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...restarting because our alphabetical spammer has posted in Mensopause II, and Moderatrix can't delete if the post has been replied to... ______________________________________________________ SAMSONPRONUNCIATION: (SAM-suhn) MEANING: noun: A man of extraordinary physical strength. ETYMOLOGY: After Samson, a judge in the Old Testament, known for his great strength. From Hebrew Simson (man of sun). Earliest documented use: 1565 ----------------------------------- SANSAN - a tiny piquant-tasting lozenge for freshening the breath of Japanese gentlemen
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SANSOON - a snide comment (usually whispered) to express the opinion that you think someone will be soon be sent to a loony-bin.
Etymology: a combine of san a pejorative term for a insane asylum and soon indicating...uh...soon.
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SANSAN - a tiny piquant-tasting lozenge for freshening the breath of Japanese gentlemen
Hey, Wofa, that's TWO changes. You can't do that, it's against the Roooz ! Oops, you're right. I take it back. Try again: SALMSON - red caviar, hatched and grown-up
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INDIAN GIVER! 
RAMSON - a ransom paid in wild garlic (Old World tradition)
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JEREMIAD
PRONUNCIATION: (jer-uh-MY-uhd)
MEANING: noun: A long lamentation, mournful complaint, or a prophecy of doom.
ETYMOLOGY: After Jeremiah, a Hebrew prophet during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, who prophesied the fall of the kingdom of Judah and whose writings are collected in Lamentations in the Old Testament. Earliest documented use: 1780. Also see jeremiah.
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JEDEMIAD - A long lamentation, mournful complaint, or a prophecy of doom, regarding the return of the Empire for three more episodes...with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, plus younger versions of same
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VEREMIAD- what the people will be after they spend trillions to keep the sea from rising and it falls instead.
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Methuselah
PRONUNCIATION: (meh-THOO-zuh-luh)
MEANING:
noun:
1. An extremely old person.
2. An oversized wine bottle holding approximately six liters.
ETYMOLOGY:
After the biblical figure Methuselah, who is said to have lived 969 years. Earliest documented use: 1390.
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METHUSER-AH - ah, O Saki, it is said that the meth user will be dead within 969 days. That, O Saki, is a lie. A meth user is dead on the first day.
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Well, there's METH/USE/LAW, but you used that idea already.
Or METH/SELAH - best you pause and think soberly about using that stuff
I think I'll go with
METHOUSELAH - the sixth note of an opera singer's scale (MET HOUSE "LAH")
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I think I'll go with
METHOUSELAH - the sixth note of an opera singer's scale (MET HOUSE "LAH")
Hey, not bad, Codoc. To my many self-described highbrow friends I will begin describing my many pothead friends as being... "...higher than a MET House Lah". 
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lazaretto
PRONUNCIATION: (laz-uh-RET-o)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A medical facility for people with infectious diseases.
2. A building or ship used for quarantine.
3. On a ship, a space between decks used as storage.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Italian lazzaretto, a blend of lazzaro + Nazareto. Lazzaro is the Italian version of the name Lazarus, the name of a beggar covered in sores as described in the New Testament (Luke 16:20). Nazareto was the nickname of a hospital, after Santa Maria di Nazareth, the name of the Church on the island where it was located. Earliest documented use: 1549.
USAGE:
"The Council House was a frame building, away from the rest, that had been built in the old, wilder days as a lazaretto for surly drunks."
Kurt Vonnegut; Player Piano; Charles Scribner's Sons; 1952.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. -Katharine Hepburn, an actress who had fun for 96 years (1907-2003)
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LAZYRETTO - a mental hospital for purposeless people who don't know that just being alive is fun.
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PLAZARETTO - a very small public gathering place, the center of a tiny village
LAMARETTO - a sweet almond-flavored cordial preferred by Buddhist monks
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bumptious
PRONUNCIATION: (BUHMP-shuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Self-assertive in an obnoxious way.
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably a blend of bump + fractious or a blend of bump + presumptuous. Earliest documented use: 1803.
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BUMTIOUS - the attribute of having a shapely bum.
As in the song:
I can't dance
I can't talk
The only thing about me
Is the way I walk
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UMPTIOUS - making wild and arbitrary calls at the plate, throwing people out of the game for no reason - in short, acting like a spoiled and overindulged baseball referee. A combination of "RAMBUNCTIOUS" and ... oh, you get the point.
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slimsy
PRONUNCIATION: (SLIM-zee)
MEANING:
adjective: Flimsy; frail.
