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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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----please, draw me a sheep----
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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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WARDO - unconscionable profits made by the munitions industry during a conflict
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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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