04.24.06

Yarn-oniomania

Posted in Yarn at 12:59 pm by delipics

Have you heard of Wordsmith? This it today’s word that I have co-opted for us yarn addicts (additions in bold):

yarn-oniomania (yarn-O-nee-uh-MAY-nee-uh, -MAYN-yuh) noun

Compulsive shopping for yarn and yarn related items; excessive, uncontrollable desire to buy things from any yarn store or store that carries yarn related items.

[From Latin, from Greek xnios (for sale), from onos (price) + -mania., yarn from Middle English, from Old English gearn; akin to Old High German garn yarn, Greek chordE string, Latin hernia rupture, Sanskrit hira band] (entymology from Miriam Webster online)

(Here is the actual word link http://wordsmith.org/words/oniomania.html )

Tee hee - that was fun!

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