Name is the same
In spite of the fame
Like a burning flame
And I feel no shame
Never labeled lame
More like a lion to tame
No time to play that game
Of fitting in the frame
I am just another dame
Who knows how to aim
Now go back the way you came
And I will take the blame
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Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – name
My Dad knew everything. Ok, so maybe he didn’t really know everything, but he did come up with some things I have never heard anywhere else. I was reminded of that tonight when this word prompt sent me looking for definitions of agate.
Flashback to my youth. We knew some people who had some just born puppies. Of course, we fell in love with them and “had to” have one. They were a Pekingese and Poodle mix – a Pekipoo. Of course, we had a tough decision to make, what to name the little guy. I don’t really remember any of the names that were thrown out in the voting hat except the winner, the one Dad came up with. I still remember him walking into the living room with a dictionary in hand saying, “How about Agate?”
Dad was a “rock-hound” and had studied Geology in college. We were all thinking Dad wanted to name our dog after a rock. No way! That is when Dad began to read out one of the definitions in this old dictionary we had. “Agate means a small diminutive person.” After the jokes were passed around about our short mom, we began to warm up to the name. It was unique. It described him well as he was small. So, Agate became a part of our family.
Tonight, when I saw the work prompt, I began to look up that definition and finally found the site Word Finder where it talked about the old outdated definition. This is a link to that page https://findwords.info/term/agate#:~:text=%5CnThe%20earlier%20English%20form%20of,called%20in%20Great%20Britain%20ruby.. So I learned tonight that definition is no longer in Websters or on Dictionary.com. My Dad knew it though and that is all that matters.
Written for Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (FOWC) – diminutive https://fivedotoh.com/2020/06/24/fowc-with-fandango-diminutive/
(The above picture is from a Google search but looks quite a bit like Agate did. All my pictures of him are on a flash drive that is no longer recognized by my computer.)
Leigha Robbins 