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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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CAPRIODE – What Byron wrote after a boat trip out of Napoli.
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KENNING
PRONUNCIATION: (KEN-ing)
MEANING: noun: A figurative, usually compound, expression used to describe something. For example, whale road for an ocean and oar steed for a ship.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse kenna (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gno- (to know), which is also the source of know, recognize, acquaint, ignore, diagnosis, notice, normal, prosopagnosia, gnomon, anagnorisis, and agnosia. Earliest documented use: 1320. Kennings were used especially in Old Norse and Old English poetry.
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iKENNING - Scottish computer knowledge
K-INNING -
1. when the pitcher strikes out the side in baseball
2. a VERY long cricket match
VENNING - circular reasoning
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MOT JUSTE
PRONUNCIATION: (mo ZHOOST)
MEANING: noun: The right word.
ETYMOLOGY: From French mot juste (right word). Earliest documented use: 1896. A related term is bon mot.
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MORT JUSTE - martyrdom
MOT JOUSTE - fighting words
MAT JUSTE - where Right and Wrong duke it out
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Not Juste- Hella.....Unfair
Dot Juste- Hecka Fair
Lot Juste-HellaFair
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HOLOPHRASM
PRONUNCIATION: (HOL-uh-fraz-um)
MEANING: noun
1. A one-word sentence, for example, “Go.”
2. A complex idea conveyed in a single word, for example, “Howdy” for “How do you do?”
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek holos (whole) + phrasis (speech). Earliest documented use: 1862.
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HOLOPHERASM - orders given by Nebuchadnezzar's Commanding General
HOOPHRASM - excitement about basketball
HOLOPHRASE - a complete sentence
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BOLOPHRASM – I let my machete do the talking.
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POCHISMO
PRONUNCIATION: (po-CHEEZ-mo)
MEANING: noun
1. An English word borrowed into Spanish, often given a Spanish form or spelling, such as mopear (to mop) instead of trapear or limpiar.
2. American customs, attitudes, etc., adopted by a Hispanic in the US and perceived pejoratively by his compatriots.
ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish pocho (discolored, faded). Earliest documented use: 1944.
NOTES: Pocho is a derogatory term used by a Hispanic for a fellow countryman living in the US who is perceived to have lost his culture and adopted American attitudes, and speaks Spanglish (Spanish heavily influenced by English).
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PACHISMO - thickness
POCKISMO - toughness, proved by surviving Variola
OCHISMO - the Eightfold Way
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PORCHISMO – Being fearless until just before reaching the front sidewalk.
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ANTONOMASIA
PRONUNCIATION: (an-toh-noh-MAY-zhuh)
MEANING: noun
1. The use of an epithet or title for a proper name, for example, the Bard for Shakespeare.
2. The use of the name of a person known for a particular quality to describe others, such as calling someone brainy as Einstein. Also known as eponym.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, from Greek antonomazein (to name differently), from anti- (instead of) + onoma (name). Earliest documented use: 1589.
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AUTONOMASIA - speaking without thinking
ANTONOMARIA - West Side Story in a nutshell
GANTONOMASIA - uneasiness about a Cuban port (and prison)
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DINT
PRONUNCIATION: (dint)
MEANING: noun: 1. Force, power. 2. A dent.
verb tr.: To make a dent or to drive in with force.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English dynt (blow). Earliest documented use: 897.
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DONT - refrain from force or power
DINUT - a two-holed pastry enjoyed with coffee
DIPT - what you did with your DINUT
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MOIL
PRONUNCIATION: (moyl)
MEANING:
verb intr.: 1. To work hard; to toil. 2. To churn.
verb tr.: To make wet or muddy.
noun: 1. Hard work. 2. Confusion or turmoil.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French moillier (to moisten), from Latin mollis (soft). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us malt, melt, mollify, smelt, enamel, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1611.
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HMOIL - electronic messaging in the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
MONIL - my Parisian boy friend
MNIL - I remember nothing
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Mail- letters and packages conveyed by the postal system
Toil- to work extremely hard or incessantly
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GUFF
PRONUNCIATION: (guf)
MEANING: noun:
1. Nonsense.
2. Insolent talk.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps imitative. Earliest documented use: 1825.
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GUEFF - Thomaf Jefferfon takef a wild ftab at the anfwer
QUFF - "Have a drink? No way!" (Or, if you insist, "No A!"}
GUFOF - someone who wastes time when he should be working
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WEFT
PRONUNCIATION: (weft)
MEANING: noun: The threads that run across the width of a woven fabric and are interlaced through the warp (threads that run lengthwise).
