Verbal Virtuoso Pillows

Bookworm group

Thesaurus Company

"I don't like playing Scrabble with Gracie! She totally makes up all kinds of crazy words! And they're always in the dictionary!"

"I prefer to think of myself as an opinion former."

"Our 7-year-old daughter just called me a 'philistine.' I find myself both insulted and proud."

I can give this speech. People want to hear my speech. I'll put one word after the next, and before I know it, I'll be giving a speech. Self-Motivational Speaker.

'Sometimes, from time to time, occasionally I wish I'd never bought that ruddy thesaurus!'

Quick Crossword.

Outspoken

'How do you plead, in twenty-five words or less?'

Wordplay: Trash

Angry Words

"Why do people think using big words is a bad thing?"

"OMG! I'm lost for words!"

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"It's a play on words."

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

'My client has no problem with 'richer' and 'in health'. Our points of contention are 'poorer' and 'in sickness'.'

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

Dictionary. It's a cordless spell checker!

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

'Coleridge'

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

Does "worldly goods" include intellectual property?

Writer

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

Poetry repairman