It was pointed out to me today that I haven’t posted anything in this here blog thing for several weeks. When no topic came immediately to mind, I consulted a Word document I keep on my hard drive entitled “blog ideas.” That’s where I jot down a few words to remind myself of subjects I might want to write about.
When I opened the document, I saw this on the first line:
Defenestrate – why?
Well, why, indeed? Why do we need a word that describes something so specific? (In case you’ve forgotten, it means to throw something or somebody out a window.)
We don’t have a word that means to save the pasta water when we drain the spaghetti, nor a word that means to put food in the dog’s dish, so why do we need a word that means to throw something out a window?
Could I use it in a sentence? Sure. “The Senator wants the bill to be defenestrated.” Or how about, “The defenestration of chamber pots is prohibited.”
Or, for a snappy come-back, there’s always, “Oh, go defenestrate yourself!”
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