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English wefta (weft). Ultimately from the Indo-European root webh- (to weave; to move quickly), which also gave us weave, webster, waffle, wave, waver, and wobble. Earliest documented use: 725.
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WEET - what bred is made from
WET - what it used to be made from
WEPT - what they did to the crumbs on the floor after the bred was all et
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guaff- typeset trickery in Plato's cave (no soup for you)
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QUAFF
PRONUNCIATION: (kwof)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To drink deeply.
noun: An alcoholic drink; also the act of drinking.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin, probably imitative. Earliest documented use: 1521
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QUARF - a pier that can't make up its mind whether it's French (quai) or English (wharf)
QUAFFL - a libation served in a hollowed-out quiddich ball, enjoyed after a major victory
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QUARF - a pier that can't make up its mind whether it's French (quai) or English (wharf) 
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GANNET
PRONUNCIATION: (GAN-it)
MEANING: noun:
1. A large seabird known for catching fish by diving from a height.
2. A greedy person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English ganot. Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghans- (goose), which also gave us goose, gosling, gander, and gunsel. Earliest documented use: before 1000. Gannets’ reputation for being greedy isn’t deserved though.
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GARNET - a bird that swears mildly when it misses the fish it's diving for
GRANNET - a hard stone composed of little grains
RANNET - 1. sent up the flagpole (but no one saluted); 2. a small frog
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bannet- bee bonnet 
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Well, that's certainly not the Bees Knees...
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SNIPE
PRONUNCIATION: (snyp)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Any of various long-billed birds inhabiting marshy areas.
2. A shot from a concealed position.
verb intr.:
1. To shoot from a concealed position.
2. To criticize in a harsh and unfair way, especially anonymously.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably of Scandinavian origin. The shooting sense comes from the practice of snipe hunting. Earliest documented use: 1325.
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SNILE - 1. the longest river in SAfrica
2. an ambivalent facial gesture, combining a sneer and a smile
STIPE - infinite reimbursement (payment without end)
SRIPE - the fruit is ready to eat
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Well, that's certainly not the Bees Knees...
...lol I thought it was funny when I went back to the link (after I posted the image). Arrr! I'm not sure what this bannet says; maybe, "I'm busy." kiss me quick get a room
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DODO
PRONUNCIATION: (DO-do)
MEANING: noun:
1. An extinct, flightless bird from Mauritius, related to the pigeon but of the size of a turkey.
2. Someone or something that is old-fashioned, ineffective, or outdated.
3. A stupid person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Portuguese doudo/doido (silly, fool). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ors- (buttocks) which also gave us ass, cynosure, and squirrel. Earliest documented use: 1628
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DONO - what a physician should avoid before all other things (before "harm")
CODO - 1. work together; see also DIDO
2. last word in an arbitrary line in an arbitrary fisherman's sea chanty
DONDO - singular of DONDI, an extinct, flightless orphan from a 60-year-old comic strip
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I'll take a shot at them:
HODO - G-d's bounty (from the Hebrew)
LODO - the yeast hasn't worked yet; give it more time to rise
ÖODO - what you make egg-bread from
(And speaking of Hebrew, be sure not to mix up PODO AND KODO with TOHU AND BOHU...)
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Hodo. Keeping things "simple." It rarely is.
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MAGPIE
PRONUNCIATION: (MAG-py)
MEANING: noun:
1. Any of various birds, typically having a long tail and black-and-white plumage; also various other birds that resemble a magpie.
2. A chatterer.
3. A person who indiscriminately collect things, especially things of little value.
ETYMOLOGY: From Mag (a nickname for Margaret) + pie (magpie), from Latin pica (magpie). The use of the name Mag is from the stereotypical association of women with chattering. Magpies have a (rather undeserved) reputation for chattering and hoarding, but they are some of the most intelligent animals. Two other words coined after them are pied and pica. Earliest documented use: 1589.
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NAGPIE - an inveterate collector of things of little value who won't stop chattering about it
MANGPIE - a baked dessert made from a sweet aromatic tropical fruit
MAGPINE - a conifer that attracts iron
MAGNIE - any object that looks larger that it really is
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Tagpie- pie sent out at Christmas, often regifted
Lagpie- thy breath is like the Steeme of apples; busted
Agpie- pie used to transport vampire trappings; other ingredients include a deadly dose of garlic (Death at first bite)
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