Whatzat mean? Word origins.

[homoe]

origin: Smitten is related to the verb smite, which comes from the Old English smitan, meaning “to hit, strike, beat.” What do hitting and beating have to do with love, you may ask? Well, when some people fall in love they report feeling as though they've been "struck by lightning." Obviously those people have never actually been struck by lightning!

Overwhelmed or struck by something, usually love

[homoe]

The root is ossify, "to turn into bone," from the Latin word for "bone,".

ossified...........Too intoxicated to function properly (urban dictionary)

It can mean set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs.

To convert into or cause to harden like bone.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

origin: Smitten is related to the verb smite, which comes from the Old English smitan, meaning “to hit, strike, beat.” What do hitting and beating have to do with love, you may ask? Well, when some people fall in love they report feeling as though they've been "struck by lightning." Obviously those people have never actually been struck by lightning!

Overwhelmed or struck by something, usually love

I think smitten is such a non-threatening way of telling someone you like them in a 'special way" without making them or yourself uncomfortable...

[homoe]

Kashrut

Is a set of Jewish religious dietary laws.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by homoe

I think smitten is such a non-threatening way of telling someone you like them in a 'special way" without making them or yourself uncomfortable...

i love the word “smitten” .......

[homoe]

lethologica I just "borrowed" this word from another thread.....LOL



The inability to remember a particular word or name.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by homoe

lethologica I just "borrowed" this word from another thread.....LOL



The inability to remember a particular word or name.

yup ..... thats a word i love, but can never remember

[homoe]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

yup ..... thats a word i love, but can never remember

Thanks for letting me "borrow" it......LOL

[homoe]

sally forth............To leave a place and move on

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by homoe

lethologica I just "borrowed" this word from another thread.....LOL



The inability to remember a particular word or name.

OMG i was trying to remember this word, and i couldn’t. What’s it called when you can’t remember the word that means forgetting the names of words??