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BOMBATTIC - the IED assembly line is upstairs under the roof
BIMBASTIC - acting like a floozy, and proud of it, too (see also BOOBASTIC and BOMBUSTIC)
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BOMBTASTIC - you da bomb, bro
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impecunious PRONUNCIATION: (im-pi-KYOO-nee-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Having little or no money. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin im- (not) + pecunia (money), from pecus (cattle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peku- (wealth), which also gave us fee, fief, fellow, peculiar, impecunious, and pecuniary. Earliest documented use: 1596. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Action is eloquence ----------William Shakespeare, impecunious poet and playwright (1564-1616) _________________________________________ IMPECUNIOUS - a sad but ongoing condition of most imps
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IMPETUNIOUS - gotta lotta P. hybrida growing in my garden. (Did you know it means "tobacco" in a Tupi-Guarani language? Neither did I. Where would we be without Wikipedia...) IMPECURIOUS - sounds like saying the same thing twice, doesn't it?
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IMPETUNIOUS - Not at all resembling Porky's girlfriend.
Oops. Hi, Wofa.
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PETULANT
PRONUNCIATION: (PECH-uh-lent)
MEANING: adjective: Bad-tempered; cranky.
ETYMOLOGY: [From Latin petere (to seek, assail). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pteridology, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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false starts: petulant = having petals? like a petunia? petulant = sings like Ms Clark? petulant = mildly explosive, even gassy, as in "hoist by his own petard"?
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PESTULANT - afflicted with two Pharaonic Plagues simultaneously: Pestilence, and Boils (pustules)
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...and going back to March 31:
INTERREGNUM--> INTERPREGNUM - the time between babies
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PETULANE - the bad temper of students who find they have been rejected by Tulane and so must attend Harvard instead.
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incorrigible
PRONUNCIATION: (in-KOR-i-juh-buhl) MEANING: adjective: Incapable of being corrected or reformed. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + corrigere (to correct). Ultimately from the Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, lead, or rule), which also gave us regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, recto, regular, abrogate, arrogate, prorogue, interregnum, regent, and supererogatory. Earliest documented use: 1340. ________________________________________________
INCORRIGBIBLE - a bible incorrigible
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