Witty Word Nerd’s got a barb to pick with JACULIFEROUS

A jack + a barb = nothing nice

Sabriga Turgon
2 min readSep 9, 2024
Photo by Bogomil Mihaylov on Unsplash

You know the type, right?

That person who can’t stop pricking at the people and things around them, throwing random and undeserved barbs. You’d think they were spawn of Aralia spinosa, Devil’s walking stick, for criminey’s sake (I was going to use a more specific reference but geez, in these hyper-sensitive religiosity days… who’d dare?)

You know, like, “Hey, you got a leash for those nose hairs?”

Or “What’s the weather like under those funky-ass toenails?”

What about, “Get another life cuz those slime-shaming shoes already quit this one without telling you!”

Does anyone actually like being around such JACULIFEROUS folk?

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Maybe their mom? …. maybe…

Honestly, why isn’t there an island they could go to where they could spend all day throwing arrow-like prickles at other pricklers, ducking and weaving the return barbs.

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Sabriga Turgon

People lover & realistic optimist who encourages goodness in all things. Ghostwriter Global—let’s get that book out of your head & onto paper.