoms, in the above photo. My OED is the one where they sent individual pages through a shrink ray and crammed them all into one immense volume so you have to use either a magnifying glass or a macro lens with it. It adds to the fun, like you’re a detective on the case.)
