Tumescent…What a spicy little word this is! Dictionary.com provides a rated G definition, focusing almost exclusively as it applies to the use of language, but a deeper probe (sorry, I’m having way too much fun with this one) reveals quite an expanded explication! Here is the definition from Oxford’s Learner’s Dictionary:
When it comes to crafting today’s Haiku….what to do….what to do?!😜
A Tumescent Haiku
To be tumescent
some employ a thesaurus,
others…viagra!
~ kat ~ 9 October 2016
like mercury colliding... 
October 9th, 2015 at 7:15 am
Oh my! How naughty and true!
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October 9th, 2015 at 7:37 am
This was a fun word!
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October 9th, 2015 at 10:55 am
I know 🙂
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October 9th, 2015 at 8:29 am
ha ha ok this is so great! I love how you found so many uses for this word Kat!!!
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October 9th, 2015 at 11:25 am
A fun word! 🙂
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October 9th, 2015 at 11:27 am
yes 🙂
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October 9th, 2015 at 1:04 pm
Now I want to write a hot romance novel, just so the formerly-mousy librarian can whisper breathlessly to her lover, “Oh my god. It’s so tumescent!”
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October 9th, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Oh my gosh! You must do it!!! 😊
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October 9th, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Awesome!! I had no idea it had a definition related to language!! 😜 Happy Friday, Kat!
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October 9th, 2015 at 3:40 pm
I noticed that it also is used in the title of a type of liposuction. It’s funny that dictionary.com totally left out the words other meaning! I like this weekly exercise. Learn a lot! 🙂
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October 10th, 2015 at 9:18 pm
So what is the psychological term for fear of being too pretentious? Tumerephobia?
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October 10th, 2015 at 9:20 pm
Haha! 😀
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