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edacity

PRONUNCIATION: (i-DAS-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: Greediness; good appetite.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, and postprandial. Earliest documented use: 1626.
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PEDACITY - the cheek of public teachers in forbidding little school kids to eat the food in their lunch pail dutifully prepared by their own mommies.

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KEDACITY the yearning for those great Keds we wore
everywhere as kids.


----please, draw me a sheep----
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EJACITY - don't even go there...

EXACITY -

1) the attitude people get when they move to the suburbs

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EPACITY - a city built by the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY that bans all humans and buildings regardless of race or creed or country of origin.

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Well, they are protecting the environment, aren't they? wink

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I dunno, Wolfdoc. Ain't we environment too? confused

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EDAMITY– Utter cheesiness.

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EXACITY -

2) Hiroshima, August 7, 1945

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Not to picknick, Trombone, but would not "utter cheesiness" be better worded as "EDATITY"?

And Wofahaulic, what about poor Nagasaki? They were city too. frown


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Originally Posted By: jenny jenny
...what about poor Nagasaki? They were city too. frown


Yes, but only until August 10.

(And yes, I know my dates are the day after their tragedies...Necessary? maybe. But still tragedies.)

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