Pandiculation was a dictionary.com word of the day a few weeks back that I have been meaning to mention. Following is the definition:
pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\, noun:
an instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning
by 1611 from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix -ion.
"Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator."-- Time, 1942-04-12
an instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning
by 1611 from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix -ion.
"Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator."-- Time, 1942-04-12
I really like the word, not only because it sounds cool, but also because I think it is a great word to use when describing blogs...after all, blogs really are a form of verbal pandiculation.
