Today I met a co-worker who described himself as a brutally frank over-sharer.
I thought, “Ah, the distaff version of me,” — only I would be the distaff version of him. I needed the opposite.
I looked it up and he would be the “agnate” version of me. Did you all know this? Am I the only one?
5 responses to “A New Word for Me”
Maybe applying therapy to making someone’s behavior less rash would be unrashing them? Anyway.
KC – more like deriding a wound. Scraping the rash off? The more I think of it the more wrong it becomes.
Oh, yeah, I understood what you meant in your “definition” – I just realized that we could take it in the direction of rash behavior instead of a skin rash… and still not get very far. 🙂
(also: I think that is debriding, not deriding, although honestly who cares?)
KC – you are right! And you’d think I would know what deriding means.
Just because you are intimately familiar with one sense of a word doesn’t mean you regularly use its other meanings, if there are meanings that are a fair distance off (as deriding a wound would be!). So. I think that is fully reasonable, especially since debriding sounds like the process of swapping Barbie Dream Wedding into… well, maybe Barbie Flight Attendant or something. No veil, less floofy white, no giant bouquet, less stress, etc…