premorse\ pri-MAWRS\ adjective;
1. Pertaining to the end of something irregularly shortened, as if bitten or broken off.
Another new word for me.
It got me to thinking of the things in my life this word describes. My first thought was of my thumb on my left hand, the one I cut nearly off when I was a young child. It's not noticeable unless I point it out to people, but it's smaller and shorter than my other thumb. The darn thing has bothered me all my life because there's a small mass of scar tissue or what's left of a severed tendon that will hurt if I grip something the "wrong" way with that hand.
Ever heard the old adage "Sticks out like a sore thumb?". I've lived that expression, both literally and figuratively.
Can't remember exactly where I wrote about it, but I did tell the story of a guy I used to work for that had part of his nose missing, bitten off in a long-ago bar fight.
Other things in my life prematurely shortened? For one, my marriage. It probably should've lasted at least another couple of months.
Funny thing about my thumb and my ex-wife; her dad was a doctor and he told me my thumb could be repaired and could do it in an hour or so, easy as pie: a local, reattach the tendon, a few stitches. I probably should have extended my failed marriage at least that much longer.
Just as well, the divorce. I stuck out like a sore thumb in her family, anyway. (both literally and figuratively)
My hair is another thing of premorse; its life span has not only been irregularly shortened, it's starting to disappear.
I've had people in my life whose lives were irregularly shortened too, but I just don't feel like writing about that right now. In fact, it's made me so sad I think I'll stop right here.
That would mean this post is premorse, huh?
EDIT TO ADD
Found the "nose biting" post:
Who Nose?
