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Word Triggers
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Certain otherwise-innocuous words can be a trigger for some people. Maybe it's a negative association with the word - a reminder of past trauma or a social faux pas. It could be a word that becomes an inside joke - an innocent word given a not-so-innocent meaning. These words make us cringe and avoid them and not really want to explain our reaction to other people. For me, a certain spring-blooming flower is a word trigger. I avoid saying the name of this flower because I have negative ass- 3 comments
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From Times Leader: Origin Of Discombobulate Confuses Many People Q. I Love The Word “discoboobalated.” Where Did It Come From? A. That’s One Variation Of The Word We Haven’t Heard Before! The Way Most People Say It Is “discombobulated,” And It Means “upset” Or “confused.” You’re Not The Only One Who Has A Different Conception Of This Unusual Word, Though. At The Time Of Its First Known Appearance In Print, In 1834, It Was “discombobracated.” Later It Was Recorded As “discombobberate,” “discombo -
From Wordfoolery: Discombobulate entered American English around 1830, originally spelled as discombobricate, meaning to upset or embarrass somebody. It was a created word using mock-Latin suffixes and prefixes. Other examples include – confusticate and absquatulate. As Jess Zafarris of Useless Etymology fame says – ‘“Discombobulate” was one in a series of words invented in the early to mid-1800s as part of a fad popular among educated high-society types who made up faux words by compiling
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Harry Potter and the Discombobulated Description Studying The Cursed Child characters through the lens of one word: The spells are quite witty, but they aren't the only examples of wordplay in the Harry Potter universe. In the Potter novels J. K. Rowling uses vocabulary that has made her characters living creatures to generations of readers. Whether it is Harry's visions of Voldemort's livid face or Draco Malfoy's seemingly ever-present smirk, language helps to define these charac
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The earliest known use of the adjective discombobulated is in the 1870s. The OED's earliest evidence for discombobulated is from 1870, in North Amer. more specifically in the U.S. It appeared in the Gazette (a Philadelphia newspaper), and discombobulated is formed within English, by derivation.
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Actually, I know what you mean. Sometimes when I began a story, or was currently writing one, I would base the antagonist on a person my thoughts and feelings of loathing were currently consumed with. Sometimes this person was someone I worked with, but at other times it was merely someone I had come into contact with in a social setting and had built an immediate disliking for. Either way, those people either inspired me to begin writing a story or merely insert a despicable or very dislike
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Of course if you happen to be really screwed up, I suppose we could call it discomboobulated. -
I don't get this so much with words in general, but more with names. There are some names attached to people I very much dislike that I won't use in stories, unless it is attached to another unlikeable character. -
You two, wow, me three! ------------- Discombobulate is a fun, fancy word for “confuse.” If something has put you in a state where you don't know up from down and you can't spell your own name, you may be discombobulated. Discombobulate kind of sounds like you feel when you're disoriented: bouncing around in several directions at once. Trying to say discombobulate for the first time might discombobulate you! Because of its funny sound, discombobulate is often used in a humorous wa -
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Otherwise known as how I feel when I first wake up.
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