Peccadillos and other expressions I like
A peccadillo ( a slight offense) is a small sin or venial sin. Not a big cardinal or mortal sin that would get you sent to hell, but a minor offence. Like lying. I remember one lie I told recently. I had been painting a landscape and I showed it to someone and I deliberately lied; I told them it was sold. I had previously apologized to them, in writing, but they had not forgiven me, even if they said they had. That had pissed me off. They could have had the painting for the asking, if they had asked nicely, but they hadn’t. So I lied. A peccadillo.
Peccadillo can be of a sexual nature. I have done those as well over the years. Oh my, have I ever. But mostly I haven’t. I try not to hurt anyone but I have sometimes missed the mark. I try to be honest. But sometimes honesty is not enough.
Prosaic DULL, UNIMAGINATIVE or EVERYDAY, ORDINARY
Persnickety. Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious. Snobbish; pretentious. Requiring strict attention to detail.
Looking Sheepish; affected by or showing embarrassment caused by consciousness of a fault. My lawyer friend was looking ‘sheepish’ this morning after texting me to meet him at half past 8 when the cafe wasn’t open. I told him so and he arrived early, and saw the locked door. He looked sheepish when I saw him at 9.
I was recently treated as a paltry person ; paltry is lacking in importance or worth, synonym: trivial. Very small or inadequate in amount; negligible. Contemptible. I was told that she was wasting her time with me - in French. The words she used was ‘éparpiller son temps’. Scattering her time. That hurt. I was treated as a paltry person.
Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. Most of my life I have had luck; things happen by fortune or misfortune. It is hard to tell which is which. I was treated for cancer, and I was lucky enough to finish before they closed the cancer treatment because of COVID 19. My life has had moments of serendipity, like when I met the woman who I was to end up married to.
Take for granted 1) to assume (something) as true, real, unquestionable, or to be expected or 2) to value (something or someone) too lightly : to fail to properly notice or appreciate (someone or something that should be valued)
Slick as a whistle Quick, smooth, skillful, or easy, as in manner or movement.
A cats meow used to say that someone or something is very appealing
Willy Nilly; without order or plan; haphazardly. Describes my work place, pastels and pencils and oil paints everywhere.
If someone wears their heart on their sleeve, that means the person is very honest, open, and transparent about their emotions. They don’t try to hide what they’re feeling. I had a tattoo of a heart near my sleeve to show that I wear my heart on my sleeve. I try to be open and honest; it doesn’t always work.
Callipygian; having shapely buttocks and ecdysiast ; a striptease performer and merkin; an artificial covering of hair for the pubic area. And nympholepsy; passion or rapture aroused in men by beautiful young girls, and finally skanky; nasty or revolting.
Screwvenir; something taken from a lover to remind one of them
To throw a conniption hissy (or conniption fit); a fit of rage or hysterics.
Bamboozled: thrown into a state of confusion or bewilderment especially by being deliberately fooled or misled.
Lackadaisical; lazy and has no enthusiasm or determination
Quirofilia also known as a hand fetish. And since any eroticization of a specific part of the body is often referred to as partialism, quirofilia is sometimes referred to as hand partialism.
Gerontophilia Arousal by the elderly, Nebulophilia Arousal to fog, Psychrophilia Arousal to being cold and watching others who are cold, Sadism Arousal to causing physical and psychological pain etc
I have to admit that I am a Scopophiliac.
In psychology and psychiatry, scopophilia or scoptophilia is an aesthetic pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person.
Meldrop; it’s a drop of mucus hanging from someone’s nose.
Smicker; means to looks amorously after someone.
Octothorpe; sometimes called a hashtag (#), its real name is an “octothorpe.”
Piffle; when someone is speaking nonsense.
Unperson; a person isn’t a person anymore. It’s a word you use to describe a person that has been erased because of their misbehavior.
Lollygag — To dawdle or be overly slow.
Malarkey — Nonsense.
Donnybook - an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
Comeuppance — A fate or punishment that someone deserves.
Nincompoop — A stupid, useless person.
Mollycoddle — To treat someone in a pampered manner.
Pettifogger — An inferior lawyer with dubious practices.
Shenanigan — A mischevious activity.
Skedaddle — Depart quickly.
Fatuous — Silly and pointless.
Gobbledygook — Language that is so overly-technical and complicated it’s unintelligible.
Cantankerous: Someone who is very grumpy.
Egad: Used as an expression of shock or amazement.
Itty-Bitty: Something that is really small or tiny.
Lollygagger: Someone who walks around with no aim or goal
Malarkey: An informal word for talking about meaningless things or nonsense
Nincompoop: This refers to someone who is not intelligent or a fool.
Skedaddle: To ask some to leave or run away very quickly
Yahoo: A rube, a country bumpkin. From Jonathan Swift book Gulliver’s travels.
Zaftig: Having a full-rounded figure.
