#1570 words of nonsense

[frisfras]

Tiny Guys

“Why the fuck am I here again?” Shouto groaned as Ochako dragged him along. Izuku wasn’t being dragged along by the arm. This isn’t fair.

“Because I like you, Roki!” Ochako smiled. “Also you were unlucky enough to come downstairs when we were about to leave. I would’ve done the same to anyone else.” He groaned a little louder.

Izuku giggled. “Don’t worry Shouto, it’s just a little shopping. You’ll live.”

“What are you talking about? I’m dying as we speak. I’ll be dead by the time we reach wherever the hell we’re going.”

Ochako only gave an amused snort as his suffering. Evil. But he was curious.

“So what are we shopping for?”

“I promised the girls that I’d get snacks.”

“And I need socks. My feet always get super cold so I always wear socks. Because of that, the socks I have are wearing thin and getting holes in them. It’s annoying.”

“I could warm your feet for you,” Shouto said without thinking. The moment his brain caught up with his mouth he started mentally screaming. He could’ve sworn someone clamped their hands over their ears.

“Holy shit that sounds like some sort fetish! I’m not sure how but it does!”

Shouto immediately started swatting at her. “I didn’t mean it like that! I mean everyone uses me as a portable heater and cooler anyway!”

“Aww! So Deku gets privileges because you’ve got a huge crush on him?”

“Die.”

Neither payed much attention to Izuku’s sputtering and muttering because one was laughing her ass off and the other was trying to vaporize her with his eyes.

“OH WOW LOOK WE’RE HERE LET’S GO GUYS!” He dashed into the store before he even finished that sentence.

“Oh. We’re here. I’ll let go of you but if you try to run I’ll actually break your leg.”

“I’ve never broken a bone before…fuck I don’t think I have anyway.”

Ochako beamed at him. “Then don’t break that streak now.” Shouto decided that Ochako Uraraka is terrifying. He already knew that but still.

She slowly let go of him, and when he showed no signs of running, went into the store. He followed behind because he knows better. Technically there was a loophole he could’ve exploited there, but the risk just wasn’t worth it. And things might get boring if he just stood out there all day anyway.

He could barely see Izuku somewhere towards the back of the store. It wasn’t a big store by any means, but it wasn’t exactly tiny either. Doesn’t help that Izuku’s short. Ochako’s shorter she feels taller than she actually is. Izuku? Microscopic.

“Snacks for the girls, snacks for the girls, la la la la snacks for the girls.” Ochako sang as she scrutinized the snack options available to her.

Shouto hummed. “What about snacks for the boys?”

“Boys don’t exist.” She countered without missing a beat. He couldn’t say anything to that. He just nodded. She went back to singing.

Then Izuku ran up to them with something in his hands. It was clamped between them and his eyes twinkled.

“Guys. Guys look. I found something.” Both glanced at each other.

“What is it Deku?”

He opened his hand. “It’s a little man.”

Shouto’s eyes widened. It was a little man alright, it was a little man of him! He glared at Ochako just before she started laughing. This didn’t stop her of course, but can you blame a guy for trying?

“Holy shit it’s Tiny-Roki! Look at him…just a little bastard. Are you going to keep him? Where did you find him?”

Izuku turned on his heel and they followed. “I will treasure this little man forever. He’s just little.”

Why did Shouto feel like he was one step closer to hell with each step he took?

It’s because he was. They found some tiny guys of their class and pro heroes right there for the taking. And they were all cheap.

Hell has a name and it’s Tiny Guys. The brand name wasn’t actually known, but Tiny Guys just felt right.

Ochako’s eyes narrowed on a Tiny-Zuku and a Tiny-Iida. “Now I have my boys in miniature.”

Shouto blinked. “What about me?”

“What about you?” He nodded. What else could he do?

“Ochako, don’t be mean,” Izuku chided. He then picked up a Tiny Guy of Endeavor. “Wanna see how durable it is when we get back to the dorms?”

