The Jane Austen Book Club: MOOFY

My husband got involved with watching The Jane Austen Book Club last night. I couldn’t take more than a few minutes of it. I like chick flicks as much as anyone, I guess, but I strongly dislike soap opera, particularly witless soap opera (I am aware I may be offending some fans of the flick, and I apologize) and I couldn’t watch it. I hung in for a while, but lost it when one of the gals went into screaming hysterics at her husband, because he talked to a friend of hers who had embarrassed her in high school.

“That was high school,” the husband says, “it’s over.”

To which she replies with her tragic gravity: “High school is never over!”

Jane Austen would have made mincemeat with that woman, laying her out quite nicely in delicious and incisive ridicule.

I pronounced the movie “Moofy” and went to leave for something more entertaining, like unloading the dishwasher. My husband asked, “what is ‘moofy‘?

I snorted with disdain, “stupid-as-moo and goofy; I just made it up, inspired by this insipidy!”

“Oh, and I guess ‘insipidy’ is a new word, too?”

I blushed, realizing that I’d clevered-myself into a hole. “Yes, I made that up, too! I’m a wealth of new words!”

“Yeah…more like you’re ill-acquainted with proper English,” he teased. “Why don’t you call the six-year old (my niece) and tell her your new words; she’ll love them!”

So, this morning I called the six-year old, who invited me over for bagels, and she likes the word “moofy” quite a lot.

But because she has some measure of taste she looked balefully at me with “insipidy.” She doesn’t know “insipid” but she figures any word that makes her want to sing “inspidy doo-dah, zippity-yay” is probably stupid.

I think it’s cute, but I defer to the kid; she’s lost a tooth, after all, and is thus growing in wisdom.

Another new word invented from the blog: SMUPPITY (Smug & Uppity)