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Divagate - Word of the Day - Mon May 11, 2020

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Divagate - (Verb) - to wander or stray from course or subject: diverge, digress

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Small town councils often have members that divagate to many tangents and easily transition to bloviating.

For more information -  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/divagate?s=t

Bonus word- bloviate - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bloviate?s=t

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Aditus

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Okay, I read diva-gate. Several people immediately came to mind.

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Carlos Hazday

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Small town councils often have members that divagate to many tangents and easily transition to bloviating.

I thought that was all politicians, not only small town ones. :P

 

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Myr

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13 minutes ago, Carlos Hazday said:

I thought that was all politicians, not only small town ones.

Well, yeah... but if I said that, this post would run straight into the cess pit in which politicians exist.  Small town councils are filled with your bloviating neighbors and political wanna-bes. ;)

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Valkyrie

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1 hour ago, aditus said:

Okay, I read diva-gate. Several people immediately came to mind.

Haha me too :rofl:  

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Reader1810

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I know someone who does this all the time. It makes for many :huh: moments :P 

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Cia

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Oh yes... well... I live with my very own divas, so that was immediately what I thought too @aditus and @Valkyrie LOL Interesting on how chunking up a word can totally change the meaning in your mind. :P

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