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SCHMO or schmoe or shmo
PRONUNCIATION: (shmo)
MEANING: noun: A stupid, boring, or obnoxious person.
ETYMOLOGY: A truncated form of schmuck (an idiot), from Yiddish schmok (pen is). Earliest documented use: 1948.
NOTES: The word is also used in the phrase Joe Schmo, as a more colorful synonym for John Doe.
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SACHMO - a more colorful trumpet player of yore. Definitely not your average stupid, boring, or obnoxious person. Loud, maybe.
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SCHMOO- a lovable mythical animal that when fried tastes like chicken when roasted tastes like pig and when barbequed tastes like prime beef.
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(The whiskers make great toothpicks, too) See The Life and Times of the Shmoo) (published in paperback around 1949)
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I guess I never got the humor. I thought they were
abominable.
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Abominable? Shoot, Luke! Try boiling them in muscadine wine and you will find them abso Lukely wonderful. Besides, there is something very noble in bowling-pin shapped animals whose only desire is to feed mankind. 
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Reeks of cannibalism to me.
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pogrom
PRONUNCIATION:(puh-GROM, POH-gruhm)
MEANING:
noun: An organized massacre, officially tolerated or encouraged, against a particular group.
TYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish pogrom, from Russian pogrom (destruction). Earliest documented use: 1891.
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POGRAM - an [OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT NOTICE] to old folks ordering their extermination so that thier benefits can be given to the po'.
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POGOROM - Walt Kelly's opossum's computer Read-Only Memory chip set
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dreck or drek
PRONUNCIATION: (drek)
MEANING:
noun: Rubbish; trash.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish drek (filth, dirt, dung). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (excrement) that is also the source of scoria and scatology. Earliest documented use: 1922.
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DIRECKTOR DRECK - Famous Rap Singer
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DRUCK - inebriated with a stuffed nose
Interesting that the week began with Bupkes and ended with Dreck, the one being minor version of the other
Kinda gives new meaning to the old drinking song:
Ach, du lieber Augustin, Augustin, Augustin, *
Ach, du lieber Augustin, alles is hin.
. Gelt ist weg, Gut ist weg,
. Augustin liegt in Dreck,
Ach, du lieber Augustin, alles is hin.
which translates loosely as
Oh, my dear Augustine, Augustine, Augustine,
Oh, my dear Augustine, everything is gone.
. Money is gone, Everything good is gone,
. Augustine is lying in the gutter. **
Oh, my dear Augustine, everything is gone.
* Because Augustine is feeling a bit green around the gills by now...
** (All right, if you insist, it means "Augustine is lying in shit." Why do you think they invented gutters in the first place?!)
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josh
PRONUNCIATION:(josh)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To make fun of or tease in a good-natured way.
noun: A teasing or joking remark.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1845.
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POSH - a polite word for phoney
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JOBSH - The inventor of the Apple computer was often given to hyperbolic statements. (Here's more than you wanted to know about this branch of mathematics. Its nomenclature has a bunch of instances of taking famililar things and adding an -h to their name.)
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biddy
PRONUNCIATION:(BID-ee)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A young chicken.
2. A woman, especially an elderly one, who is talkative, interfering, or annoying.
3. A cleaning woman.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1616.
For 2, 3: Short for the name Bridget. Sense 3 is from Irish maid-servants in the US. Earliest documented use: 1785.
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DIDDY - the low rent section of a place in Mississippi named after the Choctaw word for love viz. "diddy-wah-diddy"
It ain't no town, it ain't no city,
But oh how they love in diddy wah diddy
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BIDDAY (bid-DAY) - a bathroom fixture for cleansing your nether parts. Found more often in Europe than in USA.
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Thank you, Wofa-etcetera, for explaining BIDDAY to us the unwashed. Now would you please explain to us what you mean by "cleansing our nether parts"? GIDDY - a silly person who giggles at euphemisms like "nether parts".
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harry
PRONUNCIATION:(HAR-ee)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.:
1. To harass, attack, or annoy, especially repeatedly.
2. To raid or pillage.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English hergian. Ultimately from the Indo-European root koro- (war, host, army) which also gave us harbor, harbinger, herald, harness, hurry, and harangue. Earliest documented use: 1330.
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TARRY - to be slow when you harras, attack, annoy, raid, rape, and pillage repeatively.
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... what you mean by "cleansing our nether parts"? ...Anything you want. It's a projective test.
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HARLY - how motorcycle owners laugh
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HARLY - how motorcycle owners laugh
 (good one, Doc) Remember: Everytime your bulky Harley burns up the road belching smoke and noxious CO2 gas a flower smiles. HARDY - What Harley Davidson drivers need to be to upright and kickstart a Hog.
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mulligan
PRONUNCIATION: MUHL-i-guhn)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A second chance, especially in golf where a player is sometimes given another shot to make up for a poor shot which is not counted.
2. A stew made from odds and ends, using whatever is available.
ETYMOLOGY:
Both senses of the word are from the name Mulligan. It's not certain who these two Mulligans were -- maybe a golf player and a chef. Earliest documented use: 1936.
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MULLIGAIN - the duffer rule that states that if your mulligan is shorter than your first drive you are then allowed to play the best ball.
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NULLIGAN - took another swing, thank you, and missed the ball completely this time too.
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MULLIGANG - an Irish street gang notorious for meeting at a local pub and mulling over plans to blow up parliament. At closing time they all go home to sober up to drink and mull and plot again tomorrow.
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RUBE
PRONUNCIATION: (roob)
MEANING: noun: An unsophisticated person from a rural area.
ETYMOLOGY: Shortened form of name Reuben. Earliest documented use: 1891. Also see "hey rube."
