Ii: Illimitable

Definition

Non Ending, No limit to.

Cocktail Party Banter

I hope for illimitable riches... that way I can travel the world without a care.

Litarary Context

It seems as only yesterday--it is in fact fourteen long, long years--that I heard him thus holding forth to his pupils, explaining the marvels of the illimitable void, and rendering clear to my understanding the vast distance that exists between the Being that created all things and the works of his hands.

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore 

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Hunt for Words

Found the word in a Keroac Haiku: Stop slipping me/ Your old Diamond Sutra/You illimitable tight-ass! I I thought it funny but was not sure what illimitable meant... I guess I could have broken the word down into its components but I think I read the poem too quickly.   So I looked it up and it meant unlimited.

Ff: Free Booting

Definition

To act as a plunderer,

Cocktail Party Banter

His wife left him because he was such a freebooter, he loafed, he squandered her money, he was such a bum.

Literary Context

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman

Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far manilla; this lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.

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Hunt for Words

I found this word in the Essay "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" by Thomas Sewall... the sentence the word was found in was: "Local feuding clans and freebooting marauders kept this region in an uproar, even when there were no military hostilities between the English and Scottish kingdoms."pg 5  I liked the way it sounded and wanted to use it in future writing.

AF: A Fortiori

Definition

For a still stronger reason; all the more.

Cocktail Party Banter

"If you move that Queen on that Chessboard, you wont just lose your Queen but you will, a foritori lose the game."

Literary Context

If you ask me how she managed it, I can't tell you; it's no business of mine, and,a fortiori none of yours.

A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry 

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Yy: Yawl

Baziotes: Beach Shadows

Definition

1. a ships small boat crewed by two to three men, four to six oars. Jollyboat
2. to howl, to weep, or scream harshly.

Cocktail Party Banter

She let out such a great yawl, that shivers went down my back.

Literary Contex

They took leave of their comrades and started off on their several courses with stout hearts and cheerful countenances; though these lonely cruisings into a wild and hostile wilderness seem to the uninitiated equivalent to being cast adrift in the ship's yawl in the midst of the ocean.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington 

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Ss: Shilly-shallied

Derain: Shows a Good "Shilly-Shally"

Definition

To procrastinate.
To be unable to come to a decision.
To spend time on insignificant things.  Dawdle.

Cocktail Party Banter

I just shilly-shallied all day. It was incredibly nice, not to be tied down to my agenda.

Literary Context

Cool breeze-maybe
just a shillyshallying show
That'll ruin everything.*

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*Kerouac, Jack and Regina Weinreich. Book of Haikus. New York: Penguin Poets, 2003. pg5

Aa: Alacrity

Definition

1. Cheerful willingness.

2. Speed of a bullet train.

Cocktail Party Banter

He works with such alacrity that he leaves messes all over the place.  He works like a hurricane.

Literary Reference

Through the arch, half ironic designs suggested to the artist by vaudeville stunts, circus acrobatics, jazz-band acts, and the night life of the streets, he comes into touch with the nervous alacrity, the devil-may-care momentum, the half vulgar erotic flush which creates Broadway, that lane running from New York through the continent unto Alaska. 

Meyer, Peter and Arthur Danto. Brushes with History. City: Nation Books, 2001. pg 190

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Ee: Epigone

Definition

a second rate imitator or follower, especially of an artist or philosopher.

Cocktail Party Banter

Did you see Nancy? She is such an epigone of those rap stars girlfriends.  She even had caligen shots in her ass too make her booty bigger....

Literary Reference

this does not atone for its masochistic fondness for the social and other epigones of the School of Paris.

Meyer, Peter and Arthur Danto. Brushes with History. City: Nation Books, 2001. 

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Cc: Chiaroscuro

Defined

The arrangement of dark and light utilized in a pictorial representation.

Cocktail Party Banter

"Chiaroscuro Baby! Life is lived in the chiaroscuro; always in a blend of light and dark. You dig!?!"

 Show Word in a Literary Context

Followed as he followed it, with a skilful reticence, in a kind of socialchiaroscuro, it was still possible for the polite to call him a professional painter.

Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Senryù

 Definition 

like Haiku but concerned with human foibles.(Wikipedia) 


"Senryu, like haiku, are usually one to three lines in length but whilst haiku focuses on nature and the world around us, senryu homes in on human nature and the way our human minds function within our many environments. Senryu may or may not include aspects of the natural world, but if they do, they do so with an emphasis on the way we as human beings perceive those aspects and how they interact with our own psychology. In this way, senryu are often, though not always, humorous and are frequently complemented by a sharp, sometimes wicked wit. (From Prune Juice)" 

Differences between Haiku and Senryu

Haiku	Senryu
Seasonal Reference	No Seasonal Reference
Haiku is Haiku	Synru is playful using simile, metaphor, and personification

Kerouac, Jack and Regina Weinreich. Book of Haikus. New York: Penguin Poets, 2003.

Cocktail Party Banter

What do you do Frank?
I write Senryu for a literary magazine on the internet.
So in other words you are one of those Burma Bums?

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Links

Haiku in the Internet Era: The Atlantic Magazine
Haiku Society of America