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INTER ALIA
PRONUNCIATION: (IN-tuhr AY-lee-uh, AH-)
MEANING: adverb: Among other things.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin inter (among) + alius (other). Earliest documented use: 1665.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
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INTERALIAS - a death in the Witness Protection program
INTERALGIA - the blessed pain-free interval between labor contractions
INTERNALIA - a orgy of first-year medical residents
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INFER ALIA:behave like a conspiracy theorist
ENTER ALIA: stage direction for the party scene
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INTER TALIA she was a lovely old gal.
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ATHWART
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-THWART)
MEANING: adverb, preposition: From side to side of; across; against.
ETYMOLOGY: From a- (on, into, toward) + thwart, from Old Norse thvert, neuter of thverr (transverse). Earliest documented use: 1470.
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MATHWART - the super-nerd in Advanced Non-Euclidean Geometries class
OATHWART - two ingredients of magic and spells
ATHEART - where we're all children
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PRO RATA
PRONUNCIATION: (pro RAY-tuh, RAH-)
MEANING:
adverb: Proportionally.
adjective: Proportional.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pro rata (according to the calculated share). Earliest documented use: 1575.
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PYRO RATA - How good an arsonist are you?
PRE RATA - The Motion Picture Asociation hasn't given it a letter yet
PRIORATA - past mistakes
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LORELEI
PRONUNCIATION: (LOR-uh-ly)
MEANING: noun: A dangerously seductive woman.
ETYMOLOGY: In German legend Lorelei was a nymph who sat on a rock of the same name on the Rhine river. Her songs lured sailors to their destruction on the rock. Earliest documented use: 1878. Also see siren, Mata Hari, and Circe.
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LOBELEI - two of them.
( Lobelia /lɵˈbiːliə/ is a genus of flowering plants comprising 415 species, with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions. (Wikipedia) )
LOSELEI - I can't find the flower garland they gave me on Oahu!
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LORELET – a dangerous thing (a little bit of knowledge…)
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Faul fry- a soggy french fry
- An expletive used when your
Survival matches get wet
p.s. the echo of the day~ Allumette (Echo Park), a restaurant that closed last year, served a drink by the name of Poire Little Rich Boy; a funny play on words.
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PAUL PRY
PRONUNCIATION: (paul pry)
MEANING: noun: An excessively inquisitive person.
ETYMOLOGY: From a character in the comedic play Paul Pry by John Poole (1786-1872). Earliest documented use: 1826. Also see nosy parker.
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PAUL PRAY - what the former Pope did
PAL PRY - my nosy friend
PAUPRY - I ain't got no mony
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BOYCOTT
PRONUNCIATION: (BOI-kot)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To protest by refusing to buy a product or to deal with a person, organization, nation, etc.
noun: The practice or an instance of this.
ETYMOLOGY: After Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), an English land agent in Ireland, who was ostracized for refusing to lower rents during a time of poor harvest. Earliest documented use: 1880.
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BOYNOTT - Bruce Jenner
BOBCOTT - a lynx with a Caribbean accent
BOSCOTT - what you get if you cross a Bosc pear with a Grampa Ott morning glory
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CHAUVINISM
PRONUNCIATION: (SHO-vuh-niz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: The belief in the superiority of one’s country, group, gender, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier in Napoleon’s army, noted for his fanatical patriotism. The figure of Nicolas Chauvin was popularized in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers. Earliest documented use: 1870
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ACHAUVINISM - belief in sneezing
COHAUVINISM - belief in doing things by halves, knowing that two halves makes a whole
CHAVINISM - belief in potato soup
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Lovemace- Aurignacian stone tool used primarily in mating ceremonies, often accompanied by hair pulling into the cave
Lovemace #9- potion derived from the Aril of nutmeg
LoveMACE- the telescope will be the second-largest gamma ray telescope in the world and will help the scientific community enhance its understanding in the field of love
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Nice, May !
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LOVELACE
PRONUNCIATION: (LUV-lays)
MEANING: noun: A seducer; a licentious man.
ETYMOLOGY: After Robert Lovelace, a dissolute character in Samuel Richardson’s novel Clarissa (1748). Earliest documented use: 1751. Other eponyms with similar senses are Casanova, Don Juan, and Romeo.
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LOVELACK - a licentious literary character's underlying motivation, often
LOVERACE - a licentious piano player and showman from 1950s TV - "Where's my candelabra?"
LOVELUCE - a not-particularly-licentious TV sitcom from the same era
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The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth....my what big eyes you have. Lol
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...Wow!
That's a far cry from Liberace !
Wish my Russian was good enough to understand the writing in the bar.
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FRIBBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (FRIB-uhl)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To act in a wasteful or frivolous manner.
verb tr.: To fritter away.
noun: A wasteful or frivolous person or thing.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of frivol (to behave frivolously), from Latin frivolus (worthless). Earliest documented use: 1610.
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FRABBLE - a board game for wordlovers with a speech impediment
FIBBLE - a small falsehood
FRIBBLE® - trademarked name for a large, thick milkshake-like cold drink, sold by the Newport Creamery company (and for a while by the Friendly's chain: drink three, get a fourth one free!)
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...Wow!
That's a far cry from Liberace !
Wish my Russian was good enough to understand the writing in the bar.
I don't know anything about any of you. It's difficult to know how to write with anything but imagination. I took "tatting" and bumped into a big eye....that, combined with "wofa" inspired "the big, bad wolf." It seemed to have a "connection" to the "theme." Anyway....little boat from tatting.
