Let 200 flowers bloom!

Too oh-oh! Celebrating with a little bouquet bokeh. (Definitely not SOOC!)

ROUND is the challenge topic.

Two hundred blips in 200 days. A nice round number, don'tcha think?
And I did it all on my iPhone.

I couldn't have done it without YOU, fabulous blipfriends.
Merci, danke, gracias, buíochas a ghabháil leat.
Beijos pra você.
Lechyd da!

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BLIPFOTO VOCABULARY, PART III
See also Part I and Part II.

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
--George Bernard Shaw

Most of these words and phrases are translations into American English from the U.K., Ireland, and the far-flung reaches of the former pink spots on the map. By the way, this list represents the strange encounters of less than two months!

Corrigenda welcomed. I will update, but remember, I have only five days before edits get closed down.

99 ice cream - cone filled with softserve ice cream (Am., cf. Diary Queen) served with a Flake bar inserted at a jaunty angle.
A & E - Brit., Accident and Emergency (department in hospitals); Am., TV channel Arts & Entertainment
after, prep. In pursuit or search of: I'm after a better job. Would you be after going to Cork?
Sure I'm after confessing to you that freespiral disputes the foregoing definition! To put it in the ironic passive of which she is so fond, help is needed.
after, prep. Irish. Used with a present participle to indicate action that has just been completed: "Sure I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago" (James Joyce).
argy bargy - a lively discussion or dispute
aril - an extra seed-covering, typically brightly colored and hairy or fleshy, e.g., as with pomegranate seeds
arty-farty - Pertaining to, or having an interest in, the arts - often pretentiously & affectedly so
Bardic school - In Ireland, a place where traveling poets learned to memorize and recite the ancient ballads; you could also learn to be a druid, or pagan priest.
beck - mountain stream
beijos pra você - kisses for you (Portuguese)
Ben, the - Ben Lomond (ben is mountain)
boffin - geek, nerd, technical expert
bokeh - in photography, intentional blur, shallow depth of field
buíochas a ghabháil leat - thank you (Irish)
busier than a blue-arsed fly - rushing around busily; attributed to Prince Philip
call at - to visit
capsicum - bell pepper
chat - Brit., chat to; AmE., chat with (Does this prove Americans listen better?)
chimp, v. - Chimping is a colloquial term used in digital photography to describe the habit of checking every photo on the camera display (LCD) immediately after capture. (Wikipedia)
chunter - to mutter or grumble incessantly in a meaningless fashion
clag - An RAF aviation acronym that stands for "Cloud Low, Aircraft Grounded", but nowadays is often used to describe grey, drizzly low-lying cloud.
cobnut - a type of hazelnut that grows in Britain
courgette - small zucchini squash or marrow (q.v.)
débrouillardise - Fr., resourcefulness
dof - in photography, depth of field
Flake bar - long Cadbury chocolate bar inserted in a 99 ice cream (q.v.).
flyover - Brit., an overpass; Am., a low-altitude flight over a specific location
full, v. - To full a yarn is when you have spun the wool, then plied it - it needs to soak in warm water to let the fibers connect and go back to "relax" into each other. (Bethanne)
gnashers - teeth
gutted - extremely disappointed and unhappy
hols - vacation
horse brass - a brass plaque used for the decoration of horse harness gear, especially for draft and parade horses
keep your pecker up - Brit., be cheerful, keep smiling. (In America, pecker is slang for a not always dangling part of the male anatomy.)
lashings of - lots, an abundance, copious amounts of, esp. food or drink
lazy bed - (in parts of Scotland and Ireland, formerly) a patch in which potatoes were cultivated by laying them on the surface and covering them with kelp and with soil from a trench on either side of the bed.
lechyd da - cheers! (Welsh)
living sculpture - A sculpture made out of living things like trees, bushes, flowers, water, boulders, succulents, etc... in permanent transformation like life itself (carolinav)
madder - the common name for the plant Rubia tinctorum, whose crushed root produces the red dye used in a paint known as Rose madder.
mare - (short for nightmare) bad luck, unfortunate circumstances
marrow - Brit., a white-fleshed green-skinned gourd, eaten as a vegetable; i.e., large zucchini squash
meant to be - said to be, reputed to be
medlar - squishy fruit dissed by Shakespeare, admired today by a small minority of in-the-know fruit fanciers
munted - broken, mangled, or unusable (Australian slang); munt can also mean to vomit.
NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month
Orcadian - relating to the Orkney Islands or their inhabitants
oxter - armpit (Scot, Irish, and northern English dialect)
plooter - (Scot. vernacular) play with, fiddle with
possy, possie - gang, squad, group of acqaintances; also, "Possy is a position. Usually a special position. Such as where the family might gather on the beach. Or where a duck shooter might set up his hide year after year." (waipushrink)
pudding - dessert
reticulation - a watering system. Reticulated water is an Australian term referring to the piped-water network (as opposed to well water)
ringfort - a circular fortified settlement; they were built primarily from 800 BC to the middle of the first millennium AD.
rowan jelly - The rowan is a small ornamental tree bearing clusters of reddish berries. The fruit of European Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) can be made into a slightly bitter jelly which in Britain is traditionally eaten as an accompaniment to game.
SOOC - in photography, acronym for 'straight out of the camera' - also OOC.
spondulix - money; var. of spondulicks (origin obscure)
ute - believed to be an abbreviation for "utility" or "coupé utility" – originally used in Australia and New Zealand to describe passenger vehicles with a cargo tray in the rear
woad - a yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family. It was formerly grown as a source of blue dye.
wwoofer - participant in "Weekend Workers on Organic Farms" a/k/a "Willing Workers on Organic Farms" a/k/a "World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms"

I haven't faithfully mentioned all sources of these words except where definitions were provided, but the words themselves begin (99 ice cream) and end (wwoofer) with freespiral, who has the largest arcane vocabulary outside of Shakespeare. Thank you!

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HELP WANTED

Lover of words, competent online researcher, willing to take over the publishing of these vocabulary lists. Since I joined Blip in April, freespiral and DDon have retired. Now it's my turn. If you enjoy what you read here, consider volunteering.

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SO LONG (temporarily), IT'S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YA!

Friday November 1 is the start of NaNoWriMo. I'll be working hard on my novel.
Comments go off on Monday. (But first, red balloons!)
Visits will probably be sparse until I recover sometime in December.

I hope to keep blipping. Wish me luck!