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SIREN SON – seems that one of those sailors actually made it.

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BACCHANT

PRONUNCIATION: (buh-KANT, -KAHNT, BAK-uhnt)

MEANING: noun: A boisterous reveler.

ETYMOLOGY: From Bacchus, the god of wine in Roman mythology. His Greek equivalent is Dionysus who gave us the word dionysian. Earliest documented use:1699.
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BATCHANT - one of a small army of six-legged arthropods

BACCHIANT - simultaneously smoking and drinking cheap wine from a straw-wrapped bottle

BACHCHANT - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

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YERK

PRONUNCIATION: (yuhrk)

MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To rise, stir, strike, whip, pull, kick, etc.
noun: A sudden movement, kick, jerk, stab, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative. Earliest documented use: 1424.

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YEARK - the First Millennium

YEROK - just a scratch; don't worry, it'll heal before the wedding

BYERK - the tennis player is an idiot

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UNCO

PRONUNCIATION: (UHNG-koh)

MEANING:
adjective: Unusual; remarkable; strange.
adverb: Remarkably; extremely.
noun: 1. A stranger. 2. News.

ETYMOLOGY: A variant of uncouth, from uncuth, from un- (not) + cuth (known), from cunnan (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gno- (to know), which also gave us know, recognize, acquaint, ignore, diagnosis, notice, normal, agnosia, anagnorisis, prosopagnosia, cognize, gnomon, and kenning. Earliest documented use: 1410.
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UNCOA -
1. the Other Aluminum Company ("Aluminium," if you prefer)
2. 7-Up's Christmas ad campaign (no L)

FUNCO - Walt Disney Inc, after the makeover

UNGO - Come again?

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SAGA

PRONUNCIATION: (SAH-guh)

MEANING: noun: 1. A long narrative of heroic exploits. 2. A long detailed report.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse, literally (narrative). Originally, a saga was an Old Norse or Icelandic prose narrative dealing with historic or legendary figures. Earliest documented use: 1709.

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SHAGA - a parasitic disease caused by a trypanosome, endemic to Mexico, Central and South America

SPAGA - a large hunk of pasta; a little one is a Spaghet, pl. Spaghetti

SANGA - Funiculi, Funicula emerging from a bar in Milan

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SPAGA - a large hunk of pasta; a little one is a Spaghet, pl. Spaghetti
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JAGA – narrative of a really long bender or cry.

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DIEL

PRONUNCIATION: (DY-uhl, deel)

MEANING:
noun: A period of 24 hours.
adjective: Lasting 24 hours or having a 24-hour period.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dies (day), which also gave us adjourn, diary, diet, circadian, journal, journey, quotidian, and sojourn. Earliest documented use: 1934.
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DO-EL - Christmas with a very stuffed nose

DIELA - the one who turns over the cards in a Boston casino

DIXEL - a single element in a double-density computer-generated image

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ALAR

PRONUNCIATION: (AY-luhr)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Relating to wings; wing-shaped. 2. Relating to the armpit.

EDIT: "Armpit"? That's AXIL/AXILLARY. Is it ALA too?)

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ala (wing), which also gave us aisle and aileron. Earliest documented use: 1791.

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ALARA - OSHA jargon for radiation safety: acronym for "As Low As Reasonably Achievable"

ALER - a pub-crawler with very limited taste

AR-AR - a Cockney pirate's 'earty laugh

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MAECENAS

PRONUNCIATION: (mee-SEE-nuhs, mi-)

MEANING: noun: A generous patron, especially of art, music, or literature.

ETYMOLOGY: From Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (c. 70-8 BCE), patron of Horace and Virgil. Earliest documented use: 1542.
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MAXECENAS - very-large-scale Hollywood mob scenes

MAKECENAS - draw attention to oneself in a very public fashion

MALECENAS - (pron. MA-lay-SAY-noss) very bad dinners prepared by a Madrid chef

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GUY

PRONUNCIATION: (guy)

MEANING:
noun: A man (in plural, persons of either sex).
verb tr.: To make fun of; ridicule.

noun: A rope to steady, guide, or secure something.
verb tr.: To steady, guide, or secure something with a rope.

