One word

Frippery

Word of the day on 30 June 2010.

Winning tweet

60
Points
beezknez
Social butterfly ~ adorned in frippery, hides ~ her sadness within #haiku #artwiculate

Good uses

  • cyberbonn
    58
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    Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee...no one had finer verbal frippery than Muhammad Ali. #artwiculate
  • SJHatzi
    48
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    Sartorial frippery: Much ado about foofaraw.
  • ChrisTwitery
    45
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    Frippery faeries dance under silver moonbeams ~ you're not sposed to look #haikku #artwiculate
  • MaltaGoddess
    43
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    So many men to amuse me with their frippery, so little time. *Sigh.*
  • Wifsie
    43
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    A carefully crafted Artweet is never frippery: it's artistry infused with honesty. #artwiculate
  • raindropforsale
    41
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    stoic oak / adorned / with the frippery / of one dozen / bejeweled birds #gogyohka #artwiculate
  • DarkHaikuMoon
    40
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    http://twitpic.com/1qy6xu - Frippery moon slipping ~ behind clouds of darkened gloom ~ then plays peek aboo #haiku
  • asim7asim
    40
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    generosity ~ frippery and finery ~ image of a mask #haiku #artwiculate
  • FrankSiddarta
    39
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    Forbearance of feral felicitous frippery in furtive festoons of fecundity for fastidious fisticuffs is a fribble fungible flibbertigibbet
  • minibtweet
    38
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    Plain flip flops no longer in vogue it's frippery flops for twinkle toes #artwiculate
  • soarski
    37
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    Frippery dickery dock, the mouse ran up the frock. I mean clock.
  • Anamuk
    35
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    One man's frippery is another man's finery
  • disslexxic
    35
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    Like this one, my #artwiculate entries tend to slide down that frippery slope.
  • nedmw
    35
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    Aaah, the frippery of plagiarism in a prize-free, fun, creative contest.
  • TiddK
    34
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    Hickory frippery fop / A swaggering bantam cock / The cock crowed One / The fop fell down / Hickory frippery fop
  • navinsasikumar
    34
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    RIP : My Lord Frippery - His bauble burst
  • MaxRaunchiness
    34
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    Gaudy frippery / Attracting men's looks like flies / Enticing drag queen #maxku
  • prashanthm18
    34
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    Inevitable finery ~ lost its frippery ~ when the road was slippery. #artwiculate
  • KnitForJoy
    32
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    Slippery, frippery, fop / A fancy suit -- he's hot! / Labels aplenty / But nary a twenty / To cover the ticket he got! #artwiculate
  • greenandorganic
    32
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    Frippery salad. Into the grater. Frip. Frip. Frip. Someone should put British Petroleum into the grater too - it might cheer them up a bit.
  • Ysabeluna
    31
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    in sartorial finery ~ and bridal frippery ~ yet her luminous nudity ~ is what ~ he yearns all day ~ #artwiculate #lqw #gogyohka #poetry
  • gilliewhitewolf
    31
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    ★ unmasked ball ~ no need for frippery ★ #artwiculate #sixwords
  • BurningHawk1969
    31
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    Morning makes rainbows / Of dew and dawn on grass blades; / Frippery when wet. #Haiku #artwiculate
  • harrarp
    31
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    Flattery won't get you anywhere, but frippery brings fringe benefits.
  • RortlyGoblins
    31
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    Ring a-ring o' roses, a pocketful of posies. a frippery a frippery - we all fall down. http://twitpic.com/214at5
  • dsceiorg
    31
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    Collective nouns: An exploitation of nude pygmies; A compass of National Geographic issues; A frippery of hobo pearl necklaces #artwiculate
  • OldJoeStalin
    30
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    The psychiatrist diagnosed Kim with schizophrenic frippery, because the voices in her head were useless adornments.
  • coinopratdchris
    28
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    Jack Knight didn't want to be the next Starman in his family's legacy. He just wanted to buy and exchange old frippery.
  • tWordBird
    28
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    A frappe is simply frippery ~Made w/cool cream so slippery~It's foofaraw & whippery~Just some cold fribble w/which to dribble.
  • yopopodawn
    27
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    The probrem with gweasy fwogs is that they can often be very frippery.
  • marcosarroyos
    27
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    Guy walks into a bar and orders a Frippery. Bartender says, "OK, I make you anything as long as I put an umbrella in it."
  • TheIowaTaxLady
    27
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    Lacy, silvery / hushed in the moonlit night / ice storm frippery #haiku #artwiculate
  • urbanascetic
    27
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    Without frippery or ostentation ~ Live Well #sixwords #poetry #artwiculate
  • ruidh
    26
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    Show me frippery and I'll show you some gaudy folderol. #artwiculate
  • Tralala56
    25
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    "There's too much frippery in the court. Off with their heads" #redqueen
  • LBY3
    25
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    @Artwiculate All of Twitter may be frippery, but Artwiculate definitely is. #Artwiculate
  • Lorcdy
    25
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    Rather than support the sartorial trades,the Duke and Duchess of Windsor used to sport thrift shop frippery. #lqw #artwiculate
  • kings_indian
    25
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    frippery karate master - fancy dan
  • DrJillZ
    25
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    @artwiculate Frippery Airlines: We fly by the seat of our fancy-pants.
  • ultracutebot
    25
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    places you'll see a foofaraw over fribble & frippery: thrift store, flea market, yard sale, clearance section at any store #re-post
  • ariandalen
    25
    Points
    Ah, Mistress Frippery: all show and no substance.
  • yearning4d_sky
    25
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    haha RT @prashanthm18 Inevitable finery ~ lost its frippery ~ when the road was slippery. #artwiculate
  • blueinblue14
    23
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    Frippery of the Milky Way are shooting stars reflected in your eyes.#artwiculate
  • Krafti_kit
    23
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    Frippery Airlines: Official airline of the feather boa. #artwiculate

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