Avengers

As I may have mentioned, Eleanor and I are addicted to the (now cancelled, what, you did not DO THAT) Avengers cartoon (it is SO GOOD).

One of the characters is the evil Executioner from Asgard, besotted with the Enchantress (we hates her, we does). I never really thought much about him but I got pointed at a scan of the comic where he dies heroically (which he doesn't in the cartoon, at least not so far; people tend not to in that) and it really is so very good. Total tear-jerker.

It's here.

ETA Unless you're a comm member, you can't comment there though.

I invented a word? huh?

Major step not there moment; I used a word, Word red-lined it, and I frowned, looked it up in Merriam-Webster; not there. Looked it up in my faithful Oxford Concise; not there.

So how come I know it, know its definition, and think it exists? What madness is this?

I guess I misread another word years ago and got it confused, but it's so strange.

The word is 'abtruse' and I thought it meant, oh, a very specialized, or archaic, confusing,little-known word or phrase.

Which is ironic under the circumstances :-)

Okay, before I posted, I decided to google it and I'm NOT making things up; it is a word that means what I thought

http://www.wordnik.com/words/abtruse

Still wondering why it's not in the dictionary though...

And I suppose this post now has no point, but I've written it so I'm posting it ;-)

ETA again.

Apologies to the dictionary and thank you to etrangerici; I was spelling it wrong. It's abstruse.

I'm such a dork :;facepalm::