Easygoing = Relaxed, Informal.
Fact-finding = Info Seeking.
Go-getter = Enterprising & Aggressive Person.
Highbinder = Corrupt Politician. Is there Another Kind?
Ill-assorted = Mismatched or Incompatible.
Jackanapes = Monkey. See Pic of Matlack!
Knickknack = Small Ornament or Object.
Labanotation = Detailed Dance Movements.
Made-to-Order = Exactly as Required.
Namby-Pamby = Silly, Overly Sensitive.
Oddball = Unconventional or Unusual Person.
Pancake = Flapjack.
Quacksalver = A Quack! False Medical Knowledge.
Rabble-Rouser = Person who stirs up Anger in a Crowd,
Saddlecloth = Shows Racehorse’s Number.
Tattletale = Person who reveals Secrets.
Up-and-coming = Successful, or Improving.
View Haloo = Same as ‘Tally-Ho the Fox!’
Webhead = Frequent User of WWW.
Xenophobia = Fear of Foreign People and Things.
Yadda Yadda Yadda = Superficial, unending, boring Talk.
Zero-defect = No defects or Flaws.
There you have It -
Some Compound Words -
From A to Z ...
A Few are New to Me!
Hey Tom, Did someone have just a tad bit of extra TIME-ON-THEIR-HANDS, or were you just throwing a little SLAP-STICK our way???? It was fun, thanks Dick
This programmed, self-paced lesson focuses exclusively on the use of postpostions (ga and (w)o) with grammatical objects in the Japanese language without wavering or getting off track in the labyrinth of Japanese syntax and other grammatical issues.
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Catty-Cornered = Askew, Diagonal"
Both describe you to a "t"...or is that tee or tea, or...Jurseeeeey
Jackanape - An impertinent, presumptuous person;
An impudent, mischievous, child;
I think I’m gonna savor this one, for awhile.
PS: Be Careful; he’s also a Tattletale!