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Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Kathy of BermudaOnion. Here you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love.
I am sharing words from The Rome Prophecy by Jon Trace, all three are from the same sentence.
They stand for a moment in the cool of the church and look over the nave, with its three aisles, each ending in an apse, divided by quatrefoil pillars.
Nave: The central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the chancel and flanked by aisles.
Apse: A usually semicircular or polygonal, often vaulted recess, especially the termination of the sanctuary end of a church.
Quatrefoil: A conventionalized representation of a flower with four petals or of a leaf with four leaflets.
Narthex: The portico of an ancient church
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Kathy of BermudaOnion. Here you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love.
I have not done this for a long time but I saw found some unusual words while reading The Frozen Shroud by Martin Edwards thought of posting for the meme!
Grassing: I think she even contemplated grassing Shenagh up, but in the end, she decided there was no point.
Grass up: Inform on someone to the police
"Grasser. One who gives information. A 'squealer’ or ‘squeaker'. The origin derives from rhyming slang: grasshopper - copper; a 'grass' or 'grasser' tells the 'copper' or policeman."
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Stroppy: Don't get stroppy, Hannah, I'd rather part on good terms.
Stroppy means to be grumpy, flying off the handle for no apparent reason
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Sots: We're not a pair of drunken sots, you know.
Sots means a person stupefied by or as if by drink