“I would love to.” Ochako snorted at the sparkle in his eyes. She probably muttered ‘gay’ under her breath.

“And if it’s more durable than it looks we can toss it. It’s small and with my quirk it’ll be hurtling through space in no time.”

Izuku gasped. “I’m supposed to be shopping for socks!”

“Shocking,” Todoroki said with a completely flat face. Izuku tossed a Tiny Guy at him, but it missed by a mile. Not like it mattered since Izuku was already gone to wherever the hell the socks might be.

There was silence for a little while as Ochako and Shouto just stood there. “Aren’t you supposed to be snack shopping?”

“Yeah, but let’s see how many Tiny Guys they have of our teachers. And let’s give one to each of them.”

They spent more time than they thought they would on finding Tiny Guys. Unsurprisingly, they didn’t find one of Mr. Aizawa. They did find ones of Ms. Jumon, Present Mic, Cementoss (surprisingly! It looked horrible!), and, also unsurprising, All Might. Didn’t find one of Ectoplasm though.

“That’s enough time wasted on Tiny Guys. Let’s go snack shopping. Or something?”

Ochako sighed as she stuffed the Tiny Teachers into her pocket. “Let’s go get some snacks for the girls.”

Shouto obediently followed after if only because he knows there will be hell to pay if he doesn’t.

In the end, they ended up getting chocolate, chocolate, more chocolate, and a bag of chips.

“Why in god’s name do you need so much chocolate?”

“We like chocolate. What, are you too good for chocolate? First coffee, then chocolate? For shame Shouto Todoroki!”

“I like chocolate,” he defended, “but I don’t overdo it! This is clearly too much. And coffee tastes terrible unless it’s mostly sugar and creamer anyway.”

Ochako grimaced. “No wonder Deku likes you. Both heathens in that regard. But you’re more of a heathen in general so nothing’s new.”

“Wow.”

“Hey guys I got the socks!” Izuku presented his socks proudly. Variety pack with different heroes. “Did you guys get the snacks?”

“You mean the chocolate and the chips? If that’s what you meant then yes, we did.” Ochako slapped Shouto hard on the back for that.

“I see,” Izuku smiled. “So should we check out or…and where are the Tiny Guys?”

Ochako smacked her pocket. Izuku nodded. Shouto sighed. “Wanna go to the dorms now.”

“Oh hush! We’ll be back soon but we have to pay for everything.”

All he did was groan and rest his head on Izuku’s shoulder. Izuku gave his face a comforting pat. It was nice.

Everything was paid for and they headed back to the dorms. Shouto decided to be difficult and had Izuku give him a piggy back ride. Not that Izuku minded of course, but Ochako took exactly one picture and sent it to the class group chat. So he’ll have to deal with that when he got back.

As expected they were surrounded. Everyone gathered around to watch as the Mysterious Shouto Todoroki was carried by Not-So-Mysterious Izuku Midoriya.

Momo, however, practically tackled Ochako. “Did you bring the snacks?!”

Ochako presented the grocery bag and the girls gathered around. Mina gasped like she was in love. “Chocolate. So much chocolate.”

“And chips, ribbit.” Tsuyu added. “Exactly one bag.”

Ibara took the bag before Kyouka could stick her hands inside. “Perhaps we should get started with the preparation before we indulge in snacks?”

Izuku set down Shouto, who tried his damndest to not be put down. “What are you guys planning anywa— OCHAKO DID YOU PAY FOR THE GUYS?!”

Ochako’s sharp inhale suggested that she completely forgot about them until now.

Sero looked between them. “What are you guys talking about?”

Izuku and Ochako dug through their pockets. Their pockets produced Tiny Guys. Ochako had ones of most of the teachers, Izuku, and Tenya. Izuku had one of Shouto and one of Endeavor.

Tenya couldn’t see from where he was and got in closer. “What’s going on— is that a tiny me?” He sounded both horrified and amazed. So exactly how Shouto felt when he saw his own Tiny Guy.

