Yes, this is a challenge to help me out, but I would be eternally grateful and would shower you with blessings.
What two syllable thing (stress on first syllable) has the appearance of being young but is
a) actually older or old or b) has a traditionally or really deceitful nature
so youth, but not innocence.
The only thing I could come up with was a 'fox cub.'
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
cupid?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Serpent? Hmmm...I can do better than that.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Dick Clark?
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
ElJay!
Posted by dropofTapioca (Member # 7867) on :
harpy, siren...meh, just ideas
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Enigmatic
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Jadis
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Used Car?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Clarification- it has to fit in with Middle English and refers to a male character. I like siren (although it's not perfect because of the male thing), serpent is deceitful but not young.
I'm sorry I have to ask you all, but after a couple of days thinking about this, I am pretty much out of options!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
My thinking with serpent was tied up with the whole shedding of the skin thing, with the symbolic rebirth and all that. Not that that makes it a better choice, but at least this way you don't think that I'm smoking crack. Hopefully. 'Cause I'm not.
::shifty eyes::
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
What is the one Greek guy who was granted eternal life but to be ugly? Narcissus....or something like that.
Edit:
Nevermind, he is the guy who stares at himself till he dies. He was supposed to live to really old as long as he never saw himself. But the goddess Nemesis arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own reflection. And he did, and he stared at himself till he died.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
How about a marten? It's an animal in the weasel family, though it's kinda fox-like, I always liked its name, and the name's kinda guy-like... link Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote:My thinking with serpent was tied up with the whole shedding of the skin thing
I see what you mean, now that you say it. Hm. Perhaps I'll put it tentatively in alongside . Perhaps I can put a footnote with it...
It is a bit obvious . I mean say serpent in anything like this and klaxons go off, but it would do the job, certainly...
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
quote:My thinking with serpent was tied up with the whole shedding of the skin thing, with the symbolic rebirth and all that. Not that that makes it a better choice, but at least this way you don't think that I'm smoking crack. Hopefully. 'Cause I'm not.
::shifty eyes::
How about Draco?
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
quote: What two syllable thing (stress on first syllable) has the appearance of being young but is
a) actually older or old
Women...
What about time.
Edit:
quote:Originally posted by Teshi: Clarification- it has to fit in with Middle English and refers to a male character
Opps, nevermind.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
This doesn't mean I'm not still looking for ideas, though .
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Angel?
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
Demon?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Draco would be perfect although I don't think its a big enough 'thing' to use as in a similie so everyone will understand.
I wish there was a more obscure word for snakelet (which would also work).
Posted by airmanfour (Member # 6111) on :
Loki?
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
Dracula or Vampire?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Okay, I can open the floor a bit. If it's a name it can be three syllables long as long as the second syllable is the stressed one. However, it's still better if it's two syllables and a thing rather than a name.
I know this is frustrating...
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
Quick question, whats this for? Knowing might help give us a clue to the word that we are searching for.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I like vampire. It's a creature that seems youngish, yet sucks blood (this particular male is an embezzler.) Again, it's obvious, but Vampire is definately on the list!
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
It's a character discription in the style of Chaucer's general prologue to the Canterbury Tales. The character is one of those white collar embezzlers with perfect teeth and a large house with a pool bought with his ill-gotten gains. The line is...
1. Ther was a cliuer man of bysynesse, 2. A man of five and thritty yeers, I gesse, 3. Though yong he looked (seemed?) as a {something ((fox) cubbe/serpent/snakelet/vampire)} doth.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I've been doing some research and I've come across Ustrels- children born on a saturday that become vampires. It's not an English word, which I don't like, but it's combining a lot of the right characteristics.
EDIT: But then vampires aren't English either and I don't like the idea of this guy being an incubus, even if the stress was in the right place.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Cherub?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
HA! Got it!
I was thinking about "evil" children, and I remembered changelings.
Thanks all so much. I didn't use your suggestions but they got me thinking in the right direction and now I can complete that line. (It's been taking me about an hour to write a line).
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Enigmatic
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. I mean say serpent in anything like this and klaxons go off, but it would do the job, certainly...