Monday, February 9, 2009

An excellent new phrase

Ginned up - v. to incite, to stir up; adj. excited, hot to trot. As in, "It's not like I was ginned up to eat the whole basket of duck fat fries, but that didn't stop me." Or, "I ginned up my students with a fascinating lecture on the origins of the Buddhist stupa."

2 comments:

DC said...

were you ginned up to wash in Perrier once again???

keri said...

Thankfully, the water is back on; we were getting fairly cranky.