“Maybe.”

There was silence for a long while as everyone stared at the Tiny Guys.

Until Momo slammed two pans together. “EVERYONE OUT NOW! It’s girls night and if you don’t have a room on the girl’s side get the fuck out! I will not have my plans ruined!”

(They never did go back to pay for the tiny men

And they’re surprisingly durable. The Endeavor one’s in space. Maybe.

When class started the next day Present Mic stared at his Tiny Man for a full minute before shoving him into his pocket and carrying on as usual

Most of the other teachers had similar reactions. Except for Cementoss who looked absolutely sad and offended. Ochako never felt worse in her entire life.

And the other Tiny Men? They’re in safe hands.)

[scotianostra]

On January 8th 1697 Thomas Aikenhead was executed in Edinburgh.

This is a crackin, if sad tale, and shows you how religious beliefs can be a blight on our history.

So who was oor Thomas, a villain?, a murderer?, a smuggler?, or some enemy of the state? No Thomas's crime was blasphemy who took the lord's name in vain.......this would be comic if it wasn't for the tragic fact that he was executed, unlike the man in Life of Brian, who uttered the words Jehova, Thomas complained that he wished he was warming himself in hell rather than that chilly night walking past the recently built Tron Kirk on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Well that's the simple story that the tour guides that take you round the Old Town will tell you, there is a bit more to it so I will bore you with a bit more of the detail. Thomas Aikenhead came from a well-to-do family in Edinburgh, his father being listed as a surgeon but more probably an apothecary, a dispenser of herbs and potions. Both his parents were dead by the time he became a student at Edinburgh University at the age of 16 or 17.

His mother had been a daughter of the manse, and you would think that would have made Aikenhead wary of challenging the established religion of the time, namely the all-powerful Church of Scotland, especially while still a student and under the constant gaze of professors, lecturers and, as it turned out, his fellow students.

These were the dying days of a curious period in Scottish history. Aikenhead would have been four when the ‘Wizard of the West Bow’ Major Thomas Weir was executed in 1670. Weir was by day an extreme Calvinist but by night an incestuous Satanist and it takes no great leap of reason to see that an impressionable young boy might well have been affected by the trial and execution of a local celebrity that lived not far from him.

The 1680s was also the ‘killing time’ for the Covenanters when many died because of they worshipped their same god in differing ways!

Thomas was a keen student and an avid reader, he may or may not have known and Edinburgh bookseller, John Frazer, who had been prosecuted after admitting either reading, or being in possession of Charles Blount’s Oracles of Reason a book I know nothing about but gather it relates to Deism, which questioned the existence or more importanyly, non-existence of God or Satan, Frazer had repented ad as it was a first offence was sackclothed and jailed in the old Tolbooth for a number of months.

Anyway, Thomas had a friend, well he thought he had a friend, Murdo Craig, but Murdo, on the sly had been keeping notes on Aitkenhead, and his dalliances with blasphemous ideals, we know that because they formed a large part of the indictment against Aikenhead.

“Nevertheless it is of verity, that you Thomas Aikenhead, shakeing off all fear of God and regaird to his majesties lawes, have now for more than a twelvemoneth by past, and upon severall of the dayes within the said space, and ane or other of the same, made it as it were your endeavour and work in severall compainies to vent your wicked blasphemies against God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, and against the holy Scriptures, and all revealled religione, in soe far as upon ane or other of the dayes forsaid, you said and affirmed, that divinity or the doctrine of theologie was a rapsidie of faigned and ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the morall doctrine of philosophers, and pairtly of poeticall fictions and extravagant chimeras, or words to this effect or purpose, with severall other such reproachfull expressions.”