ETYMOLOGY:
For set 1:After Guy Fawkes (1570-1606), a conspirator in the failed attempt to blow up England’s Parliament in 1605. Earliest documented use: 1874.

For set 2: From Old French guie (guide), from guier (to guide). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which is also the source of guide, wise, vision, advice, idea, story, history, polyhistor, invidious, hades, eidos, eidetic, previse, vidimus, and vizard. Earliest documented use: 1375.
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QUY - what you use to unlock the door to the pagoda

AGUY - feelng like you're coming down with the flu

GNUY - nickname for a baby wildebeest

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VICTORIAN

PRONUNCIATION: (vik-TOR-ee-uhn)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Prudish; outdated; exaggeratedly proper; hypocritical.
2. Relating to the period of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
3. Relating to ornate architecture, furnishings, etc., characteristic of the period.

ETYMOLOGY: After Queen Victoria of the UK (1819-1901). Earliest documented use: 1839.

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VICTO-RICAN - pertaining to the capture of a pirate ship full of plunder

VICTOURIAN - being taken around a famous old London theater

VECTORIAN - 1. having both a magnitude and a direction
2. pertaining to the spread of disease via an intermediate species

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GONGORISM

PRONUNCIATION: (GONG-uh-riz-uhm)

MEANING: noun: An affected literary style marked by intricate language and elaborate figures of speech.

ETYMOLOGY: After Spanish baroque poet Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627). Earliest documented use: 1813.

NOTES: Some Gongorisms from Luis de Góngora y Argote:
• La vida es ciervo herido, que las flechas le dan alas. (Life is a wounded stag in whom the fast-stuck arrows function as wings.)
• A batallas de amor, campo de pluma. (Feathers are love’s most fitting battle-ground.)
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GOGORISM - Disco music beat

GONGPRISM - a special piezo-sonic crystal that reverberates when white light shines through it

GONORISM - combining a venereal disease with an ineffective contraceptive method


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ADDISONIAN

PRONUNCIATION: (ad-uh-SO-nee-uhn)

MEANING: adjective: Having clarity and elegance.

ETYMOLOGY: After Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist and poet. Earliest documented use: 1789.

NOTES: Some aphorisms by Addison:
-- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
-- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
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Tatler and the Spectator. These days the eponym is more likely to be associated with Dr. Thomas Addison, who "...first described the clinical presentation of primary adrenocortical insufficiency (Addison disease) in 1855 in his classic paper...". Even as a cardiologist I know Addison's Disease and Addisonian Crisis. If your adrenal glands don't make hydrocortisone, you're in BIG trouble, believe me.
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ADDASONIAN - adopt a male child into your family

DADDISONIAN - Patriarchal

EDDISONIAN - figured out by the inventor AFTER he received his Doctorate in Education

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MEGRIM

PRONUNCIATION: (MEE-grim)

MEANING: noun:
1. (In plural, megrims) Low spirits.
2. Whim.
3. Migraine.

ETYMOLOGY: From misreading of in as m in the word migraine. From French migraine, from Latin hemicrania (pain in one side of the head), from Greek hemi- (half) + kranion (skull). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ker- (horn or head), which also gave us unicorn, horn, hornet, rhinoceros, reindeer, carrot, carat, and cerebrate. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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HEGRIM - the other guy doesn't feel so good

MEGRAM - a narcissist's billet-doux

MUGRIM - where the lipstick goes

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POSTHUMOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (POS-chuh-muhs)

MEANING: adjective: Happening after someone’s death, but relating to something done earlier. For example, a book published after the death of the author, a child born after the death of the father, an award given after the death of a person.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin posthumus, alteration of postumus, superlative of posterus (coming after). The word literally means “subsequent” but since it was often used in contexts relating to someone’s death, people began associating the word with humus (earth) or humare (to bury) and amended the spelling. Earliest documented use: 1608.
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POSTHUMORUS - translation of "LOL"

POSTHUMOUR - British translation of "LOL"

PESTHUMOUS - soil with earthworms in it

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LUTESTRING

PRONUNCIATION: (LOOT-string)

MEANING: noun: A glossy silk fabric.

