We are grateful for words. We exercised this gratitude after our Thanksgiving feast by playing Huggermugger, a game that presents a variety of vocabulary challenges. On one of Scoot's turns, he was to list ten words rhyming with "itch." Following our advice to go through the alphabet, he said "ditch, fitch..." We all discounted the one beginning with F, and he went on. But Dandelionslayer pulled out the red Webster's dictionary, and looked it up, just in case.
It turns out that fitch is, indeed, a noun. It means, "the fur or pelt of the polecat."
You know, skunk fur. A fashion statement for sure. But what, then, is an abercrombie?
Chocolate
4 years ago
"Aber" (or inver) means confluence; "crombie" is a 3/4-length wool
ReplyDeleteovercoat. Put them together and I don't know what you get--perhaps a
cloakroom.