Daily words from your mommy.
Finish your dinner, it's umami.
Then you can have some dessert.
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Ladies and Gentlemen (and all other members to whom these monikers may not apply!): it's time once again for the Obscure Word 7-9-7! Find a word that truly exists but that, for some reason or another, has been out of the mainstream -- and bring it back for us! ;) Your poem should be of the format:
First Line -- 7 syllables
Second Line -- 9 syllables
Third Line -- 7 syllables
It should highlight/explain/define an obscure word for us and really make us want to use it the next time we compose an offering! :) Remember, keep it mostly clean (know that's difficult for some of you out there, but it IS only 23 syllables so I'm sure you can manage it!) and impress us! :) Make it fun, make it intriguing, but, most of all, make us want to vote for yours!! :) LET THE OBSCURITY BEGIN!! :)
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Author Notes
U-MA-MI a category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salty and bitter), corresponding to the flavor of meat or food that contains a high level of glutamate.
An early twentieth century Japanese chemist named Ikeda named the taste umami from the Japanese word umai which means delicious.
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