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versify

On-Yomi: ギン

Elements:

versify, mouth, now, clock

Heisig story:

As we have already learned characters for poem (Frame 370), chant (Frame 21), and song (Frame 508), it is important to protect this key word with an image all its own. Its elements are the same as those above; only the position has changed: mouth . . . clock.

Koohii stories:

1) [dingomick] 6-3-2007(353): A rapper is trying to versify, but sucks: Hickery dickery dock, the mouth spat out the clock. I'm gonna shoot you with my glock, if you don't suck my cock! Versify!

2) [lunairejam] 7-10-2007(114): To versify, words of rhythm needs to shoot out of your MOUTH with a CLOCK-like regularity.

3) [arun90] 8-4-2008(45): Just imagine a rapper using his mouth to versify with a big clock around his neck.

4) [johnzep] 9-8-2007(18): On the left-wing, people mouth about deversifying, but on the right, they want to turn back the clock.

5) [Katsuo] 29-9-2009(16): Versify this kanji as follows: Hickery dickery dock, the mouth ran by the clock.

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