I was streaking ahead and then she put down that word. It was on a ‘double word’ score.
Hey! That’s NOT a word! I said.
Yes, it is. I was just reading about it in ‘Body and Soul’ [ a supplement in our Sunday newspaper].
And she bent across and showed me.
What does it mean?
It’s something we used to do as schoolgirls, she chuckled. And she told me.
I was flabbergasted. The secret life of schoolgirls, I thought. Wonder of wonders.
Okay, I said. There are 4000 new words in our language each year so why couldn’t that be one of them?
John Malone 
She is right )
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I’m still getting my head around it 🙂
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But may be ‘sext’?
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Ahh yes: the sixth hour where chanting takes place in the Christian churches; I should know: went to christian boy schools which is maybe why I never heard of ‘qeefing’ 🙂 still a handy word to know: a ‘Q’ word that does not require a ‘U’, only one of two
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The English language is a constantly-expanding universe. No limits.
How often do you play Scrabble?
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We play Scrabble once a week, Neil; we are fairly evenly matched — though each of us has an area of expertise: she’s much better at female matters than me, hence ‘queefing’ whereas I shine on the more esoteric literary ones. Do you yourself play, Neil?
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Once in a blue moon. We should play more often than we do.
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it’s a fun game that’s for sure and challenging too; it makes you more aware of words esp the new ones that crop up almost every day 🙂
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A good way to spend quarantime. Cheers, john!
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it’s a good game to while away a long afternoon and keep the old grey matter going 🙂
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I remember reading this blog post, and looked up what qeefing meant. Now that I know, I suspect I would only use that word if I absolutely was desperate in a game of Scrabble … Some things don’t require any further discussion. But if the chance was there, and I needed the points, well that might be a very different thing. A q and and f and a g as well, hmm.
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how good does it get, Carolyn/ 🙂
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