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FUDGEON - a curmudgeon who fudges. Often preceded by the companion word "nut" as in "nutfudgeon".
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CABOODLE
PRONUNCIATION:
(kuh-BOOD-uhl)
MEANING:
noun: The lot, collection, or crowd.
NOTES:
The word is mostly seen in the expression "kit and caboodle" meaning "the whole lot".
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps from boodle (money, goods, people), from Dutch boedel (property). Earliest documented use: 1848.
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CABYODLE - how the Geneva Hilton Hotel doorman summons a taxi
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Can it, Wolfa, you ruined my best def.  add > D CABDOODLE - doodles you draw while waiting for a cab summoned forth by a Geneva Hotel doorman's yodel.
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SHRIFT
PRONUNCIATION:
(shrift)
MEANING:
noun: Confession to a priest. Also, penance and absolution that follow confession.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English scrift (confession, penance), from scrifan (to shrive: to impose penance). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skribh- (to cut, separate, or sift) that has resulted in other terms, such as manuscript, scribe, subscribe, scripture, scribble, and describe. Earliest documented use: 897.
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SHRIF - charged with upholding the law in very small, laconic towns. USAGE: "The shrif cot thm tu catl rsslrs, dinnee?"
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ASHRIFT geology :
A volcanic rift at the point of separation between two diverging continents i.e. volcanic ash fell back into the rift and filled it.
(see: Great Rift of Africa).
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SHWIFT: A really shwell shatirisht and priesht.
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furfuraceous
PRONUNCIATION:
(fuhr-fyuh-RAY-shus)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Covered with dandruff.
2. Flaky.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin furfur (bran, flake). Earliest documented use: 1650.
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FURFUNACEOUS - being flaky but for fun. example:
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
______________________________Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
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PURFURACEOUS - My cat says happily that she's going to make a lot of holes in that
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Aha! Took a while to percolate to the surface. Did you know there is a benign skin lesion called "tinea versicolor" caused by the organism "Malassezia furfur"? Doesn't do much but make the skin give off little flakes. (Also absorbs ultraviolet light, so the affected part of the skin doesn't tan like the rest of it...)
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furfurageous: wa-a-a-ay too much mink.
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pediculous
PRONUNCIATION:
(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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FUSTILAGS - we make the convicts bathe every June whether they need it or not (BTW, Luke, with some medicines applesauce works better ) My mother, back in the day, would have said that would dilute the medicine. But I like the idea better than sugar. Just stay away from cinnamon. I hear it's become the "high" of choice for some kids.
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measly
PRONUNCIATION:(MEE-zlee, MEEZ-lee)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Ridiculously small or bad.
2. Infected with measles.
ETYMOLOGY:
Initially, the word measly was used to describe a pig infected with measles, which is probably derived from Middle Dutch masel (blemish) and its spelling influenced by Middle English mesel (leprous, leprosy). Earliest documented use: 1598.
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EASILY - answer to the question "Can good men be fooled?" Example:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Eisenhower
See? Eisenhower was a nice man but without guns to fight bad men we all would be unclothed and cold and hungry.
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Sneak in your opinions and get away with it. WEASILY Weasily
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PEASLY
Pease Porridge hot, Pease Porridge cold,Pease Porridge in the Pot Nine Days old,Spell me that in four Letters? I will, THAT.
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MEWSLY -
1) an organic cereal, unique in that it can by itself support the growth of newborn kittens
2) extremely clever little felines
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Now BranShea, be nice (maybe you are but I couldn't open your nice video) because I wern't being "weasily". You see, BranShe, in these United States of Mississippi it is permissible to disagree with your betters even if your betters are by some strange quirk better than you. Anu, as you saw, slipped in his Eisenhower quote and understandably only a weasily Mississippian complained.  And yet Anu, for the most part, is a good man.
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You missed a cute little video. (link is in good order) So as I see you favor guns to keep off the bad man ( whoever they are) and to bring to everyone the wonderful permission to disagree with their betters ( whoever they may be) Then you wern't being weasly but understandably only a weasly Missisippian. I really tried to understand. I don't mind being the dummy here.