That was just for starters. Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, the Lord Advocate of the day, had taken a personal interest in the case and he decided to throw the whole lot of Craig’s testimony at Aikenhead who was arrested in November, 1696, and charged under the Blasphemy Act of 1661 which carried the death penalty. He also charged Aikenhead under a more recent act, which made it a criminal offence to ‘deny, impugn or quarrel’ about the existence of God.The prosecution papers go on to record

“You have lykwayes in discourse preferred Mahomet to the blessed Jesus, and you have said that you hoped to see Christianity greatly weakened, and that you are confident that in a short tyme it will be utterly extirpate.”

For Mahomet, read Muhammad, could young Thomas be an Islam convert in 17th century Edinburgh, I very much doubt it, they just needed to make an example of the young student, and he knew by now knew that he was in very great trouble and protested in effect that he was guilty only of the sin of being youthful and had been led astray by the books he had read. He claimed to have repented of his anti-Christian beliefs and was once again a good Presbyterian. In this way he seems to have thrown himself upon the mercy of the court, but there was no mercy.  On Christmas Eve, 1696, a jury found him guilty. Sir James Stewart asked for the death penalty and it was granted and “pronounced for doom,” as Scottish judges were still saying well into the 20th century in capital punishment cases. Aikenhead pleaded for his life to the Privy Council emphasising his youth, his dire circumstances, and the fact that he was reconciled to the Protestant religion. There was some support for the death sentence to be commuted from at least two councillors and two Church of Scotland ministers, but the General Assembly of the Kirk intervened, demanding that Aikenhead suffer 

“vigorous execution to curb the abounding of impiety and profanity in this land”.

In his last letter to friends, written in the Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh as he awaited execution, Aikenhead at last gave a plausible explanation for his conduct – that he had been a disappointed seeker after truth. He wrote: 

“It is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth and to seek for it as for hid treasure. So I proceeded until the more I thought thereon, the further I was from finding the verity I desired.” In truth, in a repressed society the student had just gone too far in rejecting the doctrines of Christianity calling it “feigned and ill-invented nonsense”

Aikenhead went to his death on January 8, 1697, hanged on the scaffold at Shrubhill between Edinburgh and Leith. It is said that before he died he proclaimed that moral laws were the work of governments and men. In his hand as the noose was plced around his neck was the Holy Bible. The execution angered many people for many years afterwards. The great English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote an account of the hanging and called the execution “a crime such has never since polluted the island.”He continued: “The preachers who were the boy’s murderers crowded round him at the gallows, and, while he was struggling in the last agony, insulted Heaven with prayers more blasphemous than any thing that he had ever uttered.”

There was other evidence of church authorities being present as Aikenhead died. He was the last man in Britain to be hanged for blasphemy.

According to Arthur Herman in his book "How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It", the execution of Aikenhead was “the last hurrah of Scotland’s Calvinist ayatollahs” before the dawning of the age of reason in the Enlightenment.

Now we can all rejoice in The Enlightenment but a full 30 years later in the small town of Dornoch in Sutherland, Janet Horne was put on trial for the “crime” of having a daughter whose feet and hands were misshapen and who had herself given birth to a son with disabilities. She was the last woman in Britain to be burned at the stake for being a witch, her death bringing to an end the “burning time” when perhaps 4000 Scottish women were executed for the crime of witchcraft.

I thought I would add a wee bit more about Shrubhill in Leith, as most of us usually only regard Edinburgh's Old Town, The Tolbooth, and Grassmarket as sites where executions took place. I can't find out why Aikenhead was taken to, at what at the time, was a different town for his executions I did however find records  of several taking place at the site, now student accommodation, but the site of Edinburghs tram workshops and powerstation, but beforehand not many know that it was the site of he gibbet known as the Gallow Lee, literally the "field with the gallows",

Bodies were buried at the base of the gallows or their ashes scattered if burnt. The most famous of those that met their end here was perhaps Major Weir, the Wizard of the West Bow.

1570- Two criminals strangled and burned to death.

