grumpygirl

Wordsmiths

BD: Three out of five cupboards prefer Milky Way: dietry life chocolate.
grumpygirl: You didn't want to try for classy?
BD: But Milky Ways don’t spoil your appetite before dinner!

Sheer arrogant bliss: a condition from which arrogant people who are completely unaware of their own stupidity suffer.

To anticipoint: To anticipate in a disappointing manner

tolerance, n

And the OED's 'Word for the Day' is...

tolerance, n

a) the action or practice of enduring or sustaining pain or hardship

b) Biol. The ability of an organism to survive or to flourish despite infection with a parasite or an otherwise pathogenic organism.

patience, n.

I love the OED. I can always rely on it to make me feel better.

Take the noun patience for example:

The first meaning is ok, but not very exciting: describing patience as “practice or quality of being patient”.

But then it gets much more fun, describing it as:

a. The suffering or enduring (of pain, trouble, or evil) with calmness and composure; the quality or capacity of so suffering or enduring.

b. Forbearance, longsuffering, longanimity under provocation of any kind; esp. forbearance or bearing with others, their faults, limitations, etc.

c. The calm abiding of the issue of time, processes, etc.; quiet and self-possessed waiting for something; ‘the quality of expecting long without rage or discontent’ (J.).

d. Constancy in labour, exertion, or effort.

Perspective is a good thing.