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MORTIFLY - to fly equally in fear of the jihadists and
the brown shirt goons of the NSA
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Wasn't Mortifly one of the characters in "Back to the Future"?
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CLOACA
PRONUNCIATION:
(klo-AY-kuh)
plural cloacae (klo-AY-se, -kee)
MEANING:
noun:
1. An outhouse.
2. A sewer.
3. The common duct into which intestinal, urinary, and genital tracts open in birds, reptiles, most fishes, and some mammals.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin cloaca (sewer, canal), from cluere (to cleanse). Earliest documented use: 1656.
CLOAKA - the device that renders undetectable the ships of Italian Klingons
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CLODCA Russian slang - a backwoods clod stomp dancing even before the vodka
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CLODCA -  CLOACH - an ancient Mass Transit vehicle; holds fifty Romans
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confabulate
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-FAB-yuh-layt)
MEANING: verb intr.:
1. To talk informally.
2. To replace fact with fantasy to fill in gaps in memory.
ETYMOLOGY:
From confabulari (to talk together), from con- (with) + fabulari (to talk), from fabula (tale). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bha- (to speak) that is also the source of fable, phone, fame, boon, and infant. Earliest documented use: 1604.
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confadulate - the use of street jive to fill in for information gaps.
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MONFABULATE - to tell stories with a Caribbean accent
CONTABULATE - to count the "no" votes
CONFIBULATE - what you have to do when you can't remember a word, but it's just on the tibia tongue...
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PRONUNCIATION: (O-lid)
MEANING: adjective: Foul-smelling.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin olere (to smell) which also gave us an opposite of today's word: redolent. Earliest documented use: 1680.
USAGE:
"Ducks' blood smells no less olid than pig's blood."
Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson; A Sow of Violence; The Massachusetts Review (Amherst); Autumn 2004.
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SOLID -
1) old ma: without pretence, as in "a solid beating"
2) hippie son: as in "solid jackson" meaning right-on
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OVID - a Roman writer, noted for his poetry about eggs
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SOOK
PRONUNCIATION:
(rhymes with book)
MEANING:
noun: A timid or coward person; a crybaby.
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably from English dialect suck. Earliest documented use: 1933.
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SOONK - how the shlightly inebriated barfly described the fate of the Titanic
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SOCK
1) old ma: as in "dern it, I gotta darn some damn socks"
2) hippie son : as in "sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, let the good times roll"
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soop The sound one makes when eating soup.
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ZYMIC
PRONUNCIATION:
(ZAI-mik)
MEANING:
adjective: Relating to fermentation.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek zym- (ferment). Earliest documented use: 1817.
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GYMIC
1) old ma: the smell of gym clothes that need to be washed
2)hippie son: someone who goes to the gym just to pick up chicks
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meed
PRONUNCIATION: (meed)
MEANING:
noun: Reward; recompense; wage.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English med. Earliest documented use: before 900.
m --> w
WEED
1) old ma: something to rid
2) hippie son: something to get
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MEEDE - a Generel in the Civil War
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pica
PRONUNCIATION:(PY-kuh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A tendency or craving for eating substances other than normal food (such as clay, chalk, and dirt), common during childhood or pregnancy.
2. In printing, a unit of type size, equal to about 1/6 of an inch.
3. A type size for typewriters, having ten characters to the inch.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin pica (magpie, craving), from a magpie's indiscriminate feeding. Earliest documented use: 1563.
For 2, 3: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a book or church rules. Earliest documented use: 1588.
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PIC
1) old ma: a tool for digging dirt to eat
2) hippie son: a nice photo to look at while he eats
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POKA - a gambling game with cards and chips, in Boston SPICA - the grim look on the orthopedic surgeon as he puts you in a cast from the hips down... APICA - infant's word for a small orange-ish stoned fruit with fuzzy skin
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auspices
PRONUNCIATION: (AW-spi-seez)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Patronage, support, or sponsorship.
2. A favorable sign.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of auspice, from Latin auspicium (divination from flight of birds), from auspex (bird watcher), from avis (bird) + specere (to look at). Ultimately from the Indo-European root awi- (bird), which is also the source of avian, ostrich, osprey, oval, ovum, ovary, egg, and caviar. Earliest documented use: 1611.
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AUSPICKS - divinations by patterns of bird flights as to predicting the winners of horse races.
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AUSPICES
auspices
PRONUNCIATION:
(AW-spi-seez)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Patronage, support, or sponsorship.
2. A favorable sign.
SUSPICES - What the McCormick salesman with a stutter sells. (See related
ANU-SPICES - tasteful condiments occasionally served up on this Board...)
