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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread calipigate #212937 10/23/2013 2:51 AM Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 3 California, USA csperryess stranger csperryess stranger Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 3 California, USA Both my wife & I remember our parents using a word (one family from New York/Ohio & the other from California/Colorado). The word is calipigate -- used in one family to mean a syncopated rhythm & the other to label a syncopated gait. A friend challenged my wife's usage of the word the other day, which had caused us to search all our online & analog sources for it. Even the OED offers no trace of it, though we're thinking it may have been some oddly unrecorded word that originated in callipygian (having shapely buttocks). Have any of you run into calipigate? Are we just nutcases who manufactured shared memories of a non-existent word? Copy Link to Clipboard Re: calipigate csperryess #212942 10/23/2013 11:13 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Google wants to know if I meant caliphate. I'd go with the nutcase scenario. Or either that or it's some totally other word or two that you two have managed to conflate into calipigate, one. PS Enjoy your stay at this nuthouse. Last edited by Faldage; 10/23/2013 11:15 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: calipigate csperryess #212944 10/23/2013 12:17 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh At first I thought it might have something to do with Calypso, the music, not the nymph from the Odyssey, but it seems not. No calypsigate or anything like it. Not a trace on Google which is nigh-unto-impossible with a single word search. I'd say some limb-stretching may be involved. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: calipigate csperryess #213174 11/11/2013 7:10 AM Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 3 California, USA csperryess stranger csperryess stranger Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 3 California, USA Big thanks to zmjezhd & Faldage. My wife & I have always known we were a little nutty, but this is a bit off the bell curve. We both appreciate your replies. Copy Link to Clipboard Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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