Thursday 10 July 2014

Agelast

Agelast: noun. Although this word is commonly used to describe someone who never laughs, it also has a secondary and unfortunately much less popular meaning, which means a period of time, which is taking an unusually long time to pass. Obviously this is all relative, since time doesn't have a speed, well it does, but you know what I mean! It's interesting, because obviously this meaning has a lot more sense and can be derived from the structure of the word, but nevertheless the definition for non-laughing person is much more commonly used. The meaning we prioritise as a blog would be used for example in the following sentence: "My God this class is such an agelast."

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