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ILIAD
PRONUNCIATION: (IL-ee-uhd)
MEANING: noun:
1. A long narrative, especially an epic poem describing martial exploits.
2. A long series of miseries or disasters.
ETYMOLOGY: After Iliad, a Greek epic poem traditionally attributed to Homer. From Ilion, ancient Greek name of the city of Troy, an area now in modern Turkey. Earliest documented use: 1579.
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PILIAD - after pilus, ancient Latin name for a hair-like appendage.
1. a hair-raising tale;
2. a marketing message that makes you want to tear your hair out
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ILIAR – A long narrative, especially an epic poem describing events that I've totally fabricated.
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GILIAD- an epic series of events surrounding a stranded salior who is further surrounded by Mary Ann and a movie star and other zany people. He is continually perplexed.
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You forgot to mention that there is a palm in Giliad!
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DAMASK
PRONUNCIATION: (DAM-uhsk)
MEANING:
noun: 1. A reversible fabric with a pattern woven into it, used for table linen, upholstery, etc.
2. Short for damask rose.
3. The color of damask rose: grayish red or pink.
4. Short for damask steel.
5. Wavy markings on such steel.
adjective: 1. Made of or resembling damask.
2. Having the color of damask rose.
verb tr.: 1. To decorate or weave with richly-figured designs.
2. To inlay a metal object with gold or silver patterns; to gild.
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From Damascus, where this fabric was first produced. Earliest documented use: 1325.
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DAMARK - 1. Fabric with a stain on both sides that no one can touch, giving rise to the phrase "being wide of Damark"
2. Copenhagen and environs, when the sun is shining
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DUMASK, verb: to pose a thoughtless or stupid question.
also: DIMASK
noun: One who poses such a question.
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DAMARK asked, the pickpocket answered...
"Listen, Dumask, I da pickpocket, you damark."
(futher proof there ain't no balm in Damask)
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bloviate
PRONUNCIATION: (BLO-vee-ayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To speak pompously.
ETYMOLOGY:
Pseudo-Latin alteration of blow (to boast). Earliest documented use: 1845.
USAGE:
"All you cinephiles who like to find grand statements and social criticism in horror movies, prepare to bloviate. It's midnight at the Tribeca Film Festival."
Neil Genzlinger; Scare Me, Sure, But Also Make A Statement; The New York Times; Apr 18, 2013.
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BLOGIATE - to swagger on the net without the world knowing that you swag without wearing any underwear.
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BOVIATE
PRONUNCIATION: (BO-vee-ayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To speak like a cow, often crudely, sometimes with unpleasant gases issuing from the rear. Often hard to distinguish from BLOVIATE, where the gas issues from the front.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin bos, genitive bovis, = ox, cow
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skulduggery
PRONUNCIATION: (skuhl-DUHG-uh-ree)
MEANING:
noun: Underhand dealing: trickery, bribery, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
An American coinage, apparently from the alteration of Scots sculduddery (fornication, obscenity). Earliest documented use: 1867.
USAGE:
"In the 1980s [the Vatican Bank] was accused of involvement in financial skulduggery and responsibility for the still-mysterious death of a prominent Italian banker, Roberto Calvi."
God's Bankers; The Economist (London, UK); Jul 7, 2012.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. -José Martí, revolutionary and poet (1853-1895)
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SKILDUGGERY - high order duggery. ex: the duggery at the Vatican.
Comment on the THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
It seems the media has seasoned the 21st Century with a hatred for all things American; football, motherhood, and apple pie. - Rice Miller, bluesman and poet (1898-1963)
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SKULDRUGGERY - "This is your brain on dope"
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SKOLDUGGERY - dipping snuff surreptitiously.
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honeyfuggle
PRONUNCIATION: (HUN-ee-fuh-guhl)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To deceive or swindle, especially by flattery.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps from honey + fugle (to cheat). Earliest documented use: 1829. Also spelled as honeyfugle.
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MONEYFUGGLE - to flatter vain men for their money. Ex:
The minute you walked in the joint
I could tell you were a man of distinction; a real big spender.
