Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 27, 2024

It is indeed a playable word. Sadly, it is an arrangement of eight letters.

Sure. But can you use it in a sentence with its actual meaning? Roll the dice to find out.

Disqualified for making extra high-point letters and vowels with a concealed wood burner stylus. So that’s what the smell was!

This would be a good word for a spelling bee. (If the speller asks that it be used in a sentence, just say: The Pentagon’s shape is not a quincunx.)

Quincunx is good. Jequirity is better. But if you spell “Chuck Norris,” you win the game. Forever.

Quincunx: A 150 degree orb of aspect in Astrology, denoting a conflict of planetary influences…

I did “the” once. But I had to borrow the ‘e’ from another word on the board.

We’re dealing with an inconjunct, here. You’re about 5 signs apart and are creating unease and a need for adjustment. Time to straighten up and fly right!

We used to play Scrabble with 2 complete sets of tiles, so words like “QUINCUNX” AND “QUINQUEFARIOUS” were a distinct possibility…!

( we first had to agree on how many tiles we could draw before the start … 2 trays allowed )

My best ever was ‘scented.’ And that was a long, long time ago… The last time I played in fact.

Lame lame lame…Lamé.

Cool ponytail.

As it should be.

Reminds me of an episode of Cheers when Woody said “font” in front of his mother and she made him wash out his mouth with soap.

No quincunxes in the picture. The X and the Q could score big.

Should be cool and make you feel the deep freeze of coolness!

My ex-housemate was an English teacher and she would beat me at every turn while I was trying to come up with something other than literally “barf”.

Hang in there “T”!

Learned a new word from the Little Lame Letter, but it has 10 letters and I don’t even have a Scrabble® partner for years now,

How about the 19th century fancifully constructed pseudo-Latin verbs like “absquatulate”? There’s a TikTok video discussing these words by Jess Zafarris that you can find by searching for “zafarris etymology of absquatulate”.

The only Scrabble playable words from those discussed in the video are “bloviate” and “discombobulate”, along with the older word “flabbergast”.

Ooooh!! SO close to being a dirty word!!!