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Topic Options #125847 - 03/22/04 11:47 AM gnathonic wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Hey, Grapho! does this apply to you? Date: Tue Dec 5 00:01:11 EST 2000 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--gnathonic gnathonic (na-THON-ik) adjective Sycophantic; fawning. [From Latin gnathonicus, derivative of Gnathon- (stem of Gnatho) name of a sycophantic character in the Roman comedy Eunuchus by Terence.] Top #125848 - 03/22/04 11:37 PM Re: gnathonic jheem veteran Registered: 01/06/04 Posts: 1474 Loc: California Thank you, Bill, I haven't laughed so hard since the last millennium. A touch, I do declare. [fanning hisself] Top #125849 - 03/23/04 06:11 AM Re: gnathonic consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2636 Loc: Caribbean Made me grin, it did! Lucky I wasn't sipping my coffee as I read it... Top #125850 - 03/23/04 09:24 AM Re: gnathonic AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York Lucky I wasn't sipping my coffee as I read it... I wasn't so lucky! That's hilarious, Dr Bill... Top #125851 - 09/11/04 10:14 AM Re: gnathonic Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... There is a helluva lot of coffee sipped around this place and a helluva lot of it is spewed out. Bunch of gargoyles. (cross-thread ref. from this morning's looking around below the equator.) Top #125852 - 09/13/04 07:08 PM Re: gnathonic Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada Zing! Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8430 Members 16 Forums 13688 Topics 209820 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members supermatthias, prabakaran, sce, Eva, sylviasuper 8430 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 46 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 87 jenny jenny 62 wofahulicodoc 60 endymion6 51 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 32 Faldage 15 Buffalo Shrdlu 15 zmjezhd 13 teepee 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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