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supage- the action or process of eating, something, sometime.
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GRATULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (GRACH-uh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To congratulate.
2. To express joy at the sight of something or someone.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin gratulari (to congratulate), from con- (with) + gratulari (to show joy), from gratus (pleasing). Earliest documented use: 1567.
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GYRATULATE - composed of many small particles going around in circles
GRATUIATE - tipsy
GRABULATE - Personal Foul, loss of 15 yards from the point of the infraction, automatic First Down
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BOUILLABAISSE
PRONUNCIATION: (boo-yuh-BAYS, BOO-yuh-bays, BOOL-yuh-bays, bool-yuh-BAYS)
MEANING: noun: 1. A rich and spicy fish stew or soup. 2. A mixture of incongruous things.
ETYMOLOGY: From French bouillabaisse, from Provençal bouiabaisso, from Latin bullire (to boil) + bassus (low). Earliest documented use: 1855.
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BOOILLABAISSE - a special soup served at a Halloween party
BOUILLABAISTE - or use it to moisten your turkey as it roasts
BOULLABAISSE - first or second or third sack at a Yale baseball game
BROUILLABAISSE - the ultimate in before-dinner beers, rich and spicy
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Behry-Pick- paint your clafoutis
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CHERRY-PICKPRONUNCIATION: (CHER-ee-pik) MEANING: verb tr.: To pick in a highly selective manner. Example, to cherry-pick data to suit a hypothesis. ETYMOLOGY: From the idea of picking the best cherries from a tree. Earliest documented use: 1966. ________________________________ CHEERY-PICK - an upbeat banjo or guitar riff (like this one) CHERRY-PUCK - a bizarre award given to the Boston Bruins coach in 1979 after a particularly egregious hockey maneuver backfired SHERRY-PICK - "I'll have the Bristol Cream, please"
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RECHAUFFE
PRONUNCIATION: (ray-sho-FAY)
MEANING: noun: 1. Warmed leftover food. 2. Rehash: old reworked material.
ETYMOLOGY: From French réchauffé (reheated, rehashed), from chauffer (to warm), from Latin calefacere (to make warm), from calere (to be hot) + facere (to make). Other (some hot, some not) words derived from the Latin root calere are chafe, nonchalant, calefacient, and chauffeur (literally, a stoker, who warmed up the engine in early steam-driven cars). Earliest documented use: 1778.
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PRECHAUFFE - eaten unwarmed, like biftek tartare or cold pizza
RECHUFFE - Angry again?
RICHAUFFE - having a lot of French loud iron
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Rechauffed- afternoon tea and biscuits
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SACCHARINE
PRONUNCIATION: (SAK-uh-rin, -REEN, -ruhn, -ryn)
MEANING: adjective: Excessively sweet, sentimental, or ingratiating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin saccharum (sugar), from Greek sakkharon, from Sanskrit sarkara (gravel, sugar). Earliest documented use: 1674.
NOTES: The name of the synthetic sweetening compound, saccharin, is derived from the same Latin word as today’s term. The compound was first produced in 1879, but the usage of the word saccharine goes much earlier. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1841:
“One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.”
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BACCHARINE - orgiastic
SACCHORINE - fire the singer!
SACCHARMINE- a bag of soft toilet paper
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Sacchagrine- seersucker at the zoo in the land of milk and honey
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FARRAGO
PRONUNCIATION:
(fuh-RAH-goh)
MEANING:
noun: A confused mixture.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin farrago (mixed fodder). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhares- (barley), which also gave us barn, barley, and farina. Earliest documented use: 1637.
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FARTAGO – usual response to, "Are we there yet?"
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FARRAGO
PRONUNCIATION: (fuh-RAH-goh)
MEANING: noun: A confused mixture.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin farrago (mixed fodder). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhares- (barley), which also gave us barn, barley, and farina. Earliest documented use: 1637.
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FARRAGNO - an Incredibly Hulking actor from Boston
FARRAGE - horseshoeness
BARRAGO - what I go into when I want a drink
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Farraso- a quilting party song...farr a long, long way to sooo a camel pulling thread
Farrado- a hip square dance...farr a long, long way back to dosido
Yehaw! Everybody cut loose, footloose!
