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a wood louse writes in cursive
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sashay
PRONUNCIATION:(sa-SHAY)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To move, walk, or glide along nonchalantly.
2. To strut or move in a showy manner.
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From switching of syllables in a mispronunciation of French chassé (a ballet movement involving gliding steps with the same foot always leading), past participle of chasser (to chase), from captare (to try to catch), frequentative of Latin capere (to take). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kap- (to grasp), which also gave us captive, capsule, chassis, cable, occupy, deceive, behoof, caitiff, percipient, captious, and gaff. Earliest documented use: 1836.
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STASHAY - to hide your stash in a stack of hay
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SASHLY - "as a matter of fact, it is"
usage: "Sashly not an easy word to parody!"
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SUSHAY – A French food consisting tiny omelets topped with raw snail or mushroom. Also SUSHÉ.
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viperine
PRONUNCIATION: (VY-puhr-in, -puh-ryn)
MEANING:
adjective: Of or relating to a viper; venomous; malicious.
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From Latin vipera (snake), which arose from a mispronunciation/contraction of vivipera, from vivus (alive) + parere (to give birth). Vipers are named so because most vipers give birth to live young (instead of eggs). The eggs stay within the mother's body till they are ready to hatch. Earliest documented use: around 1540.
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"The musical taught a generation of viperine office politicians how to stick a shiv into their bosses without leaving any fingerprints on the handle."
Terry Teachout; Lovable, Huggable, and Unscrupulous Too; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Mar 29, 2011.
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VIPERWINE- a delightful fun wine; properly aged on the vine, very smoothe, but slightly slimey with a bite.
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VIPERING - the Worm Ouroboros, who circles the Universe with its tail in its mouth
VIPERLINE - a family of muscle cars, made by Dodge
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VIPERIME - a rime about snakes Example: The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun
Or the snake as roll'd in a flowering bank
Love hath made thee a tame snake
I fear me you but now warm the starved snake - Lines from me and Shakespeare 
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VIPERING - how they clean da terlet in Brooklyn
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That's odd.
In France we VIPERINSE.
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DOGBERRYPRONUNCIATION: (DOG-ber-ee, -buh-ree) MEANING: noun: A pompous, incompetent, self-important official. ETYMOLOGY: After Dogberry, a constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, in which he goes about his blundering ways while mouthing malapropisms. Earliest documented use: 1801. ------------------------------------- [Nothing at all like Dilbert's Dogbert...] DOGBURRY - covered with prickles, like the inspiration for Velcro
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COGBERRY -
(1) a pompous, incompetent, self-important bureaucrat whose ineptness makes even the worse government programs worser.
(2) a sebelius
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DOGMERRY - autodogmatic things that make a dog happy
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PORTIA
PRONUNCIATION: (POR-shuh, -shee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A female lawyer.
ETYMOLOGY: After Portia, the heroine of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Portia is a rich heiress who disguises herself as a lawyer to save Antonio's life. Earliest documented use: 1869.
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PORTICA - the women's entrance (cf. PORTICO)
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POORTIA - a portia who practices law pro bono
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PORTA - plural of PORTON, a dyslexic subatomic particle (compare "Phenomenon, phenomena)
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AORTIA – Shakespearean heroine who disguises herself as a heart surgeon.
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Timon
PRONUNCIATION: (TY-muhn)
MEANING:
noun: One who hates or distrusts humankind.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Timon, the misanthropic hero of Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens. Earliest documented use: 1598.
USAGE:
"My soul was swallowed up in bitterness and hate ... I saw nothing to do but live apart like a Timon."
Upton Sinclair 1903.
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SIMON - yes that Simon. As in...
Simple Simon met Timon the Pieman going to the fair
Said Simple Simon to Pieman Timon "May I taste your ware?"
"Get lost kid" said the Timon "or I'll hit you with this chair."
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MI-M0N - third note of the Caribbean scale
TRIMON - See if these fit you
TIMOB - a lynching party
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TIMOV- vomit spelled backwards
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Romeo
PRONUNCIATION:(RO-mee-o)
MEANING:
noun: A man who is a passionate lover or seducer.
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After Romeo, the hero in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Earliest documented use: 1566.
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ROMEOW - a tomcat in hot pursuit of a not-so-coy female.
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ROMEON – A subatomic particle with charm.
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AROMEO - an Alternative Medicine practice that makes no scents ROOMEO - the Elizabethan equivalent of "POSSLQ" * ROAMEO - a Don Giovanni BROMEO - I'm getting an upset stomach from all this Shakespeare. * viz
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FROMEO - the answer to the question "Who was the real Shakespeare and from whence were the plays written "? Be back soon. I've gone to the Net to find the answer. SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED: FROM E.O. from the E arl of Oxford, Edward de vere
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PROSPERO
PRONUNCIATION: (PROS-puh-roh)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is capable of influencing others' behavior or perceptions without their being aware of it.
ETYMOLOGY: After Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan and a magician, in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Earliest documented use: 1785.
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PROSPEROZ - They don't call it the "Emerald" City for nothing!
PYROSPERO - I'm waiting for the fireworks to start
PROSPERM - Save the Whales! (What, you were expecting a political discussion?)
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PROSHERO - Golf: Bubba Watson
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PROSERO - (prose about Prospero) You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!  — Caliban is denouncing Prospero for teaching ("learning") him his language, declaring that the only good Prospero's language has done him is enabling him to curse; Caliban gives an immediate example of his cursing ability by calling upon the red plague to destroy Prospero for teaching him his language.
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PROSPIRO - Opposed to pusillanimous pussyfooters.
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Not to mention "nattering nabobs".
Ah Spiro, those were the days. Happy times before nattering nabobs of negativism were held in a bad light.
Today just saying the three N words will get you on the hate speech List.
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I naturally neglected "nattering nabobs of negativism" as notoriously nefarious.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. ------ Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955) Albert! Can you hear me? Think about what you just said. I have taken away your Nobel prize until you recant.
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tractable PRONUNCIATION: (TRAK-tuh-buhl) MEANING:adjective: Easily handled, managed, or controlled. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin tractare (to handle), frequentative of trahere (draw). Earliest documented use: 1504. USAGE:"'I don't want to go there,' said Sharina, who was normally such a tractable child." Susan Palwick; Hhasalin; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall, Connecticut); Sep/Oct 2013. [See more usage examples of tractable in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.] A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights -- only murder in one form or another. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and etc. (1838-1914) __________________________________________________________ XTRACTABLE - people who understand that people are not robots but are a high form of the purposeful instruments of existence. Are you otherwise?
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ARACTABLE - A piece of furniture consisting of a horizontal surface supported by eight legs.
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FRAC-TABLE - all you need to do to get the petroleum derivatives into the drinking water
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bombastic
PRONUNCIATION:(bom-BAS-tik)
MEANING:
adjective: Pompous or pretentious (in speech or writing).
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French bombace (cotton padding), from Latin bombax (cotton). Earliest documented use: 1704.
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