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An Italian word, aparently meaning a falsehood, a lie.
Bugia
"Have you been eating the cookies?" "No! Honest, I haven't."
"Then what is all that powdered sugar doing on your chest?"
Bugia, or liar's cookies, leave a telltale trail.
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Having prickles, thorns, or a sting.
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A favorite claim of skin lotions, the ability to soften.
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nainsook
A fine, soft, plain woven cotton fabric. The cotton used in nainsook is typically mercerized,
polished, then combed to produce a soft, lustrous finish. It is used for infants clothing,
blouses, dresses and lingerie.
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fritillary
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pl. 3lar#ies 5< ModL Fritillaria < L fritillus, dice box: from markings on the petals or wings6
1 any of a genus (Fritillaria) of perennial, bulbous plants of the lily family, with nodding, bell-shaped flowers
2 any of certain medium-sized nymphalid butterflies, usually having brownish wings with silver spots on the undersides
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ponerology: division of theology
dealing with evil.
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Here comes a lot of unsought, but I hope welcome information:
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY:
ter-1
DEFINITION:
To rub, turn; with some derivatives referring to twisting, boring, drilling, and piercing;
and others referring to the rubbing of cereal grain to remove the husks, and thence to
the process of threshing either by the trampling of oxen or by flailing with flails. Oldest
form *ter1-, with variant *tre1-, contracted to *tr-.
Derivatives include trite, detriment, thrash, trauma, and truant.
I. Full-grade form *ter()-. 1a. trite, triturate; attrition, contrite, detriment, from
Latin terere (past participle trtus), to rub away, thresh, tread, wear out; b. teredo,
from Greek terdn, a kind of biting worm. 2. Suffixed form *ter-et-. terete, from
Latin teres (stem teret-), rounded, smooth. 3. Suffixed form *ter-sko-. a. thrash,
thresh, from Old English therscan, to thresh; b. threshold, from Old English
therscold, threscold, sill of a door (over which one treads; second element obscure).
Both a and b from Germanic *therskan, *threskan, to thresh, tread.
II. O-grade form *tor()-. 1. toreutics, from Greek toreus, a boring tool. 2.
Suffixed form *tor()-mo-, hole. derma2, from Old High German darm, gut, from
Germanic *tharma-. 3. Suffixed form *tor()-no-. turn; attorn, attorney, contour,
detour, return, from Greek tornos, tool for drawing a circle, circle, lathe.
III. Zero-grade form *tr-. drill1, from Middle Dutch drillen, to drill, from Germanic
*thr-.
IV. Variant form *tr- (< *tre-). 1. throw, from Old English thrwan, to turn,
twist, from Germanic *thrw-. 2. Suffixed form *tr-tu-. thread, from Old English thr
d, thread, from Germanic *thrdu-, twisted yarn. 3. Suffixed form *tr-m (<
*tre- or *t-). monotreme, trematode, from Greek trma, perforation. 4. Suffixed
form *tr-ti- (< *tre- or *t-). atresia, from Greek trsis, perforation.
V. Extended form *tr- (< *tri-). 1. Probably suffixed form *tr-n-. septentrion,
from Latin tri, plow ox. 2. Suffixed form *tr-dhlo-. tribulation, from Latin trbulum,
a threshing sledge.
VI. Various extended forms 1. Forms *tr-, *trau-. trauma, from Greek trauma,
hurt, wound. 2. Form *trb-. diatribe, triboelectricity, tribology, trypsin, from Greek
trbein, to rub, thresh, pound, wear out. 3. Form *trg-, *trag-. a. trogon, trout, from
Greek trgein, to gnaw; b. dredge2, from Greek tragma, sweetmeat. 4. Form
*trup-. trepan1; trypanosome, from Greek trup, hole. 5. Possible form *trg-.
truant, from Old French truant, beggar. (Pokorny 3. ter- 1071.)
From another site, toreutics is the study of art work in metal.
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related to verb "to object". A couple sources called it a noun, but it looks to me like an
adjective, and not a good one to use as a noun.
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