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#31957 06/13/01 03:24 PM
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acapnotic => without smoke... smokeless... a non-smoker

by extension, capnotic =>with smoke... smokeful... a smoker

QED :-)


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My college friends always said that they were "jonesing" for a cigarette, although this word comes from heavier drug-use originally. Addicts are jonesing for heroin or the like, but the term has come into common use for cigarettes too, at least in my circle of friends (they were chain-smokers!). Now that I live in Germany I don't know what they say here when someone wants a cigarette.


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QED :-)

Is that the latest version?


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acapnotic => without smoke

capnotic =>with smoke


Which would suggest to me that the answer to Y's question (dja remember the question?) would be acapnotic.


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I agree with "jonesing." I have always heard that that word originates from drug culture slang, where it originally described the intense desire for heroin that an addict experiences. However, this doesn't exactly answer your question, since "hungry" and "horny" are adjectives, and jonesing is not. I don't know of an equivalent adjective for nicotine craving.

Of course many smokers will simply say "I'm dying for a cigarette," to which I reply "Yes, you certainly are."


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Dear Maverick: "QED" is vintage Euclid.


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well not quite Euclid-- unless he too, spoke latin instead of greek... of course it might be taken from a now unknown or less common greek expression..

its Quod erat (something... ) the first 2 are cross word puzzle words.. and the express mean proven


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jf> QED :-)
mav> Is that the latest version?

::sigh:: this was a shot over my brow from mav, at my propensity for using both OED and QED...

to mav: from now on I will use OED2 and QED2* to differentiate.
to ot: quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
{note to self: spaces *are important... QED2}

*not to be confused with QE2


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Or is that ancapnotic?


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Um, what ship was that you were sailing on?



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