"Epigram" may refer to the preparation or to the small cuts of meat, but the playful word has inevitably managed to irk some chefs.
I doubt that Mr. Kelly would welcome the word doodle because it sounds trivial, but it's a playful word that gets to the spirit of what he's up to here.
"Perhaps because it is associated with young women — or perhaps because it is playful — word elongation disarms," argued The Cut. "Thus, when asking a favor or making a demand, extra letters soften the blow.
Using his playful, evocative words, we've spun images of the Witches and the Twits, Matilda and the Big Friendly Giant (or B.F.G).
FEW political leaders in America today know how to be so playful with words, or are so enthusiastic in encouraging the arts.
Those in the UK outside England are not to be subject to such strange and naughty experiments and hopefully will grow up freer to think and criticise and to be more playful with words and thoughts.
Scaramucci subsequently claimed he was being "sarcastic" and using "playful, jocular words".
The staff calls the process by a deceptively playful English word, "catchball," though as the deadline for a collection approaches, and Kawakubo is still dissatisfied, the "anguish and anger" mount in the cutting room.
"You are not here to enjoy my classes and find a playful joy in words.