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QUOZ
PRONUNCIATION: (kwaz)
MEANING: noun: An odd person or thing.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps it’s a variant of the word quiz which has a similar meaning. Or maybe the word quiz is a variant of quoz. It’s all very quizzical. Or quozzical. Earliest documented use: 1780.
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QUON - a hybrid particle, combining the qualities of a quark and a muon
IQUOZ - the intelligence of the Wizard
SQUOZ - pluperfect subjunctive for what you shouldn't do to the Charmin'
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...or, QUOF = what the Raven faid, nevermore ?
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VIDIMUS
PRONUNCIATION: (VAI-di-muhs)
MEANING: noun: 1. An attested copy of a document. 2. An official inspection.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vidimus (we have seen), from videre (to see). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which also gave us guide, wise, vision, advice, idea, story, history, vizard, videlicet, prudential, previse, and invidious. Earliest documented use: 1436.
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OVIDIMUS - We have written a poem in Latin
VIDIPUS - Oedipus before he plucked his eyes out, so he could still see
VIDIMUST - You just have to watch this!
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VIODIMUS inspector of violins, violas, etc.
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PINCHBECK
PRONUNCIATION: (PINCH-bek)
MEANING: adjective: Counterfeit or spurious.
noun: An alloy of zinc and copper, used as imitation gold in jewelry.
ETYMOLOGY: After watchmaker Christopher Pinchbeck (1670-1732), who invented it. It’s ironic that today his name is a synonym for something counterfeit, but in his time his fame was worldwide, not only as the inventor of this curious alloy, but also as a maker of musical clocks and orreries. The composition of this gold-like alloy was a closely-guarded secret, but it didn’t prevent others from passing off articles as if made from this alloy... faking fake gold!
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PINCHBACK - what you should do to the rhododendrons after they finish blooming (see "deadheading")
PINCHNECK - a Vulcan maneuver to disable one's opponents without causing permanent harm
PUNCHBECK - what a kid does in a Brooklyn schoolyard when someone hits him
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BUNCHBACK What many people need to do with hair that is always falling
in their faces.
I like your kid in Brooklyn
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JAYHAWKER
PRONUNCIATION: (JAY-haw-kuhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. A robber. 2. A native or resident of Kansas.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally, a Jayhawker was a member of antislavery guerrillas in Kansas or Missouri during the US Civil War. It’s not clear why they were called Jayhawkers. Earliest documented use: 1860.
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JAYHAWKERY - the downfall of Panem and its Hunger Games; selling the Revolution to the outlying provinces
JOYHAWKER -
1. G-d Rest Ye Merry, Merchants, May you make the Yuletide pay (Tom Lehrer)
2. It's the old Dope Peddler, with his powdered happiness (also Tom Lehrer)
JAYHAWSER - (nautical) a rope one grade thicker than an I-hawser
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EXPERGEFACIENT
PRONUNCIATION: (eks-puhr-juh-FAY-shuhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Awakening or arousing.
noun: A drug or other agent that awakens or arouses.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin expergefacere (to awaken), from expergisci (to become awake) + facere (to make or do). Earliest documented use: 1821.
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EXPERGEFACIEST - the best pepper-upper in the whole wide world !
EXPERTEFACIENT - it'll teach you everything in just six quick lessons
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SEXPERGEFACIENT teen age hormones
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PATERNOSTER
PRONUNCIATION: (PAY-tuhr NOS-tuhr, PAH-, PAT-)
MEANING: noun
1. A sequence of words used as a formula, a charm, etc.
2. A continuously moving endless elevator that goes in a loop.
3. The Lord’s Prayer; one of the certain larger beads in a rosary on which the Lord’s Prayer is said.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pater noster (our father), opening words of the Lord’s Prayer in Latin. Earliest documented use: before 900.
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PASTERNOSTER - our local parish priest, who can't spell
PATTERN OSTER - how to assemble your new blender
PATEROOSTER - alpha male in the henhouse
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MITTIMUS
PRONUNCIATION: (MIT-uh-muhs)
MEANING: noun: An official order to commit someone to prison.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mittimus (we send), the first word of such an order, from mittere (to send). Earliest documented use: 1443.
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MUTTIMUS - Superdog
MITTIPUS - Supercat
MITTIMAUS - Mighty Mouse
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TITTIMUS – A cheery little bird that makes your heart go pittipat.
