Spell

Noun: The acute feeling caused by observing a person's small but significant behavior that makes you feel so embarrassed you want to crawl out of your skin or sew your eyes shut. Typically, the cause of spell goes unacknowledged in the moment, by both the source of the spell, as well as the witnesses. Can leads to body chills, excessive cringing, and flashbacks to the particular moment of spell.

The guy I'm seeing earnestly played a cheesy song on his guitar without any irony - it gave me such spell.

An awkward missed high five or fist bump is ripe with spell.

This TV show, The Bachelor, is such a spell machine.

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Spelling

Something that a great many intelligent and creative people have problems with. The lack of this skill is a cause for alarm among the English majors. Mechanical memorisation that is beat into you in grade school that causes a life long dislike for the English language

If Spelling is the essence of great writing why don't we have a great proofreaders section at the library ?

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Spelling

Da scill dat menee uf u peepz on da webz lakk.

I had to dumb it down for you.

Spelling is the arrangement of letters in a particular order to form words.

Kaylee just won the regional spelling bee!

OR

You lack a gargantuan amount of spelling and grammar skills, my dear friend.

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Spell

To combine letters *properly* to form a word.
After all, you don't say someone knows how to spell if they spell the word "Hacker", "h4Ck3R".

Me: "John, please spell the word, 'PUBERTY'."
John: "P-U-B-E-R-T-Y!"
Me: "Correct!"

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Spell

To take a break or have a rest.

"Man, this work is tiring me out."

"Well have a Spell and I'll take over."

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spell

An exceptionally long amount of time.

I ain't had a cigarette in quite a spell.

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Spelling

A void in modern internet literacy, which has been quickly replaced by the need to express often pointless and poorly-thought-out ideas as quickly as possible. This includes the shortening of a three letter word into one letter (you-u) and a two letter word into a number (to-2).

I haf 2 b ther. cya l8er.

Crocodile Hunter: Rightt, what you see there just beyond those bushes. That's spelling, exceptionally rare these days.

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