Friday, 8 February 2019

TODAY’S NEW WORD – AMIGURUMI

This one came not from my editing but from my husband, who produced this yesterday.

TODAY’S NEW WORD – AMIGURUMI

Amigurumi hasn’t reached the main online dictionaries yet, but a Google search currently returns over 45 million hits. It’s defined in Wikipedia as the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed yarn creatures. The word is apparently a portmanteau (combination) of the Japanese words “ami” (crocheted or knitted) and “nuigurumi” (stuffed doll).

Photo credit: Paul Watson

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