Bringing forth fire

[pbray]

Gacked from kristine_smith: Each year, hundreds of words are dropped from the English language. Your job, should you choose to accept it--save one. Just hit the adopt-a-word link, and go from there.

My word is igniparous which means bringing forth fire. Sample usages provided were:

The heroes were scorched by the dragon's igniparous emanation.

We were all amazed at Mr. Copperfield's igniparous act until we discovered a box of matches up his sleeve.

Alternate definitions found on the web include:
1) Producing fire
2) Giving "birth" to fire
3) Experiencing a burning sensation during the birth of a child.

Yeah, not so much on number three.

Comments

[larryhammer]

I more or less do this every day....

---L.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

So basically you're an overachiever :-)

I'm one of those who sees Sally Struthers on TV and decides to adopt one of the impoverished and dying words, just as long as I get a picture of my word and monthly bulletins on how well the word is doing, thanks to my care.

[katatomic.livejournal.com]

Oo! I gots one! Thanks Patricia!

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Was (3) written by a man, perchance? Because the one sensation I didn't feel either time I gave birth was an igniparous one. Stretching, yeah. (TMI, no doubt.)

Though I swear that a Marching Band dressed in burgundy silk marched through the room when I was producing Offspring no 2 - it was the gas'n'air that did it of course, but I betcha there's no word that means 'happy hallucinations when experiencing childbirth.' If it happened to men, of course, there'd be an entire bleedin' Dictionary of metaphors and similes!

But 'igniparous' is a very good word! Igniparous. It sounds tremendous.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Igniparous is the kind of word that wanted to live with a fantasy writer. "I'm sure I can be all sorts of help to you," Igniparous said, hoping that this woman would be the one to finally take him home. "You'll need me when you're writing about dragons."

And, well, who could argue with logic like that?

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Oo, I like this one: boscaresque adj 1734 -1734
picturesque; scenically wooded
Despite northern England's industrial pollution, parts of it remain boscaresque.

[larryhammer]

Presumably related to bosque. (Curiously, hardly any dictionary has that definition, though it's common usage in the Southwest US, taken straight from Spanish.)

---L.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

And...

Bosky
Bosk"y\, a. [Cf. Bushy.]

1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. --Milton.

2. Caused by boscage.

Darkened over by long bosky shadows. --H. James.

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I understood it right away. I am so proud. - NOt bad for someone who is not a native English speaker.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

My is Magistricide, the killing of a teacher or master. (Not a judge, as it would appear.)

I am actually going to get a chance to use it in the WIP.
And yes, when the character is accused of it, he's going to say, "Say what?"

I may adopt another later, on.