spate

[Bailey]

Oh doctor, my Doctor what's wrong with short words?
so compact so concise and truely precise?
So many are they we'd never run out...
so let's just quit our gaddingabout!

spate(spt)
n.
1. A sudden flood, rush, or outpouring: "It issues a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians" Virginia Woolf.
2. Chiefly British
a. A flash flood.
b. A freshet resulting from a downpour of rain or melting of snow.
c. A sudden heavy fall of rain.


[Middle English.]

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mark another-short-word Bailey

Look you just come up with better doggeral in 10 seconds total

[Bailey]

t'was a spate of short words that I posted
so brief and so truncated true.
it's a sprue of tiny verbiage
yet none did ye 'prove
I swear on my laurals I ne'r did coasted (go ahead, find a good rhyme for posted)

Had I known it was slaked ye 'quired
I'd have forwith transpired
that small word presented; with all due aplomb
and perhaps have written a Psalm!

mark not-a-poet-to-be-sure Bailey

[Bailey]

c'mon, NOHING? you guys all dead?

mark not-here-much-but-hey Bailey

[Perry]

When allergies strike, they pain my face to spate my nose.

[Bailey]

My allergies change the shape of my face.

mark balloon-face Bailey