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Limpit- tip for a three legged race with a peg legged pirate.
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LIMPID
PRONUNCIATION: (LIM-pid)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Clear; transparent.
2. Easily comprehensible; clear.
3. Calm; serene.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin limpidus (clear). Earliest documented use: 1609.
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TRIBOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (try-BOL-uh-jee, tri-)
MEANING: noun: The study of interacting surfaces in relative motion and associated issues, such as friction, lubrication, and wear.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek tribos (rubbing), from tribein (to rub). Earliest documented use: 1966.
NOTES: Usually words are coined on the streets of language, but here is one instance where a word may be considered to have been synthesized in a lab, if there could be such a thing as a word lab. In 1965, a group of lubrication engineers decided they needed a name for what they did and contacted the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary for help. Out of this came the word tribology, suggested by one C.G. Hardie of Magdalen College.
So even though it looks like the perfect word for it, tribology is not the study of tribes. A related term is triboelectricity: electricity generated by friction.
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BRIBOLOGY - Congressional Lobbying for Dummies
TRIBOROGY - New York City toll collector
TERIBOLOGY - Handbook of Pessimism
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Triloboggy- a bog filled with trilobites
Triloboogie- earliest recorded music of the Early Cabrian period.
Trilobogeyman- an imaginary, prehistoric monster used to frighten misbehaving arthropods into good behavior. "And they died!"
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(That would be pronounced "tribe-baloney"?)
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TRIBBOLOGY - now you know the trouble with 'em ... (see also here, thirty real-time years later )
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(That would be pronounced "tribe-baloney"?)
Precisely.
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LONGHAIR
PRONUNCIATION: (LONG-hair)
MEANING: noun:
1. An intellectual.
2. One having a deep interest in the arts, especially in classical music.
3. A male with long hair, especially a hippie.
4. A cat having long hair.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English lang + haer. Earliest documented use: 1893.
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LONGHAIN - what you get from a 65-yard pass-and-run play (the H is silent)
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Loanhair- beautiful lengths Longpair- stereochemically sad electrons with no friends 
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BLACKLEG
PRONUNCIATION: (BLAK-leg)
MEANING: noun:
1. One who works while other workers are on strike.
2. A swindler, especially in games such as gambling.
3. One of various diseases of plants or cattle.
ETYMOLOGY: It’s unclear how the term came to be employed for a strikebreaker. Earliest documented use: 1722.
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CLACKLEG - playing the spoons on your prosthesis; sounds like castinets
BLANKLEG - a clean cast for your friends to sign
BACKLEG - what a dog marks his territory by raising
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DOUBLE-DOME
PRONUNCIATION: (DUHB-uhl-dohm)
MEANING: noun: An intellectual.
ETYMOLOGY: From double + dome (slang for head). Earliest documented use: 1938.
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Choose only one master -- Nature. -Rembrandt, painter and etcher (15 Jul 1606-1669)
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DOUBLED 'OME - scored from second base (Cockney pronunciation)
DOUBLEDOM - twinship
DOUBLE-DORE - Hogwarts Headmaster with a cold (British spelling, again)
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Double-lome- hummus for two.
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WHITE-LIVERED
PRONUNCIATION: (hwyt-LIV-uhrd)
MEANING:adjective: Cowardly.
ETYMOLOGY: From the former belief that a lack of vigor or courage was from a deficiency of bile which showed in a light-colored liver. Earliest documented use: 1546. Also known as lily-livered.
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WHITE-LIKE-RED - famed cardiologist enjoys wine with his meat
WHITE-LOVE-RED - same as above, only much more so
WHITE-LI-VERSED - ready with a small untruth
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DITTOHEAD
PRONUNCIATION: (DIT-oh-head)
MEANING: noun: One who mindlessly agrees with an idea or opinion.
ETYMOLOGY: After callers on the talk radio program Rush Limbaugh Show who often unquestioningly agree with the radio host. The word began as a term to describe listeners to the show who would agree with the previous caller’s effusive praise of Limbaugh with the word “ditto”. From ditto (same, likewise), from Italian (Tuscan dialect ditto) detto (said, above-mentioned), from Latin dictus (said), from dicere (to say). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deik- (to show, to pronounce solemnly), which also gave us judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, paradigm, diktat, fatidic, hoosegow, interdict, retrodiction. Earliest documented use: 1989.
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DITTOHEAR - an "earworm;" a song you can't get out of your mind
DITTYHEAD - writer of advertising jingles
DICTOHEAD - CEO of Dragon Incorporated
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Dittofed- the ditto enforcement
Dittobled- I shot the sheriff
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U2
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PLUTONIAN
PRONUNCIATION: ploo-TOH-nee-uhn)
MEANING: m adjective:
1. Relating to the dwarf planet Pluto.
2. Relating to Pluto, the god of the underworld in the Greek mythology.
3. Relating to the underworld.
ETYMOLOGY: Via Latin from Greek Plouton (Pluto, the god of the underworld). Earliest documented use: 1604.
