Dictionary.com still sends me an email every day. Some days I already know the word and most days I think “I’ve never seen this word before and I doubt I’ll ever see it again.” But it’s still fun. Last week, the word snollygoster hit my Inbox. It means a clever, unscrupulous person. This definitely falls into the category of “I’ll probably never run into this again” but it seems like such a fun word that maybe I should play with it for a bit.
If you are clever
But a bit unscrupulous –
A snollygoster!
Can you use it in a sentence? Extra points if you can do a better haiku than I did!
Trail Baboon 
Opportunity
For snollygosters means that
No one is watching.
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Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Snollygoster.
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Endless claptrap from
The deposed snollygoster
Ex-president Trump.
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Outstanding haiku. Snollygoster is probably too weak a term for him. I lean towards “criminal.”
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They’re not mutually exclusive.
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The former president is not particularly clever. That’s fortunate for us. We might still be stuck with him if he was clever.
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Morning- I get the Dictionary.com word of the day as well. I move them all to a folder just for them. Sometimes it’s such an odd word I think “I’ll never use that” and I delete it. Or words that I am familiar with, I delete. Trouble is, i hardly ever go back to that folder and look up the words. Or I think ‘I saw a word for that once…’
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As much as I dislike everything about that man, including his looks and voice, I’d sure love to see him in orange.
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Rise and Shine, Baboons,
Snollygoster is
A magnificent word with
A mission to describe.
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Roistering hoodlum..
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I think of a rooster when I say that phrase, and imagine a rooster crowing on his own dung heap.
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That’s basically what happened for the last four years…
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The Snollygoster
Clad in a gaudy plaid suit
Wants to make a sale
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The hoosegow awaits
criminal snollygoster
at the end of trial
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Snollygoster is
One of those words that’s hard to
Use in a sentence.
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Excellent haiku today. Extra points for Bill for doing good haiku so early in the morning, extra points for Renee for using the word “roistering” which I just love, and double points for PJ who I know doesn’t really love these poetry days.
And extra points for everybody else too.
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My poetry skills
Are unlikely to produce
Extra points for me.
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Nice! And extra points for late-night haiku!!
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PJ is too damed confused to know what she likes these days. I’ll take all of the extra points I can get, though. Where I can I redeem them, and for what?
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Just call me Dame Jane. I have no idea what I was trying to say,
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It’s late.
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So as not to do further damage, I’ll just go to bed. See ya in the morning.
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