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BOMBATTIC - the IED assembly line is upstairs under the roof
BIMBASTIC - acting like a floozy, and proud of it, too (see also
BOOBASTIC and BOMBUSTIC)
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impecunious PRONUNCIATION: (im-pi-KYOO-nee-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Having little or no money. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin im- (not) + pecunia (money), from pecus (cattle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peku- (wealth), which also gave us fee, fief, fellow, peculiar, impecunious, and pecuniary. Earliest documented use: 1596. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Action is eloquence ----------William Shakespeare, impecunious poet and playwright (1564-1616) _________________________________________ IMPECUNIOUS - a sad but ongoing condition of most imps 
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IMPETUNIOUS - gotta lotta P. hybrida growing in my garden. (Did you know it means "tobacco" in a Tupi-Guarani language? Neither did I. Where would we be without Wikipedia...) IMPECURIOUS - sounds like saying the same thing twice, doesn't it?
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IMPETUNIOUS - Not at all resembling Porky's girlfriend.
Oops. Hi, Wofa.
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PETULANT
PRONUNCIATION: (PECH-uh-lent)
MEANING: adjective: Bad-tempered; cranky.
ETYMOLOGY: [From Latin petere (to seek, assail). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pteridology, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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false starts:
petulant = having petals? like a petunia?
petulant = sings like Ms Clark?
petulant = mildly explosive, even gassy, as in "hoist by his own petard"?
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PESTULANT - afflicted with two Pharaonic Plagues simultaneously: Pestilence, and Boils (pustules)
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...and going back to March 31:
INTERREGNUM-->
INTERPREGNUM - the time between babies
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PETULANE - the bad temper of students who find they have been rejected by Tulane and so must attend Harvard instead.
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incorrigible
PRONUNCIATION: (in-KOR-i-juh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Incapable of being corrected or reformed.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (not) + corrigere (to correct). Ultimately from the Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, lead, or rule), which also gave us regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, recto, regular, abrogate, arrogate, prorogue, interregnum, regent, and supererogatory. Earliest documented use: 1340.
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INCOURIGIBLE - I sure could use some motivation here to help me improve my spelling !
INDORRIGIBLE - what our One Nation is, according to the Pledge of Allegiance
or, alternatively,
INDORRIGIBLE - this blimp can't be flown outside
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INCORPRIGIBLE(en-KORP-rig-eye-buhl) - a phoney company incorporated and rigged to advance a ponzi scam
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a dime against a donut it ain't  INCOPRIGIBLE en-co-prig-e-buhl - to refuse to cognate with the pedantcy of a prig
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This week we'll feature five words, each of which has homonyms.
quiff
PRONUNCIATION: (kwif)
MEANING: noun:
1. A tuft of hair brushed up above the forehead.
2. A woman considered as promiscuous.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: Origin uncertain, perhaps from coif. Earliest documented use: 1890.
For 2: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1923.
USAGE:"Posters of the intrepid boy reporter with the quiff and funny pants plastered the city."
Claire Rosemberg; Spielberg 'Brings Tintin Home' Hollywood-Style; Agence France Presse (Paris); Oct 22, 2011.
"A certain party got the quiff pregnant."
William Deverell; The Dance of Shiva; ECW Press; 2004.
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-quaff : applied as a affix to "quiff" to specify and intensify the quality of being quiff in sing-song.
1) a bouffant hairstyle when worn by a male
2) an exceptionally lusty woman
EXAMPLE:
Splish-splash I was taking a bath
Long about Saturdy night
Rub-dub just relaxing in the tub
Thinking everything was alright
Then bing-bang I heard the whole gang
banging on the living room floor
QUIFF-QUAFF I forgot about my bath
And went and put my dancing shoes on.
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QUIFFF - a promiscuous woman with a tuft of upbrushed hair screaming VERY, VERY LOUDLY
QUIFO - the antithesis or enemy of the traditional Chinese life force/energy flow
QUINF - the mixed Latin/German number five
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GIRD
PRONUNCIATION: (guhrd)
MEANING:
verb tr.: 1. To encircle or bind with a belt or band.
2. To surround.
3. To prepare for action (especially as "to gird one's loins").
verb tr., intr.: 4. To jeer.
noun: 5. A sarcastic remark.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1-3: From Old English gyrdan. Ultimately from the Indo-European root gher- (to enclose or grasp), which is also the source of such words as orchard, kindergarten, court, choir, courteous, French jardin (garden), Hindi gherna (to surround), yard, horticulture, curtilage, and garth. Earliest documented use: 950.
For 4-5: From Middle English girden, to strike. Earliest documented use: 1275.
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GIRDL - A constricting undergarment meant to enhance a Middle-European woman's figure; worn under a dirndl
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...and is what the Indians did on horses
BIRD (amer. slang) - a rude gesture made by extending the middle finger upwards to indicate your dissatisfaction with your fellowman or men or Indians.
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MEW
PRONUNCIATION: (myoo)
MEANING:
noun: 1. A cage for hawks, especially while molting.
2. A place for retiring or hiding.
3. In the UK, as mews, stables with living quarters. Also, a row of apartments converted from stables.
verb tr.: 4. To confine.
verb intr.: 5. To molt.
noun: 6. The high-pitched sound of a cat.
