One word

Lilt

Word of the day on 04 October 2009.

Winning tweet

108
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MaryJenkins
"Come closer,"she whispered with a lilt. He leaned into her warmth as she gestured above."This lane is EXACT CHANGE only." #artwiculate #vss

Good uses

  • zimmerjohn
    54
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    A Scot is sturdily built-With only his pride and a kilt-And beneath it you say?-I can't give it away-But it swings when he walks with a lilt
  • caslexplorers
    54
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    I lilt therefore I jam.
  • NickFromVA
    49
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    A bit of guilt wilts the liveliest lilt.
  • DrMobs
    44
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    The usually melodious lilt of her Irish brogue was tempered by a quiet stream of vindictive profanity. "Shut it." I said.
  • iMike
    43
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    Lillith's lilt lit Logan's loins
  • jumpmonk
    40
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    Said the wind to the kilt, "Let's play this to the hilt. I'll kick up a breeze, you rise past the knees and give this sad Scotsman a lilt."
  • thoughts
    39
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    @Artwiculate: Can an unrhythmic, lethargic person be called il-lilt-erate?
  • phuggins
    38
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    @artwiculate: If it weren't for these stilts, I would lilt at full tilt.
  • bunnirice
    35
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    With a haunting lilt / she quietly seduces us / musical diva // #haiku
  • redwall_hp
    34
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    The lilt of the bagpipes filled the air. What else is four in the morning for?
  • goldenskye
    34
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    He listened quietly, his heart beating to the gentle lilt of her mellifluous voice.
  • hereticaneue
    34
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    a lilt and a pep and a spring in her step, and not a clue of the toilet paper stuck to her shoe!
  • icybluequest
    33
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    The lilt in the step of the sour old grump showed that even the most resistant to joy cannot help, but be moved by live music.
  • dmriver
    33
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    We all kept it together until the lilt of the bagpipes rose above the crowd. The mourners quietly wept as the casket was lowered.
  • SJHatzi
    30
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    "Morning awaits at the end of the world, and the world is all at our feet": Kipling's irrepressable lilt gleams with poetical gilt.
  • revhappiness
    29
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    The wailing lilt of a recorder in the hands of a child is truly a tool of the evil one.
  • routermonkey
    29
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    Lucy's lovely lilt left Liam longing lustfully.
  • hawaii2000
    29
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    @artwiculate Milt in kilt might tilt your quilt but 'Wilt the Stilt' is built to lilt.
  • Eekaboo
    29
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    Unfortunately, after a long night and a restless sleep, I will lack all luster and lilt once morning comes.
  • Eekaboo
    29
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    I've always believed that Julie Andrews as the character Mary Poppins was the embodiment of lilt in everything she did.
  • Kramasuri
    29
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    Angus's tawny kilt swung with an awesome lilt. The underneath was lush. The brawniest lass would blush.
  • DaveCurry
    29
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    Imagining the audience naked to ease his nerves put a bright lilt in his voice he regretted, the moment he finished delivering the eulogy.
  • SJHatzi
    29
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    Heidi's Tyrolian lilt, is so irritating, good lord, what a twit!
  • caslexplorers
    28
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    Lily lingered under the lilacs listening to a Lilliputian lilt.
  • caslexplorers
    27
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    After a lilt with Milt under the quilt she was fill't with guilt.
  • Ysabeluna
    25
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    The groom pranced to d altar with a LILT/ His demeanor aglow all lit/ Alas unaware / His pants has a tear/Exposing his behind sans underwear
  • SJHatzi
    25
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    Forget all that Irish crap... have you ever heard "Zorba's Dance"? Now that's a tune with a lilt!
  • SJHatzi
    25
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    There's nothing like a "good morning" with a lilt that makes me want to deck the idiot who utters it before my caffeine injection.
  • SJHatzi
    25
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    "Live life to the hilt"! (My heart commands with a lilt).
  • RamblingRambler
    25
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    The listless lad lewdly looks at the libidinous lady and is filled with a lascivious lilt. #artwiculate
  • marcosarroyos
    25
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    Even in childhood Gracie had always displayed a full measure of joy, so when she grew up her online life revealed a lilt in her lol.
  • jenniebrand
    25
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    @artwiculate Sunday covets an innate determination in shunning lilt-related behavior, ultimately forcing Monday to be immensely unbearable.
  • eightbitsoul
    24
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    I always try to rhyme and lilt though often cry when milk is spilt.
  • 3lbsofluv
    24
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    Little by little the lonely child's lilt on the poorly lit street lured passers-by to loosen up from life's sempiternal beats. @artwiculate
  • Ysabeluna
    24
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    The male dancer svelte / dancing routine with a LILT / but was aghast / as he realized / must lift a partner double his girth size /
  • leannecompton
    24
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    Come On Para, get some lilt in your game for 2nd half!!!!!! #NRLGrandFinal
  • davidhorm
    24
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    My fingers lilt across the keyboard hoping to @artwiculate something clever, but I'm drawing a blank :(
  • hexapodium
    24
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    I wish I could speak today's @artwiculate word with a lilt, but sadly, I am limited to a mere 140 characters. And I'm not Irish.
  • lithiumzombie
    24
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    NEW: Coca Cola Lilt! With 200% more sugar and caffeine! WOOOOHOOOO!!! :-D (keep away from small children, for your own good)
  • jalaffler
    24
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    experiential or alphabetical, lilt follows coffee
  • SJHatzi
    24
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    Will I still be beat despite my tweet with a lilt?
  • tWordBird
    24
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    The colored leaves’ lilt | Stirs dormant melancholies | Soothed by Autumn’s sun. #Haiku #artwiculate
  • J_Acevedo
    24
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    Her words placidly pouring into the night, her life's story unraveling with the wind, and he in love with the lilt tune of her beating heart
  • CurvaceousDee
    24
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    I still wilt more than lilt, wrapped up warm in my quilt, feeling no guilt as I'm flu'd to the hilt.
  • Rellacafa
    24
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    Lisping her lively lilt, the little girl, with firey curls, looked innocently lovely as she tripped the other & ran off laughing.
  • ohyesidid
    24
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    Her tinkling laugh taunted him, the lilt in her voice slighted him; his jealousy quietly seethed in his solar plexus, threatening to spill.
  • DF77
    24
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    She stood at a tilt and I thought she would wilt; although she was built, she walked with a lilt
  • tWordBird
    24
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    The lilt of the leaves | In the colored trees | Adjures the autumnal call | Which beckons them all to fall.
  • SJHatzi
    24
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    Tweet with a lilt!

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