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TITTIMUS – A cheery little bird that makes your heart go pittipat. That's the tufted one, right?
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GAUDEAMUS
PRONUNCIATION: (gau-di-AHM-uhs)
MEANING: noun: A convivial gathering or merry-making of students at a college or university.
ETYMOLOGY: From the students’ song “De Brevitate Vitae” (On the Shortness of Life) whose first word is gaudeamus (let’s rejoice). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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GAUZEAMUS - let's wrap him up like a mummy
GAUDEAMOS - celebrate the famous cookie-maker
EAUDEAMUS - the new fragrance from Paris
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DEBENTURE
PRONUNCIATION: (di-BEN-chuhr)
MEANING: noun: A certificate acknowledging a debt.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin debentur (they are due/owing), the first word in early certificates of indebtedness. From Latin debere (to owe), ultimately from the Indo-European root ghabh- (to give or to receive), which is also the source of give, gift, able, habit, prohibit, due, duty, adhibit, and habile. Earliest documented use: 1455.
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DEBENTIRE - the Compleat Devorah
DEVENTURE - withdraw from a dubious enterprise
DECENTURE - Of course my clothes are on, some on in!
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MAGNIFICAT
PRONUNCIATION: (mag-NIF-i-kat)
MEANING: noun:
1. The hymn of the Virgin Mary in Luke, 1:46-55.
2. An utterance of praise.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin magnificat (magnifies), the first word of the Latin version of the hymn that opens with “Magnificat anima mea Dominum” (“My soul magnifies the Lord”), from Latin magnus (great). Ultimately from the Indo-European root meg- (great), which is also the source of magnificent, maharajah, master, mayor, maestro, magnate, magistrate, maximum, magnify, mickle, mahatma, magnanimous, magisterial, magnifico, majestious, and hermetic. Earliest documented use: before 450.
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MAGNIFICT - an epic lie
MAGNITICAT - Rub it against a glass rod and it'll stick to the wall
MUGNIFICAT - What a beautiful face !
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MALNIFICAT something wicked this way comes
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Magnifiscat- a mighty magnifying monocle
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DOX
PRONUNCIATION: (doks)
MEANING: verb tr.: To gather and publish someone’s personal information, such as phone number, address, email messages, credit card numbers, etc., especially with a malicious intent.
noun: Personal information about someone, collected and published without permission.
ETYMOLOGY: Phonetic respelling of docs, short for documents, from Latin documentum (lesson, proof, specimen), from docere (to teach), which also gave us doctor and docent. Earliest documented use: early 2000s.
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DROX - black and white cookie, often enjoyed with cold milk, competitor of Reo, but it doesn't really matter 'cause they're both owned by the same company. YCLIU.
DOXU - the latest Star Wars villian
GOX - phonetic respelling of GOKS, acronym of God Only KnowS.
You hope your doctor never has to tell you "You have GOKS Disease;" there's no cure.
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DOX'S A "Physician, heal thyself" Convention of the AMA.
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PHOTOSHOP
PRONUNCIATION: (FOT-uh-shop)
MEANING: verb tr.: To digitally alter an image, especially in order to distort reality.
ETYMOLOGY: From Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used software package for editing images. Earliest documented use: 1992.
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PROTOSHOP - the dawn of commerce
PHOTOSHOE - erotica for a foot-fetishist
PHOTOSTOP - a Papparazzi-repellent for the rich and famous
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PHOTOSHIP - a vessel that travels at c.
PHYTOSHOP - software that does everything from flower arrangement to enhanced-yield crops.
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DEFRIEND
PRONUNCIATION: (di-FREND)
MEANING: verb tr.: To remove someone from one’s list of online friends.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin de- (from, away) + friend, from Old English freond. Ultimately from the Indo-European root pri- (to love), which also gave us free, Friday, and Sanskrit priya (beloved). Earliest documented use: 2004.
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DOEFRIEND - Bambi's momma
DERRIEND - horse's a** can't make up his mind whether he's French or English
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PHOTOSHIP - a vessel that travels at c.
PHYTOSHOP - software that does everything from flower arrangement to enhanced-yield crops. ...where's that "LIKE" button?
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