Sometimes I think the folks over at Dictionary.com have a real sense of humor, or irony, or....
sarcasm, banter, burlesque, contempt, contrariness, criticism, derision, humor, incongruity, jibe, mockery, mordancy, paradox, quip, raillery, repartee, reproach, ridicule, sardonicism, satire, taunt, twist, wit.
(Thank you,
Thesaurus.com!)
Every so often they come up a Word of the Day that just captures the zeitgeist, that defines the gestalt.
And by the way, who knew that Clint Eastwood was in conversation with a prosopopoeia!
Anyway, this morning's "Word of the Day" has to be more than a mere "striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance," er, I mean, coincidence. And that word is (drum roll please)....
bollix!
Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 19, 2012
bollixBOL-iks, verb:
1. To do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
noun:
1. A confused bungle.
People always bollix up the things that are most important to them.
-- Eric Gabriel Lehman, Summer's House
It was a sort of cruel fun watching this guy bollix up his life, like watching a cat fight duct tape.
-- Sarah Smith, Chasing Shakespeares
Bollix arose in the 1930s. It's a variation on the slang word bollocks.
And so, while
Kos himself is convinced that the missing "vulgar, unprintable phrase" in the statement of the "flustered advisor" from the Romney campaign is the non-delicate
clusterfuck, I myself hear Romney himself perhaps saying... "Oh my, I've created quite a bollix, haven't I!"
Thank you, Word of the Day! I never knew it was a noun as well as a verb!