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>..edentulous Does this mean true wisdom was attained?< I am not sure at all about that. Supra.. , as opposed to super.. generally has a distinctly spatial connotation. So "supradentulous" could just as well refer to your upper teeth (e.g. protruding) or to having set your teeth upon something  . -- Sorry, I grasped your pun only after I posted this.
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and would a dentifrice for someone with only ten teeth be decadent?
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someone with only ten teeth be decadent?
Could be, Doc! Good one! You know,
If good old King Poseidon,
Decadently went ridin',
Lost seven teeth to accident,
Then he would be old King Trident.
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ambigamoustsuwm, In light of this week's feature of John Langdon's superb and delightful Ambigrams on AWAD, does it occur to you as well as me that your unfounded word above could be yet another typo?
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>yet another typo [re: ambigramous?]
with the latest batch of unfound words I have provided some manner of context; I think I'll try to revisit these in the same way (if I can).
>John Langdon's superb and delightful Ambigrams
by sheer happenstance, I am currently reading Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons", for which John developed several ambigrams including one for the title [for which see John's website]. The devilish plot for this novel includes (among other nefarious details) the branding of four(4) prominent cardinals with ambigrams for earth, air, fire and water. The protagonist is named Robert Langdon, which probably isn't a coincidence.
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The protagonist is named Robert Langdon
... which ambigramously should be rendered as Bob?
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Thank you for your poem, Jackie.
If , after the accident, Poseidon's seven teeth were washed Eastwards by the current, I suppose they would become occident.
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here's some additions to this old thread...
xyresic - being as sharp as a razor [this one appears in the Grandiloquent Dictionary]
endochronic - related to internal time(?) [used by Asimov in a story title]
anophelosis - morbid state due to extreme frustration [from 'Pinky and the Brain' credits]
again, these are single sources which I have been unable to confirm...
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the xeric one offers:
xyresic - being as sharp as a razor ...
these are single sources which I have been unable to confirm...
Well, *i* use xyresic all the time. i don't suppose i count as a credible source, though, do i??
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>Well, *i* use xyresic all the time. i don't suppose i count as a credible source, though, do i?? rather... and especially considering that you probably gleaned it from the source I listed.
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