Stupid adjectives anyway

[mrissa]

I'm not winsome, am I? I got called winsome today, and Mark assured me I'm not, but timprov thinks I might be. You know who's winsome, is people in Louisa May Alcott books. Not even the good ones, either; the ones like Rose and for heaven's sake Amy.

But Timprov says I must be, because people sometimes like me right off the bat.

Then again, the person who applied this adjective to me used one of those complimentary-but-not-really adjectives on porphyrin, or at least on her butt, so maybe I just shouldn't worry about it.

Comments

Winsome

[toolittletime.livejournal.com]

I don't know you well enough (as in only from your journals) to be certain, but I think it could apply. The M-W online dictionary ( http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=winsome ) definition #1 would seem to apply favorably: "1 : generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence" Or maybe the person who made the comment is nearly as fossilized as I.

Re: Winsome

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The person who said it is not enough older than me to get to pull that "childlike" stuff, I guarantee.