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SITZMARK

PRONUNCIATION: (SITZ-mark, SITS-)

MEANING: noun: A mark made by someone falling backward in the snow.

ETYMOLOGY: From German sitzen (to sit) + mark. Earliest documented use: 1935. Two related words are sitzfleisch and sitzkrieg.

USAGE: “He’d practically worn a sitzmark in the concrete there, so fond was he of that particular fishing hole.”
Marthanne Shubert; A Woman to Blame; Uncial Press; 2009.
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HITZMARK - is well and truly aimed

SITZMART - the best place in Berlin to buy chairs

SPITZMARK - how junk mail to a champion Olympic swimmer is addressed


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Xitzmark- x marks the spot, Lore is the name of Data's evil brother....?

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OUTRO

PRONUNCIATION: (OU-tro)

MEANING: noun: The concluding part of a piece of music, program, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: Modeled after intro. Earliest documented use: 1967.
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O'UTERO - an Irish womb

OUTRON - a gene that paradoxically is active only when it's deleted

YOUTRO - toss me da dam ball, arreddy!



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SOLIPSISM

PRONUNCIATION: (SOL-ip-siz-uhm)

MEANING: noun
1. The view or theory that the self is all that exists or can be known to exist.
2. Self-absorption or self-centeredness.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin solus (alone) + ipse (self). Earliest documented use: 1836.
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SOLIPSIESM - an idea of earth-shaking importance

SOLIPRISM - breaks sunlight into its spectrum of colors

SLIPSISM - a momentary mental lapse

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SLOPSISM -any attempt of mine to cook.


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Isolipsism- opening the mind's eye (toe-may-toe); similar, in theory, to TBBT and tomatoes cracking. When one becomes too big for their breeches.

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INTRAPRENEUR

PRONUNCIATION: (in-truh-pruh-NUHR, -NOOR, -NYOOR)

MEANING: noun: An employee who works as an entrepreneur within an established company, having the freedom to take risks and act independently.

ETYMOLOGY: A blend of intra- (within) + entrepreneur, from French entreprendre (to undertake), from Latin inter- (between) + prendere (to take). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize or to take), which also gave us pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, osprey, prison, impregnable, impresa, pernancy, and prise. Earliest documented use: 1978.

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INTRAPRETEUR - a translator so my multiple personalities can understand each other

INTRAPYRENEUR - a Basque businessman with customers in both France to the North and Spain to the South

ISNTRAPRENEUR - a risk-aversive would-be innovator. See also AINTRAPRENEUR [substandard]

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INTRAPRETEUR - a translator so my multiple personalities can understand each other


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BATHOS

PRONUNCIATION: (BAY-thas, -thos)

MEANING: noun: An abrupt descent from lofty or sublime to the commonplace; anticlimax.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek bathos (depth). Earliest documented use: 1638.

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BIATHOS - the Muskeeteer swings both ways

BUTHOS - an enema tube

BATHOUS - 1. a lavatorium
2. Bruce Wayne's mansion in Berlin

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BOTHOS – replacement for Mac and Windows

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