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BIBBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (BIB-l)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To eat or drink noisily. verb intr.: 2. To drink habitually or to excess. 3. To produce bubbles or a bubbling sound. noun: 4. Nonsense; something worthless or deceptive.
ETYMOLOGY: Senses 1-2: From bib (to drink) + -le (a frequentative ending). Probably from Latin bibere (to drink). Senses 3-4: A variant of bubble, of expressive origin. Earliest documented use: 1529. See also: misophonia. __________________________
BIBILE - diminutive name for Israeli former prime Minister
BI-BILE - describing a liver that synthesizes two distinct secretions
BIRBLE - what a Jabberwock does as it whiffes through the tulgey wood
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JACTATION
PRONUNCIATION: (jak-TAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: 1. Boasting. 2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin jactation (tossing, boasting), from jactare (to throw, boast), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1576. Also spelled as jactitation. _________________________
JAVATION - adding coffee flavoring
JA-STATION - a place where all the Germans agree with you automatically
X-ACTATION - carving with a very small, very sharp knife
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STELA
PRONUNCIATION: m. (STEE-luh)
MEANING: noun: An upright stone or pillar inscribed or sculpted, often serving as a monument. Also known as a stele.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek stele (pillar). Ultimately from the Indo-European root stel- (to put or stand), which is also the source of stallion, stilt, install, gestalt, stout, and pedestal, and epistolary. Earliest documented use: 1776. ________________________
STELLA !!! - starlike in Boston (even before Tennessee Williams!)
ST RE, LA - the second note and the sixth note of the scale have been canonized
U.S. TELA - diminutive name of a large American telecommunications, cable, and internet company
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MOITY
PRONUNCIATION: (MOI-tee)
MEANING: adjective: Containing moits -- foreign particles in wool, such as straw or bark.
ETYMOLOGY: From moit (a small impurity in wool), a variant of mote (speck), from Old English. Earliest documented use: 1844. Moity is sometimes used as a variant spelling of moiety (a half or portion). ________________________
AMO-ITY - a declaration of love
MO-IFY - to make the lawn evenly shorter
MOOTY - describing a cow who won't stay quiet, or an argument that needn't be heard at all
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CRUNK
PRONUNCIATION: (kruhnk)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Intoxicated. 2. Crazy. 3. Excited. 4. Wonderful.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Possibly a nonstandard past tense of crank, a variation of drunk, or a blend of crazy + drunk. Earliest documented use: 1972. _______________________________
GRUNK - Patriots former tight end, Number 87, after a few too many
CARUNK - not the grandaddy of automobiles, but at least its father's brother
CRUNA - what they called Perry Como or Bing Crosby when they came to Boston
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MOATY – well-defended
MORONITY – a measure of stupidity (the reciprocal of IQ)
HOITY-MOIETY – what you get when you omit the 'toity'
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CRWTH
PRONUNCIATION: (krooth)
MEANING: noun: An ancient stringed instrument that’s typically associated with Welsh music. Also called a crowd.
ETYMOLOGY: From Welsh. Earliest documented use: 1837. ____________________
GRWTH - gttng bggr nd bggr
CRWETH - provide sailors for a ship in the Middle Ages
CROTH - how you get from one thide of the road to the other
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CWTCH
PRONUNCIATION: (kuch [u as in push or bush])
MEANING: noun: 1. A hiding place, such as a cupboard or a cubbyhole. 2. A hug or a cuddle. verb tr.: To hug or cuddle. verb intr.: 1. To crouch down. 2. To hide.
ETYMOLOGY: From Welsh cwtsh (hug, cuddle, recess, hiding place). Earliest documented use: 1890. ___________________________
C-WATCH - standing guard for the night shift
COWTCH - what you occupy to watch TV
CWTCH - "CWTCH she love, CWTCH she woo, CWTCHY CWTCHY CWTCHY CW, Has anybody seen my girl"? (from "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue")
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TRIMMER
PRONUNCIATION: (TRIM-uhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. One who adjusts beliefs, opinions, and actions to suit personal interest. 2. A person or a tool that clips, shortens, neatens, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From trim, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English trymman/trymian (to arrange, strengthen, etc.). Earliest documented use: 1513. ______________________________
BRIMMER - a native of Birmingham, to another native
TRIMER - the mega-continent consisting of North, Central, and South America
TRIOMER - a plastic made of chains of three linked small subunits (cf. dimer)
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BILGE
PRONUNCIATION: (bilj)
MEANING: noun: 1. The bottom (inner or outer) part of a ship or a boat. 2. Water, oil, and waste that collect in the lowest part of a ship or a boat. 3. Nonsense; rubbish. 4. The bulging part of a barrel or a cask. verb: 1. To bulge or swell. tr., intr. 2. To break a hole. 3. To spring a leak.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably a variant of bulge, from Old French boulge, from Latin bulga (bag). Earliest documented use: 1522. ___________________________
BILOGE - having two tiers of boxes between the theater floor and the balcony
BILBE - a bible for the dyslexic
ABILGE - full to the brim with sewerage
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