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MARDIS - Tuesdays in Paris
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TRIFIID(tri-fi-id)- since it is semantically impossible for anyone to have three ids this word is true as well as self-explanatory in that
It clearly indicates that it is fiction.
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TRAFF-ID - Gimmicky name for the little black box they'll put into your car some day, giving your location, and speed, and condition of brakes and accelerator and steering, ostensibly to help time traffic lights but eventually used to generate ticket revenue. ( They could already do this with turnpike E-Z Pass gadgets, but they don't... )
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FRANKENSTEIN
PRONUNCIATION: (FRANG-kuhn-styn)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A creation that gets out of control and brings harm to its creator.
2. One who creates something that brings ruin to himself.
3. A monster having human appearance.
ETYMOLOGY: After Victor Frankenstein, who creates a monster from parts of corpses in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein. Earliest documented use: 1827.
NOTES: In the story, Frankenstein was the creator, not the monster. We should be calling the creation "Frankenstein's monster", but it's out of the control of the novelist now, and the monster itself is called Frankenstein. The prefix franken- has been coined as an uncomplimentary moniker for artificially created things. For example, genetically-modified foods are often called frankenfoods (see frankenfish).
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FRANK 'N STEIN - name for a hot-dog-and-beer joint. They do a monstrous business.
(Not very subtle, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised to find there actually is one. Or several, for that matter.)
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CRANKENSTEIN
a miserable, bitter next door neighbor who feels the
universe revolves around him/her.
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FRANK 'N STEIN...
(Not very subtle, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised to find there actually is one. Or several, for that matter.)
Mebbe FLANKENSTEIN, a steak-and-beer joint?
or FRACKENSTEIN, a modern-day oil wildcatters' bar, because the techique of hydraulic fracking breaks up underground stone to get at the oil ?
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[FRANK EINSTEIN - the monster's smart uncle who invented the atomic bomb.
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FRANKENSTHIN – A diet regimen from Minnesota.
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FRANKENSTERN - what he becomes when he growls at his friend the blind man because blind men can talk and monsters can't.
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EXSCUTCHEON = without a shield. (See Paths of Glory poem and film).
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ESCUTCHEONPRONUNCIATION:(i-SKUCH-uhn) MEANING: noun: 1. An ornamental or protective plate surrounding a keyhole, light switch, door handle, etc. 2. Used in the phrase: blot on one's escutcheon (a stain on one's reputation). 3. A shield or shield-shaped surface bearing a coat of arms. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin scutum (shield). Earliest documented use: 1480. ---------------------------- ESCUTCHEWON - Province of Canada, third from the left; capital: Regina; major city: Saskatoon
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Escutchoon, I'd have thought.
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Escutchoon, I'd have thought. Good thought! -------------------------- CRURALPRONUNCIATION: (KROOR-uhl) MEANING: adjective: Relating to the leg. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin crus (leg). Earliest documented use: 1599. --------------------------- CURAL - a panacea
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CRURAT – A small rodent that lives under the coxwain's seat or, some may say, on it.
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CRUALL (kru all)- the word construct of Souteastern US rurals when referring to more than one leg.
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ACEDIA
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SEE-dee-uh)
MEANING: noun: Apathy; boredom; sloth.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin acedia, from Greek akedia, from a- (not) + kedos (care). Earliest documented use: 1607.
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ACEDINA - city in California, just north of Los Angeles, home of the Ose Bowl
ACENIA - I observed you in Brooklyn
ACNEDIA - a skin eruption confined to the patella; goes away after 24 hours
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APEDIA – A massive online resource containing no information.
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APEDIA is already upon us:
A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less until at last he knows absolutely everything there is to know about nothing at all.
("I'm not making this up, you know." -- Anna Russell)
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Good one Peter, I run into that frequently.
(My quote button is not working today)
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DECANT
PRONUNCIATION: (di-KANT)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To pour, especially in a manner that the sediment is left behind.
2. To rehouse people while their buildings are being rebuilt or refurbished.
ETYMOLOGY: From French décanter (to settle or to clarify), from Latin decanthare, from de- (from) + canthus (spout, rim). Earliest documented use: 1633.
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DEKANT - to engage in Revisionism by systematically eliminating all mention of the Categorical Imperative and Dialectical Materialism from textbooks of Philosophy
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Would have made studying one semester of
Philosophy a lot easier: great idea.