Hey Big Spender! Spend...a little time with me.
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[You can have the fun with HONKYFUGGLE...]
HONEYFUDGLE - cute marketing name for a new candy bar
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HONKYFUGGLE - to be fleeced at a white honky tonk rather than at a black juke joint back in the thirties when both joints offered a white or black version of sweet Southern culture blues.
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lallygag or lollygag
PRONUNCIATION: (LAL-ee-gag, LOL-ee-gag)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To fool around, waste time, or spend time lazily.
2. To neck.
ETYMOLOGY:
Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1862.
USAGE:
"I lallygagged around and when it was evident that they were not coming home to take me, I had to start off."
Margaret Mason; A Memory at Large; RoseDog Books; 2011.
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LALLYGAGA - the real Lady Ga-Ga who is lazy but not a lady.
LOLLYGARG - the Yang and Yin within Anu.
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...a good fifty years ago.
OLLYGAG - a corny joke played on Kukla and Fran
(or on Beulah Witch, or Colonel Cracky, or maybe Fletcher Rabbit)
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bumfuzzle
PRONUNCIATION: (bum-FUZ-uhl)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To confuse.
ETYMOLOGY:
From bum-, probably from bamboozle (to deceive) + fuzzle (to confuse). Earliest documented use: 1900.
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BUMGUZZLE:
1. to empty a pint of Mellow Corn whiskey with a single swallow.
2. to pour yourself an eight-ounce tumbler of your brother-in-law's pretentious eighty-nine dollars-a-bottle 1997 imported wine.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil. -Norman Mailer, author (1923-2007)
Any man who could sit with Norman Mailer for ten minutes and limit himself to only eighteen shouts of "evil" is a man not well read.
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BUMFUZZIE -
That vagrant\
( Pick one )... ought to shave more often
.... That ass./
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Good one, wofa.
I think of that frequently watching TV shows,
and certain folks in our Hollywood Royal Family.
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SCUD
PRONUNCIATION:
(skud)
MEANING:
verb intr.: 1. To run or move swiftly.
2. In nautical parlance, to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
noun: 1. The act of scudding.
2. Clouds, rain, mist, etc. driven by the wind.
3. Low clouds beneath another cloud layer.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, possibly from Middle Low German schudden (to shake). Earliest documented use: 1609.
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pronounced "skwud"
verb: Past tense of "squid"
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RESPLENDENT
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-SPLEN-dent)
MEANING: adjective: Shining; brilliant; radiant; splendid.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin resplendere (to shine brightly), from re- (intensive prefix) + splendere (to shine). Earliest documented use: 1440.
USAGE: "Gilderoy Lockhart was walking onto the stage, resplendent in robes of deep plum."
J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Bloomsbury; 1998.
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RESPLENDANT - taste modified with another packet of artificial sweetener (made with New Technology)
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SLIPSTREAM
PRONUNCIATION: (SLIP-streem)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A stream of air (or another fluid) forced backwards by a propeller.
2. The area of reduced pressure behind a fast-moving object.
verb tr., intr.:
3. To follow behind a vehicle to take advantage of decreased wind resistance.
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SLIPSDREAM - I've fallen in the lingerie department and I can't get up...
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HEINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (HAY-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Extremely wicked.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French haine (hatred), from hair (to hate). Earliest documented use: 1394.
USAGE: "You have been brought here before the Council of Magical Law ... so that we may pass judgment on you, for a crime so heinous."
J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Bloomsbury; 2000.
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NEINOUS - rhymes with "minus" - like a German obstructionist
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HEIROUS - next in line to inherit
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HEINUS – Grooks of seventeen syllables.
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SEPULCHRAL
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-PUHL-kruhl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a grave or a burial.
2. Gloomy, serious, or sad.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sepulcrum (grave, tomb), from sepelire (to bury). Earliest documented use: 1615.
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SHE-PULCHRAL - pertaining to feminine beauty
etym. from Latin pulchritudo beauty; excellence, attractiveness
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HEINUS - Groooks of seventeen syllalbles Ooh, nice one. I'd forgotten about those ! Seventeen syllables divided into three lines of 5-7-5 syllables, of course.
