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pediculous
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(pe-DIK-yuh-luhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Infested with lice: lousy; contemptible.
ETYMOLOGY:
From pedis (louse). Earliest documented use: 1540.
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PEDICULOUSE - a word with the same word meaning at both ends.
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PEDICULOTUS - a flower that stands on its own little feet
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xanthodontous
PRONUNCIATION:(zan-tho-DON-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Having yellow teeth.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek xanthos (yellow) + -odon (toothed). Earliest documented use: 1862. Also see Xanthippe.
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XANTHODONETOUS- literally : yellow-done-to-us, denoting a once free people afraid of their own government
AN ALTERNATE THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Imagine there's no countries, / It isn't hard to do,
/ Nothing to kill or die for, / No religion too,
/Imagine all the people / living life like trees.
-------------------------------- John Lennon, (1940-1980)
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EXANTHODONTOUS - his teeth used to look like flowers (Greek, from anthos, flower)
(Maybe that should be "...flowers used to look like teeth." Like the DANDELION = Lions' Teeth)
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pilgarlic
PRONUNCIATION:
(pil-GAHR-lik)
MEANING:
noun: A bald-headed person.
ETYMOLOGY:
Literally peeled garlic, from pill (to peel) + garlic. Earliest documented use: 1529.
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PILGARLICK (Freudian psychology) - an irresistible urge to lick a bald man's head.
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PILLGARLIC - "A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down" as modified for a diabetic
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fustilugs
PRONUNCIATION:
(FUS-ti-lugs)
MEANING:
noun: A fat and slovenly person.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English fusty (smelly, moldy) + lug (to carry something heavy). Earliest documented use: 1607.
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LUSTILUGS - the four foot bearers of a reclining, bare or scantily-clad, Cleopatra in search of Mark Antony.
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Cleo and Mark: one of your better ones. Got a good chuckle
out of it.
And Wofa, your Julie Andrews' song made me smile.
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FUSTILAGS - we make the convicts bathe every June whether they need it or not (BTW, Luke, with some medicines applesauce works better  )
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