Villaging
The art of making miniature villages
Dictionary
The "real" dictionary
vil-lage-noun
1. a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.
"Our" dictionary
Vil-lage-pronoun 'to village'
"I'm going to Village today so I'm not available to help move your stuff".
1. creating a miniature community of miniature houses on a tabletop or other hard surface. Involves many hours of
painstaking detail occasionally resulting in alienation of friends and family.
2. the act of engulfing a dining room table with miniature houses and foam mountains to exclusion of its use for
eating and gathering.
The "real" dictionary
vil-lager-noun
1. inhabitant of small community or group of houses in a rural area
"Our" dictionary
Vil-lager-pronoun
1. one who spends countless hours:
covered in small foam pellets
scouring garage sales for buildings or possible prop material
tearing apart old wreaths and floral arrangements for moss and other garden materials
painting cracks in sidewalk tiles 1/2" wide
cultivating employees of Lowe's so they will save bits and pieces for you
attempting to use other materials for purposes they were not originally intended
saying things such as "what a cool cobweb" "I wonder if that would work for....?"
Not IN the "real" dictionary
vil-laging-verb
1. "I'm Villaging tonight so you'll have to help the kids with their homework".
2. "I know I've been Villaging for two weeks, but Halloween is almost here.