Word of the Day challenge Options

[evlpez]

Word of the Day Challenge

I'll post a new word for each day, including its definition(s). All words are courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary unless otherwise noted.

Ferrets are asked to write a short ficlet (between 100-500 words) and include a WotD.

Submissions can be any genre, about any canon character(s) in any time period.

• There is no deadline.
• You may use any previously listed WotD once.
• You may use more than one WotD in a single submission.
• Please give each submission a title.
• You should specify the WotD used at the end of your post.
• All subs are to be posted in this topic.
• Comments for submissions must be posted in the WotD Discussion topic.
• Each submission will count as 2 Ferret Points (10 galleons) towards its writer's earnings in the Hogwarts Bathroom Fund Drive.

[evlpez]

mawkishness, n.
Brit.

1.

1. Nausea, sickness, queasiness. Obs.
2. Dullness of spirits, ennui. Obs. rare.

2. Nauseating or sickly flavour; insipidity. Also fig. Now rare.

3. Feeble or sickly sentimental character; excessive sentimentality.

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nymphing, a.
Brit.

1. Of a fish, esp. a trout: that is feeding on insect larvae at the surface of the water.

2. Angling. Of or relating to the practice of angling with a nymph as a fly (see NYMPH n.1 3b).

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flood, v.

1.

1. trans. To cover with a flood; to inundate.
2. To duck (a person) in the river. rare.

2. To cover or fill with water; to irrigate (grass land); to deluge (a burning house, mine, etc.) with water. Also of rain, etc.: To fill (a river) to overflowing.

3.

1. To pour (away, back, out) in a flood. In quots. fig. rare.
2. To drive out by floods.

4. intr.

1. Of rain: To fall in ‘torrents’, rare.
2. To come in ‘floods’ or great quantities; also with in. lit. and fig.
3. Of a river: To overflow.
4. To become flooded.

5. To suffer from uterine hæmorrhage.

Hence ' flooding ppl. a. Also ' flooder.

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mister, n.
Brit. [Orig. a variant of MASTER n.1 (cf. MASTER n.1 19a). Cf. also earlier MR n. and discussion s.v.]

1.

1. A title of courtesy prefixed to the surname or first name of a man without a higher, honorific, or professional title.
   The word in modern use may be best described as the oral equivalent of the written prefix Mr (see MR n.). It is now usually written in its abbreviated form, and tends only to be given in full in cases where some humorous or ironic emphasis is intended.
2. In extended use, forming a humorous or mocking title.
3. As a title (without specifying an individual).
   Freq. with suggestion of excessive politeness or formality.
4. A man usually addressed as ‘Mister’ (freq. as contrasted with some higher title).
5. Mister Big, Mister Fixit, etc.: see MR n. 4.
6. colloq. Husband; the male head of a household. Freq. with the, or possessive adjective (cf. MISSUS n. 2).

2. The rider of a horse. Cf. MASTER n.1 3. Obs. rare.

3. Used without proper name as a form of address to a man whose name is not known; = SIR n. (but usually less respectful than that title).
In later use chiefly in children's or non-standard speech.

4. Naut. In full Mister Mate (colloq.). Used to address the mate of a ship.