Sunday 24 November 2013

Shmurple

Shmurple: verb. To shmurple has a variety of negative connotations, as the action is most commonly associated with lurking, skulking, crouching, creeping, crawling and behaving shadily. However, the original meaning of the word is quite different; in the early nineteenth century, someone who shmurpled was one who was in a continuous state of excreting. The word was invented by William Blake whose frustration with the rhyme-less-ness of the word purple led him to invent a word that would rhyme with it. He used it in one of his poems, fittingly titled "The Secret Purple Thing."

There once was a man who had nasal congestion,
He also had problems with bad indigestion,
His poo had turned purple,
And he had to shmurple,
To see if it needed ingestion.

1 comment:

  1. Shmurple is a great work to use when i need to shit in class and he will not let me go to the bathroom.

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