Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French. Show all posts

22 November 2011

Globule

A small spherical body.  

Sometimes shortened to glob, this word came to me when a friend texted me and my response to her was glob as it was an anagram of the word she had sent me.

Etymology:
1660s, from Fr. globule, from L. globulus, dim. of globus “globe”

31 October 2011

Ennui

Quite simply boredom!!!

I am sitting in a meeting at work and am bored stiff... Filled with ennui!