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Blarney: Flattering or wheedling talk; cajolery.
noun (blahr-ney)
Deceptive or misleading talk; nonsense; hooey.
Example: A lot of blarney about why he was broke.
Origin:
Blarney came to English in the mid-1700s from the name of the hamlet in Ireland, where a stone in Blarney Castle is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it.
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Judy’s writing journey began at the ripe old age of 8 when her very first poem was published in the regional publication of the American Library Association.
Her mother was the town librarian and Judy spent many hours hanging out among the books after school. It was there she found her true love . . . words.
Her inborn gift for writing began to blossom and was fueled by her love of reading. Her parents were writers, as well as her grandfather and great grandfather. The little poem she had published was entitled, ‘My Dog’ and vividly described in rhyme, the relationship between young Judy and her dog. However, when asked the name of her dog by the paper’s editor, she reluctantly admitted, “Well . . . I don’t actually have a REAL dog,” and thus began her imaginative journey with pen and paper.
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Hmm – that’s news to me. I didn’t know wordpress had their own likes. I’ll have to check into that. Thanks for mentioning it.