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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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.

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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