ETYMOLOGY: This fabric has nothing to do with a lute string. The word is a corruption of French lustrine, from Italian lustrino, from Latin lustrare (to make bright). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leuk- (light), which also gave us lunar, lunatic, light, lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, translucent, lux, lynx, pellucid, lucubrate, limn, levin, and lea. Earliest documented use: 1661.
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LUTESTRINE - the latest contraceptive

LURESTRING - what your well-dressed Siren wears

CUTESTRING - a long line of puppies and kittens and penguin chicks and
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POSTHUMMOUS - relating to that after-garbonzoid feeling.

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MESSUAGE

PRONUNCIATION: (MES-wij)

MEANING: noun: A residential building with outbuildings and the attached land.

ETYMOLOGY: From the misreading of the letter n as u in Old French mesnage (household), from Latin manere (to remain, dwell). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (to remain), which also gave us manor, mansion, ménage, immanent, permanent, menagerie, menial, and remain. Earliest documented use: 1490.
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MASSUAGE - (pron. mass-WAGE) - paying everybody at least $15/hour!

MESSUAVE - (pron. me-SWAV) - "I am the smoothest!"

MESSTAGE - (pron mess-STAGE) - after the wild theater party

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FRONTISPIECE

PRONUNCIATION: (FRUN-ti-spees)

MEANING: noun:
1. An illustration facing or preceding the title page of a book.
2. A facade, especially an ornamental facade, of a building.
3. An ornamental pediment over a door or window.

ETYMOLOGY: The word was formed by corruption of French frontispice by association with the word ‘piece’. It’s from Latin frontispicium (facade), from front- (front) + specere (to look). Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe), which also gave us spy, spice, species, suspect, expect, spectrum, despise, despicable, bishop, telescope, specious, speciesism, soupcon, prospicient, perspicuous, speculum, omphaloskepsis, and conspectus. Earliest documented use: 1598.

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FRONDISPIECE - many leaflets of a fern, all on one single stem

FRONTISPICE - the most prominent condiment in the cabinet, often a chili or a curry

FRONTISPIERCE - a direct attack from straight ahead using a sharp instrument


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PIACULAR

PRONUNCIATION: (pie-AK-yuh-luhr)

MEANING: adjective: Making or requiring atonement.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin piare (to appease). Earliest documented use: 1606.
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PIARCULAR - extending half-way around a circle (measured in radians)

SPIACULAR - the latest James Bond flick

APIACULAR - a truly overwhelming swarm of bees

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PIOCULAR (also pinocular) - glasses with piarcular lenses

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DEMOTIC

PRONUNCIATION: (di-MOT-ik)

MEANING:
adjective: Relating to common people; popular.
noun: Modern Greek.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek demos (people). Earliest documented use: 1782.
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DEMONTIC - gives the worst Lyme infection ever

DEMOTEC - computerized Show-and-Tell

DEMOSTIC - Superglue



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PARSIMONY

PRONUNCIATION: (PAR-si-mo-nee)

MEANING: noun: Excessive frugality; stinginess.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin parsimonia, from parcere (to spare). Earliest documented use: 1475.
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PARISIMONY - how you finance the trip to France after the divorce

FARSIMONY - "pool" is as close a transliteration as I can find, written as one of these. The currency of Iran is the rial.

PARSIPONY - a town in New Jersey

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PARSNIMONY – 1. Mon(e)y is the root of all evil. 2. A replacement for the gold standard.

PARSIMON
– A tree that is reluctant to give up its orange fruit.

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GAUCHERIE

PRONUNCIATION: (goh-shuh-REE)

MEANING: noun: A lack of tact or grace; also an instance of this.

