Strumpet trumping [Three word week #35]

‘Giraffiti? Giraffiti bollocks more like – you’re having me on!   It’s no more than a spelling mistake by some ignorant wanker.’

They were lying, post-coital, in her bed, gazing up at the high – and highly-ornate – ceiling above them.   He had likened the multiplicity of water stains – mostly  ecru, occasionally eau de nil (though he’d laughed and said the Nile was miles from here) and multi-rimed with ochre shading out to dirty grey – to something he’d seen in some art magazine somewhere, was trying to remember how it had been described. 

She turned her head and looked at his profile.   Better by far than full face, but even that was better than most.   She rolled over and straddled him.

‘Never mind giraffertiti or whatever you said, I think you’re highly videogenic …’

‘Videogenic?   What’s that, some sort of super stud?’

‘Yeah’ she said, covering his mouth with hers.

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I.) ecru - n. A grayish to pale yellow or light grayish-yellowish brown; the color of unbleached linen.
II.) giraffiti - n. - Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. (Source: The Washington Post's Style Invitational, 2005)
III.) videogenic - adj. - Having a physical appearance and exhibiting personal qualities that are deemed highly appealing to video viewers.

Pillow talk [Three word week #34]

“Your s-s-sulkiness is unbecoming, my dear ... I have told you before, s-s-size is most definitely not everything.”   He had turned towards her, lifting himself onto one elbow, the better to make his point.
She turned her head away, averting her face from his steely grey eyes, knowing that he would be even more supercilious were she to tell him that it was not the size of his cock she found so antipathetic – certainly not the most diminutive she’d come across (no pun intended) – so much as his fricative struggles with her name.   
‘Susannah’ was bad enough insofar as whenever preceded by cries of  'Oh' it invariably reminded her of a Negro spiritual, banjoes and coming from Alabama and all that, but when the stuttered sibilance was such that all she could envision was a ravenous chorus of nesting vipers, inevitably all passion sped, leaving her profoundly unsatisfied.

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diminutive –

adj. 1. Extremely small in size; tiny.
2. Grammar Of or being a suffix that indicates smallness or, by semantic extension, qualities such as youth, familiarity, affection, or contempt, as -let in booklet, -kin in lambkin, or -et in nymphet.
n.  1. Grammar A diminutive suffix, word, or name.
2. A very small person or thing.
fricative –

n. 1. A consonant, such as f or s in English, produced by the forcing of breath through a constricted passage. Also called spirant.
adj. Of, relating to, or being a fricative consonant.
unbecoming -

adj. 1. Not appropriate, attractive, or flattering: an unbecoming dress.
2. Not in accord with the standards implied by one's character or position.

Pulling [Three word week]

“Fuckssake” he growled, overly belligerent, one booted foot resting on the gleaming brass rail along the front of the bar, two blue eyes gazing at the notice, writ large in flowing copperplate and hung on a level with the optics.   The black-clad, barely-legal-age Goth behind the bar, metal-festooned face a practice climbing wall for caterpillars, raised her be-ringed eyebrows, blandly enquiring.  

"Is it the banning of eructation, expectoration and all and sundry evacuations you are objecting to, or were you intending to admire my chirography?"
       For the merest fraction of a second his eyes rested on the startling contrast of her pale cleavage before rising again to examine the sturdiness of her shoulders, her washer-woman forearms, the knuckleduster-size silver rings on several of her fingers and the intelligence in her mascara-spikey eyes, as she placed a beermat, the same calligraphic message repeated thereon, on the polished surface of the bar and proceeded to pull the pint of Belhaven he had, with the barest of nods, requested.
       He smiled as he handed over a tenner.   

"Nay, pet, I’m for avoiding velitation at all times.  And have one yersel."

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I.) chirography (also called cheirography) - n. Penmanship.
1. the penmanship of a person, especially when used in an important document, as in an apostolic letter written and signed by the pope.
2. the art of beautiful penmanship; calligraphy.
II.) eruct - vb. - To belch.
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) to raise (gas and often a small quantity of acid) from the stomach; belch
2. (Earth Sciences / Geological Science) (of a volcano) to pour out (fumes or volcanic matter).
III.) velitation - n. - A dispute or contest; a slight contest; a skirmish.

Assembly [Three Word Week]

He had seen their like before.  Hungry men, men beleaguered by the harsh words of their swollen-bellied wives, the thin cries of their ailing children.   Men beset by exhaustion, who had given every year of their strength and knew that it was never going to be enough.

He understood, his future once was as theirs had proved to be; his boyhood had after all been spent with them.  

But he had escaped, had known what was needed and had done it, done it all and yea, he had thrived, while they had not.  

He emerged from the doorway, took three paces to the top of the steps, and as the light from the cressets identified him he both heard and saw the winnowed murmur of recognition, of hope pass from the front to the rear of the crowd.    Saw that they regarded him as their demagogue, one who would know what was due to them, would know where to lead them. 

Silence fell.   He raised his voice, and spoke a single word.

‘Tomorrow.’ 

This week's entry for Steve Isaak's 3 word week -
beleaguer  demagogue winnow
definitions to be found at 
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