Lather

[aesmael]

Tonight's shampoo bottle began its instructions by asserting that it was 'too easy' and then instructing me to lather it in my hair. At this point I decided I did not, in fact, know what lather meant except by inference and so looked it up to be sure.

Now, where am I going to find a rod or whip for next time?

Edit: Whoops, I did not mean to give the impression I did not know the word lather. I knew what it meant from years of seeing it in use, what I meant to say is I suddenly decided I did not know it from the dictionary, officially, and set out to fix that.

Comments

[krank-kether.livejournal.com]

is there a different australian english word for lather?

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of. I just had realised I only knew the word from seeing it used and wanted to check the definition to see if lather referred to the action or the foam. Apparently it is both.

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

I've seen so many shampoo commercials using the word lather that it never occured to me that ppl might not know what it means. :O

But it makes sense that ppl might not :)

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Lather is word of the day now. Use it in a sentence!

[marr-vell.livejournal.com]

I do that every once in a while. A word will catch my eye as a word that I know only in context, not in actual definition. Usually it's a vogue word, like "sketchy" or "random," just to discredit it's use. But sometimes it's genuine curiousity.