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 Now Luke, don't paint a generation with a paranoid brush least Charlie McCarthy accuse you of being a name-calling McCarthyite.  MCEARTHISM- an ad campaign so successful that all people on Earth stop cooking and begin eating every meal at McDonalds...mostly Happy Meals.
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Talk about labels.....McDonalds?
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RUBEGOLDBERG
PRONUNCIATION: (roob GOLD-buhrg)
MEANING: adjective: Absurdly complex or impractical.
ETYMOLOGY:
After cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) who was known for his intricate drawings showing fantastically impractical contraptions to accomplish simple jobs. Earliest documented use: 1928.
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RUBYGOLDBERG - a broken-off chunk of glacier floating on the ocean that looks red or yellow depending on your angle of view
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CUBE COLDBERG- an iceberg concocted by Dali * Grrr this stupid laptop refuses to concoct a _ebra or a damn question mark. 
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blimp
PRONUNCIATION: (blimp)
MEANING:
noun: A pompous reactionary with out-of-date views.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Colonel Blimp, a cartoon character created by David Low (1891-1963). Blimp was a satirical look at the self-important and ultra-nationalistic attitudes of officials in the British army and government. Earliest documented use: 1934.
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LLIMP - a llama with a llimp.
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GLIMP - One quick sneak peek. If you look more than once, you use the plural, "glimps," for the brief image you see.
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And...and...but...I thought the word Blimp preceded the cartoon character, that indeed the character's name was a back-derivation from the name of that other, literal, gasbag. Military barrage balloons, with no internal structure and hence "limps," came in two shapes: the round ones - A-limps - and the cigar-shaped ones we see more often - "B-limps," quickly shortened to Blimps. Is this story totally apocryphal?
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felicitous
PRONUNCIATION: (fi-LIS-i-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Well suited. 2. Pleasing.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin felix (happy). Earliest documented use: 1641.
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FELICITOUT - to proclaim endlessly your state of intense happiness to a person who is sad.
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FELICIOUS - or, as they say in Pyongyang, "This stewed cat is yummy!"
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DISPRIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (dis-PRYZ)
MEANING: verb tr.: To disdain or scorn.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French desprisier (dispraise), from Latin pretium (price, worth, or reward). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to traffic in, to sell) which also gave us praise, price, precious, appreciate, appraise, and interpret. Earliest documented use: 1480.
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DISPRIDE - that warm feeling you get after delivering an absolutely crushing insult
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DISPRIZED - what you will become if you dis Jeopardy game show hostess Vanna White by saying "baby got back".
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ineluctable
PRONUNCIATION:
(in-i-LUHK-tuh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Impossible to avoid: inescapable.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (not) + eluctari (to struggle out of), from ex- (out) + luctari (to struggle). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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INRELUCTABLE - not afraid of being afraid
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INELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and ______________ in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)
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MALINGER
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr)
MEANING: verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.
ETYMOLOGY: From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.
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MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation
Runner-up: MAILINGER - Dead-Letter Office
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UNELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and THAT WOMAN in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)
Mmmm? On second thought I'd rather have a dark horse than That Woman.
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malinger
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.
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MAL-FINGER - the bad middle finger
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MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation
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SALINGER - a writer who was a malinger.
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MAFINGER – an exclamation of surprise commonly used when attempting to drive a nail.
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nimiety
PRONUNCIATION: (ni-MY-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: Excess or redundancy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nimius (too much). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ne (not), which also gave us nil, null, not, never, nothing, nihilism, annihilate, and naughty. Earliest documented use: 1542.
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NIMPIETY - the act of having too much piety; so much that you change the World. (See... Nelson Mandela}
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ANIMIETY - worrying about life as depicted in a Japanese graphic novel
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TIMIETY - if you're scared; say scared.
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NIXIETY - the fraternity that is our current House of Representatives ? [/rant]
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INOCULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (i-NOK-yuh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To treat with a vaccine to induce immunity against a disease.
2. To introduce an idea into someone's mind.
3. To safeguard or protect.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (in) + oculus (eye; bud, referring to grafting of a bud into a plant of a different type). Earliest documented use: 1420.
[Also, referring to the first smallpox vaccine, which was administered by instilling a drop of vaccine into the eye sac - wofa]
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(I wanted to make INOCULATTE - "to get coffee in our eye because it's WAY too early" - but that's one of the original ones !)
