This one is @foragingquietude's fault. Yeah, I'm pushing the blame off on everyone else. Honestly, can you blame me? I'm American, so we're good at the blame game.
You can find @foragingquietude's poem here that had given me this wonderful word:
Confabulate
Image from Thesaurus.plus. There are lots of 'em like this, and they're crazy educational!
So How Would You Define 'Confabulate?'
Easy! To Confabulate is to talk informally. This is the verb definition.
For example:My friends that I totally have and I confabulate on a daily basis.
It can also be a noun, such as Confabulation or Confabulator.
A Confabulation is an informal discussion, and a Confabulator would be a person (or I guess animal?) holding an informal discussion.
I.e. My Irish cat and I had a mighty nice confabulation about my supposed schizophrenia.
Or: I'm the king of small talk; my family calls me a regular confabulator.
Are There Other Definitions?
Why, naturally!
To Confabulate also means to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication.
For example: I decided that instead of remembering that day where I asked the book store chick out and it got all awkward, I'll confabulate and make it where she asked me out, but I kindly rejected and she's totally cool with it now. This way I can feel more confident and can actually go back to the bookstore now.
That may have been a little much, but so is Confabulation. What a word! It sounds naughty and, depending on the subject of the conversation, probably is naughty. But now you can use it for your work! How cool!
As always, props to @jayna for starting this clever #learnwords tag where folks can post new words, define them, and get hella payouts. Just click on the tag below to find more useful posts like this and let's educate Steemit!
