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Nov 25, 2010
This week's themeWords from Yiddish This week's words schmeer noodge shamus golem schmegeggy Internet Anagram Server I, Rearrangement Servant May I try your name? 
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PRONUNCIATION:
(GO-luhm, -lem)
MEANING:
noun:1. An automaton. 2. A blockhead. ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish goylem, from Hebrew golem (shapeless mass).
First recorded use: 1897.
NOTES:
In Jewish legend a golem was a human-like figure brought to life
supernaturally. The most famous of these golem stories is of the golem of
Prague, in which a 16th century rabbi created a golem to protect the Jews
from anti-Semitic attacks.
USAGE:
"I've created a golem that will continue to live, no matter what I do.
Books get burnt and websites disappear, but my e-mail accounts continue
to get spammed."Serge Debrebant; Berthold Metz: "I'm Trying To Become The World's Most-Spammed Person"; Financial Times (London, UK); Apr 17, 2010. See more usage examples of golem in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)
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