{"id":13269,"date":"2015-12-01T06:26:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13269"},"modified":"2015-12-01T06:26:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:26:18","slug":"english-vocabulary-what-is-a-humdinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-vocabulary-what-is-a-humdinger\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  vocabulary: what is a humdinger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor brings up a term from folk vocabulary.<\/h1>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a word I hear often these days &#8211; humdinger.  I get the impression it&#8217;s from the farming days.<\/p>\n<p>Webster defines <i>humdinger<\/i> as &#8220;a person or thing of striking excellence.&#8221;  By that definition, a great birthday cake could be called a <em>humdinger<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My understanding of the meaning of <em>humdinger<\/em> is that it&#8217;s a person who is excellent, and knows it.  The person likely behaves accordingly.  However, I perceive a humdinger as someone who&#8217;s playful about acting out their excellent quality (or qualities).<\/p>\n<p>Whose definition do you prefer?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><u>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/u>, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor brings up a term from folk vocabulary. It&#8217;s not a word I hear often these days &#8211; humdinger. I get the impression it&#8217;s from the farming days. Webster defines humdinger as &#8220;a person or thing of striking excellence.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-vocabulary-what-is-a-humdinger\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  vocabulary: what is a humdinger?<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,181],"tags":[1224,1223,1222],"class_list":["post-13269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-lifestyle","tag-folk-vocabulary","tag-humdinger","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}