Adela is thematic
Of one aristocratic
A teutonic name fashionable
To the old Victorians,
According to historians,
Who wanted to convey someone noble.
By Kerin Gedge
Showing posts with label Words that start with the letter A. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Words that start with the letter A. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The Meaning of the Girl's Name Adela
Adela is thematic
Of one aristocratic
A teutonic name fashionable
To the old Victorians,
According to historians,
Who wanted to convey someone noble.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
The Meaning of Admonish
If you want to tell someone
Off for something that they've done
In a gentle but also firm way,
The scolding that you are giving
Is of course admonishing
Although it's also true that the word may
Be used when you are warning
Advising even cautioning
Someone against something to avoid,
As in, "Dear I think it's best
You burn or throw away that vest,
It's ghastly and leaves me feeling annoyed!"
By Kerin Gedge
Monday, May 25, 2015
The Meaning of the Boy's Name Adam
There is an ancient story in
The Bible of the origin
Of the human race in days long past
It's said that God himself did form
A man from clay and breathed his warm
Breath, a gentle life imparting blast...
And so arose the man whose name
In Hebrew means no less the same
As "man" which curiously found it's birth
From another of that tongue
"Adamah" which unlike its son
Fits into the meaning of "red earth."
By Kerin Gedge
Friday, May 1, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
The Meaning of Amateur
I have a thing I like to do
I like to design ladies shoes
Something not for money but for leisure,
I'm really just an amateur
Or a novice as it were
For no sane lady would wear them for pleasure!
That is because, and this is sad,
The shoes I draw are really bad
And typical of amateurs like me
Who lack the necessary knack
For making shoes and stuff like that
In any professional capacity.
By Kerin Gedge
Sunday, April 26, 2015
The Meaning of A1
I would simply like to state
That if a thing's fit and first rate
A1's the term describing its condition,
A term that has come down from Lloyd's
Register and was employed
When a ship was shipshape in condition.
By Kerin Gedge
Thursday, April 23, 2015
The Meaning of Ad nauseam
I was chatting to a chap one day
And watched the minutes fly away
As I spoke incessantly about
Ducks and how the small birds are
My favorite type of bird by far,
A fowl the planet could not do without...
Little did I know that he
Was quite bored apparently
For I had gone on and on
Repeatedly and tiresomely
To an excessive degree
Or in other words ad nauseam!
By Kerin Gedge
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The Meaning of Abaxial
In botany there is a term
That every botanist should learn
Which describes the underside of leaves,
The word to use as I recall
Is the word abaxial
Which means the same as dorsal I believe.
By Kerin Gedge
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
The Meaning of Ada
I met a lady who was maybe
Ada for as a wee baby
Everyone agreed when they saw her
That she was the happy kind
Full of smiles most of the time
So upon her "Ada" they conferred!
By Kerin Gedge
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Meaning of Amphibology
There was a frog whose little head
Was full of things that he'd heard said
He had a phrase for every situation,
A pro at amphibology
His words oft had the quality
Of having more than one interpretation!
By Kerin Gedge
Monday, March 30, 2015
The Meaning of Ada
Ada was a girl who seemed
Smiley all the time and beamed
As if the very sun shone from her face,
When bad tidings came her way
They never seemed to wreck her day
Her happiness nobody could displace
Which was well for in her name
Happiness indeed was framed,
A perfect picture of the attitude,
When ever people saw her they
Felt themselves a lot less gray
For from her happiness was imbued!
By Kerin Gedge
Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Meaning of Achilles
Should you even meet a man
Who has no lips then it might stand
To reason that Achilles is his name
For it means in Ancient Greek
"without lips" or so to speak,
A rather melancholic claim to fame!
By Kerin Gedge
Thursday, March 26, 2015
The Meaning of Absalom
Absalom
The Hebrew name of "Absalom"
And like his name he was "father of peace",
For he was the type who brought
Peace about when others fought
His very presence made arguments cease!
By Kerin Gedge
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The Meaning of Abigail
Were it a thing conventional
All my daughters I would call
This name that does contain a "Father's Joy".
For all of them could never fail
At being for me an Abigail
A name the Hebrew language did employ...
By Kerin Gedge
Monday, March 16, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
The Meaning of the Name Abraham
If you found out that by some
Freak of nature you'd become
The Father of a multitude then you
Might consider that it's time
To find a name that's more in line
Like Abraham, a name from old Hebrew...
By Kerin Gedge
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The Meaning of Ah
Ah
Ah's a word that can convey
A range of emotions they say
Like surprise, pleasure or sympathy
So when I found one night in bed
A kitten asleep on my head
"Ah!" was what I said apparently!
By Kerin Gedge
Copyright 2015
Click on the pic to buy a stuffed cat.
Click on the pic to buy a stuffed cat.
Monday, January 19, 2015
The Meaning of Are
Are
The present second singular
Is what I have to say of "are"
And also that it is the present plural
Of another word you see
That word which we know as "be"
A definition that I find infernal!
On account of how it might
Keep me up in thought at night
And leave me in the morning quite undone,
I suppose that I should mention too
It's true the Old English once knew
The same word by the older word "earun".
Another thing to add I fear
Is that an "are" is found elsewhere,
It being a unit of an area
Equal to one hundred square
Meters in metric terms I hear
A system of measuring superior...
By Kerin Gedge
Copyright 2014
Need a ruler? Click on the picture above!
Need a ruler? Click on the picture above!
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
The Meaning of the Name Aaron
Aaron was a man who stood
Ten feet tall and hard as wood
And few could wear him down at any length,
And so when outlaws came to town
His neighbours ran to him and found
Like his name he was a mount of strength!
All it took from him was a
Frown and he could save the day
For foes would look at him and quickly flee,
Probably because if he
Just stepped on them it was likely
That his bulk would crush them like a flea!
By Kerin Gedge
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