18+

Adults only

DIRTY shows adult content. By entering you confirm that you are of legal age and wish to see such content.

What DIRTY is · Terms

Gallery Discover Feed Market Messages

DIRTY.socialWhat DIRTY is Removal & reports Terms Privacy legal@dirty.socialThe network for adult creators · 18+

Discover
Feed
Messages
Profile

caasbrey (@caasbrey) · DIRTY

caasbrey

@caasbrey

C. A. Asbrey is a Scottish mystery author. Fan of all things Victorian, obscure, forensics, jaywalking, ordering the best meal, and dropping out of society.

2,801 Following4,237 Followers2,044 Posts

Is this your profile?Claim it and caasbrey.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

caasbrey@caasbrey· 22d

Merriam-Webster

Cliché actually means stereotype in French. Cliché is the past particle of the verb ‘clicher’, ‘meaning to produce or print in stereotype’. The word is onomatopoeic, alluding to the noise of the dye striking the metal to lock the plates in place.
Example
“I don’t know this! Revelatory. The actual word derives from the (French )sound of the block clicking into place.”
(“Yes, I suppose that’s what I mean. What exactly is a cliché? It’s a printer’s term, actually. It means some phrase or other that is so often used that it can be cut into one piece. You don’t have to make it up with separate letters”)

caasbrey@caasbrey· 22d

Wanion 1. Misfortune; a curse; vengeance; a plague.

caasbrey@caasbrey· 23d

God grant me the perseverance of a typo that’s made it through 45 rounds of edits.

caasbrey@caasbrey· 23d

Wundkind 1. A person who achieves great success when relatively young. 2. A child prodigy.
“Mozart was a wunderkind, and some people are are making the erroneous assumption that babies who listen to his music will likewise develop into wunderkinder.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· 26d

caasbrey.com/a-cautionary... Come on over to my blog and read about the connection between the Scottish witch-trial craze and the modern police caution against self-incrimination. Americans know it as Miranda Rights. It's much older than you think.

caasbrey@caasbrey· 26d

Fan casually telling me how much they love a character.
Me knowing full well they die in the next book.

caasbrey@caasbrey· 26d

Overt 1. Of a heraldic device; represented as spread open, such as the wings of a bird or dragon, as if taking flight.
“There he stood in naught but his waffle-knit bathrobe, holding it overt like Batman’s cape; a winglike gesture that did nothing to endear him to his nurses. ”

caasbrey@caasbrey· 27d

When revisions didn’t go quite as planned.
1. Writers; “”Don’t worry. I’m not making the same mistakes again.”
2. Editors; “No, you’ll be making all new ones.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· 27d

Word of the Day is ’spuddle’ (17th century) To work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.

caasbrey@caasbrey· 28d

I asked my 7-year-old daughter what one book she’d like to have on a desert island. She said, “A book about how to survive on a desert island.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· 28d

Mencolek 1. To tease someone by touching them lightly with one finger.
“My impish attempt to mencolek my sweet valentine culminated in hospitalisation, having misidentified with catastrophic confidence, the figure upon whom I crept.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· 29d

Little Miss Marple
Muddle at the Vicarage
Roger Hargreaves and Agatha Christie

caasbrey@caasbrey· 29d

Decussate 1. To cross or intersect each other to form an ‘x’. 2. Shaped like an ‘x’.
“It was a distinctly decussate scar, pale and merciless in its symmetry, that refused to fade with time and, in the end, led unerringly to his apprehension.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 12

Quomodocunquize 1. To make money in any possible way.
“This gig economy is kicking my butt, I’m out here quomodocunquizing day and night with barely any time to eat or sleep.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 12

“Watson, yet again an important piece of evidence inexplicably burns up.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 9

1. “We must beware the tyranny of the long novel. Length is no barometer of literary merit.”
2. “I have scoured the bookstore, looked past the fat spines and and sought out perfection in the miniature.”
3. “May not profundity dwell in. The humble cottage as comfortably as ninth sprawling castle?”
4. “100% agree, but you’re aware that’s a greetings card, right?”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 9

Erubescency 1. A blushing for shaman uneasiness of mind for fear of loss of reputation.
“His boast, so confident a moment before, dissolved into erubescency beneath the cool, surgical gaze of the assembled ladies.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 8

Sozzled 1. Under the state of alcohol, in a delirious state of intoxication.
“Having observed the sozzled gongoozler challenge a coterie of of soingé gadabouts to fisticuffs, I found comfort in the realisation that my own dubious life choices were, by comparison, not nearly so regrettable.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 8

No one is more uniquely equipped to take on these weird times than novelists, whose unedited manuscripts often claim that it is both Monday and Thursday and one day ago it was Tuesday and two days have passed in a span of time in which the protagonist has gone to bed five times.

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 7

Mallifluff (scots) 1. Being utterly devoid of any energy needed to get things done.

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 7

Me: finishing a book. “Wow, that was traumatic.”
Also me rereading. “Hurt me again, paper demon!”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 6

Being a reader means involuntarily signing up for fictional heartbreak and recommending the pain to others

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 6

Insaturation 1. Renewal: renovation; restoration. 2. An act of founding or establishing something

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 5

Nonnock 1. To idle away time. 2. A whim; a childish fancy
“Sylvia indulged Herbert’s odd nonnock for a time, knowing from experience that such fancies rarely survived the inconvenience of actual effort on his part.”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 5

Every artist dips his brush is his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 4

Happy Fourth of July to all my American friends.

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 3

Terrricolous 1. Dwelling on or beneath the ground or in soil. 2. Growing on or in soil.
“When Balki found Cousin Larry at the borrow of the sinkhole, he yelled “Don’t be terricolous. Os course I’ll help you.””

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 3

Merriam-Webster
We got you.

Stot/verb/to bound with a stiff-legged gait.
“Came across the word ‘stop’ in a book & didn’t know what it meant so I looked it up and the definition said “another word for for pronk”. Am I having a stroke?”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 1

“Find me something else! I’m not doing Hamlet again!”

caasbrey@caasbrey· Jul 1

Foinery 1. Fencing; swordplay. Making thrusts with a fencing foil.
“The Crawley ladies conducted their foinery with flawless decorum, each gently spoken word landing with the quiet finality of a well-placed foil.”

Media

Stats

4.2K

followers

2.8K

following

2K

posts

⭐ Top creator

That's me — remove