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DESRANT - when an ignorant man meets a wise man how does he know it?
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hebetate
PRONUNCIATION: (HEB-i-tayt)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To make dull or obtuse.
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From Latin hebetare (to make blunt), from hebes (blunt). Earliest documented use: 1574.
USAGE:
"Habit then while it hebetates our sentiments, improves our judgments of things."
Gordon M. Burghardt; The Genesis of Animal Play; MIT Press; 2005.
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HABETATE- to build a habitat for humanity rather than a house for a man.
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Why change it at all? "He who hebetates is lost!"
1) HEBERATE - to scold, loudly and publicly. Usage: "When my stupidity lost us the Foofnik contract, my Boss HEBERATE me in front of everybody for the rest of the day!"
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2) REBETATE - to croak like a frog
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BLANDISH
PRONUNCIATION: (BLAN-dish)
MEANING: verb intr.: To coax with flattery.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin blandiri (to flatter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us bland, melt, smelt, malt, mild, mulch, mollify, mollusk, emollient, enamel, smalto, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1305.
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CLANDISH - see HAGGIS
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O'Landish - an Irishman whose smiling eyes and flattering words are but blarney stone lies he wears to cage a drink.
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IMPORTUNEPRONUNCIATION: (im-pawr-TOON, im-pawr-TYOON, im-PAWR-chuhn) MEANING: 1. What the Beatles did 2. To ask someone, repeatedly or annoyingly, to do something. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin importunus, from in- (not) + portus (port, refuge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over), which also gave us support, comport, petroleum, sport, passport, petrify, colporteur (a peddler of religious books), Swedish fartlek (a training technique), Norwegian fjord (bay), and Sanskrit parvat (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1530. --------------------------------- IMPOORTUNE - "All That Gold," from Amahl and the Night Visitors ( this is as close as I could get to the song, on short notice)
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PIMPORTUNE - a pimp whose incessant insisiting has forced you upstairs to meet sweet Lotta Lola in room 333.
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colligate
PRONUNCIATION: KOL-i-gayt)
MEANING:
verb tr. To bind or group together.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin colligare, from com- (together) + ligare (bind). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leig (to bind), which is also the source of oblige, alloy, ally, rely, lien, league, liable, ligature, and furl. Earliest documented use: 1545.
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COLDIGATE - a conspiracy by science and politicians to suppress the fact that Earth stopped warming 17 years ago.
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DOLLIGATE - how you enter that big mansion in Brentwood, Tennessee
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COLLIFATE - in Spring 1928 the entire sitting math class at Dublin University was composed entirely of students (both male and female) whose first names were claimed to be "Colleen".
This incongruity (or congruity) caused the math teacher (whose name was not "Colleen"} to exclaim...
"Well, mathematically a colligate such as this is sooner or later destined to occur. But non-mathematically speaking, the odds are dead even that these names will re-occur in this same class next year".
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COLLIGAZE - Lassie looks intently off into the distance, as though hearing the cry of a child fallen into a well and trapped...
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COLLIGAZE - Lassie looks intently off into the distance,
as though hearing the cry of a child fallen into a well and trapped...
Great! Best of the Season. I didn't cry but if I hadn't laughed I would have. Thanks Doc.
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lickspittle
PRONUNCIATION:(LIK-spit-l)
MEANING:
noun: A servile flatterer. ETYMOLOGY:
From lick, from Old English liccian + spittle, from old English spittan. A term with a similar idea is brown-noser. Earliest documented use: 1825.
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LICKSPLITTLE - to hurry forward a little lickety-split.
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LACKSPITTLE -- one with no spirit or backbone; a pissant
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tosspot
PRONUNCIATION: (TOS-pot)
MEANING: noun: 1. A drunkard. 2. An idiot.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the phrase to toss off (to drink rapidly). Earliest documented use: 1568.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." -Voltaire
"Is it you that you revere, Voltaire?" - answered a drunk
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TOSSBOT- a practice baseball pitching machine that only throws balls wildly as if it were drunk.
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BOSSPOT - Nice one Luke.
TOPSPOT works there, too!
TOSSPORT - finicky kind of TOSSPOT, will only imbibe one specific beverage
TOSSPOST - there's that Dead Letter Office again (see MAILINGER above, 12/5/13)
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thanks 
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MILKSOP
PRONUNCIATION: (MILK-sop)
MEANING: noun: One who is timid or indecisive.
ETYMOLOGY: A milksop is, literally, a piece of bread soaked in milk, a diet considered suitable for babies and the sick. A synonym of this term is milquetoast. Earliest documented use: 1390.
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MILLSOP - Standard Operating Procedure in the factory
runnerup:
MILKSOZ - what that fake Wizard does in the Emerald City
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BILKSOP Victim of a ponzi-like scheme.
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ILKSOP- a set of human beings who follow standard operating procedures of being alive and never ask why.