AUSPISCES - a little-known Zodiacal constellation in the skies of the Southern hemisphere
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PAPARAZZI
PRONUNCIATION:
(pah-puh-RAT-see)
MEANING:
noun: Photographers who follow famous people to take their pictures for publication.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of paparazzo, from the name of a photographer in Federico Fellini's 1959 film La Dolce Vita. Fellini got the name via scriptwriter Ennio Flaiano who picked it from the 1901 travel book By the Ionian Sea. The book mentions a hotel owner named Coriolano Paparazzo. Fellini claimed at another time that the name Paparazzo suggested to him "a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging". Earliest documented use: 1961.
PAMPARAZZI - mounted photographers of the Argentine plains
PAUPARAZZI - very poor photographers
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PAPARJAZZI - out-of-work hip musicians who chase photographers
hoping to get their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.
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Just guessing what might be coming later in the week: Scissors? Spaghetti? Trousers/Pants/Knickers/Shorts? even Bloomers? Random thought: Is the noun "underwear" singular or plural?
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Good questions but taboo. How many panties is/are a pair of panties, one, two, or four? Meanwhile a slip is just a slip. 
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cognoscenti
PRONUNCIATION: (kon-yuh-SHEN-tee, kog-nuh-)
MEANING:
noun: Those with informed appreciation of a particular topic, such as fine arts or literature.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of obsolete Italian cognoscente, from conoscere (to know). Modern Italian form of the word, conoscente, means acquaintance -- you want to use the word intenditore or conoscitore if you mean cognoscente. Earliest documented use: 1777.
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COGNOSCENTIC noun - a intenditore: a singular of cogonoscenti
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CORNOSCENTI - the aroma of Italian popcorn
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How about
CYGNOSCENTI = the smell of a newly hatched swan
( Afterthought: What's the singular of hoi polloi ? )
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MORES
PRONUNCIATION:
(MOHR-ayz)
MEANING:
noun: Customs and conventions of a social group.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of Latin mos (custom). Earliest documented use: 1898.
MOREST - superlative form of "some"
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antipodes
PRONUNCIATION:
(an-TIP-uh-deez)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Two places situated on the diametrically opposite sides of the earth.
2. The exact opposite of someone or something.
3. Australia and New Zealand.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via Latin from Greek antipodes (literally, those having the feet opposite, i.e. having feet on opposite sides of the earth), plural of antipous, from anti- (opposite) + pous (foot). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ped- (foot) which gave us peccadillo (alluding to a stumble or fall), pedal, impeccable, podium, octopus, and impeach. Earliest documented use: 1398.
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ANTIODES - a jar ode written by Wallace Stevens and a urn ode written by Keats.
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XANTIPODES - Socrates' wife has large feet.
What intrigues me is the pluralization rule that makes -pous into -podes. Know any other examples that crept into English? Anybody?
Edit: (My feet of clay are showing. I didn't know what you meant by jar/stevens and urn/keats, so I looked them up. Now I do. Nice!)
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...the pluralization rule that makes -pous into -podes. Know any other examples that crept into English?
Answer (found by Onelooking "*podes") : Octopus --> octopodes. Also Platypus.
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Ponzi scheme
PRONUNCIATION: (PON-zee skeem)
MEANING: noun: An investment swindle in which high profits are promised from fictitious sources and early investors are paid off with funds raised from later ones.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Charles Ponzi (1882-1949), a speculator who organized such a scheme during 1919-1920. He was neither the first nor the last person to float this or a similar scheme, just someone who did it on a massive scale. See the list of Ponzi schemes in history. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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FONZI SCHEME- in Episode XXV the Fonz charges $50 to set-up a date to the Prom with Betty the head cheerleader.
On Prom night 50 hot-blooded boys show up at Betty's house.
Those were not Happy Days.
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FUNZI - birthday party at Chucky Cheese's
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PONTI SCHEME - We'll all get shares of this Italian movie producer's empire, see, and a piece of Sophia Loren besides, and resell some more shares to eager buyers, and...
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Who will it be ?
... a cheater, a traitor, a killer, a faker, and an infector.
...start with the US, then Norway, Scotland, Ukraine, and then back to the US.
Any ideas?
U S cheater = Ponzi of the Ponzi scheme
Norway traitor = QUISLING ?
Scotland killer = ?
Ukraine faker = ?
U S infector = TYPHOID MARY ?
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Scotland: Black Bart?
Ukraine: Rasputin?
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We'll see!
QUISLING
PRONUNCIATION: (KWIZ-ling)
MEANING:
noun: A traitor, especially one who aids an invading enemy.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Major Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), a Norwegian army officer who collaborated (1940-1945) with the German occupying forces during World War II and ruled Norway as head of the puppet government. He was shot for treason after the German defeat. Besides a noun, his name has become a verb as well. Earliest documented use: 1940.
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QUILLING - What Barquis is, according to David Copperfield
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Was Jack the Ripper Scottish?
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