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tumid
PRONUNCIATION: (TOO-mid, TYOO-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Swollen.
2. Bulging.
3. Pompous, bombastic.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tumere (to swell). Earliest documented use: 1541.
USAGE:
"Her tumid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry."
Joseph Heller; Catch-22.
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HUMID - damp
USAGE: "Her humid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry."
- Joseph Heller before rewrite
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'TUPID Speech impediment for 'stupid'.
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TUMOID - the curiously strong antacid, something between a TUMS and an ALTOID
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tumie - beer belly.
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TIMID - what we who write here are assuredly not.
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primogeniture
PRONUNCIATION:
(pry-muh-JEN-i-chuhr, pree-, -choor)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The state of being the firstborn or eldest child in a family.
2. The right of succession and inheritance belonging to the firstborn child.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin primus (first) + gignere (to beget). Not to be confused with primogenitor. Earliest documented use: 1500.
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PRIMOGENITLURE - and the second lure is money.
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PRIMOGENISURE - It's a wise first child who knows its own father (sometimes PRIMOGENISIRE)PROMOGENITURE - an ad campaign for www.Ancestry.com
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Not to worry, Wolfman. Einstein was oft times late for a party. But when he arrived everyone stopped and listened. 
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And there are plenty of sites on line to find whichever
primogenitlure is your fancy.
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RECIDIVISM
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-SID-uh-viz-ehm)
MEANING: noun: Relapsing (into smoking, crime, etc.), especially repeatedly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin re- (again) + cadere (to fall). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kad- (to fall), which is also the source of cadence, cascade, casualty, cadaver, chance, chute, accident, occident, decay, and casuistry . Earliest documented use: 1884.
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We don't need to change anything for this one!
RECIDIVISM - Falling Back again (changing from Daylight Savings to Standard Time)
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OK, OK, if you insist...
REBIDIVISM - irresistable over-optimism in a Bridge-player
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add E ERECIDIVISM - united we stand IIII divided we fall //// 
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decidivism – the firmly-held belief that the catheter will fall out of the arm.
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MIEN
PRONUNCIATION: (meen)
MEANING: noun: Appearance, bearing, or demeanor.
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably a shortened form of demean (to conduct oneself in a specified manner), influenced by French mine (appearance). Earliest documented use: 1522.
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AMIEN - the close of a self-centered man's prayer
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RIEN "Nothing", en francais.
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Now I know how you feel, J-J ! Luke, you took the words out of my mouth! I would have tried to be cutesier, a la
RIEN - "Don't be fooled by that fancy claim, in Paris it means nothing..."
Here's Plan B:
MICEN, pronounced meissen
1) German pottery
2) Steinbeck story about two men, one mentally challenged, exploring the theme Are You a Man or a Mouse? ["Of Micen Men"]
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Yes you did Wofahaulic, you did, you did mien it and you miended it well. Of "of micen men" : Only a mien man would punctuate Steinbeck's great novella. 
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AUTOCHTHONOUS
PRONUNCIATION:
(o-TOK-thuh-nuhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Aboriginal; indigenous.
2. Formed or originating in the place where found.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek autochthon (of the land itself), from auto- (self) + chthon (earth, land). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also sprouted human, homicide, humble, homage, chamomile, exhume, inhume, chthonic, disinter, chameleonic, and Persian zamindar (landholder). Earliest documented use: 1804. The opposite of this term is allochthonous.
(Why does it look so familiar, even in this context?)
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(Because of the Word for August 16, just nine weeks ago, that's why.)
AUTOCATHONOUS ("auto-cath-in-us") - technical name for when the car mechanic puts that little tube in your tailpipe to measure emissions, so you can get your inspection sticker
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When the going gets tough...dazzle with bullspit and lie.
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AUTOCATHOMOUS - The autothomus C. A. Thomous who was widely unknown for being the second man to invent the American automobile.
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pecksniffian
PRONUNCIATION:(pek-SNIF-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Pretending to have high moral principles; sanctimonious, hypocritical.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Earliest documented use: 1844
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SPECKSNIFFIAN - a mother-in-law on her first visit to her daughter-in-law's house.
