So, if one is neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed, would one be whelmed?
And isn’t that just so fine, to be whelmed?
UPDATE:
Rather NOT. See the comments!
biblica + alia = biblicalia
So, if one is neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed, would one be whelmed?
And isn’t that just so fine, to be whelmed?
UPDATE:
Rather NOT. See the comments!
technically, whelmed means the same thing as overwhelmed, but hyperbole stole its meaning and gave it to overwhelmed.
Well, thanks very much Mr. Aubrey Balloon Popper.
You probably steal candy from little kids, too!
From that old hymn, “The Solid Rock”:
His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
Nice!
The OED has that watery flooding theme running through the definition for whelm. There’s something distinctly watery-rushing about the sound of whelm.