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poetree_admin ([personal profile] poetree_admin) wrote in [community profile] poetree2013-07-23 08:35 am

Alliterative Amusements

alee_grrl & jjhunter

Let's play a game in the comments today. Offer a prompt by starting a new comment thread with your chosen word or phrase in the subject line. Answer prompts that inspire you with a single sentence using as much alliteration as possible (sometimes it is impossible to have all the words start with the same sound). There are no limits on how many prompts you can offer or answer, and more than one person is welcome to answer a particular prompt.

Or in more appropriate language,
Admins advance an alliterative activity for this association's amusement. Whisper words with which wandering wordsmiths may weave wondrous wordplay. Pick a prompt to play, and structure statements starting with selected suggestions.
An excellent example of elegant expression is this video excerpt from V for Vendetta.
jjhunter: Drawing of human J.J. in red and brown inks with steampunk goggle glasses (red J.J. inked)

Fanfaronade

[personal profile] jjhunter 2013-07-23 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display."

(Gleefully borrowed from A-Z of Unusual Words.)
jjhunter: Ekwara jaunx wearing JJ's glasses; black ink tinted with brown watercolor to depict cute fuzzy cat/bear-like animal (Ekwara jaunx with JJ's glasses)

tremulous entrenchment

[personal profile] jjhunter 2013-07-23 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Image of a baby turtle withdrawn into its shell and peering out with clear trepidation
jjhunter: plump little bird looks upward - blue watercolor and ink (blue bird happy)

Callipygian

[personal profile] jjhunter 2013-07-23 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"having well-shaped buttocks"
untonuggan: Lily and Chance squished in a cat pile-up on top of a cat tree (buff tabby, black cat with red collar) (Default)

Persnickety

[personal profile] untonuggan 2013-07-23 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
adjective Informal.
1.
overparticular; fussy.
2.
snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3.
requiring painstaking care.