I put a spell on you...

[venta]

Gosh. It's ages since we've had one of these. Words I use which no one else knows...

[Poll #1724258]

A perfectly respectable definition can be found here.

[Poll #1724259]

Edit: supplementary question. If it didn't mean what you thought, what did you think it meant?

Comments

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

The word suggested something that was pointy but dull, so a splinter was my first thought, with a sort of pain a second.