PFP SCRIBE NATION NEWS 10/02/19 @ 6:09a MDT: I use Tweetdeck.Twitter.com to schedule my blog
posts and such. But since last night (10/01/19), it’s been rendered offline and
useless. Hopefully, it’s fixed soon, but in the meantime, it’s a terrific
example of this week’s Wordplay Wednesday word!Many foxes grow gray, but few grow good. – Benjamin Franklin
Have you someone in your circle of people—friend,
foe, family, or business frenemy—who
always has a surreptitious motive for everything they do or say? There’s a word
for that … 
An excellent word for novelists, as vulpine
does not appear often in common fiction. Be vulpine and add vulpine
to your vocabulary for expressive and visual commentary or a particularly duplicitous
fiction character.
As far as shifty fiction foxes go,
the dastardly Fox-Lox of *”Chicken
Little“ fame is classic (spoiler alert: he eats Chicken Little); however,
you don’t need to be a fox to demonstrate your vulpine nature.
Can we not visualize the sly wolf in the
Brothers Grimm’s folk tale, *”Little Red Riding Hood,”
bringing vulpine to mind? Of course, he is a wolf (a “big, bad”
one), but his traits are synonymous with the deceiving fox, and oh, so
charming!
*Though most of us remember this fairy tale from Brothers Grimm,
it originated through Charles
Perrault, a 17th century pioneer author of folklore fairy tales
(think Mother Goose), who inspired their compilations and writings more
than a century later.
The Brothers
G also turned out The
Fox and the Cat. But the ol’ fox wasn’t so clever or foxy and for him,
the story doesn’t end well. “Chicken Little,” also centuries old, has many incarnations (anyone
heard of “Henny Penny”?).
Your subject
for vulpine need not be fictional or beast. We can apply the “sly
like a fox” idiom to any number of humans, known both personally and worldwide.
I won’t name names, but suffice it to say, vulpine is excellent
as an alternative adjective for both fiction and non-fiction crafty personalities.
Word Challenge: VULPINE. So, let’s cut to the chase with clever prowess, as you
slip vulpine into your week
of spirited writings.
Learning knows no prejudices or boundaries, and it isn’t fattening!
Expanding your mind is a no-cost, simple joy. Do you feel that way too? What’s
your inspiration? Share your creative genius and Wordplay Wednesday comments below.
Write first for yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle)
[LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by
trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books (of
three) in her Blast from Your Past series about pioneering R&R Radio DJs. True behind-the-mic tales
make GREAT Holiday Gifts available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The First Five Years
1954-1959; and Book
2 – Rock & Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon … The Psychedelic
Seventies!]
Note: Dictionary
definitions are quoted from Webster’s New World College Dictionary.
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