Blarney Blarney Blarney
There is a two syllable word that starts with “b” and has to do with bulls and excrement and you use it to imply that someone is saying something that is not true. It is not a polite word, but there is a perfectly good two syllable word that also starts with a “b” and that is “blarney.”
When Adventure Man is chatting me up about something, and I can see where it is going, him spinning all these illusions and wanting my buy-in and this is the perfect “b” word to use: Blarney, Blarney, Blarney. We always end up laughing.
And Blarney is the word-a-day for today:
This week’s theme: toponyms coined after places in Ireland.
blarney (BLAHR-nee) noun
1. Flattery.
2. Misleading talk.
[After the Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney Castle in Blarney village,
near Cork, Ireland which, according to legend, gives the gift of the gab
to anyone who kisses it.]
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So Adventure Man must have kissed the Blarney Stone?
Hmmm…
So that’s where women got the gift of the gab from…
*hides*
oops my bad..that was me “The Hubbie”. I was working on designing a new blog (guess for who?) and this is one of my random nicknames. :$
Anyhow..I hide again! And have a nice weekend! 🙂
Sure and begorra, Jewaira, many many times.
Mini R, *dying laughing*, I bet you’ve kissed the old Blarney stone a time or two yourself!
I plead the 5th!