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Below are links to Elske and Ivy's posts each day, followed by the sponsor's handle.
See also:
ANGEL
@Elske, @Ivy, @AC - No chance meetings- sting or stinger as in "De angel eruit halen," i.e. 'take the sting out' figuratively or literally
BEVEL
@Elske, @Ivy, @Henrik- command strongly as in a military order
ROMAN
@Elske, @Ivy, @Trader Kate- novel as in a book (some learn 'roman ร clef' in English class, borrowed from French)
TWIST
@Elske, @Ivy, @Wallflower- argument as in "over smaak valt niet te twisten," i.e. 'one can't argue taste'
BRAND
@Elske, @Ivy, @idk- fire
LEVER
@Elske, @Ivy NOT FOUND, @Jn- liver literally but also figuratively i.e. "iets op je lever hebben," is to have something weighing heavily on one's mind
BRIEF
@Elske, @Ivy, @VMMP- letter as in a written & posted physical letter
SLANG
@Elske, @Ivy, @Northern Dragonfly- snake, tube, or hose
BROOD
@Elske, @Ivy, @DrTooth- bread
WORST
@Elske, @Ivy, @Sylvia- sausage
DRIFT
@Elske, @Ivy, @Jennie- off-course as in out-of-control emotions, driftig means short-tempered, Driftkop hothead
LINKS
@Elske, @Ivy, @Monika- left as in direction or side or handed-ness
ROVER
@Elske, @Ivy, @KimmyAnn- pirate or robber
EMAIL
@Elske, @Ivy, @Matthew Sagal- enamel originally, though overtaken by the same meaning as in English for email
STEEL
@Elske, @Ivy, @Rad- stalk, handle, or stick
RAMEN
@Elske, @Ivy, @WT- windows plural of "raam"
GRIND
@Elske, @Ivy, @Emily- gravel
TROTS
@Elske, @Ivy, @Robert H.- pride or proud
LOVER
@Elske, @Ivy, @Rosie- foliage, leaves old-fashioned plural of "loof"
STAGE
@Elske, @Ivy, @Dawn- internship or apprenticeship
GROVE
@Elske, @Ivy, @JennyWren- rough, coarse, crude also "grof" but stronger and with more variations of meaning than the related English
GRUFF
- rough, coarse, crude also "grof" but stronger and with more variations of meaning than the related English
STAMP
@Elske, @Ivy, @Joyce Summers- stomp, cram, pack tight usually used in combination like "stampvol" packed full.
DOZEN
@Elske, @Ivy, @Sandy R- boxes plural of "doos" with several slang meanings: toilet, prison, vagina
STOUT
@Elske, @Ivy, @Jay- naughty, of children; historically: bold, unabashed "de stoute schoenen aantrekken" is to 'put on oneโs naughty (bold, unabashed) shoes' to do something difficult; more idiomatically in English today: to put on your big boy/girl pants and get after it.
SMART
@Elske, @Ivy, @Fiona- grief, pain a noun, and deeper and slightly shifted from the related English verb for pain as in 'that bee-sting smarts a bit!'
VROOM
@Elske, @Ivy, @Kenny- pious, frum FROMM and FROOM are Wordleable if obscure English variants of the Yiddish 'frum', all cousins of the Dutch VROOM
BRINK
@Elske, @Ivy, @Myle- village square
APART
@Elske, @Ivy, @Anita- separate, exclusive, unusual, special
POETS
@Elske, @Ivy, @Ellen- prank (een poets bakken); poetsen=clean/polish
STRIP
@Elske, @Ivy, @Linda- comic, graphic novel