Word of the Week

I ran across this word on someone else's blog - (sorry, don't remember which one it was) and it caught my attention.

The word is pithy.

I've heard it before and never quite understood what it meant...
I've associated it with oranges for some reason,
and because it sounds like a certain swear word
spoken by someone with a severe lisp
(you know the one...it begins with P and ends with two s's!)
...so I've thought it meant a bad mood!


Since we're all gearing up to learn some new things in the upcoming school year, I thought I'd look it up and share it with you so that we can all expand our knowlege base.  And goodness knows - my itty bitty brain needs does need expanding!!!

"Pithy: 1) full of substance, meaning , force, or vigor as in pithy phrases, or a pithy speaker.  2) of, or like pith.  3) having much pith: a pithy orange. - pithiness, pithily."

as copied from the Gage Canadian Dictionary - the big, fat, red one that has a medallion star in the top right corner with the words ONLY $9.95 engraved on the cover!

Anyways...wouldn't you know...defintion 3 - "having much pith" - an orange comes up.  Funny how that is...still don't know really why an orange is pithy!

Definition 2 - "of or like pith"  - that really doesn't help...WHY do they include definitions like this...? : "of or like pith" -  what good is that when I don't know what pith is?

Definition 1 - "full of substance, force, meaning or vigor" - ok...now I understand it...and here's my picture to go along with it...see, I'm showing you that I understand the meaning now...

He'sth defthhhinately full of pith here...(click pic. to enlarge!)

and maybe justth a touchth of vinegar too!

As I recall, the boys stomped very pithily into the house and with a certain pithiness in their voices announced that they were "mad at supper cuz now we can't play."
And they sure were full of force, vigor, meaning and substance at that moment because supper is so mean to them...don't you know!