{"id":8408,"date":"2010-11-15T06:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2010-11-15T06:57:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:57:05","slug":"wherein-i-enrich-my-word-power-without-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/wherein-i-enrich-my-word-power-without-paying\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I Enrich My Word Power Without Paying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/index.php\/weblog\/permalink\/old_words\/\" target=\"_blank\">Owen<\/a>, I have some <a href=\"http:\/\/matadornetwork.com\/abroad\/20-obsolete-english-words-that-should-make-a-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\">new words to try out<\/a>, like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>9. Brabble<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Verb \u2013 \u201cTo quarrel about trifles; esp. to quarrel noisily, brawl, squabble\u201d \u2013 Brabble basically means to argue loudly about something that doesn\u2019t really matter, as in \u201cWhy are we still brabbling about who left the dirty spoon on the kitchen table?\u201d You can also use it as a noun: \u201cStop that ridiculous brabble and do something useful!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s been replaced in the modern lexicon by <em>blog<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Owen, I have some new words to try out, like this one: 9. Brabble Verb \u2013 \u201cTo quarrel about trifles; esp. to quarrel noisily, brawl, squabble\u201d \u2013 Brabble basically means to argue loudly about something that doesn\u2019t really matter, as in \u201cWhy are we still brabbling about who left the dirty spoon on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}