ETYMOLOGY: From French gauche (literally left-handed, awkward), from gauchir (to turn). Earliest documented use: 1798.
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GAUCHO-ERIE - folly on the pampas

LAUCHERIE - underwear for Cape Canaveral

GACHERIE - gourmet food for Klingons

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VALENCE

PRONUNCIATION: (VAY-luhns)

MEANING: noun:
1. The combining capacity of an atom or a group of atoms to form molecules.
2. The capacity of someone or something to affect another.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin valentia (power, worth, or strength), from valere (to be well or strong). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wal- (to be strong) that also gave us valiant, avail, valor, value, wieldy, countervail, valetudinarian, and valorize, Earliest documented use: 1425.
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VALENE - one of the ameno acids

VIALENCE(1) - the orchestral string section

VIALENCE(2) - riot in the perfume-bottling factory

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PERSONALTY

PRONUNCIATION: (PUHR-suh-nuhl-tee)

MEANING: noun: Personal property: movable property, as contrasted with real estate.

ETYMOLOGY: From Anglo-French personalté, from Latin personalitas, from persona (mask, person), from Etruscan phersu, from Greek prosopa (face, mask). Earliest documented use: 1528.
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PERSONALTA - a high muckety-muck of the feminine gender

PERSONASTY - any one of many unpleasant folk

PARSONALTY - things owned by a local church officer

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TRUCHMAN

PRONUNCIATION: (TRUHCH-muhn)

MEANING: noun: An interpreter.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin turchemannus, from Arabic tarjuman, from Aramaic turgemana, from Akkadian targumanu (interpreter). Earliest documented use: 1485.
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TRACHMAN - the guy who puts the hole in your throat so you can breathe better

TRUTHMAN - a Fair Witness, male gender

TRUCHBAN - no cargo vehicles with more than two axles allowed

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Popinsay- a children's toy that outwardly consists of a box with ocular-based biometric technology. When the unique patterns on a person's retina blood vessels is recognized it plays a melody. The melody utilizes synthesizers for ancillary effects.

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POPINJAY

PRONUNCIATION: (POP-in-jay)

MEANING: noun: Someone who indulges in vain and empty chatter.

ETYMOLOGY: Via French and Spanish from Arabic babbaga (parrot). The last syllable changed to jay because some thought the word referred to that bird instead of a parrot. Earliest documented use: 1322.
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POPINDAY - A holiday in honour of British Nannies in general and author P.L. Travers' character in particular

POPINJAW - vernacular for TMJ syndrome (temporo-mandibular joint)

POPINJOY - the gleeful pleasure of bubble-wrap

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POPENJAY's - the Pope's PJ's.

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ARSENIOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (ahr-SEE-nee-uhs)

MEANING: adjective: Relating to or containing arsenic (especially when trivalent).

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French arsenic, from Latin arsenicum, from Greek arsenikon (yellow orpiment), from Arabic zarnik, from Persian zar (gold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which also gave us yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, gloaming, melancholy, and choleric. Earliest documented use: 1818.
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ARENIOUS - occurring in a place with seats all around so a lot of people can watch

ARSENIORS - the class that's going to graduate at the end of the year

ARSENIONUS - Mr Hall's burden

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Arsenios- Irish for a thing that is an arse.

"At least people in plays act like they've got sense." Dr. Einstein, Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenios- a new fad that brings back "Hammer Time", joggers

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ABSENIOUS – Rather inclined not to be here.

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BRIO

PRONUNCIATION: (BREE-oh)

MEANING: noun: Vigor or vivacity.

ETYMOLOGY: From Italian brio (liveliness), from Spanish brio (spirit), from Celtic brigos (strength). Earliest documented use: 1731.
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BRRIO - cold but spirited

ORIO - egotistical sandwich cream cookie

GRIO - a Spanish cricket


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BRION –One of a pair of bonded charged particles.

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BRIOS - alternate spelling for name (Bruce, Bryce,Brace, etc.)


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