1570 (4 October)- Rev. John Kelloe minister of Spott, East Lothian (near Dunbar) strangled and burnt for the murder of his wife

1664- Nine witches strangled and burnt

1670- Major Thomas Weir, the self-confessed warlock, strangled and burnt for witchcraft (almost the only self-confessed witch executed).

1678- Five witches strangled and burnt

1680- Part of the body of Covenanter David Hackston was hung in chains after his execution at the mercat cross in Edinburgh for the murder of Archbishop Sharp in 1679.

1681 (10 October)- Covenanters Garnock, Foreman, Russel, Ferrie and Stewart hanged and beheaded. Their headless bodies were buried at the site and their heads placed on the Cowgate Port at the foot of the Pleasance. Friends reburied the bodies in the graveyard of the West Kirk (St. Cuthberts). The heads were retrieved, placed in a box and then buried in garden ground at Lauriston. They lay there until 7 October 1726 when the then owner, Mr Shaw, had them exhumed and reburied near the Martyrs' Monument in Greyfriars Kirkyard.

1697 (8 January)- Thomas Aikenhead, a 19-year-old theology student at Edinburgh University became the last person to be executed under Scotland's blasphemy laws (and the last in Britain to be executed for that crime).

1752 (10 January)- Norman Ross, a footman, hanged for the murder of Lady Baillie, sister of Home, Laird of Wedderburn. The body was left to hang in a gibbet cage "for many a year" and became a local ghoulish tourist attraction.

Post mid 18th Century the Nor’ Loch was drained and the city expanded to the north by the building of the New Town with stone quarried from nearby Craigleith quarry. In such building sand was needed to add to the lime mortar and Gallow Lee proved to be just what was needed. The owner of Gallow Lee charged the builders to cart away the sand, containing the ashes and other remains of thousands of victims. The sandy mound of the Gallow Lee has gone I wonder how many New Town residents are aware that the very fabric of their building is bound together with the remains of  these poor women convicted of being witches, covenanters and criminals?

[ao3-spideypool]

Exactly Four and A Half Knives, and A Hello Kitty Backpack Filled With Pulparindo

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2YGSf63

by witchlips

When you turn twenty, you begin finding items your soulmate has lost. Peter has happily listened to his Aunt May wax poetic about how she found his Uncle Ben through these items most of his life. He never really put much thought into finding his own soulmate up until now, however.

With his birthday now upon him, Peter Parker is feeling incredibly nervous about the whole mess. It only gets worse as he slowly finds all of the absolute nonsense his soulmate manages to lose.

Words: 1570, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Peter Parker, Wade Wilson, Tony Stark, May Parker (Spider-Man), Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Pepper Potts

Relationships: Peter Parker/Wade Wilson

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, Lost Item Soul Mates, Let Peter Say Fuck, General Wade Warning, Wade Wilson Needs A Hug, Peter Parker Needs a Break

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2YGSf63

[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

every little cruelty (is a desperate intricacy of kindness)

by makishiimas

Oh jubilant retribution. Oh shattering of flesh and mind. What dissolute wretch first poured forth the bile from which he was birthed? What hedonistic calamity saw fit to stitch his soul into the verdant flesh of another. A surplus of souls is of no benefit. Better to run it through. Or, stay the course, as plunderers are wont to do.

Words: 1570, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Israel Hands, Blackbeard | Edward Teach

Additional Tags: Character Study, Freeform, Nonsense, Self-indulgent explorative prose, Blackhands if you SQUINT, If you can make sense of this tangle of words and visuals I applaud you., Random & Short

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/43155232

[balmers-blog1]

The consumation is not the problem, trash is.

The more trash we produce, the less powerful and less happy we get.

TRASH (1. garbage / 2. ridiculous communication)

+ Synonym: 1. debris, junk, litter, waste / 2. nonsense, rubbish

- Antonym: 1. cleanliness, possessions / 2. sense, truth, information

> Etymology: late 14c., "thing of little use or value, waste, refuse, dross," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse tros "rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs." Applied to ill-bred persons or groups from 1604 ("Othello"), and especially of poor whites in the U.S. South by 1831. Applied to domestic refuse or garbage from 1906 (American English). To trash-talk someone or something is by 1989.

