{"id":229,"date":"2007-12-02T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2007-12-02T09:14:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T13:14:37","slug":"galwaywegians-pesky-paper-cut-word-published-in-the-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Galwaywegian’s Pesky Paper-cut Word Published in the Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galwaywegian<\/a> joined the ranks of our published Verbotomists today. His word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Minimaim\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong>, which describes those pesky paper cuts which never seem to heal — as sharply defined by our ever-creative definitionist remistram<\/a> — was picked as one of the top invented words by Toronto Star writer John Sakamoto. You can see the full story in the Toronto Star here:<\/p>\n

The week’s best invented words<\/a><\/p>\n

And here is Galwaywegian’s complete definition:<\/p>\n

\"'Oh<\/p>\n

Minimaim<\/h2>\n

Created by: galwaywegian<\/a><\/p>\n

Definition:<\/strong> n.<\/em>, A pesky but persistently painful, and seemingly incurable paper cut, or small wound, which simply refuses heal; usually located on a “high use” body part, like a fingertip, knuckle or tongue.<\/p>\n

Pronunciation:<\/strong> minn eee maym<\/p>\n

Sentence:<\/strong> Her injury was a minimaim (measuring less than 5mm. Any smaller and it would have been classed a micromaim. she hadn’t had one of those since her last mouth ulcer.<\/p>\n

Etymology:<\/strong> minimum, maim.<\/p>\n

Congratulations Galwaywegian!<\/p>\n

Be creative,<\/p>\n

James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galwaywegian joined the ranks of our published Verbotomists today. His word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Minimaim\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, which describes those pesky paper cuts which never seem to heal — as sharply defined by our ever-creative definitionist remistram — was picked as one of the top invented words by Toronto Star writer John Sakamoto. You can see the full story in … Continue reading Galwaywegian’s Pesky Paper-cut Word Published in the Toronto Star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[92,26,93,25,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}