Fat words : Enceinte, , Avoirdupois, Parturient, Adipose
Dear Sumant,
Recently there was this theme on "My word a day" website about being heavy and they came up with these words. I only knew Avoirdupois.
My favorite is Enceinte
1. carrying an unborn child; pregnant: "She was found guilty, but sentencing was delayed, as her counsel said that she was enceinte."
From the same site
Like any other movement embraced by celebrities, pregnancy has acquired, over the past couple of years a sort of hip cachet. It's a fashion, literally, and with enceinte moppets like Hudson and Liv Tyler chewing up press pages, elder flashbulb chasers like Demi Moore (who some maintain is the ur-goddess of the fecund celebrity after her alabaster-skinned nude cover for Vanity Fair in 1991) and Madonna are getting in on the act, by hinting that they too will soon be signing up for another tour of gestational duty.
"Her joy at being enceinte is troubled by memories of her own oft pregnant mother, who 'always seemed to me exhausted, burdened.'
Perhaps one of the more noticeable sentence using this word was coined by queen Victoria
"I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice."
Victoria (1819-1901). British monarch, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. [Letter to her daughter Louisa, Princess Frederick William of Prussia.] Letter (June 15, 1859).
Google had a lot of hits about "I love Lucy being enciente"
The word is pronounced like "awn saynt" like "on saint" I guess. Funnily it rhymes with insane. So easy way to remember this word will be to imagine that you are asking a pregnant woman "How she is ? " and she answers that "She is insane because a saint made her enciente".
Another beautiful website I discovered for learning words is "Alpha Dictionary" .
Recently there was this theme on "My word a day" website about being heavy and they came up with these words. I only knew Avoirdupois.
My favorite is Enceinte
1. carrying an unborn child; pregnant: "She was found guilty, but sentencing was delayed, as her counsel said that she was enceinte."
From the same site
Like any other movement embraced by celebrities, pregnancy has acquired, over the past couple of years a sort of hip cachet. It's a fashion, literally, and with enceinte moppets like Hudson and Liv Tyler chewing up press pages, elder flashbulb chasers like Demi Moore (who some maintain is the ur-goddess of the fecund celebrity after her alabaster-skinned nude cover for Vanity Fair in 1991) and Madonna are getting in on the act, by hinting that they too will soon be signing up for another tour of gestational duty.
"Her joy at being enceinte is troubled by memories of her own oft pregnant mother, who 'always seemed to me exhausted, burdened.'
Perhaps one of the more noticeable sentence using this word was coined by queen Victoria
"I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice."
Victoria (1819-1901). British monarch, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. [Letter to her daughter Louisa, Princess Frederick William of Prussia.] Letter (June 15, 1859).
Google had a lot of hits about "I love Lucy being enciente"
The word is pronounced like "awn saynt" like "on saint" I guess. Funnily it rhymes with insane. So easy way to remember this word will be to imagine that you are asking a pregnant woman "How she is ? " and she answers that "She is insane because a saint made her enciente".
Another beautiful website I discovered for learning words is "Alpha Dictionary" .
posted by Sumant at 12:56 PM
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