14 thoughts on “Eyeworms: Give us a word that starts with ‘ay’

  1. Ayurvedic, I bought some herbal seeds for my mother were supposed to grow into ayrurvedic plants, haven’t heard if they had healing properites, or if they grew to be honest!

  2. Ayoob which translates as Job but doesn’t dance as easily off the tongue if your singing “Get a job” The Silhouettes wouldn’t have sounded quite so snappy.

  3. The only ones I could think of had already gone, but I may have heard of this one even though I had to Google for it

    ayahuasco

    a psychoactive drink, brewed from a South American vine, produces hallucinations and euphoria apparently

  4. Aythya

    A genus of diving duck.

    Mirrored ay’s, ay!

    The Australian species is called the Hardhead. Because taxidermists found its head hard to deal with (apparently).

    Another species is called the Ferruginous Duck, which is a posh way of saying Rusty-red Duck.

    Here is Sleepy John Estes with Diving Duck Blues.

    His very influential song based on the Hesitation Blues AKA If The River Was Whiskey.

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