(Fancy that, a page of words)

Everyone has their favourite words (don't they?), and here's some of mine. I've always wondered whether a list of someone's favourite words would give an insight into the hidden depths of their personality....any psychology students here then?

smidgen - n. colloq. a small bit or amount.

eggplant - n. = AUBERGINE = n. 1 A tropical plant, Solanum melongena, having erect or spreading branches bearing white or purple egg-shaped fruit. 2 This fruit eaten as a vegetable. Also called EGGPLANT (yay!). 3 The dark purple colour of this fruit.

woodsy - adj. US like or characteristic of woods.

currant - n. 1 A dried fruit of a small seedless variety of grape grown in the levant and much used in cookery. 2a Any of various shrubs of the genus ribes producing red, white or black berries. b A berry of these shrubs.

curmudgeon - n. A bad-tempered person.

parsec - n. A unit of stellar distance, equal to about 3.25 light years, the distance at which the mean radius of the Earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc.

parallax - n. 1 The apparent difference in the position or direction of an object caused when the observer's position is changed. 2 The angular amount of this.

parsley - n. A biennial herb, petrosilenum crispum, with white flowers and crinkly aromatic leaves, used for seasoning and garnishing food.

cosmic - adj. 1 Of the universe or cosmos, esp. as distinct from the Earth. 2 Of or for space travel.

skittles - n. 1a A game like ninepins played with usu. nine wooden pins set up at the end of an alley to be bowled down usu. with wooden balls or a wooden disc. b (in full table skittles) a game played with similar pins set up on a board to be knocked down by swinging a suspended ball. c (colloq) Chess not played seriously.

On second thoughts, it probably just shows you what sort of vowel sounds a person's into. Ah well.