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#123938 02/26/04 06:30 PM
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--exuviate
exuviate (ig-ZOO-vee-ayt) verb tr.

To shed or cast off (a covering).

verb intr.

To shed or cast off exuviae; molt.

[Exuvi (ae), Latin, from exuere, to take off + -ate.]

Dear jheem: A still better synonym for "stripper":
"exuviatrix"


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A still better synonym for "stripper": "exuviatrix"

The verb is exuo, -exuere, exui, exutum, so a female stripper would be exutrix, while her Chippendale coworker would be exutor.


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Thanks jheem. So avoid having an exutrix for your
executrix. She might take off with all the dough.



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