ETYMOLOGY:
A blend of slim + flimsy. Earliest documented use: 1845.
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SLIMEY -
1) worse than slimsy
2) like a snake
3) like slime
4) like a politician
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SHIMSY - borogoves that twerk
(a combination of shimmy and mimsy, as in "Mimsy were the borogoves." I know it's true, because I read it in Jabbewocky.)
And then there's SLIMSTY, a resort for pigs on a diet
PS: Has anyone proposed that "twerk" is a combination of "Twist" and "Jerk"?
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A ditty-wah-ditty about Slim and a waterfall in Mississippi
Me and Slimsy were climbing atop a waterfall in Mississippi.
Suddenly Slimsy slipsy and then slidsy and slamsy into the slime pool below. Slimsy can't swimsy but that didn't matter. The highest waterfall in flat Mississippi is measured in inches.
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STICTION
PRONUNCIATION: (STIK-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The frictional force that must be overcome to set one object in motion when it is in contact with another.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of static + friction. Earliest documented use: 1946.
[Lectors note: I would propose it's rather "sticky + friction.")
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STICKION - a microscopic subatomic Post-It note for labelling atoms
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PRONUNCIATION: (STIK-shuhn)
MEANING:
noun: The frictional force that must be overcome to set one object in motion when it is in contact with another.
ETYMOLOGY:
A blend of static + friction. Earliest documented use: 1946.
USAGE:
"Thom watched the nurse's backside as she left the low gravity and the stiction in her shoes made her suggestive."
R.E. Wilder; Captain Thom and Orions Thunder; Dog Ear Publishing; 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. -Clifton Fadiman, editor and critic (1904-1999)
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TICTION (TICK-shuhn ) - The frictional force that must be overcome to set one object in motion when it is in contact with another.
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TICTION - why it's so hard to get that blasted bloated blood-sucking insect off. Today, a biting tick; tomorrow, Lyme disease !!
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MUZZY
PRONUNCIATION:
(MUHZ-ee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Mentally confused.
2. Blurred; indistinct.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps a blend of muddled + fuzzy. Earliest documented use: 1728.
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MR UZZY - the guy who invented that popular semi-automatic machine pistol
MUZZA - a less popular Greek fast food; found on the menu four lines above PIZZA
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WUZZY - the politically incorrect term "muzzy" in the 1728 folkpoem cited below* was changed to "wuzzy" in 2008 because it was feared that it might offend the world's wild-eyed radical Muslims. Instead the word "wuzzy" offended the wild-eyed radical feminists of the world regardless of their creed, race, color, or lack thereof.  * Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was she?
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Ophelian
PRONUNCIATION:(o-FEE-lee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Displaying madness, suicidal tendencies, and similar characteristics.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Ophelia, a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, who is driven to insanity and kills herself. Earliest documented use: 1903.
USAGE:
"She had an Ophelian streak of potential craziness that he had, since day one, deemed wiser to steer clear of."
Jean-Christophe Valtat; Aurorarama; Melville House; 2010.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and painter (1930-1965)
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OPHELLIAN (adj.) - the L added to emphasize the depths of Ophelia's madness and pain.
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OTHELIAN - well-meaning, parent-wise, but ultimately frustrated by the squabblings of his children.
(Oops. Should have been more leery of that one, and looked it up before I posted, not after.)
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benedict
PRONUNCIATION: (BEN-i-dikt)
MEANING:
noun: A newly married man, especially one who was previously thought to be a confirmed bachelor.
ETYMOLOGY:
From alteration of Benedick, character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Earliest documented use: 1821.
USAGE:
"Columbus Moise, the old bachelor lawyer, who is soon to be a benedict, answered the toast."
Miguel Antonio Otero; My Life on the Frontier, 1882-1897; 1935.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
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BENEDIT (BIN-et-it) - heavy-handed editing as with an axe.
ETYMOLOGY: Shakespeare's drinking companion, Ben Jonson, edited several of Shakespeare's plays, mostly with spleen and spite.
After reading a yet-unnamed play Ben scrawled in big letters across the cover, THIS IS MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. The bard set down his drink and said "Rightly so, Ben" Then smiled.
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BENTDICT - afflickted with chordee. See Jack Shaftoe, in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, if you need a really long Summer read.
BESEDICT- kiss and tell
BENEDIRT - rich loamy soil
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BENEVICT - a movement to evict Bums, Elves, and Ne'er-do-wells who live their lives in public buildings where government people work...or, uh...don't work.
