Word For The Day: SEICHE

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[Louis Foxwell]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

seiche [seesh]

hear it pronounced

adjective

The water is darkened by mud and sand churned up by the ferocious currents. As the waves oscillate, the lake can become as much as 2 metres deeper at one end, while dropping 2 metres at the other. Waves violently smack one shoreline before the pattern reverses. When the conditions are just right, a seiche – or standing wave – can occur.

[Louis Foxwell]

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[Louis Foxwell]

We are headed for a political seiche in which everything will be drowned.

[Louis Foxwell]

A word of my own, a cataclysmic event after which nothing will be the same. Wait for it....

[left that other site]

SEICHE the opportunity!

[hinckley buzzard]

It is not rare for a seiche to form in Lake Erie, with the winds blowing west to east. Quite dramatic when it occurs.

[pax_et_bonum]

I remember the Beverly Hillbillies performing a seiche on their front porch at the end of every episode.

[glenduh]

Isn’t seiche a noun?

Donald Trump is a seiche.

[MoochPooch]

Yikes! Will this really be a storm or a seiche?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3499660/posts

[rightwingcrazy]

I’ve been through many a seiche at a ball game. Or is that something different?

[Chode]

embrace the seiche...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The Muzzies will be on a shorter leash
while the liberals cry into their vegetarian quiche
at their inability to use their nouveau gubmint riche
to prevent the onslaught of the seiche.

[Louis Foxwell]

Praise indeed for one so worthy.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The skull near the top of that wave looks rather ominous. :)

[Louis Foxwell]

The definition was taken from an explanation of Erie’s seiche wave.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yes, noun. Trump is a standing wave.

[Louis Foxwell]

It is sort of a circular argument where opposing forces meet and crash.

[Louis Foxwell]

Could be. Especially if waves are colliding.

[Louis Foxwell]

You saw that, what I did there.

[Billthedrill]

A standing wave formed off the beach
Said a fellow who stood in the breach
"I never have eyed
Seiche a horrible tide!
And I can't get this limerick to rhyme."

[libertymaker]

There was a major seiche in Chicago on the Lake Michigan shore when I was a kid. I believe it swept several people into the lake and 6 or 7 drown.