Patsy Collins - Words about writing and writing about words

You've probably come across the word incorrigible , which means a person is unable to be changed, corrected or reformed. It makes p...

Vegetal refers to plants, or anything which has the nature of plants, or is vegetative.

A gimmick is a trick or device, used to attract attention, publicity or trade. Valentine Gimmick is the title of my story in the Valenti...

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...