CONSUME (1. use up / 2. eat, drink / 3. destroy)

+ Synonym: 1. absorb, deplete, drain / 2. absorb, devour, feed / 3. devestate, exhaust, overwhelm, waste

- Antonym: 1. fill, save, create / 2. abstain, accululate / 3. build, construct, create

> Etymology: late 14c., "to destroy by separating into parts which cannot be reunited, as by burning or eating," hence "destroy the substance of, annihilate," from Old French consumer "to consume" (12c.) and directly from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" (see sub-) + emere "to buy, take" (from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute").Specifically, "to destroy by use, wear out by applying to its natural or intended use" from c. 1400. Sense of "to engage the full attention and energy of" is from 1570s.

POWER (1. ability, competence / 2. control, dominence)

+ Synonym: 1. capability, influence, potential, talent / 2. authority, law, rule, strength

- Antonym: 1. impotence, lack, weakness / 2. disadvantage, subordination, weakness

> Etymology:  c. 1300, "ability; ability to act or do; strength, vigor, might," especially in battle; "efficacy; control, mastery, lordship, dominion; legal power or authority; authorization; military force, an army," from Anglo-French pouair, Old French povoir, noun use of the infinitive, "to be able," earlier podir (9c.), from Vulgar Latin *potere, from Latin potis "powerful" (from PIE root *poti- "powerful; lord").

NATURE (1. character, disposition / 2. type, kind / 3. earth, creation)

+ Synonym: 1. description, essence, humor / 2. character, description, sort / 3. environment, landscape, world

- Antonym: 1. exterior, outside

> Etymology: late 13c., "restorative powers of the body, bodily processes; powers of growth;" from Old French nature "nature, being, principle of life; character, essence," from Latin natura "course of things; natural character, constitution, quality; the universe," literally "birth," from natus "born," past participle of nasci "to be born," from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget."

The phrase "nature and nurture" is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence from without that affects him after his birth. [Francis Galton, "English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture," 1875]

HAPPINESS (high spirits, satisfaction)

+ Synonym: bliss, contentment, delight, euphoria, joy, laughter, optimism

- Antonym: depression, displeasure, gloom, pain, sadness, trouble

> Etymology: 1520s, "good fortune," from happy + -ness. Meaning "pleasant and contented mental state" is from 1590s. Phrase greatest happiness for the greatest number was in Francis Hutcheson (1725) but later was associated with Bentham.

[ao3feed-themagnusarchives]

Lost in the Cosmos

by Hopeful_Foolx

The body of Elias Bouchard is not used to the Eye yet. Jonah-Elias forgets that, can't stop Seeing, can't stop Knowing. Peter Lukas is not worried at all, of course, when he gets a phone call of Elias talking nonsense and passing out halfway through.

Words: 1570, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus, Peter Lukas

Relationships: Elias Bouchard/Peter Lukas

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Elias has a bad time, Sickfic, kind of, The Lonely - Freeform, Peter Lukas and Elias Bouchard are married, Beholding gone wrong, No beta we die like archival assistants

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/26180341

[kylehoffmansa104-blog]

10 Traits

1. Smart Ass adjective: irritatingly clever or smug. "enough with the smart-ass comments" Origin: also smartass, 1960 (adj.), 1962 (n.), from smart (adj.) + ass (n.2).

2. Handy adjective: convenient to handle or use; useful. synonyms: useful, convenient, practical, easy-to-use, well-designed, user-friendly, user-oriented, helpful, functional, serviceable "a handy reference tool"

"a handy desktop encyclopedia"

Origin: c. 1300, "skilled with the hands" (implied in surnames), from hand (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "conveniently accessible" is from 1640s.

