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MERGIVERSATE - to summarize a chapter of the Bible
DIRGIVERSATE - to write elegiac poetry
TERGIVELATE - wearing a veil on one's back
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HOUGH HAI - Oh yes (an archaic dialect form of Och aye, pronounced the same)
O'HUGH - former derogatory term for a person of mixed Irish and Norman descent
HOUGHNUT - slang English term for a Huguenot (rhymes with 'doughnut')
HOUGH HOUGH HOUGH - Santa's cry (a pretentious literary spelling of 'Ho ho ho')
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MIDDLEBROW
PRONUNCIATION: (MID-uhl-brou)
MEANING: adjective: 1. (describing a person) Having tastes and interests that lie somewhere between sophisticated and vulgar.
2. (describing a work of art) Neither sophisticated nor vulgar.
noun: A person who has conventional tastes and interests.
ETYMOLOGY: Formed on the pattern of highbrow and lowbrow. From middle, from Old English middel (middle) + bru (brow). Earliest documented use: 1912.
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MUDDLEBROW - an eyebrow raised only part way because you're only slightly puzzled
MIDDLEBREW - beer that has been decanted halfway through the fermentation process
MIDDLE-FROW - second German wife out of three
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FOOTLOOSE
PRONUNCIATION: (FUUT-loos)
MEANING: adjective: Free to go or do as one pleases without concerns or commitments.
ETYMOLOGY: From foot, from Old English fot (foot) + loose, from Old Norse laus (loose). Earliest documented use: 1650.
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FORTLOOSE - military installation near Tacoma, Washington
AFOOT; LOOSE - pair of synonyms for "roaming free and untrammeled"
FONTLOOSE - the result of not spacing your type so all the lines on the composing stick are the same length. It's unfortunately easy to pie your type in this situation...
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DOGFOOD
PRONUNCIATION: (DOG-food)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To test a company’s product by having its employees use it in their regular workday.
ETYMOLOGY: From dog + food. The origins of the term are disputed. Earliest documented use: 1996.
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DIGFOOD - beets and other root crops, grubs, peanuts, potatoes, truffles, and any of a number of other edibles that grow undergrounnd
HOGFOOD - "What's that slop you're eating?" said Ralph Kramden to Ed Norton
DOG.FOO - an experimental dog for beta-testing; can be altered for development while original remains as archival copy
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DOT-CONNECT
PRONUNCIATION: (DOT-kuh-nekt)
MEANING: verb intr.: To make connections between different pieces of information in order to reach a conclusion.
ETYMOLOGY: From the expression “to connect the dots”. From puzzles in which a line is drawn between a sequence of numbered dots to reveal a picture. From dot, of uncertain origin + connect, from Latin connectere (to join together). Earliest documented use: 2003.
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DON'T-CONNECT - two or more things that should not be juxtaposed lest dire consequences follow
DOC-CONNECT - to reach an actual physician
DOT-CONVECT - to float gently but randomly in the sunlight, llke dust particles
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CROWDFUNDPRONUNCIATION: (KRAUD-fuhnd) MEANING: verb tr.: To fund a project by raising money from a large number of people, mostly strangers and usually via the Internet. ETYMOLOGY: From crowd, from cruden (to press, to hurry) + fund, from Latin fundus (bottom, estate). Earliest documented use: 2008. ________________________ CROW-FUND - ask random people for money for the benefit of Corvids CROWD-FOUND - raise a mob CROWN-FUND - see Morton's Fork
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NEURODIVERGENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (nyoor-oh-duh/dy-VUHR-juhns)
MEANING: noun: The diversity of brain function, encompassing variations from what is considered typical.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek neuro (nerve) + divergence, from Latin di-/dis- (apart), from Latin vergere (to bend). Earliest documented use: 2013.
NOTES: Neurodivergence includes conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and others. It underscores that there is no single “normal” way the brain functions. The opposite of neurodivergent is neurotypical.
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NEURODIVENGENCE - retaliating against your subconscious
NEUTRODIVERGENCE - getting your ass in gear
EURODIVERGENCE - fragmentation in the EC.
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DEEPFAKE
deepfake
PRONUNCIATION: (DEEP-fayk)
MEANING: noun: Digitally manipulated images, video, or audio that make someone appear to do or say something they did not.
ETYMOLOGY: A combination of deep learning + fake. Coined by a user of the Reddit website. Earliest documented use: 2017.
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DEEPLAKE - Lake Mead
BEEPFAKE - when the driver behind you honks the horn and pulls out to go around you, but doesn't speed up enough to pass
KEEP FAKE - I know it's counterfeit but I still want to retain it for myself
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MIDDLESOW - pig in the middle
MIDDLEBOW - the viola player in a string trio or quartet
FIDDLEBROW - the bridge on a violin
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