7. The characteristic sound of a gull.
8. A seagull (Larus canus).
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1-5: From Old French muer (to molt), from Latin mutare (to change). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mei- (to change -or move) that has also given us commute, mutual, migrate, common, mistake, immune, and excommunicate. Earliest documented use: 1375.
For 6-7: Of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1325.
For 8: From Old English maew. Earliest documented use: before 12th c.
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MEWA - pronounced MEE-wah. A state program for dealing with disasters suffered by small canaries with a speech impediment; acronym for Massachusetts Emergency Wecovewy Act.
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MEWT - A deaf newt.
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MAEW - early form of the word "mew" at a time when the English were afraid they were running out of words so they gave the word "mew" seven distinct definitions.
USAGE: "Needing a mew (place) to hide I drove to a mew (not the mews with stables attached but modern mews where all the stables have been converted into apartments). Here I hoped to mew my hawk in a mew where he could mew until sheding his mew. But...
Suddenly I heard the screaming mew of a wildcat.
I looked up. It was only the mew of a seagull- the seagull called mew (Larus canus).
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MAEW - tee-hee!
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FERAL
PRONUNCIATION: (FEER-uhl, FAYR-)
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Wild or untamed.
2. Having reverted from domestication to the wild state.
3. Ferocious.
4. Deadly.
5. Relating to the dead; gloomy.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1-3: From Latin fera (wild animal), from ferus (wild). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghwer- (wild beast), which also gave us fierce and theropod. Earliest documented use: 1604.
For 4-5: From Latin feralis (relating to funeral rites or the dead). Earliest documented use: 1621.
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FIRAL - of or pertaining to a Giant's expression of challenge. See also "feral," "foral," and "fumal"
ETYMOLOGY: first reported by Jack
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FERAT-an untameable ferret, never to be used for a pet.
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FEDRAL - alternate spelling of 'federal' including all six definitions listed below that are not to be said without spitting.
MEANING:
1. Wild or untamed.
2. Having reverted from domestication to the wild state.
3. Ferocious.
4. Deadly.
5. Relating to the dead; gloomy.
6. Corrupt
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Number six is my favorite be it federal or fedral.
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But Trombo, all women are evil unless they are your mother.
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Doesn't FEMAL mean "bad French iron" ?
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BOLE
PRONUNCIATION: (bohl)
MEANING:
noun: 1. The trunk of a tree.
2. Any of various kinds of soft fine clays typically of a reddish color.
3. A reddish brown color.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Old Norse bolr (trunk). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to blow or swell), which also gave us ball, balloon, boll, bulk, bowl, boulevard, boulder, ballot, folly, and fool. Earliest documented use: 1314.
For 2-3: From Latin bolus (lump), from Greek bolos (clod). Earliest documented use: 1558.
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BOLLE - a source of fine French cotton
BOULE - a broad avenue in Paris, meant to be vard
BOUE ! - an unexpected sound made by a pouting ghost who is playing hard-to-get
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BOLES - two foreign words used extensively in backwoods Alabama and Mississippi to describe others, not because the people are particularly multi-lingual, but because the words are onomatopoeic and therefore self-explanatory i.e.
From Latin bolus (lump), from Greek bolos (clod).
Examples: You bolos! You Bolus! You damn yankee!
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But Trombo, all women are evil unless they are your mother.
My mother was a chemist who played cello. Evil as can be. Oh, wait: my wife's a mathematician who plays clarinet. Tie-breaker: my wife has red hair. Makes my mother an angel.
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Worry not, good Tromboner, one distant day your wife's hair will turn grey and once again she'll become the sweetheart you courted.
And I have some ocean front property I'll sell you cheap in Montana.
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ANANIAS
PRONUNCIATION: (an-uh-NY-uhs)
MEANING: noun: A liar.
ETYMOLOGY: After Ananias, who along with his wife Sapphira, was struck dead for lying. They sold a piece of land. Instead of giving away all of the proceeds from the sale, they kept a portion for themselves, to the displeasure of Peter. Earliest documented use: 1876.
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ANALIAS - a fictitious name, intended to deceive
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ONANIAS- a spurious method of birth control
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BANANIAS - the false banana. Once grown by liars in ancient Lycia who got filthy rich before they were invaded by Greeks bearing gifts.
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Worry not, good Tromboner, one distant day your wife's hair will turn grey and once again she'll become the sweetheart you courted.
And I have some ocean front property I'll sell you cheap in Montana. a) It's already turning; b) She always has been; c) At the rate the local glaciers are melting, I'll be living on beachfront property in a couple of years.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Once you label me you negate me.
-Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)
Logically extend these words and you will understand the function of words and ultimately the why of life. ()
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Solomon
PRONUNCIATION: (SOL-uh-muhn)
MEANING:
noun: A very wise person.
ETYMOLOGY: In the Old Testament, Solomon, a king of Israel, was known for his wisdom. According to one story, he identified the real mother of a baby by suggesting to the two quarreling women that the child be cut into two and shared between them. The real mother agreed to give up the child instead, and was proclaimed as the true mother. Earliest documented use: 1554.
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SOLOMOM - a single mom who foolishly believes that female influence is all her child needs to morph into becoming a complete human adult.
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