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ANEMIC
PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-NEEM-ik)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Lacking vitality, strength, or colorfulness.
2. Suffering from anemia.
ETYMOLOGY:
From anemia (a condition in which one has a reduced number of red blood cells or hemoglobin), from Greek an- (without) + haima (blood). Earliest documented use: 1839. The word anemious is entirely different.
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AMEMIC - I can't think of anything
pronunciation:. "uh-MEEM-ick
origin: from "a-" (without), and "meme" (a unit of memory, a concept that sticks in your head)
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Good one, Wolf! You are a tough act to follow.
PANENIC - an anthropologist who goes native.
Etymology: pan (all) -enic (one who studies a culture from the perspective of the culture he is studying).
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SCLEROTIC
PRONUNCIATION:
(skluh-ROT-ik)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Hard, rigid, slow to adapt or respond.
2. Relating to or affected with sclerosis, an abnormal hardening of a tissue or part.
3. Of or relating to the sclera, the white fibrous outer layer of the eyeball.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek skleros (hard). Earliest documented use: 1543.
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SCLEROTICA - X-rated pictures of eyeballs (some people's eyes can be pretty sexy...)
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Well Wolf, your definition proves that you are slicker than me. I couldn't think of a faux word to post that combined hard and erotic without being raunchy. You did, and somehow did it with "eyes". Good man.
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There's a way you can post what you want,
even raunchy, JJ, and no one can see it,
without pushing 'open'. I, however, don't
know how to do it. You should look into
it. I'd open it, I often need a good laugh.
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cancerous
PRONUNCIATION:
(KAN-suh-ruhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Having a harmful, uncontrolled growth.
2. Of or relating to cancer: a malignant growth or tumor.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin cancer (crab, tumor, cancer). Canker/cankerous are from the same root. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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DANCEROUS - one who thinks he can dance but can't.
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cangerous - malignant marsupials
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cangerous - malignant marsupials -- [like!] CHANCEROUS - Big Box store for compulsive gamblers; pronounced "Chance-Я-Us" Luke - and by extension J^2 - I think you mean the "Spoiler" button, the 11th on the Reply box row that starts with the smiley and ends with the little-and-then-big T for changing font size. Like this: It's the letter S with a slash / through it. (Not the S with the _ through it; that's "strikethrough".
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Love your Chance R Us. {Don't know lots about computers: like turning R backwards} But now I see how to hide a comment. Thanks a bunch.
Hope JJ sees it too.
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pestilent PRONUNCIATION: (PES-tl-uhnt) MEANING: adjective: 1. Deadly. 2. Infectious. 3. Harming peace, morals, etc. 4. Annoying. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pestis (plague). Earliest documented use: 1613. NOTES:: Here's a word that has a full range of meanings from merely annoying to deadly. But that's usually not a problem. In language, context is king. ---------------------------------------------------------- e > u PUSTILENT - (1) PUSS-ee-luhnt a male who is controlled by females genitals (2) PUS tl uhnt the condition of a liquid flow from a point of body inflammation. [NOTE: King Context and enunciation will determine which.]
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Terrific !
I see you learned the procedure for hiding too.
Thanks to wofa, I've got it too. Now I need
to think of something raunchy.
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PESTILENS - "Eliza...Where the Devil are my glasses?" (after Prof. H. Higgins) (pron. "glosses")
(Psst...Luke...I didn't know how either. But it's amazing what you can find by Googling. "Write a backwards R" and viola!)
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You are sooooooooooo right about that. It is amazing what
you can find by just googling it. I sure wish it had been
around when I was growing up.
But I typed the bit about the reverse/backwards R and
about a hundred items came up which I could never absorb.
I know there is a way (which was discussed a lot of months ago)
about accessing the symbols on the numbers keypad of the
computer typeboard. But I did not save it and totally
cannot figure it out. How does it work, do you know?
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