On Words and Upwards! » Clean http://www.onwordsandupwards.com Your Hapax legomenon is showing... Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:12:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Swabification http://www.onwordsandupwards.com/swabification/ http://www.onwordsandupwards.com/swabification/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:44:42 +0000 onWords http://www.onwordsandupwards.com/?p=174 noun. Mopping

Here a large puff and blow, and a swabification of the white handkerchief, while the congregation blow a flourish of trumpets.
Tom Cringle’s log, Michael Scott (1833)

My floor is in dire need of a swabification. Really. It’s not clean at all. Though what will happen (due to lack of a real mop) is probably closer to swifferification.

Thinking about this word made my realize how silly the word swab is. Say it a few times. Swab swab swab swab swab. Fun, right?

Alright, enough fun. Now it’s time to go swabificate the floor. I’m now a swabificator, the hallway will be the first swabificatee. What should I do after I have swabificated?

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