Melissa Ann Goodwin

Melissa Ann Goodwin

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Bognati (Say what?)

While blog visiting this week, I came across something that was fun - creative in a silly sort of way. So I'm stealing borrowing it. I can't recall whose blog it was, so I hereby acknowedge YOU, without knowing who YOU are, for this fun idea.

What he/she did was take those funky words that we have to input to prove that we are thinking human beings when leaving a comment, and came up with definitions for them.

So here are a few that I came upon over the past few days:

burbons: bonbons made with bourbon

biliki: licking the envelopes for your bills



purbing: curbing your puppy



well, this one got off the leash ...




I also like this one, but I can't for the life of me come up with a definition, so I am putting it out there to you. Please define:

bognati

Look forward to your brilliant definitions!

26 comments:

  1. Bognati sounds like a good last name. :)

    And this is how addicted to Words with Friends I've gotten - it unscrambles to "boating."

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  2. Anonymous2/05/2012

    Sounds like a fancy kind of bologna.

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  3. Reminds me of bog bodies and how they manage to stay so incredibly gorgeous after being dead so long :)

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    1. Yes, like bognati is what happens to bog bodies - the process of not decomposing!

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  4. Ew - bog body? Why don't they decompose? Good hiding place for zombies. City near a bog (bognati reminds me of Cincinnati).

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    1. Perhaps bognati is a bog outside of Cincinnati. So far, that one is my favorite :-)

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  5. Purbing. Wouldn't that be a great play for Words With Friends. As a blogger myself, Words With Friends seems a more appropriate time-waster than, say, television. Bottom line, my blog has more word game posts than thoughtful entries. Too easily preoccupied by WWF and TV. I will always justify my TV time as long as I can tie it back to wordplay. Blame my love of Scrabble, WWF and TV trivia for me creating my blog and the anagrams I invent. Still, all these distractions keep me from posting interesting stuff like you do.
    Leona

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    1. Well, I don't know - games are fun and I don't play enough of them! So I'll have to be sure to visit you more often. :-)

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  6. Oh, it's far too late in the evening after a day at work to think of anything at all!

    I've left a couple of awards on my blog for you!

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    1. You're sweet, Annalisa, I will go look xo

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  7. A bog where nats get in the eye.....:))
    see, my mind works best in the SIMPLE MODE.:)

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  8. Dear Melissa,
    What a fun game to play. I like your definitions and would add, stressing how to pronounce it--not spell it, the following for "bognati": a bow that's naughty. Like a ribbon bow that won't stay tied!

    Peace.

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    1. Gnoti gnoti bo :-)(note: the g is silent :-)

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    2. Dear Melissa,
      I laughed out loud when I read your response here and I'm still grinning!

      Peace.

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  9. Bognati is clearly the stylish clothing one would wear in a swamp.

    (Linda G's Visiting Reality might be the blog where you first saw this)

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  10. Ha ha ha! What a great idea for a game. And that puppy is adorable ... I'm so glad he wasn't too easily purbed. :)

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    1. Amy - isn't he the cutest thing! What a great shot.

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  11. Going with the Italianate pronunciation, bognati are the people who live exclusively aboard yachts, I think.

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  12. You know those BOGO sales (buy one get one free), well BOGNATI Buy one get nothing, or Nati for short!

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  13. It sounds like some type of Italian pasta... what a fun idea, I agree!

    Megan @ Storybook Love Affair

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