3. Nonsensical adjective: having no meaning; making no sense. synonyms: meaningless, senseless, illogical "her nonsensical way of talking" "a nonsensical argument"

Origin: 1650s, from nonsense + -ical. Related: Nonsensically.

4. Nerd noun: a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious. "one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance" synonyms: bore Origin: 1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of 1940s slang nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an alteration of nut. The word turns up in a Dr. Seuss book from 1950 ("If I Ran the Zoo"), which may have contributed to its rise.

5. Passionate adjective: showing or caused by strong feelings or a strong belief. "passionate pleas for help" synonyms: intense, impassioned, ardent, fervent, vehement, heated, emotional, heartfelt, eager, excited, animated, adrenalized, spirited, energetic, fervid, frenzied, fiery, wild, consuming, violent; Origin: early 15c., "angry; emotional," from Medieval Latin passionatus "affected with passion," from Latin passio (genitive passionis) "passion" (see passion). Specific sense of "amorous" is attested from 1580s. Related: Passionately.

6. Moderately Impatient adjective: (Moderately) having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked. "an impatient motorist blaring his horn" synonyms: irritated, annoyed, angry, testy, tetchy, snappy, cross, querulous, peevish, piqued, short-tempered; Origin: late 14c., from Old French impacient "impatient" (Modern French impatient), from Latin impatientem (nominative impatiens) "that cannot bear, intolerant, impatient," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + patiens "bearing, enduring" (see patience). Related: Impatiently.

7. Vulgar adjective: lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined. "the vulgar trappings of wealth" synonyms: tasteless, crass, tawdry, ostentatious, flamboyant, overdone, showy, gaudy, garish, brassy, kitsch, kitschy, tinselly, loud; Origin: late 14c., "common, ordinary," from Latin vulgaris, volgaris "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar, low, mean," from vulgus "the common people, multitude, crowd, throng," perhaps from a PIE root *wel- "to crowd, throng" (source also of Sanskrit vargah "division, group," Greek eilein "to press, throng," Middle Breton gwal'ch "abundance," Welsh gwala "sufficiency, enough") [not in Watkins]. Meaning "coarse, low, ill-bred" is first recorded 1640s, probably from earlier use (with reference to people) with meaning "belonging to the ordinary class" (1530). Related: Vulgarly.

8. Salty (of language or humor) down-to-earth; coarse. synonyms: earthy, colorful, spicy, racy, risqué, naughty, vulgar, rude; More piquant, biting "a salty sense of humor" informal tough; aggressive Origin: mid-15c., "tasting of salt, impregnated with salt," from salt (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "racy" is from 1866, from salt in the sense of "that which gives life or pungency" (1570s, originally of words or wit). Meaning "racy, sexy" is from 1866. U.S. slang sense of "angry, irritated" is first attested 1938 (probably from similar use with regard to sailors, "tough, aggressive," attested by 1920), especially in phrase jump salty "to unexpectedly become enraged." Related: Saltily

9. Skeptical adjective: not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations. "the public were deeply skeptical about some of the proposals" synonyms: dubious, doubtful, taking something with a pinch of salt, doubting; Origin: also sceptic, 1580s, "member of an ancient Greek school that doubted the possibility of real knowledge," from Middle French sceptique and directly from Latin scepticus "the sect of the Skeptics," from Greek skeptikos (plural Skeptikoi "the Skeptics, followers of Pyrrho"), noun use of adjective meaning "inquiring, reflective" (the name taken by the disciples of the Greek philosopher Pyrrho, who lived c. 360-c. 270 B.C.E.), related to skeptesthai "to reflect, look, view" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe"). Skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. [Miguel de Unamuno, "Essays and Soliloquies," 1924]

10. Adaptable adjective: able to adjust to new conditions. "rats are highly adaptable to change" synonyms: flexible, versatile, cooperative, accommodating, amenable "competent and adaptable staff Origin: 1800, "capable of being made to fit by alteration," from adapt + -able.