This evening I was (as I am sadly often telling our kids) telling Evangelina to 'hurry up' while we were trying to get out of the house to pick up Mommy & Jadon. I became impatient after feeling I had to say it a few times, & apparently my impatience came through in my tone of voice. Evangelina herself became flustered at my failure to recognize that she was already trying to hurry, so she shot back, "When you say 'hurry up' [like that] I can't hurry up! Stop being so RUSHY!"
[Just looked it up on dictionary.com, & the word 'rushy' already exists in English, but it doesn't have the same meaning that Evangelina gave it. Rushy means "full of rushes" -- the reeds that grow in watery places.]
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