Wordsmith.org word of the day: enfant terrible
PRONUNCIATION:
(ahn*-fahn* te-REE-bluh)
[* these syllables are nasal]
plural enfants terribles (ahn*-fahn* te-REE-bluh)
MEANING:
noun: A person, especially someone famous or successful, whose unconventional
lifestyle, work, or behavior appears shocking.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French enfant terrible (terrible child).
USAGE:
“Once an enfant terrible, who as a young filmmaker challenged censors and outraged conservative critics, Koji Wakamatsu has not mellowed so much as ripened.” -Mark Schilling; All’s Unfair in Love and War; The Japan Times (Tokyo); Aug 13, 2010.
synchronicities! i’d just written this descriptive blurb for that no-good vaude-villian “the burlesque poetess” who alongside/in addit’ to the tiny instruments is going to participate in Truth Serum’s “New Jew Revue” 10/17. so yes, my blurb included a phrase i’ve never properly used before, but seemed to fit. and lo and behold a few days later it is the word of the day! i feel erudite. or like an erudetritus collector. anyhoo, enjoy our PR blurbs. i have fun writing them. i may (i hear tell) be doing some wordsmiffy-ing for the TOys soon, too…
jojo, The Burlesque Poetess
Known for “accidental fanny flashing” (Boston Globe), naughty verse in
her knickers and $1 stripping sonnets, the “erudetritus”-collecting
comedienne/enfant terrible will be “Burlesque Jewess-ing” with tales
of Hebrew school trauma and poems on speaking “Frebrewlais!”
website: http://jojolazar.com
Meff ‘n’ jojo’s Tiny Instrument Revue
Retrosexual renegades from the “stage shtetl” of the Army of Broken
Toys banter like Muppets over Pesach memories, renditions of Ukulele
Ike songs rife with “euphemnuendo,” vaudevillian interpretations of
glam rock, and original musical delinquency.
website: http://bit.ly/tinyFB
