Can we make "vimmy" a word? Like, "I'm full of vim and vigour; yep, I sure am vimmy"?
(I had to think for a moment. "Wait, or is it 'vim and vinegar'? I'm having a cliche collapse. No, no, that's 'piss and vinegar.'")
All I see on Google for "vimmy" are results for first names. Oh, wait, I know - let me check out my FREE access to the full OED website. You know, the one I don't pay $295/year for? Because there is a school (not mine) in the district with an institutional license and loose lips sink ships (so here's where I stop talking)?
It's not in the OED, but someday it will be, because I plan to use the word a lot. You saw it here first. Maybe I'll even sell it to the kids as a new high-fiver. "OMG - did you see her? She was all (wave arms) and I was all (hop up and down) and she was, like, HELL YEAH, and I was, like, I KNOW, and that girl, she is so vimmy, you know what I'm saying?"
Has anyone ever considered the dark potential we English teachers wield when it comes to creating new words? The kids always think I'm making the words up as it is. "Miss! No one talks like this!" Current words in the "Miss, we're never going to use this" file include:
- enticing
- aloof
- whim
- disdain
- chide
- dither
- boast
- gossamer
They may have a point with gossamer, but it would be a shame to lose it. Lose gossamer, and you lose so many fairy wings.
Hrm. Now I can't remember why I was feeling vimmy. I think it had something to do with this huge post I have going in draft mode. You know, hope and crap again. Don't ask. (Yet.) (Probably ever.)
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