I was so angry at myself for forgetting to set my clocks ahead, I defenestrated all the clocks in my apartment, hoping to prove that Time doesn't fly!
(Of course, since I'm at ground level, the effect wasn't as dramatic as I would have hoped.)
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Word of the Day for Sunday April 2, 2006
defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\, transitive verb:
To throw out of a window.
Some of his apparent chums . . . would still happily
defenestrate him if they caught him near a window.
-- Andrew Marr, "No option bar the radical one,"
[1]Independent, July 5, 1994
I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
-- Lane Smith, "quoted in Who's News," [2]Time for Kids,
September 25, 1998
A woman, driven to fury by the manner in which her lover
prefers to lavish his attention on a match on the telly
rather than her, starts to throw his possessions out of the
window. He's finally moved to stop her when she tries to
defenestrate his new Puma boots.
-- Jim White, "Budgets substantial enough to buy most of
the clubs in the Endsleigh," [3]Independent, April 6, 1996
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Defenestrate is derived from Latin de-, "out of" + fenestra,
"window." The noun form is defenestration.
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