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Salud days- days of health
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SALAD DAYS
PRONUNCIATION: (SAL-uhd dayz)
MEANING: noun:
1. A period of youthful innocence and inexperience.
2. A period of great success: heyday.
ETYMOLOGY: The earliest documented use of the term is from Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” (1616). Cleopatra, now in love with Antony, explains her previous admiration for Julius Caesar with these words:
“My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.”
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SALAD DRYS - what you use to blot the water off the lettuce after you wash it
SALSA D-DAYS - we bring out the spicy dip every June 6
USA LAD DAYS - when the United States Mens' Olympic squad does something noteworthy
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DEPTHLESS
PRONUNCIATION: (DEPTH-les)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Immeasurably deep.
2. Shallow; superficial.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English deop (deep) + laes (less). Earliest documented use: 1619.
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DEPTHELESS - a mildly successful Elf King; he succeeded his father, Dep the Great
DEPATHLESS - having new walkways in the previously impenetrable jungle
ADEPTHLESS - igly skilled (ADEPT, H-less)
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GROG
PRONUNCIATION: (grog)
MEANING: noun:
1. An alcoholic drink diluted with water.
2. A strong alcoholic drink.
ETYMOLOGY: After Old Grog, nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), who ordered diluted rum to be served to his sailors. The admiral earned the nickname from his habit of wearing a grogram cloak. Grogram is a coarse fabric of silk, wool, mohair, or a blend of them. The word grogram is from French gros grain (large grain or texture). Earliest documented use: 1770.
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GROW – the seventh line of chairs in an auditorium, right behind Row F but in front of Row H
AROG – The Green Bay Packers nickname for their first-string quarterback
GROP – past tense of GRIP
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"...adieu with good grace to my morals, my morals
SENTENTIOUS"
PRONUNCIATION: (sen-TEN-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Full of pithy expressions.
2. Full of pompous moralizing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sententia (opinion), from sentire (to feel or to have an opinion). Some other words derived from the same root are: sense, sentence, sentiment, sentinel, assent, consent, dissent, and resent. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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SENSENTIOUS - needing a strong breath lozenge of the 50s, (mint or licorice flavored)
SENTENCIOUS - having a subject and a verb and various other objects and clauses and phrases, and capable of being diagrammed
ENTENTIOUS - diplomatically understanding and cooperative, to mutual advantage
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JAMBALAYA
PRONUNCIATION: (juhm-buh-LY-uh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A dish made of rice, herbs, spices, vegetables, and meat.
2. A heterogeneous mixture.
ETYMOLOGY: From Louisiana French, from Provençal jambalaia. Earliest documented use: 1872.
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LAMBALAYA - mutton lasagna
SAMBALAYA - a spicy Brazilian dance
JAMALAYA - Frau Merkel, do you know what country has Kuala Lampur as its capital?
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Farrasinous- a dinosaur from the late hypotenuse period, known for terrorizing it's victims with post nasal drip torture
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FARRAGINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (fuh-RAJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Heterogeneous; having a mix of random things.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin farrago (mixed fodder), from far/farr (corn or spelt). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhares- (barley), which also gave us barn, barley, farina, and farrago. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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FARRAGINUS - a sentry's slurred-together challenge; un-compressed, it expands "are ya fer or agin us?"
BARRAGINOUS - continuously bombarding, like a fusillade
EARRAGINOUS - stroking the pinna to arouse libidinous feelings
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KOOL-AID
PRONUNCIATION: (KOOL-ayd)
MEANING: noun: Something accepted without question. Usually used in the phrase “to drink the kool-aid”: to accept something unquestioningly or to demonstrate unquestioning loyalty.
ETYMOLOGY: From Kool-Aid, a powdered flavored drink introduced in 1927. It was earlier known as Kool-Ade, from respelling of cool + -ade (a fruit drink, as in lemonade). Earliest documented use: 1927.
NOTES: Jim Jones was the leader of a cult named Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. In 1978, he had more than 900 of his followers killed in a murder-suicide by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. This event gave birth to the figure of speech “to drink the kool-aid”.
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TOOL-AID - the start of the Stanley company of New Britain, CT
BOOLA ID - the sex drive of a Yale student
KOOKLA ID - how you prove you're not Fran or Ollie
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RAGOUT
PRONUNCIATION: (ra-GOO)
MEANING: noun
1. A highly seasoned stew of meat, vegetables, etc.
2. A mixture of disparate elements.
ETYMOLOGY: From French ragoût, from ragouter (to revive the taste), from re- (again) + a-/ad (to) + gout (taste), from Latin gustus (taste). Ultimately from the Indo-European root geus- (to taste or choose), which also gave us choice, choose, gusto, disgust, degust, and pregustator. Earliest documented use: 1652.
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RANGOUT - 1) a spicy stew from the Burmese capital (well, the capital from 1852 to 2005, anyway)
2) what gunshots occasionally did
ORAGOUT - inflammatory arthritis of the temporo-mandibular joint
FRAGOUT - what the disgruntled private did to his hated Drill Sergeant
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