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Earlier this month in AWAD, we were presented with the word defenestration. In our house, it brought up the question, Is there a word for throwing someone or something out the door?
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Exportation oand deportation have already been taken. But janus was also door (a janitor was the holder of the keys to the house). How about dejanuation? We could also try for a Greekish word: dethyronization.


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I prefer the first. The second sounds like a medical treatment for a thyroid deficiency.

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I think we should just overload deportation; certainly context would tell all: his boisterous drunkenness led to deportation by the bouncer.

edit: actually, according to OED2, we're already there; just ignore the esp.

1. The action of carrying away; forcible removal, esp. into exile

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I knew a bartender back in Flagstaff who would deport drunks by pointing at them and gesturing towards the door with his thumb. It worked every time because they all knew that if they didn't go quietly he would just toss them out. Without opening the door first. The door was solid oak.

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Yikes.

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Deportation might work....makes sense once you think of it. Maybe Deportalization(or deportalisation) smile

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Transfenestration? i saw this in thomas pynchon's Vineland recently, referring to someone deliberately jumping through a closed window. pynchon used the concept previously on the first page of V, wherein a drunk Marine was contemplating shouting Geronimo before or after jumping through a plate glass window

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I suspect the common meanings of deportation and exportation would come from the masculine, portus, 'sea port' rather than from the feminine porta, 'door'.

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from the masculine, portus, 'sea port' rather than from the feminine porta, 'door'.

The -port in deport and export comes from the Latin porto, portare, to carry'.


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