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Date: Fri Feb 25 00:14:28 EST 2000 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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