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Just visited the place for the first time in a while; thought others might like to have fun while donating: Free Rice One of the words I didn't know was sciamachy. Interestingly, when I clicked to hear the pronunciation, I heard SEE-a-mickey; yet Webster's New World College Dictionary shows it as see-AM-uh-kee. I don't feel like running an actual Hogwash at the moment, but if anybody wants to hazard a guess, feel free, and if there are any I'll just post the def. in a few.
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or, if you just want to click a link.
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Just visited the place for the first time in a while; thought others might like to have fun while donating: Free Rice One of the words I didn't know was sciamachy. Interestingly, when I clicked to hear the pronunciation, I heard SEE-a-mickey; yet Webster's New World College Dictionary shows it as see-AM-uh-kee. I don't feel like running an actual Hogwash at the moment, but if anybody wants to hazard a guess, feel free, and if there are any I'll just post the def. in a few. Been visiting here for a long time. However, they don't update all that often. But fun nevertheless.
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I rather take a guess. It starts a bit Italic. Hm, something like the blend of a saw and a machete.
Or it has to do with screeming.
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Oh! tsuwm, your link is to the definition; I was wondering why MY link to Free Rice wasn't good enough! 
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Now I've looked at tsuwm's link.  Though wrong in my supposed origin, not a too bad guess on the whole. It's fun to make a guess, post it and then look. Recommended. Has an interesting etymology as well.
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or, if you just want to click a link. sciamachy: [fr. Gk skia, shadow + mache, battle] /sye AM uh kee/ a futile battle with an imaginary foe; fighting with a shadow -- shadow-boxing, against an imaginary opponent in training for the ring, is a specialized form of sciamachy the word following sciamachy: sciapodous having very large feet shadow feet?
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Sciopodes - A fabulous people of Libya ‘with immense feet which they used as sunshades’ (Liddell & Scott). Hence sciapodous a.
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‘with immense feet which they used as sunshades’ What the heck?? Some story or myth, presumably?
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For every myth there is an image. 
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And for every myth there is a Kernal of Truth.
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