Word of the Day – Fantastic

In an effort to educate the nominally literate and inform those with sufficient humility to understand their own lack of comprehension, Esme offers the correct definition of misunderstood words…

Fantastic

1. (noun – pronunciation note: Fanta stick) Wooden ‘handle’ used to eat iced lollies made from a particular brand of sweet lemonade. Example: The fantastic was now covered in melting iced lolly, which was happily running down little Jenny’s arm and making the sleeve of her cardigan a soggy mess.

2. (noun – pronunciation note: fanta’s tick) Insect vector of itchy scrotum disease found almost exclusively in the handlers of working elephants.  Example: The population of the outlying villages was being decimated by the preponderance of fantastic disease among the young men.

If you have any words whose meaning escapes you, Esme Crockford is always happy to share her lexicographical knowledge and penetrating insight into the English language.