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Hamlet
PRONUNCIATION:(HAM-lit)
MEANING:
noun:
1. An apprehensive, indecisive person.
2. A small village.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: After Hamlet, the prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The opening of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be, or not to be" is among the best-known lines in literature. Earliest documented use: 1903.
For 2: From Old French hamelet, diminutive of hamel (village), which itself is a diminutive of ham (village). Ultimately from the Indo-European root tkei- (to settle or dwell), which also gave us home, haunt, hangar, and site. Earliest documented use: 1330.
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The idiom "Hamlet without the Prince" is used to refer to an event or a performance taking place without its main character. USAGE:
"With some he is a Hamlet, a divided man who is always questioning himself."
John S. Dunne; Time And Myth; University of Notre Dame Press; 2012.
"The Baroness was right on one point: he was a Hamlet; his soliloquy might have run, 'To be married or not to be married / That is the question.'"
Herbert Leibowitz; "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 2011.
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SHAMLET -
1) a Potemkin Village
2) Hamlet without the Prince
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HARMLET - (diminutive) a peccadillo that doesn't hurt anyone very much. Compare "tortle"
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BARDOLPHIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (bar-DOL-fee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Having a red complexion, especially a red nose.
ETYMOLOGY: After Bardolph, a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, who was noted for his red nose. Earliest documented use: 1756. Another character from these plays who has become a word in English is Falstaff.
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BARDOLPHIN - a lawyer with a white hat (to distinguish itself from the sharks)
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Bardolphian
PRONUNCIATION: (bar-DOL-fee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Having a red complexion, especially a red nose.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Bardolph, a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, who was noted for his red nose. Earliest documented use: 1756. Another character from these plays who has become a word in English is Falstaff.
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BARDOLPHIN - a man who drinks like a fish
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(Yours is much closer to the spirits of the original!)
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(Yours is much closer to the spirits of the original!)
Ok, continuing the spirit of spirits... BARDOLLPHIAN - a sexy woman who serves men drinks and teases them for big tips
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(Yours is much closer to the spirits of the original!)
Ok, continuing the spirit of spirits... BARDOLLPHIAN - a sexy woman who serves men drinks and teases them for big tips ...in the City of Brotherly Love?
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(Yours is much closer to the spirits of the original!)
Ok, continuing the spirit of spirits... BARDOLLPHIAN - a sexy woman who serves men drinks and teases them for big tips ...in the City of Brotherly Love? Get hip, Wolfman, today Philadelphia is the City of Bro' Love
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Polonian
PRONUNCIATION:(po-LO-nee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Abounding in aphoristic expressions.
2. A native or inhabitant of Poland.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: After Polonius, a courtier and the father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, known for his moralistic apothegms. Earliest documented use: 1847.
For 2: From Latin Polonia (Poland). Earliest documented use: 1533.
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Some of Shakespeare's best-known quotations come out of Polonius's mouth. As his son Laertes heads for France, Polonius advises:
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend."
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
At another time, he says: "Brevity is the soul of wit."
As happens with quotations, some of his words have become simplified and sharpened with time, such as from the original "For the apparel oft proclaims the man." to "Clothes make the man."
USAGE:
"A few Polonian precepts can do something to indicate whether or not a scientist is cut out for collaboration."
P.B. Medawar; Advice To A Young Scientist; Harper and Row; 1980.
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POOLONIAN - a press pool reporter whose reportal wit comes entirely from the book "Zippy Words of Awesome Cliches for the Dull".
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POXONIAN- a curse on Magneto and Gandalf and the whole lot of 'em. Maybe Emperor Palpatine too, but that's another story.
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SOLONIAN [us] - what none of our current politicians are 
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reprehend
PRONUNCIATION (rep-ri-HEND)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To disapprove or to reprimand.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin reprehendere (to hold back, to censure), from re- (intensive) + prehendere (to seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize or to take), which is also the source of pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, pregnant, osprey, prison, get, impregnable, impresa, and prise. Earliest documented use: 1382.
USAGE:
"The false quotation was therefore one of those flashy worthless attempts at wit that I so much reprehend in others."
Patrick O'Brian; The Truelove; W.W. Norton; 1993.
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Never cut what you can untie. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
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REPREHEN - to scold the chicken who ate the corn but didn't lay an egg. Scold her twice before she doesn't lay another egg because some chickens are dim-witted.
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PREPREHEND - the ultimate in Thought Police: scolding you for something before you even think of doing it...
(I'll be AFthisK for the next few days too - it's going to feel a bit strange but I'm sure you'll get along fine without me...)
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