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sprezzatura
PRONUNCIATION: (spret-sah-TOOR-uh)
MEANING:
noun: Doing (or giving the appearance of doing) something effortlessly; effortless grace; nonchalance.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Italian. Earliest documented use: 1957.
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SPREEZATURA - a peccadillo indulged but with sang-froid
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esprezzatura - nonchantly drinkin very stron coffee.
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polylemma
PRONUNCIATION:(pol-ee-LEM-uh)
MEANING:
noun: A choice involving multiple undesirable options.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek poly- (many) + dilemma, from lemma (proposition). Earliest documented use: 1856. Also see trilemma, Hobson's choice, and Buridan's ass.
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POLYEMMA- Polylemma's decisive but simple-minded little sister Polyemma; not the happy one, that would be, Pollyanna.
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POOLYLEMMA - the choice to go into the cold water one toe at a time or to jump in with a big splash and get it over with all at once...
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schadenfreude
PRONUNCIATION: (SHAAD-n-froi-duh)
MEANING: noun: Pleasure derived from another's misfortune.
ETYMOLOGY:
From German Schadenfreude, from Schaden (damage, harm) + Freude (joy). Earliest documented use: 1852.
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schadenfreud- to undergo psychoanalysis to sublimate one's schadenfreude
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SHADE'N'FREUDE - joy at hearing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on the lawn at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the Berkshires on a balmy summer afternoon
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Nicely done Wolf  It'd take a high hatter in the Queen's box to top that. 
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palimpsest
PRONUNCIATION: (PAL-imp-sest)
MEANING: noun:
1. A writing surface such as a parchment that has been reused after partially or completely erasing the original text.
2. Something reused but still showing traces of its earlier form.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek palimpsestos, from palin (again) + psestos + (scraped). Earliest documented use: 1661 Also see pentimento.
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PALIMPEST - a friend who sometimes acts like a monkey
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PALIMSEXT A sex-text sent to one person that goes viral.
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nineteenth hole
PRONUNCIATION:(NYN-TEENTH hol)
MEANING:
noun: The clubhouse or another place, such as a bar or a restaurant, where golfers gather after playing a round.
ETYMOLOGY:
A standard round of golf has eighteen holes, so the next stop after the game, a bar or a restaurant, is called the nineteenth hole. A similar term is the fifth quarter in (American) football. Earliest documented use: 1901.
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NINETENTH HOLE- the walk to the tenth tee where it is considered cricket to slug whiskey as a brace for the second nine.
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Wineteenth.
Same as the Nineteenth
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NINETEENTH POLE - the facetiously-named "pole" 1 3/16 mile from the finish line, thus 1/16 mile BEFORE the starting line of a 9-furlong race. Refers to the position of a horse considered - usually jeeringly - to be so slow that it can't even reach the gate before the race is over.
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nineteeth hole: result of taking a little nip.
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suffragist
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHF-ruh-jist)
MEANING: noun: An advocate of extending the right to vote, especially to women.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French from Latin suffragium (voting tablet, right to vote). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreg- (to break) that also gave us break, breach, fraction, fragile, fractal, infringe, irrefragable, and fractious. Suffrage? Remember, a broken piece of tile was used as a ballot in the past. Earliest documented use: 1822.
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stuffragist - a dealer in rags suitable for stuffing
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PINETEENTH HOLEAlong around the sixteenth hole
when it's a hot and sweaty day, one longs for the shade
and a cold drink and cannot wait for the nineteenth hole.
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SCUFFRAGIST A shoeshine boy.
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SCUFFRAGIST A shoeshine boy.  Nice polish, Luke.
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STUFFRAGIST (that's with a hard "G") -- a full-time dollmaker
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bromide
PRONUNCIATION:(BRO-myd)
MEANING:noun:
1. A tired or meaningless remark.
2. A tiresome or boring person.
ETYMOLOGY:
From bromine, from Greek bromos (stench). Earliest documented use: 1836.
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bromind :
1. a tiresome or boring mind
2. a tired or meaningless remark from a tired or boring mind
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brobride
gay marriage
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bromine - my Ma's other son.
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Bromaide - Eragon, in his youth
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Bromaide - Eragon, in his youth
Now I like that. I have about 100 pages in book 4 left.
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tinnient
PRONUNCIATION: (TIN-ee-uhnt)
MEANING:
adjective: Ringing or tinkling.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tinnire (to ring), of imitative origin, which also gave us tintinnabulation. Earliest documented use: 1668.
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thinnient - being chased by a bear
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tunnientfishermen with their minds on one thing.
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TINNIMENT - a substandard multi-apartment building put up by a canny slumlord
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extraterritoriality
PRONUNCIATION: (ek-struh-ter-i-tor-ee-AL-i-tee)
MEANING: noun:
1. Exemption from the jurisdiction of local law, for example, as for diplomats.
2. The applicability of a state's laws outside its territory.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin extra- (outside) + territorium (land around a town), from terra (land). Earliest documented use: 1836.
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rextraterritoriality - the right of a King to rule whatever land he can coerce or conquer
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All weak, but surprisingly many options:
-- HEXTRATERRITORALITY: an affiliation of Six Nations, like the Iroquois
-- EXTRACTERRITORIALITY: 1) Strip mining 2) debugging, in pretentious jargon
-- EXTRATERRITORIACITY: a vulgar claim to be a Stranger in a Strange Land
-- EXTRATERRITORIALIFY: to remove from any outside jurisdiction by converting to an independent political entity, like the Vatican City, or (discussed from time to time) Jerusalem
-- EXTRATERRITOCIALITY: an out-of-this-world experience while giving birth (compare "dystocia")
-- EXTRATERRITORIALITH: moon rock
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In the old days we called it "looseness of association." It was not meant to be a compliment.
And don't forget I didn't come up with anything at all for sprezza-whatever, or palimpsest, or even gelasin. To name just a few recent ones.
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SEXTRATERRITORIALITY -going to foreign countries to sate your off-beat sexual inclinations (e.g., Brits going to Thailand.)
VEXTRATERRITORIALITY - annoying the whole populations of other countires - like Britain wishing to opt out of large parts of the European Union Agrrements.
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hextraterritoriality
the curse put on you by a Leprachaun when you get too close
to his/her pot of gold.
word first used by Wofa,
but here it is a word that is spelled the same but has a
different meaning.
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J-J apparently being Away From Keyboard so far this week, I'll post today's WAD:
Contranyms:
PERUSE
PRONUNCIATION:
(puh-ROOZ)
MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To read or examine with great care.
2. To read or examine in a casual manner.
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PERTUSE -- to spread an illness by coughing ("Pertussis" is whooping cough)
P.S. Just thinking out loud:
-- "scan" is approximately the same thing !
-- PERFUSE is already a real word
-- so is PERUKE
-- PERUE is mixed up mixed up [PUREE]
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I hope these infections stay in your office
and that you are inoculated.
RERUSE
-to use the same trick twice or more.
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PERUSS (puh-RUSH): to read with great care in Cyrillic, and rather quickly.
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I hope these infections stay in your office
and that you are inoculated. You want me to get an infection in my eye?
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