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BLUTONIAN - thuggish (from a character in Popeye)
PNUTONIAN - classical physics (the P is silent, like the pee in "pswimming")
PLUTONIN - Anais' little brother, disinherited a couple of years ago. New pictures of him have recently appeared, taken by some fly-by-night outfit.
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HYDRA
PRONUNCIATION: (HY-druh)
MEANING: noun: A persistent or multifaceted problem that presents a new obstacle when a part of it is solved.
ETYMOLOGY: After the many-headed monster Hydra in Greek mythology. When its one head was cut off, it sprouted two more. It was ultimately slain by Hercules. From Latin Hydra, from Greek Hudra (water snake). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wed- (water, wet), which also gave us water, wash, winter, hydrant, redundant, otter, and vodka. Earliest documented use: 1374.
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HI, DRA - Crabbe and Goyle being unacceptably familiar with young Malfoy
HYBRA - an uplifting undergarment preferred by Madonna
HYDRY - stranded
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CERBERUS
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHR-buhr-uhs)
MEANING: noun: A powerful, hostile guard.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, from Greek Kerberos. Earliest documented use: 1386.
NOTES: Cerberus (also Kerberos) was the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades, the infernal region in classical mythology. Ancient Greeks and Romans used to put a slice of cake in the hands of their dead to help pacify Cerberus on the way. This custom gave rise to the idiom “to give a sop to Cerberus” meaning to give a bribe to quiet a troublesome person.
Cancerbero (from Spanish can: dog) is one of the Spanish terms for a goalkeeper in fútbol (football). Kerberos is the name given to an authentication protocol for computer networks.
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ACERBERUS - given to tossing out sharp-tongued witticisms
CARBERUS - pertaining to old-time fuel-injection systems
CURBERUS - Big-box chain of stores that sell Pooper-Scoopers and other pick-up-after-your-dog supplies
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NOCTURNAL
PRONUNCIATION: (nok-TUHR-nuhl)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to, happening, or active at night.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nocturnalis (of the night), from nox (night). Earliest documented use: 1485.
NOTES: Pluto’s moon Nix is named after Nyx, the ancient Greek goddess personifying night. In Roman mythology she’s known as Nox. The Latin word for night, nox, also appears in such words as equinox (equal day and night) and noctambulation (sleepwalking).
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NOCHURNAL - sorry, we're all out of butter
NOCTURINAL - gets up at night to empty the bladder
NO-TURNAL - no ueys allowed
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STYRGIAN - Like the dark, gloomy, and hellish flavor of caviar.
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STYGIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (STIJ-ee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Dark or gloomy.
2. Hellish.
3. Unbreakable or completely binding (said of an oath).
4. Relating to the river Styx.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology Styx was a river in the underworld over which souls of the dead were ferried by Charon (after whom Pluto’s largest moon is named). Styx was also the river by which oaths were sworn that even gods were afraid to break. The word is from Latin Stygius, from Greek Stygios, from Styx (the hateful). Earliest documented use: 1566.
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STYGIANT - Alpha-boar
STYLIAN - prepare a new outfit for James Bond's author
STAYGIAN - You will join us for dinner, won't you, Mr. Menotti !?
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Yikes! Looks like your styrgian went roegue.
P.S. hellabaluga
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STAYGIAN - You will join us for dinner, won't you, Mr. Menotti !?  STYXIAN When I get too close to my bed of cacti
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TOHUBOHU
PRONUNCIATION: (TOH-hoo-BO-hoo)
MEANING: noun: Chaos; confusion.
ETYMOLOGY: From Hebrew tohu wa-bhohu, from tohu (formlessness) and bhohu (emptiness). Earliest documented use: 1619.
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TOFUBOHU - formless bean curd, full of empty calories
TOHUBOOHU - You gave it to the former president of China? Oh, woe!
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Hehemoth- funny man from Point Pleasant
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BEHEMOTH
PRONUNCIATION: (bi-HEE-muth, BEE-uh-)
MEANING: noun:
1. A huge or monstrous creature.
2. Something large and powerful, as an organization.
ETYMOLOGY: From Hebrew behemoth, plural of behemah (beast). Earliest documented use: 1382. Behemoth is a huge beast mentioned in the Book of Job 40:15-24.
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BEHEMONTH - Just what is Julius Caesar? or is it Augustus?
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Speaking of the former president of China, did you catch this little gem the first time around?
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LEVIATHAN
PRONUNCIATION: (li-VY-uh-thuhn)
MEANING: noun: Something large and powerful.
ETYMOLOGY: Via Latin from Hebrew liwyathan (whale). Earliest documented use: 1382.
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Ifleviathen- never park here ever, idiot
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Le Via tan - skin pigmentation from walking Italian roads
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MANNA
PRONUNCIATION: (MAN-uh)
MEANING: noun: An unexpected help, benefit, or advantage.
ETYMOLOGY: Via Latin and Greek from Hebew man (manna). In the Bible manna was the food supplied to the Israelites by the heavens during their wandering in the desert. Earliest documented use: mid 5th century.
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MANUA (pron. ma-NOO-a) - organic fertilizer made in Boston
MANNAX - prohibits transporting chopped-down trees across state lines
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