{"id":831,"date":"2008-12-29T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T08:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-12-29T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T08:07:26","slug":"word-of-the-day-flollop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; flollop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s word, flollop, is used in Douglas Adam\u2019s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330267388\/omniglot-21\"><em>Life, the Universe, and Everything<\/em><\/a>, to describe the movement of a mattress:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mattress flolloped around. This is a thing that only live mattresses in swamps are able to do, which is why the word is not in more common usage. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the book it is argued that in an infinite universe everything must grow somewhere, including mattresses. Well sponges grow on our world, so why not mattresses somewhere else!<\/p>\n<p>Mattresses also globber when \u201cdeeply moved by a story of personal tragedy\u201d, vollue, willom, flurble, gup and flodge, though the latter actions are not clearly defined.<\/p>\n<p>If you have read the story in language other than English, do you know how these words are translated? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s word, flollop, is used in Douglas Adam\u2019s book, Life, the Universe, and Everything, to describe the movement of a mattress: The mattress flolloped around. This is a thing that only live mattresses in swamps are able to do, which is why the word is not in more common usage. In the book it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}