Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 08, 2021

the dictionary sure never lets us down (like Calvin and tortellini)

His wife looks up “termagant”!

Better yet, a plugger still goes through the trouble of looking up the dictionary instead of instant googling.

And there he sees that picture of me.

Josh Reads the Dictionary.

Some of the words I’ve learned aren’t fit to say in public.

Knowledge is everywhere when you look ;-)

Too many curmudgeonly and termagant Pluggers got that way by on the job training. Growing old is a full time job that almost everybody gets to work, isnt it? So why do we treat people so badly when we’re all in that exact same business?

And that is usually preceded by the word being used in a sentence by his wife about him.

Guilty.

And he thinks “Wow, this sounds like a couple of guys I know”.

and if you are not married you can always call yourself a misanthrope.

True enough, but “curmudgeon” is one I learned years ago, applied to an older person in my life at the time.

malogent

In the Middle Ages, Termagant or Tervagant was the name given to a god which European Christians believed Muslims worshipped. The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, vixen.

Well, SOME of us learn them from Word games,

I was so happy when I learned that word, I knew one day I would be a curmudgeon. And now I am one.

Especially from the comics.