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RUHE - original name of "All's Quiet on the Western Front" (prior to translation)
(Actually, the name was "Im Westen Nichts Neues." Nice try, doc, but not even close)
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RUWE. A brand of pencil. Made by Ruwe pencil co., past CEO named Ruwe Halsey, who was grandson of Admiral Halsey of US Pacific fleet in WW II.
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RUNE - a letter of the mystical German alphabet used in Scandinavia until the Middle Ages. As in:
Keeping time, time, time
In a sort of Runic rhyme
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells
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lotus-eater PRONUNCIATION:(LO-tuhs-ee-tuhr) MEANING: noun: A person who indulges in idle daydreaming or leads a life of luxurious ease, instead of dealing with practical matters. ETYMOLOGY: From the lotus-eaters, people in Homer's Odyssey, who ate the lotus fruit that supposedly induced a dreamy forgetfulness. Earliest documented use: 1832. ------------------------------------------------- LOCUS-EATERS - are hungry and avid readers of R A Lafferty's eclectic writings that Locus SF Magazine (the copyright owners of all of Lafferty's many books) has greedily witheld publication for three years in order to assuage an already eager market. Since R A Lafferty was and is the most important writer of the 20th Century this is a most reprehensible act. A spokeman for Locus has said that they will begin releasing Lafferty's short stories this month. We shall see. 
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LOTUS-HATER -- if I have to go to one more Yoga class I'm going to SCREAM !!!
(contrast LOTUS-SEATER)
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primrose path
PRONUNCIATION:(PRIM-rohz PATH)
MEANING:
noun:
1. An easy life, especially devoted to sensual pleasure.
2. A path of least resistance, especially one that ends in disaster.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin prima rosa (first rose). Earliest documented use: 1604.
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PRIMROSE MATH- the new math which is easier than the old math because the correct answer is the average of all the students answers.
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lily-livered
PRONUNCIATION:(LIL-ee-LIV-uhrd)
MEANING:
adjective: Cowardly or timid. ETYMOLOGY:
In earlier times, the liver was considered to be the seat of courage. Hence, lacking blood, a white liver, indicated lack of courage. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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LILY-SLIVERED - a chief ingredient of the Choctaw Black Drink usually given as; a sliver of a lily freshly cut, the left eye of the false slink, the venom of three mudsnakes extracted when angry, a pinch of the poison nightshade plant finely powered.
To drink the Black Drink was said to restore courage.
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sub rosa
PRONUNCIATION:(sub RO-zuh)
MEANING:
adverb: Secretly, privately, or confidentially.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sub (under) rosa (rose). Earliest documented use: 1654. The English term "under the rose" is also used to refer to something in secret.
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SUB PROSA - obtuse legalese used by lawyers to befuddle thier clients into believing that they know mumbo jumbo words that are magic.
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PRIAMROSE PATH - The King of Troy lived in a fine palace before the War LILY-LOVERED - Bunthorne; see Patience, Act I usage: ...Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,...An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!...Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,... If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.(See p. 16, here.) SUBAROSA - a Japanese car, artfully colored pink so nobody will notice it
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amaranthine
PRONUNCIATION:(am-uh-RAN-thin, -thyn)
MEANING:
adjective
1. Unfading; everlasting.
2. Of deep purple-red color.
3. Of or related to the amaranth.
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AMERANTHINE - literally America is thine
1.What Columbus told Isabella
2.What the American indians told their children
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AMARANTOINE - to know Tony is to love him forever
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CUTRATE'S EGG
PRONUNCIATION: (KYOOR-itz eg)
MEANING: noun: Something having both good and bad parts.
ETYMOLOGY:
From a cartoon in Punch magazine (London, UK) in which a timid curate (a junior clergy member), when served a stale egg at a bishop's table, tries to assure his host that parts of the egg are edible. Earliest documented use: 1905.
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CUTRATE'S EGG - it has more bad parts than good parts, but at least it's inexpensive
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Ha! I can't top that, Wofa. CURATE'S LEGG - The legacy of a far-seeing man. As in Andrew Carnegie who through his Foundation built free libraries throughout America. --------------------------------------- A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
-- Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919)
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gerrymander
PRONUNCIATION:
(JER-i-MAN-duhr)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To repartition an area in order to create electoral districts that give an unfair advantage to a political party.
noun: 1. An instance of gerrymandering. 2. One or more electoral districts, widely differing in size or population, created as a result of gerrymandering.
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JERRYMANDER - The Germans WWII attempt to redistrict the World into the shape of a globe.
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GERHYMANDER
(pronounced ge-RIM-an-ter)
adj. a German verb ("rhymen") made into a present participle (ge-) made into a noun (-and) made into an adjective (-er); refers to poetry whose rhyme-scheme is aBaBcDcD.
Example:
Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium!
Wir betreten feuertrunken, himmlische, Dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt,
Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo Dein sanfter Flügel weilt.
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-Schiller, An der Freude ("Ode to Joy")
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McCARTHYISM
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-KAHR-thee-iz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: The practice of making unfounded accusations against someone.
ETYMOLOGY: After US senator Joseph McCarthy (1909-1957) known for making unsubstantiated claims accusing people of being Communists, spies, and disloyal. Earliest documented use: in 1950 in a cartoon by Herbert Block.
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McCARTHYRISM - the orthographically-challenged strategy of returning to the region from which one was forced to withdraw temporarily (after General Douglas MacArthur, who uttered "I shall return!" when he had to leave the Philippines early in World War II. And indeed, he did.)
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McCARTHYIST- a communist front man for Edgar Bergen who is famous for saying "Those who call someone a 'McCarthyite' by definition becomes one themselves."
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McCARTHYISE - the 'red scare' of the era, to see
'commies' behind every tree.
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