Anyone been barflogging lately? Not you?
No slapping your arms crosswise against your chest and shoulders to keep
warm? Or maybe you are into cuffing or
beating your arms against your sides.
It’s been distinctly chilly in my part of Lincolnshire but
we haven’t had the snow other areas have had.
We had a covering which was gone in a few hours. It’s been bad enough to clumse me (numb me
with cold) if I were foolish enough to step outside. I’m just not frigostable! (Possibly you can work out that means unaffected
by the cold.)
I’d need to degomble when I came in. Ha, I’ll bet you didn’t know that word for
cleaning the snow and mud off your shoes!
The surprising thing about it is that it is a twenty first century word,
probably invented by scientists in the Antarctic.
None of those words are familiar to me. "Degomble" - someone had fun making up that word.
ReplyDeleteApparently it started with gomble which is the mud and snow and someone went on from there. It sounds vaguely Middle English, though.
Deletei'd heard of barflogging, but not the others. What crazy weather . Snow, and lots of flooding around my daughter in Manchester [grandsons built a snowman] - and a village in Leicester [right next to the one where we lived for 20 yrs] was cut off by floods over the weekend. We have had much rain here, but sunshine today. No real snow. Keep warm, keep safe
ReplyDeleteYou are one up on me as I hadn't heard of any of them! I love words though.
DeleteI didn't know any of those words! But, I am definitely not frigostable! Stay warm and dry!
ReplyDeleteI'm non-frigostable too! And my home is the best place to be right now!
DeleteWhat lovely new words. I just dress in layers and do not enter the frigid air outside more than is absolutely necessary.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I suspect that it is even colder where you are than here in Lincolnshire!
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