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Wabble

This is another spelling for wobble, but also, the larva of a botfly, Cuterabra emasculator, that infests squirrels and other rodents, rendering the males sterile. There’s something I didn’t know and maybe didn’t want to know.

We all know crack is wack, which is also another spelling for whack. And if you add an “e”, as in wacke, you have a poorly sorted sandstone containing fragments of rock and minerals in a clayey matrix. And, I’m sure that’s the first time I’ve ever used the word, “clayey” in a sentence.

Wacked out, wacko, and wacky are the next three entries on the first page of “W” - so this entry has at least three times as many words for this letter than most other posts in this blog.

It must be the coffee!