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ROSINANTE
PRONUNCIATION: (roz-uh-NAN-tee)
MEANING: noun: An old, worn-out horse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Rocinante, the name of Don Quixote’s horse. Don Quixote took four days to think of a lofty name for his horse, from Spanish rocín (an old horse: nag or hack) + ante (before, in front of). Earliest documented use: 1641.
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ROSSINANTE - what Gioachino was called until he wrote the William Tell Overture and became famous
May - that's basically the same principle as yours !
ROSINANTE - what the poker game did when the stakes went up
ROSINANCE - how a violin bow makes such a luscious, rich, beautiful sound
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ROSINANTE
PRONUNCIATION: (roz-uh-NAN-tee)
MEANING: noun: An old, worn-out horse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Rocinante, the name of Don Quixote’s horse. Don Quixote took four days to think of a lofty name for his horse, from Spanish rocín (an old horse: nag or hack) + ante (before, in front of). Earliest documented use: 1641.
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ROSSINANTE - what Gioachino was called until he wrote the William Tell Overture and became famous
May - that's basically the same principle as yours !
ROSINANTE - what the poker game did when the stakes went up
ROSINANCE - how a violin bow makes such a luscious, rich, beautiful sound Ha! Those damn tourne potatoes and Escoffier. Years ago at JW I got in trouble for turning Boccoli Polonaise into broccoli alla May. Ah, to be a Rosinante or a Rossini....
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So ten minutes ago. From hair nation to Broadway, Finian's Rainbow. One if by sea,la nave...information is bogo.
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DORYPHORE
PRONUNCIATION: (DOR-uh-for)
MEANING: noun: A pedantic or persistent critic.
ETYMOLOGY: From French doryphore (Colorado beetle, a potato pest), from Greek doruphoros (spear carrier). The author Harold Nicolson brought the word to English in its current sense. Earliest documented use: 1952.
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PORYPHORE - any member of the second phylum of the animal kingdom
DORYPHONE - part of the communication system on a lifeboat
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RATTY
PRONUNCIATION: (RAT-ee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Of, relating to, or full of rats.
2. Shabby.
3. Irritable; angry.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English raet (rat). Earliest documented use: 1852.
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RATHY - angry...
RAFTY - Finnish (like Huck)
IRATTY - a teletype device used by the hearing impaired to discuss their Individual Retirement Account
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PULLULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (PUHL-yuh-layt)
MEANING: verb intr.:
1. To sprout or breed.
2. To swarm or teem.
3. To increase rapidly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pullulare (to sprout), from pullulus, diminutive of pullus (chicken, young animal), from Latin pullus (young animal). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pau- (few, little), which is also the source of few, foal, filly, pony, poor, pauper, poco, puerile, poltroon, punchinello, and catchpole. Earliest documented use: 1602.
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PULLUWATE - do at least your share
PULLULATER - Sorry, kids, we can't go sledding until this afternoon
PULLUPLATE - remove stuck dentures; can refer tp uppers or lowers, depending on how you pronounce it PULL-U-PLATE or PULL-UP-LATE
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WINKLE
PRONUNCIATION: (WING-kuhl)
MEANING:
noun: A periwinkle, any of various mollusks with a spiral shell.
verb tr.: To extract with effort or difficulty.
ETYMOLOGY: For noun: Of uncertain origin.
For verb: From the process of extracting a periwinkle from its shell with a pin for eating its meat.
Earliest documented use: 1585.
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INKLE - the first faint glimmer of an idea
WINKE - a Deutche Pac-Man ghost
WINKALE - triumph at the Organic Vegetable fair
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WINKALE -
1. triumph at the Organic Vegetable fair
2. blink one eye at that neat new beer
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CAPRIOLE
PRONUNCIATION: (KAP-ree-ol)
MEANING: noun:
1. A playful leap: caper.
2. A leap made by a trained horse involving a backward kick of the hind legs at the top of the leap.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle French capriole (caper) or Italian capriola (leap), from Latin capreolus (goat), diminutive of caper (goat). Earliest documented use: 1580.
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APRIOLE - what's left when you remove the pit from the fuzzy orange fruit
CAPRIOSE - goatlike
CAPRIOLE - what Cal Ripken covers his head with
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