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hayseed
PRONUNCIATION: (HAY-seed)
MEANING:
noun: An unsophisticated person who comes from a rural area.
ETYMOLOGY:
Alluding to a person with straw in his clothes or smelling of hayseed and regarded as a country bumpkin. Earliest documented use: 1577.
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HAY-SPEED- in circa 1967 a one hit wonder named Mister Earl whom they often called "Speedo" was on the skids. His friends "The Drifters" wrote a question/response stage song with the refrain "Hey speed" to facilitate the re-invigoration of Speedo's fame.
The song is a wonderful hoot. I'll edit in a Youtube rendition if one exists.
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HAYSEND
verb: moved quickly
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gadabout
PRONUNCIATION: (GAD-uh-bout)
MEANING:
noun: One who roams around in search of amusement.
ETYMOLOGY:
From gad (to go around from one place to another aimlessly). Earliest documented use: 1817
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GAGABOUT - a fight between Mister Gaga and Lady Gaga for dominance.
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GIGABOUT: 2^30, which is 1,073,741,824, or about one billion
(the way a Meg is 2^20, which is 1,048,576, or about a million,
and a K is 2^10, which is 1,024, or about a thousand)
Edit: Oops, that's two changes. One too many. Let's try this one:
GADABOOT: to kick your prodigal son out of the house once and for all
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BLEB
PRONUNCIATION: (bleb)
MEANING: noun: 1. A small blister or swelling. 2. A bubble.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps alteration of blob. Earliest documented use: 1607.
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BLEEB - censorship on the British Broadcasting Corporation
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BLUB - Moby Dick's bubba who was much too fat to excape the harpoons of Ahab but yet in death he contributed tons of enlightment to mankind. Hense the term "light Blub".
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jilt
PRONUNCIATION:
JILT
MEANING:
verb tr.: To end a relationship suddenly or callously.
noun: A person, especially a woman, who discards a lover.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, perhaps from the name Gillian (or Jillian/Jill). Earliest documented use: 1660.
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JULT - 14-year-old sweetheart of Romo, whose family was having a feud with hers
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TILT - Wilt Chamberlan's younger bro. He was a better shooter than Wilt but his left foot was shorter than his right foot so he couldn't run, instead he skipped.
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pi
PRONUNCIATION:
(py)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A confused mixture, originally a jumble of printing types. Also spelled as pie.
2. The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet.
3. A mathematical constant (approximately 3.14159), representing the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1659.
For 2, 3: From Greek pi/pei, of Semitic origin. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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PU - half a platter of American Chinese appetizers
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PIUwhat I think when cleaning shoes after walk in barnyard.
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-PID - a suffix added to indicate that someone is more than just plain stu.
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YARE
PRONUNCIATION: (yahr or yayr)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Easily maneuverable; nimble. 2. Ready; prepared.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English gearo/gearu (ready). Earliest documented use: 888.
USAGE: "I do desire to learn, sir; and, I hope, if you have occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find me yare."
William Shakespeare; Measure For Measure; 1604.
"She was a 'bonnie lass' in the words of her chief engineer; she was faithful, she was yare -- an unlikely compliment for a vessel without sails."
D.C. Riechel; German Departures; iUniverse; 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
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NARE : lumbering; unprepared; obstinate; unresponsive; in short, the opposite of YARE
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"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin
I like that.
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"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin
I like that.
I like it too, Fahulicodo, very much. Strange. I wonder why Franklin is just now saying it? =========================================================== Y'ARE - "Y'think therefore Y'are". A phrase often used by Descarte when addressing a group.
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Y'ARE.
Good thinnking, JJ!
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RUCK
PRONUNCIATION: (ruk)
MEANING: noun: 1. A large mass, especially of ordinary people or things. 2. A crease or wrinkle.
verb tr., intr.: To make a crease or to become creased.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse hrukka (wrinkle, fold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to turn or bend), which is also the source of ranch, rank, shrink, circle, circa, crisp, corolla, search, ring, curb, ridge, curve, corolla, and coronary. Earliest documented use: 1225.
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UNCK
what Piglet called his mother's brother
Reason for edit: two changes; disqualified
O'RUCK
1. what your Japanese friend wishes you rots of when she's feeling sardonic
2. an Irish brand of vacuem cleaner
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"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin Let's take it one step further: Never confuse motion with action, or action with progress. ** ("The trouble with Internet quotations is that you can't always depend on their accuracy." -- Abraham Lincoln)**Edit: A brief Googlesearch says I could/should have attributed this to "Benjamin Hemingway"...
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F*CK - a written euphemism for the F-word.
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...and this from the young lady who chided me for using the euphemism "nether parts"... 
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Ha!
Better half-said than left unsaid whereas the f-word might snigger forever in schoolboys raunchy little minds.
Don't push me. I'll say the p-word, the c-word, and words that have never been said if properly challenged.
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