I love the dictionary

Written by vik

Topics: Life

If there is one non-living thing that I cannot live without it is the Dictionary. I have always wanted the dictionary to be on my tongue-tip. Yet to this day, I have an average vocabulary. I like words and idioms probably more than anything else.

When I was 18, I had torn pages of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary according to alphabets [26 booklets!] so that I can easily ‘mug it up’; that is yet to happen. dictionary

Recently, I read pages 716 to 721 of the dictionary [alphabet L]. Some of the intersting entries were:

La-di-da [upper class tantrums/disapproving]

Laboured [not natural and seeming to take  a lot of effort]

the land of milk and honey [Ok!  I know you know what it means]

La-la land [also Cloud-Cuckoo land]

Labour under something [to believe something that's not true]

Languid [moving slowly in a graceful manner not needing enery/effort; mostly used in written form; languidly]

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