Happy Friday!
Well…here’s a word for you…WAFFLESTOMPERS! Today’s dictionary.com word of the day hails to us from 1970’s Americana.
This late middle-aging flower child of the 70’s must admit, I have never heard this word before. It could be that I spent most of the 70’s barefooted; tripping through fields of daisy’s chasing butterflies…or it may be my insane fear of heights! Either way, it is no wonder I never had a need for a pair of wafflestompers!
But given that it is today’s word of the day…and a very high-in-syllable word at that…I shall do my best, despite my obvious inexperience, to render the wafflestomper its proper homage in a contrived haiku. Three lines, syllables 5-7-5…anything but profound with a touch of thesaurus mischief! Have a great weekend folks!
Wafflestomping
Intrepid trekkers
don high-top wafflestompers
To reach a climax.kat ~ 15 April 2016
like mercury colliding... 
April 15th, 2016 at 11:09 am
Nice twist on this that wafflestomped right into my heart!!
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:07 pm
Haha! and there you are twisting it back my way! 🙂 Thanks for the comment!
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:30 pm
🙂
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April 15th, 2016 at 11:15 am
I’ve owned many a pair of wafflestompers, and still do! (Although I call them hiking boots, lol).
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:06 pm
Yep. It’s a fun name. Very “German” I would say. 🙂
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April 15th, 2016 at 11:16 am
I never heard of it either. But they do look sturdy:)
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:05 pm
…and I believe the “waffle” tread on the soles is meant to keep hikers from slipping. 🙂
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:19 pm
Sounds like that might work for snow as well.
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:22 pm
Yep…these days we just call them hiking boots, but there are still waffestompers to be had! 🙂
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:23 pm
Aha!!
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April 15th, 2016 at 11:41 am
Hahaha! I remember wafflestompers! I just can’t remember exactly what they looked like. Haha! I think they were like hiking boots.
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Yes…they’re in the photo from dictionary.com. 🙂
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Doc Martens used to (still does?) make a decent pair of waffle-stompers! They were nice…
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April 15th, 2016 at 12:03 pm
I’m sure they do! 🙂
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April 15th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
Interesting word and nice Haiku!
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April 15th, 2016 at 4:47 pm
It’s a fun word for sure! 😀
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