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Bepie- to do the impossible
Telie- tasseography gone wrong
Belit- turned up and popping
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BELIE
PRONUNCIATION: (bi-LY)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To give a false impression: misrepresent.
2. To show to be false: contradict
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English beleogan (to deceive by lying). Earliest documented use: before 1000.
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BELIE - the second-best place to leave your golf ball for you next shot
BELITE - 1. where you go Loo, all on a Saturday night
2. If you're trying to be serious, don't this
EBELIE - a Brother who sang "Bye, Bye, Love"
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DESCRY
PRONUNCIATION: (di-SKRY)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To catch sight of.
2. To discover or detect.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French descrier (to cry out), from crier (to cry), from Latin critare, from quiritare (to cry out). Earliest documented use: before 1400. A shortening of the word descry resulted in scry.
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DECRY - to take out the lachrymal glands
DESCARY - to make less frightful
DESPRY - 1. to render no longer lithe or limber
2. to remove the shortening
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DEscry- nobody saw anything
Despry- elixer of youth with the age old adage, "You're old only when you forget you're young," on the label
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COSSET
PRONUNCIATION: (KOS-et)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To pamper.
noun: A pet; a spoiled child.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, probably from Old English cotsaeta (cot sitter or cot dweller). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit), which is also the source of sit, chair, saddle, assess, sediment, soot, cathedral, tetrahedron, sessile, surcease, assiduous, and eyas. Earliest documented use: 1579
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COSHET - a small blackjack (for knocking out midgets)
COWSET - winning six games of bovine tennis
FOSSET - source of running water
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Coset- is a fictional character in the movie adaptation of Les Miserables, directed by Baz Luhrmann Warning:( https://youtu.be/kYa6G-LH1eE ) Closset- a private, small room for fifi and fido's socks.
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Bigleaguer- comedy team Abbott and Costello
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BELEAGUER
PRONUNCIATION: (bi-LEE-guhr)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To surround with troops.
2. To beset with difficulties.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch belegeren (to camp around), from be- (around) + leger (camp). Ultimately from the Indo-European root legh- (to lie or lay), which also gave us lie, lay, lair, fellow, and laager. Earliest documented use: 1589.
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B LEAGUER - not quite good enough for the majors
BENE AGUER - a disease that afflicts its victims with fevers and aches that paradoxically are good
BELE AUER - actor Mischa's wife
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QUIXOTE
PRONUNCIATION: (kee-HO-tee, -tay, KWIK-suht)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is unrealistic, naive, chivalrous, idealistic, etc. to an absurd degree.
ETYMOLOGY: After Don Quixote, hero of the eponymous novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). Earliest documented use: 1644. The adjectival form is quixotic.
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QUIKOTE - new fast-drying paint
QUIQUOTE - the Faster Bartlett
QUIXOSE - an enzyme that digests QUIX (whatever that is)
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SANCHO PANZA
PRONUNCIATION: (SAN-cho)
MEANING: noun: A companion or sidekick, especially one who joins another in an adventure.
ETYMOLOGY: From Sancho Panza, the squire of Don Quixote. Sancho’s common sense contrasts with Don Quixote’s idealism. Earliest documented use: 1870.
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Did you know that Sancho sang a lot during his adventures with Don Quixote?
SANCHO LANZA
No, no, not the tenor, the basso of that Enchanted Evening.
SANCHO PINZA
And he became very pious and holy after the Don passed away -
SANCTO PANZA
Years later he was reincarnated as the sidekick of the son of that Computer Network equipment magnate -- you know, the Cisco kid.
PANCHO
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DUIXOTE where driving under the influence....
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DULCINEA
PRONUNCIATION: (duhl-SIN-ee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A ladylove or sweetheart.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dulcinea del Toboso, the mistress of Don Quixote. The name is derived from Spanish dulce (sweet) from Latin dulce (sweet) which also gave us dulcimer (a musical instrument), billet-doux (love letter), and dolce (softly, as in music direction). Earliest documented use: 1748.
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DUNCINEA - stupid emphasis added
SULCINEA - grooves in the National Endowment for the Arts
DULCIKEA - sweet furniture (some assembly required)
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DULLCINEA-that inevitable person on the plane in the seat next
to you.
BULCINEA-Person on a cell phone and everyone can hear for
miles around, bull horn-like
CULCINEAThe ideal that one has to weed out idiots.
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DULCINEMA For me any film with Tom Cruise
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Dul-cinema- (Aromanian English) movie usher
Dul-cinema- (Scottish Gaelic English)
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Slothario- a fictional character in the adaptation of against idleness and mischief, written by the devil
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LOTHARIO
PRONUNCIATION: (lo-THAR-ee-o)
MEANING: noun: A man who indiscriminately seduces women.
ETYMOLOGY: While the word was popularized after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent (1703), it first appeared in Don Quixote in which nobleman Anselmo tests his wife’s fidelity by recruiting his friend Lothario to seduce her. Earliest documented use: 1756.
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NOTHARIO - a would-be Don Juan who's lost his touch
LOTSARIO - what you get at Carnival time
OTHARIO - Horatio got all mixed up
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Rasinante- the grapes of wrath (post hoc ergo propter hoc)
P.S. Cool! I read Grapes of Wrath over 25 years ago in high school. I had no idea rocinante had any connection to Steinbeck. I was playing with raisin, grape and latin.
Love the learning. Thanks AWAD.
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