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DOCILE My apologies. Cheating and getting caught is the way of a spoiled... e --> h CHILD You know...like throwing a fit.
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DOCILE C ---- > N May I request a return (esp. to avoid CHIDING, which I eschew) to more serene ways and ask that you watch for this mid-November ... LEONID
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Sure, the daily bath or shower takes care of all the bits and pieces , but still we only can assume this wàs about personal hygiene. Never mind, lets rub it off. :-)
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Personal hygiene is to do with washing the bits that stink, really! Edit: the bit that smells is, of course, yor nose!
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I protest an infringement of the norm for this thread!! DOCILE does not morph into CHIDE without twochanges !! (Roolz? We don' wan'no steenkin' roolz !!!)
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EXSPEND - all you can do after a really painful divorce decree
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..and, once again, it appears to have been a drive-by searching.
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TEXSEND-- a "bon voyage" of ginormous, humongous proportion
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E > L CHILD I caught the sheep drawing thing, Wofa, Yay!
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DOCILE No...Oh Stand up like a man! I wish to... CHIDE you for your passive behavior.
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Confusion often occurs when someone comes in asking for a word without giving a possible context. It's not clear if sorrow meant lack of hygiene or lack of hygienic appearance. The answers were all on looks, appearance.
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CODDLE D-->I DOCILE
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Originally Posted By: BranSheaThank you, one more misunderstanding out of the world. What in the follow up I refered to is that I've understood now that there is a difference between hygiene and personal hygiene. Hygiene has strictly to do with healt
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exscind PRONUNCIATION: (ek-SIND) MEANING: verb tr.: To cut out or off. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exscindere, from ex- (out) + scindere (to cut). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us excise, schism, ski
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DOODLE O --- > C It's important that we do this to the doodlers ... CODDLE
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LORDED R-->O DOODLE
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Thank you, one more misunderstanding out of the world. What in the follow up I refered to is that I've understood now that there is a difference between hygiene and personal hygiene. Hygiene has strictly to do with health and health maintanance. Pers
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Originally Posted By: jenny jennydrop e IMPUT - see imput. see largely as an imp, nee Obama Hee,hee,hee
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IMPUTER - a smartass computer that thinks that it invented itself.JJ quote Like Al Gore? Didn't he invent the Internet? JIMPUTER - if Capt. Kirk could run the thing without Spock.
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JEALOUS - JERK With a jerk I came back to real life From trying to spy on my wife. When I fell from a bin I did my leg in: -Being jealous is too much hard work! DISCLAIMER - DISCREET
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What I was trying to convey was that "scruffy" is not a sophisticated word (therefore not what sorrow wsa asking for.) It was slang, but has become absorbed into the UK form of the language by constant use (and, it appears, into the US form as well.)
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Och, to define what it is not, of course it serves to look at its positive meaning. a.The science that deals with the promotion and preservation of health. Also called hygienics. b.Conditions and practices that serve to promote or preserve health:
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Nope, they're from two different Latin verbs. Excise is from excaedere and exscind is from exscindere. Both with roughly the same meaning.
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exscind
by Jackie
@ Yesterday at 10:28 AM
How did this word, so close orthographically to excise, and with the exact same meaning, come into being? Or did it come first and excise is the copycat?
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