Yo Dad Vocab #11

Today's word is bhoot (a small whirlwind)

A feather twirled in a bhoot through the air.
And it tumbled from Sacramento to Zaire.
Since it doesn't have eyes
It could not really surmise
If it had floated from here or from there.

Yo Dad Vocab #10

Today's word is wifty (silly, eccentric)

A silly left-handed dog's named Lefty.
Many consider him peculiarly wifty.
He's very careless and free
And considers himself to be
A hearing-ear dog, wow, that is nifty.

Yo Dad Vocab #9

Today's word is swink (to toil).

I saw a pink mink
under our zinc sink
slurping a big drink
of bubbly blue ink.
He gave me a wink
and started to swink
like a rattled rat-fink.
What do you think
of the rinky-dink mink?

Yo Dad Vocab #8

Today's word is scurf (scaly or shreeded dry skin).

My scurf came off in the surf
while playing with a Nerf,
so I'm looking for new turf.
Does Elche* still say "erf, erf?"

*Elche-our 15 year old dog

Yo Dad Vocab #7

Today's word is weet (to know)

It is always a bird treat
when a crow in the wheat
Gives a simple tweet-tweet
and a caw-caw so sweet.
Then you weet in the heat
he'll beat time with his feet.

Yo Dad Vocab #6

Happy Sabbath!

Today's word is ajiva (inanimate matter)

Bippo the Hippo's saliva
Is not really ever ajiva
When he goes to the pool
Huge lips starting to drool,
Attempting a belly-flop diva.

Grandpa, (who is always ajiva when he is watching tennis on TV)

Yo Dad Vocab #5

Today's word is plew (beaver skin)

A hunter named Lou
Went to the Bronx zoo
To find a blue plew
On a beaver where it grew.
He didn't have a clue
That this was taboo
And a hostile zoo crew
Wouldn't let him through.
Now Lou is in a big stew.
He boo-hooed, wouldn't you?

Grandplew

Yo Dad Vocab #4

Today's word is ohing (to exclaim in surpirse, pain, or desire.)


Amazingly while I was rowing
Past a whale that was blowing
I saw a knowing crow crowing
At a small Apache chief sewing
A loin cloth that was flowing,
For a rich guru without knowing
How much he would be owing.
No wonder I kept oh, ohing.

Grandpa


ohing because his debts were growing

Yo Dad Vocab #3

Today's word is smaze (an atmospheric mixture of smoke and haze).

I stand all amazed
And am really quite dazed
When I gaze at cows graze
Out in fields filled with smaze
In these smoky latter days.

Yo Dad Vocab #2

Today's word is moue (a small grimace or pout)

Amazing scenes, I have seen quite a few
During my lifetime looking back for a view.
A lame horse wearing an open-toed shoe.
I've heard a few ugly ghosts screech Boo!
Many gorgeous purple cows go moo, moo.
An enormous blue whale when he blew,
And once a caribou at the zoo go achoo!
Witnessed a gangly blue gnu go whew, too.
Even a few Siberian choo-choos go choo.
But of all those amazing things I review,
I've never seen you moue and that's true.