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QUINARY
PRONUNCIATION: (KWY-nuh-ree)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to five.
2. Fifth in a series.
3. Having five things or arranged in five.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quinarius (containing five), from quini (five each), from quinque (five). Earliest documented use: 1598. If you have ever wondered what comes after primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary, here's your answer.
[Compare binary, ternary, quaternary]
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QINARY
PRONUNCIATION: KEE-nuh-ree (rhymes with GREENERY)
MEANING: adjective:
1. embodying the ancient Chinese natural energy flow
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QUINARE -opposite of quinain't
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QUINDARY – A predicament with five equally unacceptable ways out.
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QUONARY - a quid with no quo.
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...[like] all three of 'em ! 
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manumit
PRONUNCIATION: (man-yuh-MIT)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To free from slavery.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin manus (hand) + mittere (to let go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root man- (hand), which also gave us manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command, manure, manque, legerdemain, and mortmain. Earliest documented use: 1455.
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MANUNIT - to manumit a man from slavery then put him in a totalitarian state is to turn a slave with hope into to a hopeless manunit.
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MANUMIT
PRONUNCIATION: (man-yuh-MIT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To free from slavery.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin manus (hand) + mittere (to let go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root man- (hand), which also gave us manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command, manure, manque, legerdemain, and mortmain. Earliest documented use: 1455.
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MRNUMIT - the painless pediatric dentist's Novocaine
(pronouced "Mister-Numb-it")
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chiral
PRONUNCIATION: (KY-ruhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Not superimposable on its mirror image.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek cheir (hand). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghes- (hand), which also gave us cheiromancy/chiromancy (palmistry), surgeon (literally, one who works with hands), and enchiridion (handbook). Earliest documented use: 1894.
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CHAIRAL - to sit on your hands
USAGE: Damnit Doc, don't sit your butt on your hands. You will be late with your posts and you will never be fit, and you will forever be, as I said, late and chairal.
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HANDSEL or HANSEL
PRONUNCIATION: (HAN-sel)
MEANING: noun:
1. A gift for good luck given at the beginning of the new year or a new venture.
2. A first payment or installment.
verb tr.:
1. To give a handsel to.
2. To inaugurate or to do something for the first time.
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HANDGEL - the slimy stuff in a dispenser that you use to get the germs off your hands (It's gotta be more than 61% alcohol or it doesn't work)
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HANGEL - a British Cupid
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HANDBEL – A digital, prehensile process on the lips of some very greedy catfish.
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HANDSELF - a term derived from the musical HANSEL AND GRETAL where, lost in the dark forest, a frightened Hansel tries to take his big sister's hand for comfort. Gretal sings...
Stop crying Hansel we've nothing to fear but fear itself
Button up your lip and keep your hands to yourself.
A moving moment.
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mano a mano
PRONUNCIATION: (MA-no a MA-no)
MEANING:
adverb: In direct competition; head-to-head.
adjective: One-on-one; face-to-face.
noun: 1. A bullfight where two matadors compete in turn, fighting several bulls.
2. A direct or face-to-face confrontation.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish mano a mano (hand to hand). Earliest documented use: 1950.
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DANO A MANGO - give Dano a mango
(from Hawaii Five O. 1976).
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MANOMANO - a beloved Muppets song (1969 !) MANY A MANO - a big round of applause!
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palmer
PRONUNCIATION: (PAH-muhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. A pilgrim.
2. An itinerant monk.
3. One who conceals a card or another object in a magic trick or in cheating in a game.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin palma (palm tree, palm of the hand). The name of the palm tree derives from the resemblance of the shape of its frond to the palm of a hand. In Medieval Europe, a pilgrim brought back a palm branch as a token of his pilgrimage. Earliest documented use: 1300. Also see palmy & palmary.
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PSALMER - a singer who sits beneath palm trees who gives balm and brings calm to the unease of all pilgrams who have ears to listen.
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PALOMER - a Spanish dove, in Boston
PALYMER - friendly plastic
PALMEX - mi amigo
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gallivant or galavant
PRONUNCIATION: (GAL-uh-vant)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To roam about in search of pleasure.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps alteration of gallant, from Old French galer (to rejoice). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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GALLIRANT - a wandering rant. (ranting is more fun than gallivanting) .
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GALLIVAUNT - pride in heroic French accomplishments (see also Charlemagne)
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[b]DALLIVANT[/b – to roam among the singles bars.
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