Overboard?

Continuing last post’s theme, one of these is considered a real word by he website  Wordsmith <wsmith@wordsmith.org>

He survived all the Greek Gods devised

Although he did get calypsized

He was seriously aeleoused

While his young son telemachussed

And his faithful wife wove and penelopized.

I’ve tried at least three times or four

But my perseverance is poor

I’ll start once again

Will I e’er reach the end

Or will I penelopize some more?

penelopize

PRONUNCIATION:

(puh-NEL-uh-pyz) 

MEANING:

verb intr.: To delay or gain time to put off an undesired event.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Penelope, the wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus in Greek mythology. She waited 20 years for her husband’s return from the Trojan War (ten years of war, and ten years on his way home). She kept her many suitors at bay by telling them she would marry them when she had finished weaving her web, a shroud for her father-in-law. She wove the web during the day only to unravel it during the night. Earliest documented use: 1780. Her name has become a synonym for a faithful wife: penelope.