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It was exposure to Piet Hein that made me realize that excellence in one field does not preclude excellence in others. Obvious in, say, Leonardo, but Hein was still very alive when I discovered him in my preteens. Made all the difference.
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SHE-PULCHRAL - yes!
SEPULCORAL – Burial at sea.
SEPULCHORAL – Requiem
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WIGGLEDY JIGGLEDY:
what I was when I'd walk on stage at Wesley's Boobie Trap and Bait Shop back when I was a pole dancer.
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...but it's Saturday! I don't recall seeing an AWAD entry on the weekend in a dog's age, if ever. I guess the fact of seven HP books was stronger than the practice of five-days-makes-a-week.
(And welcome back, Jen, we've missed you.)
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HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY
PRONUNCIATION: (HIG-uhl-dee PIG-uhl-dee)
MEANING: adverb: In a disordered or random manner.
adjective: Confused; jumbled.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin, perhaps referring to the herding of pigs. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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[contrast "Jiggery-Pokery," noun, underhanded sabotage or mischief]
[Also the paradigm for a double-dactyl, a form of doggerel poetry with particular structural rules, and beyond the scope of this post]
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WHIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY - a form of political satire, used by the Tories to cast their opponents in an unflattering light
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CANKERPRONUNCIATION: (KANG-kuhr) MEANING: noun: 1. A source of corruption or decay. 2. Ulcerous sores in the mouth; also any of various diseases affecting animals and plants. verb tr., intr.: 1. To corrupt or to become corrupted. 2. To infect with or be infected with canker. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English cancer (crab, tumor). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kar-/ker- (hard), which also gave us standard, cancer, and hard. Earliest documented use: 1384. _____________________________________ CANYER - an Australian request, as in "Canyer bring me a beer ?
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YANKER
(1)the guy who pulls the pitcher when the pitcher can't pitch.
(2) a Yanker Diddlely Dandy.
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... I don't recall seeing an AWAD entry on the weekend in a dog's age, if ever... (...or at least not since the second week in October, 2000. YCLIU.)
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GROK
PRONUNCIATION: (grok)
MEANING: verb tr.: To understand deeply and intuitively.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Earliest documented use: 1961.
NOTES: In Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein describes grok as a Martian word meaning "to drink". That's the literal meaning, however, figuratively it means to understand something in a profound way. To grok something is to be one with it in a way that the observer and the observed become merged.
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GWOK - to dwink in, to understand deeply and intuitively, provided you are Martian with a lisp
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GROKE (grok-ee ) - one who groks his in-group's self-serving mantra and so loses all connection with objective reality.
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WALDO
PRONUNCIATION: (WAL-doh)
MEANING: noun: A device for manipulating objects by remote control, for example, a remotely-operated arm.
ETYMOLOGY: After Waldo F. Jones, an inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein. Earliest documented use: 1942.
NOTES: Modern applications of waldo as a remote manipulator are in surgery, space, and in working in hazardous conditions, such as those involving radiation.
(That's two-for-two for Heinlein...)
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I wonder if he'll invoke ROBOT - from Karel Capek's play (in Checkoslovakian) R.U.R, which stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots." It's where Isaac Asimov got the word. Certainly it fits the description!
from TheFreeDictionary.com: robot itself comes from Czech robota,..."servitude, forced labor," from rab, "slave..."
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WALDOC - a non-intrusive examination robot to be set up in all Walmart stores designed to compete with the Doc-in-a-Box market with the base rate set at $9.98 per visit. Organ transplants are slightly higher.
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tardis
PRONUNCIATION: (TAR-dis)
MEANING:
1. A time machine.
2. Something that is much bigger than it appears from the outside.
ETYMOLOGY:
From TARDIS, a time machine in the British science-fiction TV series, Doctor Who. Earliest documented use: 1969.
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TZARDIS - even if the Czar is small best not dis him... he is BIG.
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