Kangaroo and joey
More fun with words today. Do you know the term kangaroo words? A kangaroo word carries within its spelling (in normal order) a small word that is a perfect synonym for itself. The etymology of the phrase kangaroo word is derived from the fact that kangaroos carry their young (known as joeys) in a body pouch; hence kangaroo words carry their joey words within themselves.
An example of this is Blossoms – note that it contains in the right order the synonym Blooms or Respite and Rest.
Here are some others to have fun with:
- Evacuate
- Encourage
- Prosecute
- Calumnies
- Indolent
- Diversified
- Rampage
- Matches
- Joviality
- Container.
and the answers –
- vacate
- urge
- sue
- lies
- idle
- divers
- rage
- mates
- joy
- can
And if that is not enough, what can you do with –
- rapscallion
- prattle
- perambulate
- pinioned
- regulates
- splotches
- slithered
- perimeter
- curtail
- respite.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I am going away for a few days vacation now that the big red Santa boot is off, so I shall not be posting on my blog for a week. But watch this space – I shall have plenty to share with you when I return.
Oh and I have just had a recollection – Captain Kangaroo when my children were growing up in Montreal. Whatever happened to him?
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