Any time you use 'overweening,' you're probably saying it regarding someone whose behavior you really can't stand. The word has some flexibility although not much utility since it can make anything worse.
- Insert gratuitous cheapshot at, well, every politician who ever lived -
There's 'overweening pride' or 'overweening arrogance' or any other variety you like since whatever you don't like about a person, if that individual is overweening about it then it's even worse.
Maybe your first thought for 'overweening pride' is Texas since no matter what you have got Texas has it bigger, better, and with a whole lot of cowboy hats although relatively few horses. They're amateurs, however, since no-one on the planet can top Washington for arrogance. In D.C., they only sniff and say disdainfully, "Well, that's how it happens when you eat that Bush Brand Chili, isn't it."
That premise may be valid since we have tried Bush Brand Chili here at the Rockhouse and the Bush family is said to enjoy it although there's no clear relationship. Take a look at the Bush family history and they never made anything but maybe it was some branch of their incestuous clan which did create the chili and that stuff is just plain awful. No wonder they wreck the schools in Texas since, after eating Bush Brand Chili, they don't need schools anymore.
(Ed: you're not doing such a shabby job of overweening arrogance yourself there, Racket Man!)
I do my (cough) humble best. By the way, what's a Racket Man?
(Ed: makes a lot of noise but has no rockets)
Well, thanks for that, of course.
Overweening probably won't stump you as the Word of the Day and most likely the biggest kick comes from the ones for which you had no idea of their existence. That comes because they give us more toys for posturing as the Smart Guys. We don't care all that much about the posturing but new words can be fun.
If you have ever 'read' a dictionary simply to find new words, you're in this crew. Tip: there's no escape.
I know other people must have done that as well or they wouldn't be able to stump me with words I have never seen before. Unknown if that makes them 'overweening lexicologists' but we leave that to the interested student.
(Ed: are there any real students in the Rockhouse?)
I've only said a million times or so I have little idea of who ever comes here since Blogger doesn't tell me so I have no idea if any are students.
- Insert gratuitous cheapshot at, well, every politician who ever lived -
There's 'overweening pride' or 'overweening arrogance' or any other variety you like since whatever you don't like about a person, if that individual is overweening about it then it's even worse.
Maybe your first thought for 'overweening pride' is Texas since no matter what you have got Texas has it bigger, better, and with a whole lot of cowboy hats although relatively few horses. They're amateurs, however, since no-one on the planet can top Washington for arrogance. In D.C., they only sniff and say disdainfully, "Well, that's how it happens when you eat that Bush Brand Chili, isn't it."
That premise may be valid since we have tried Bush Brand Chili here at the Rockhouse and the Bush family is said to enjoy it although there's no clear relationship. Take a look at the Bush family history and they never made anything but maybe it was some branch of their incestuous clan which did create the chili and that stuff is just plain awful. No wonder they wreck the schools in Texas since, after eating Bush Brand Chili, they don't need schools anymore.
(Ed: you're not doing such a shabby job of overweening arrogance yourself there, Racket Man!)
I do my (cough) humble best. By the way, what's a Racket Man?
(Ed: makes a lot of noise but has no rockets)
Well, thanks for that, of course.
Overweening probably won't stump you as the Word of the Day and most likely the biggest kick comes from the ones for which you had no idea of their existence. That comes because they give us more toys for posturing as the Smart Guys. We don't care all that much about the posturing but new words can be fun.
If you have ever 'read' a dictionary simply to find new words, you're in this crew. Tip: there's no escape.
I know other people must have done that as well or they wouldn't be able to stump me with words I have never seen before. Unknown if that makes them 'overweening lexicologists' but we leave that to the interested student.
(Ed: are there any real students in the Rockhouse?)
I've only said a million times or so I have little idea of who ever comes here since Blogger doesn't tell me so I have no idea if any are students.
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