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Yes! That's it. Who's side you on, Wolf, the devil's or the god who is anti-god? 
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Anu's Word of de Day: uxorious
PRONUNCIATION:
(uk-SOHR-ee-uhs)
MEANING:adjective: Excessively devoted or submissive toward one's wife.
ETYMOLOGY:From Latin uxor (wife). The feminine counterpart of this word is maritorious. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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UXORIBUS: Excessively devoted to one's mobile home.
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etymologically speaking, that should be something like winnebagious..
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Very funny, tsuwm.  And furthermore, the word winnebagious though bogus wouldn't be ambiguous. 
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Tuxorious
dealers in clothing to men about to wed their uxor.
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EXORIOUS: refuses to accept that the divorce actually went through
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UXODIOUS: so repellant as to cause vomiting
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...s t r e t c h.  Word of this day: implacable PRONUNCIATION: (im-PLAK-uh-buhl, -PLAY-kuh-) MEANING: adjective: Impossible to pacify or appease. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin placare (to quiet or appease). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (to be flat), which is also the source of fluke, flake, flaw, plead, please, supple, supplicatory, and archipelago. Earliest documented use: 1522. ______________________________________________________ C > Y IMPLAYABLE: When International Business Machine's new 2013 CD player had no sales they dropped the B from their acronym because of lack of business.
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Word of the day: cantankerous
PRONUNCIATION:
(kan-TANG-kuhr-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Difficult to deal with: ill-tempered, quarrelsome.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English contak (contention). Earliest documented use: 1736.
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CANTHANKEROUS: easy to deal with: pleasingly-tempered, thankful.
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Add an M = Mantankerous
We all know one of these...
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FANTANKEROUS
- - Justin Bieberite
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CANCANKEROUS -- The chorus line has venereal disease ?
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CANCUNKEROUS
vacationers obsessed with the same Mexican vacation spot
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with Anu Garg impudent
PRONUNCIATION:
(IM-pyuh-duhnt)
MEANING:adjective: Marked by offensive boldness.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin im- (not) + pudere (to make or be ashamed) which also gave us pudibund (prudish), pudency (modesty), and pudeur (a sense of shame). Earliest documented use: 1386.
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WIMPUDENT: mealy-mouthed offensive boldness.
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IMPUDON'T
forbidden peccadillos (loosely translated, "Get away from here, you young scamp!")
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Monday's word: pteridology
PRONUNCIATION:(ter-i-DOL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The study of ferns.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pterido (fern) + -logy (study). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1855.
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PETERIDOLOGY: noun The study of Peter (singular).
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petrineodology, the scuttlebutt about who will be the next Pope,
called the throne of Peter the first pope.
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Today's word: knacker
PRONUNCIATION:
(NAK-uhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. A person who buys old, sick, or worn-out animals for slaughter.
2. A person who buys old buildings, ships, etc. to break them up for scrap.
verb tr.: To tire out.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1574.
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SNACKER: a sneaky fat person
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knackers is also Brit-slang for testicles.
formerly known as etaoin...
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knackers is also Brit-slang for testicles. Thanks Buffalo. A --> O KNOCKERS: American slang: boobs, a pair of
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Today's word: gnathic
PRONUNCIATION:
(NATH-ik)
MEANING:
adjective: Of or relating to the jaw.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek gnathos (jaw). Ultimately from the Indo-European root genu- (jawbone, chin), which is also the source of chin, prognathous , and Sanskrit hanu (jaw). Hanuman (literally, having a large jaw) is the name of a monkey god in the Hindu
pantheon. Earliest documented use: 1882.
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GNASHIC
Have the qualaity of being very annoying.
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GNASHIC
Have the qualaity of being very annoying. Inspirational, RC. Why couldn't I gnaw out a clever word like "gnashic"? Oh well I am me and you are you...damnit.
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jj, I'm dead conventional - you're insperaitional: we make a great pair!
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What a nice thought. Oh heck, I forgot...it's Valentine's Day.
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with Anu Garg: chthonic
PRONUNCIATION:
(THON-ik)
MEANING:
adjective: Of or relating to the underworld.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek chthon (earth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also sprouted human, homicide, humble, homage, chameleon, chamomile, inhume, exhume, and Persian zamindar (landholder). Earliest documented use: 1882.
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EHTHONIC: an expression people use when told how to pronounce "chthonic". viz. Eh? thonic?
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PRONUNCIATION:
(rayth)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A ghost.
2. An apparition of a person supposed to appear just before that person's death.
3. An insubstantial copy of something: shadow.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Scottish. Earliest documented use: 1513.
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PRAITH - commendatiion from someone with a lisp.
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Nary a BRAITHleft in him,so we must bury him.
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WRADITH - a small, round, sharp-tasting garden root vegetable, about an inch in diameter, red on the outside and white in the thenter.
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Anu's Word: spoonerism
PRONUNCIATION: (SPOO-nuh-riz-em)
MEANING: noun: The transposition of (usually) the initial sounds of words producing a humorous result. For example:
"It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride." (Spooner while officiating at a wedding)
"Is the bean dizzy?" (Spooner questioning the secretary of his dean)
ETYMOLOGY: After William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), clergyman and educator, who was prone to this. Earliest documented use: 1900.
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SPOOKERISM: When a spooner-prone spook says "phoo" instead of "boo" and then wonders why no one is afraid.
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SLOOTHERISM: The work of Sherlock Holmes and Watson.
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SCHOONERISM - the tendency of some peopke to drink their sherry in overlarge glasses.
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SPOONERISM --> SNOOPERISM - surveillance gone wild !
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SOONERISM: Belief in the existence of Oklahoma
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with Anu Garg malapropism
PRONUNCIATION:(MAL-uh-prop-iz-ehm)
MEANING:
noun: The humorous misuse of a word by confusing it with a similar-sounding word.
For example, "pineapple of perfection" for "pinnacle of perfection".
ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan's play, The Rivals (1775), who confused words in this manner. Earliest documented use: 1830.
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MALAPTOPISM: a laptop manufactured by International Sewing Machine that belongs to your Ma.
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