INOMULATE - to miss your train because you meditated too long
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INOCULTATE - a western member of an eastern cult who meditates while drinking latte and misses his train.
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PALPABLE
PRONUNCIATION:
(PAL-puh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Easily perceived; obvious.
2. Capable of being touched or felt; tangible.
3. Capable of being discerned by touching (as an illness or a disease).
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin palapare (to touch, caress), from palpus (palm, stroke, caress). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pal- (to touch, feel, or shake), which also gave us palpate, palpitate, feel, and sprachgefuhl. Earliest documented use: 1395.
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PAPABLE - Pope material ?
PALIPABLE - Ah, yer father's moustache !
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PAMPABLE– male Argentinian livestock
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PALPFABLE - a romantic fable that touches the heart.
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CULLET
PRONUNCIATION:(KUHL-it)
MEANING:
noun: Scrap glass suitable for remelting.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French collet, diminutive of col (neck), from Latin collum (neck), apparently referring to a bottle's neck. Earliest documented use: 1817.
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PULLET - A Christmas Story: My Gramdma Grider loved her chickens. She would sing to them everyday and when feeding them she would call each by name and they would come. One Saturday me and my cousin heard her calling to the chickens so we looked out the back window to watch. Grandma had two pullets by the neck, one in each hand.
Deftly, almost inperceptually, she gave her hands a slight twist and the chickens were dead.
The next day when Grandma called us to Sunday dinner we came imediatelly wearing our best manners. We wondered what were the names of the chickens we were eating but were too afraid to ask.
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Wow, J^2, with that story you could have used CALLET, or BULLET, CILLIT, or maybe even CUTLET, with equal aplomb...
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CULLEX = a genus of mossquito, known to transmit various diseases such as Wesst Nille Encephallitis and a few otherss
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SKINT
PRONUNCIATION: (skint)
MEANING: adjective: Having no money; broke; poor.
ETYMOLOGY: A variant spelling of the word skinned, as in, so broke that even one's skin is shaved off. Earliest documented use: 1925.
NOTES: Most of the time we make past participle of a word by adding -ed to it (walk/walked), but sometimes we use the phonetic spelling as in today's word. Some other examples are burnt, learnt, spilt, and spoilt. By the way, the word 'past' itself is a phonetic spelling of 'passed'. The -t spellings are more common in British English.
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SKILT -- a small frying pan for a short-order cook in a fast-food joint
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SKINZ one half a boys PhysEd class basketball team.
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If your skin has been
SKINT because your money has been poorly
SPINT then for help go ask your
KINT - a kint is anyone who is by kin your kint
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pratfall
PRONUNCIATION:
(PRAT-fawl)
MEANING:
noun: A humiliating failure, blunder, or defeat.
ETYMOLOGY:
A pratfall is literally a fall on the buttocks. The word is figuratively used to describe embarrassing errors or failures. From prat (buttocks, fool) + fall. Earliest documented use: 1939.
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PRATBALL - like football but you don't tackle the guy with the ball you pat him on the butt and he is ruled down.
(like touch football except you pat instead of touch.)
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Oh, Lordy, JJ, the images that connotes.
BRATFALL -when a bully gets his/her comeuppance.
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PRAYFALL - what Lucifer said on his way down
SPRATFALL - that's the reason Ol' Jack has been avioding grease (and fat) for so long
PRATFILL - euphemism for "constipation." See also PRATFAIL
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SPRATFALL - (see below)
Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so betwixt the two of them
They licked the platter clean
Jack ate all the lean,
Joan ate all the fat.
The bone they picked it clean,
Then gave it to the cat
Jack Sprat was wheeling,
His wife by the ditch.
The barrow turned over,
And in she did pitch.
Says Jack, "She'll be drowned!"
But Joan did reply,
"I don't think I shall,
For the ditch is quite dry.".
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descant
PRONUNCIATION:
(verb: des-KANT, dis-, noun: DES-kant)
MEANING:
verb intr.: 1. To talk tediously. 2. To sing or play a descant.
noun: 1. A comment on a subject. 2. An ornamental melody sung or played above a basic melody.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin discantus (refrain), from dis- (apart, away) + cantus (song), from canere (to sing). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kan- (sing), which also gave us hen, chant, accent, enchant, incentive, recant, cantor, and charm.
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DESCART(es) - I think therefore I am. I think therefore I am.
I think, well am I not?
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DECANT - The Power of Positive Thinking.: to remove the negative from your vocabulary.
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