Patsy Collins - Words about writing and writing about words

Bosky means wooded or bushy. One multistemmed tree would be slightly bosk y, a dozen would be boskier and a whole forest is the boskiest ...

Thermotaxis is the regulation of heat in warm-blooded animals. When it's hot, I like to cool down in the sea. Does that make me therm...

Rebutter , surprisingly isn't something you do to bread when you consider it's not been spread with a liberal enough amount of dai...

My dictionary gives three definitions for the word tidemark .  It can be the line on a beach at the high water point, the scummy ring ar...

Hydromania is a craving or passion for water.  I'm not sure my wish to be on a beach qualifies as hydromania , but I would quite like...

Matins , which may also be written as martins, is a service of morning Christian prayer. Or it may be a night 'office of prayer', bu...

According to my dictionary, to bedew means to cover with dew or sprinkle with drops of water. That  part seems fair enough, but it goes on ...

To conflate is to blend or fuse together two sets of information – usually texts. When Rosemary J Kind and I worked on our joint book, she ...

To miaul is to cry like a cat, or to mew. I have no idea, other than the spelling, how it differes from miaow. Do you know? Bagpuss doesn...