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erniet's avatar

Her podsnappery was extreme; it went far beyond making lemons out of lemonade into the realm of outright denial.

Or...His podsnappery of his wife's excessive drinking wasn't doing either of them any good.

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

β€œDude, I’m worried about you. You sit all day alone in the basement at your keyboard. I can barely see you over the chalupa wrappers.”

β€œI’m making magic down here.”

β€œDude, you have zero subscribers, zero followers and zero likes.”

β€œPearls before swine. I’m incubating genius.”

β€œDude, I feel like you’ve crossed a dangerous line from simple delusion to full-blown podsnappery.”

β€œThat sounds like some kind of assault perpetrated by a sugar snap pea. Or maybe a meltdown in an offsite storage unit.”

β€œHa, actually those aren’t so bad. Maybe I stand corrected. Keep the faith. But get a Dustbuster.” (100 words)

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Patricia J.L. πŸ‘»πŸ§ΆπŸ–ŠοΈ's avatar

Ha. I love it. And I may already be rooting for him to become a Youtube sensation.

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Thx! Where do you find these, great word!!

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Patricia J.L. πŸ‘»πŸ§ΆπŸ–ŠοΈ's avatar

Pinterest. I trained it to show me pins of weird words and I have an entire board saved. https://www.pinterest.com/twistingmyths/weird-words-to-use-in-fiction/

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

β€œWhat do you mean, you believe in sea dragons? They’re a myth!”

β€œDude, I *am* one!”

β€œThat’s one hell of a podsnappery you’ve got going on there.”

β€œYou don’t know the half of it. I also found the Holy Grail.”

β€œWhat? Blink twice if you need help…”

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Patricia J.L. πŸ‘»πŸ§ΆπŸ–ŠοΈ's avatar

Ha! I love that you did it for your serial.

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Leanne Shawler's avatar

Possibly too hyper focused for my own good.

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C. Lee McKenzie's avatar

The word has a melody, doesn't it? I think I'll start dropping it into conversations to see what happens!

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Patricia J.L. πŸ‘»πŸ§ΆπŸ–ŠοΈ's avatar

\I feel like it’s the kind of word you declare. What podsnappery!

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