words

I came across a few words today connected with Trump, and i saved them for us.

shambolic adjective Brit. informal he accused the party headquarters of running a shambolic campaign: chaotic, disorganized, muddled, confused, in (total) disarray, at sixes and sevens, unsystematic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, scrappy, fragmented, inefficient; informal all over the place; Brit. informal all over the shop; N. Amer. informal all over the map, all over the lot.

froward adjective archaic [ HAH - archaic- it’s the only one I knew. You know what that makes me.] (of a person) difficult to deal with; contrary. DERIVATIVES frowardly adverb, frowardness noun ORIGIN late Old English frāward‘leading away from, away’, based on Old Norse frá (see fro,from) .

rodomont noun archaic a person who boasts or brags. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: French, from Italian rodomonte, from the name of a boastful character in the Orlando epics.

grobian - Wiktionary

Oct 05, 2019 · grobian m (definite singular grobianen, indefinite plural grobianer, definite plural grobianene) A coarse, uncouth, uncivilized fellow, perhaps violent. Synonyms . råtamp; References “grobian” in The Bokmål Dictionary. “grobian” in The Ordnett Dictionary

There were others, not in my online dictionary. But wait, I have tonnes of words I’ve been saving from my reading, all on those ubiquitous scraps of paper I jot things down on. Another time.

Anon, anon.

horrors

A blog is not a diary, not a blow-by-blow. I know that. One is supposed to withdraw from the dally shuffle and be detached and philosophical and literary. Hah. Had today turned out differently, so might my blog have. Hah.

Detached is what I am not.

My character just disintegrated a little more.

I won’t dwell on it.

After all tomorrow is another day.