That's what I wrote a little while ago when I showed you the results of my fantastic, amazing, brilliant, stunning, incredible, remarkable and possibly new possibly not word game which isn't really a game ... provisionally called " juxtapositions" ... a snappy title and an accurate one too.
You get a dictionary ... you find a pair of word right slap bang exactly next to each other ... that go together to make a silly/witty/ridiculous/thought-provoking/mysterious result.
What you can find will be different for every dictionary of course ... here's a simple example from Chambers English Dictionary which is handily right by me ... a quick look gets me the two words fin ( a noun) and fimicolous ( an adjective) right next to each other to give us ..
" fimicolous fin ... a fin growing on dung "
I've already found loads of Welsh ones*, and as you saw up there at the top, I've now tried using an ancient , well, pretty old, dictionary packed with words we don't use anymore ..it's about 1915-ish. So what did I dig up ? Dyna ni ... by the way, sometimes it might not look as if the words were next to each other, but that's because of mutations ... marked by a ° ... some people, by the way, might object that these silly and frankly ancient little phrases are totally useless and couldn't ever be used in any context, so I have taken the trouble to prove them wrong ....
beldr °peiddgar a presumptious lane down which trundles ...
carllwyth carllyd an amourous cartload containing ?
ci ceuol a tubular dog maybe with ....
ysgyfaint ysgydwol shaking lungs and ..
hirfys hirglust a long-eared middle finger being punished with ...
ierthi iesin a glorious ox-goad taken from ...
trythgwd trythyll a lascivious satchel found in ......
cladd ciwt a cute trench by .....
henfon heneiddiol an aging old cow who was planting ...
diawdwydd diawdurdod unauthorised bay trees whilst being serenaded by .....
rhygen °rygethlig a musical grain of rye taken from .....
ystycaid ystyfynig an obstinate bucketful the rest of which was eaten by ...
hwyad hwy a longer duck who was tired of ...
maip maith tedious turnips and who often played ...
ystyrmant ystyriol a considerate/thoughtful Jew's harp borrowed from ....
hydd hyddaif an easily singed deer who had been stung by ....
ysgorpion ysgornllyd a scornful scorpion thrown overboard by ....
rhwyfwr rhwyfus a restless oarsman who was trying to bale out his boat with ...
twmffat twll a broken funnel bought during......
Hydref hydrefn an orderly October and kept rust-free with ....
rhwyth rhwystro confused sap whilst negotiating ...
twmpath twmpathog a lumpy tump and serenaded by ....
trimplai trimisol a quarterly trumpeter who had just eaten ....
hyrddyn hyrif an easily-numbered mullet whilst sitting uncomfortably on ...
llamog °lamidyddol an acrobatic stile made from .....
rhydwllt rhydwll perforated sawdust which is surely rather tricky to produce !
Sometimes you come across a noun with a big string of silly adjectives right next to it ...
hirdydd hirben hirbell hiraethus ...... a long, shrewd, far-away homesick day
hywr hywlydd hywiw hywerth hywen ... a bold, mild, worthy, saleable smiling man.
rhuddfa °ruddfaog °ruddfelyn °ruddföog °ruddgoch ... a patch of crimson-stained orange red-handed crimson turf turned brown.
Well, boys and girls, I'm sure that this is only a minute twinkling of the ridiculous stuff that can be found with this juxtaposition lark. I haven't even so much as ventured into the prospect of all the verb-adverb pairings there might be out there in Lexicon-Land.
Whatever the future may hold, let's have a bit of music ... here's one of Datblygu's finest efforts, Cyn Symud Y Ddim ... this is a live, almost acoustic, version and shows how robust this song is ... the CD version is much tougher ..... both are excellent. After that, a few seconds of Y Teimlad thrown in free of charge ...