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wonderful! may be a touphie, but you did it.
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techsniffian computer geek fixing errors
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necksniffian – highly effective perfume.
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PEEKSNIFFIAN - that'd be your K-9 Corps bomb-searching squad in action, dog and man together...
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SMELLFUNGUS
PRONUNCIATION:
(smel-FUNG-uhs)
MEANING:
noun: A habitual faultfinder or complainer.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Smelfungus, a hypercritical character in Laurence Sterne's 1768 novel, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Earliest documented use: 1807.
NOTES:
Novelist Laurence Sterne modeled his character Smelfungus after traveler and author Tobias Smollett who complained about almost everything in his 1766 travel book Travels through France and Italy. Here's how Sterne describes Smelfungus:
"The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome, and so on; but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings."
USAGE:
"And a couple of smellfungus from the Official Paper ... carped that Issel chose to jump when the schedule reached its toughest stretch."
Woody Paige; Issel is the Wrong Scapegoat in Nuggets' Mess; Denver Post; Feb 13, 1995.
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SWELLFUNGUS - growing bigger truffles
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FALSTAFFIAN
PRONUNCIATION:
(fal-STAF-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Fat, jolly, and convivial.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Sir John Falstaff, a character in Shakespeare's plays Henry IV (parts 1 & 2) and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Earliest documented use: 1809.
USAGE:
"His hair was long and scruffy, his ties ludicrous and his manner jovial bordering on Falstaffian; a board meeting, for him, was a debate, punctuated by gales of his maniacal laughter."
John Harvey-Jones; The Economist (London, UK); Jan 17, 2008.
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FALLSTAFFIAN
happily hiring extra help to rake up the leaves
(don't you just pine for a backyard full of evergreens)
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HALSTAFFIAN high school hall monitors with machine guns.
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FAUSTAFFIAN - a friend of a friend of the devil.
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...That'd be "a friend of a friend of a fiend"?
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So right you always are, Doc. Now please (if you will) place in proper order these three folks ... Mephistopheles Wolfahullic The Devil into this sentence... ...a fiend________ who is a friend___________ of a fiend_________. Thanks Wolf!
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milquetoast
PRONUNCIATION: (MILK-tohst)
MEANING:
noun: A timid, unassertive person.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Caspar Milquetoast, a comic strip character by H.T. Webster (1885-1952). A synonym of the word is milksop. Earliest documented use: 1932
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MINQUETOAST - Here's to your new fur coat !
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bumbledom
PRONUNCIATION:(BUHM-buhl-duhm)
MEANING:
noun: Behavior characteristic of a pompous and self-important petty official.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Mr. Bumble in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist. Bumble was a fussy, self-important beadle (a minor parish officer) of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was born.
USAGE:
"We regret to record the death of Albury-Wodonga with a hyphen. ... Bumbledom in the two councils has decreed the hyphen must go from stationery and signs."
-Howard Jones; Political Doublespeak is Sad Legacy for Border Folk; (Wodonga, Australia 2007).
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HUMBLEDOM - as in
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."
-Michelangelo (1475-1564)
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DUMBLEDOM --> what Albus Percival Wilfric Brian wears his Wizard's Hat on
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Well gang, I guess once again that wofah get's the last laugh.
Darn.
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bupkis
PRONUNCIATION: BUHP-kis)
MEANING:
noun: Absolutely nothing; worthless.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish, short for kozebubkes (goat droppings), from bub/bob (bean). Earliest documented use: 1937.
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UPKIS - a kiss on the upper lips
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BUPKID - Halloweed treat (sorry, by dose is stuffed)
(My first thought was PUPKIS - "My doggie licked my face !" but you beat me to it)
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SCHNOZZLE
PRONUNCIATION: (SHNOZ-ul)
MEANING: noun: A nose, especially a large one.
ETYMOLOGY From Yiddish shnoytsl, diminutive of shnoyts (snout), from German Schnauze (snout), which also gave us the name of the dog breed schnauzer. Earliest documented use: 1930.
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SCHNOTZLE - a vole cutlet
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SCHNOZZIE - a too small nose on a real big man.
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