Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:
I spent almost 6 minutes trying to come up with a word between "miff" and "miggle," certain that it wouldn't be a past tense, only to find when I put in "miffed" in desperation that it was the correct word. And then for some reason I was sure that "carpaccio" was spelled "carpaggio." Definitely not my day here.
And then to top it off, I find another Lane has taken my place on the leaderboard. Ah, well!
i don't think of "miffed" as a past tense; i think of it as a common adjective. to me, "miff" is an awkward inflected form. i have literally never wanted to use this as a transitive verb.
RHUD lists it as an adjective. OAD lists "miffed" under the verb entry. I see your point, but also I've never seen "miffed" as a direct modifier for a noun.
my NOAD does list it as under the verb, but the verb is tagged as "usu. be miffed". i have certainly seen adjective usages such as "in a miffed state".
I spent almost 6 minutes trying to come up with a word between "miff" and "miggle," certain that it wouldn't be a past tense, only to find when I put in "miffed" in desperation that it was the correct word. And then for some reason I was sure that "carpaccio" was spelled "carpaggio." Definitely not my day here.
ReplyDeleteAnd then to top it off, I find another Lane has taken my place on the leaderboard. Ah, well!
i don't think of "miffed" as a past tense; i think of it as a common adjective. to me, "miff" is an awkward inflected form. i have literally never wanted to use this as a transitive verb.
DeleteRHUD lists it as an adjective. OAD lists "miffed" under the verb entry. I see your point, but also I've never seen "miffed" as a direct modifier for a noun.
ReplyDeletemy NOAD does list it as under the verb, but the verb is tagged as "usu. be miffed". i have certainly seen adjective usages such as "in a miffed state".
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