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Immolate- the technical term for, "My, what big teeth you have."
Immolate- slang term for, "I'm more late than usual."
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IMMOLATE
PRONUNCIATION: (IM-uh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To kill or sacrifice, especially by burning.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin immolare (to sprinkle, to sprinkle with meal before sacrificing), from in- (into) + mola (meal). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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IMPOLATE - ...never did get around to sending those Thank You notes
IMMORATE - No, nothing's wrong
IMMOLATTE - to put in wheat germ before you brew the coffee
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Here it is Sunday. I'll be AFK this week; TTYL
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and ready for another week
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TOP-HAT
PRONUNCIATION: (TOP-hat)
MEANING: noun:
1. A man’s tall, cylindrical hat.
2. An important or high-ranking person.
ETYMOLOGY: From the association of a top hat with people of the upper class. Earliest documented use: 1881.
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TOPHAL - pertaining to the exquisitely painful joint that is Gout
TOP-CHAT - when Kennedy phoned Khrushchev
TIO-PHAT - my half-Latino-half-Vietnamese uncle
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COATTAILPRONUNCIATION: (KOHT-tayl) MEANING: noun: 1. The long back part of a tailcoat that hangs down. 2. The success of another person or organization. Usually used in the idiom “to ride on someone’s coattails” meaning to achieve success by association with someone successful. ETYMOLOGY: Often a popular leader of a political party helps attract votes for candidates of the same party for other positions as well. For example, a popular presidential candidate results in more victories for congressional races of the same party. In other words, these other candidates ride on the coattails of the president. This is known as the coattail effect. From Old French cote (coat) + Old English toegl (tail). Earliest documented use: 1600. ____________________________ COSTTAIL - what you pay for a Malpractice Insurance policy for claims relating to events that that might have happened in the past...after you retire and the policy is no longer in force (the "tail") COALTAIL - The lighter particles which pass over a sieve in the milling, crushing, or purifying of coal (see "tailings") COATTAILI, Zoltan (16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967): Hungarian composer born of Italian parents; ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher, inventer of a method of teaching music, especially for children. See here.
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HAIRSHIRT
PRONUNCIATION: (HAIR-shuhrt)
MEANING: noun:
1. A shirt made of haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance.
2. A self-imposed punishment or penance.
3. A secret affliction.
ETYMOLOGY: In some faiths, as a sign of penance some people wear garments made of coarse animal hair close to their skin. From Old English haer + scyrte. Earliest documented use: 1737. Also see cilice.
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CHAIRSHIRT - an article of clothing worn by the head of a committee
HAIRSHIFT - put on a different wig
HAIRSHIRE - where Bugs Bunny lived when he was a Hobbit
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STUFFED SHIRT
PRONUNCIATION: (stuhft shuhrt)
MEANING: noun: A pompous, self-satisfied, and old-fashioned person.
ETYMOLOGY: From the formally-dressed look of such a person. Earliest documented use: 1840s.
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STUFFED SKIRT - half a maternity outfit
STIFFED SHIRT - too much starch?
STUFFED HIRT - trumpet player ate way too much
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SLYBOOTS
PRONUNCIATION: (SLY-boots)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is clever or crafty in a playful or engaging way.
ETYMOLOGY
From sly (cunning), from Old Norse sloegr (cunning) + boots (fellow), as in lazyboots. Earliest documented use: 1699.
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SLYBOOTH - the cubicle on the Midway where the slyboots plies his trade (and charges you for it, no less)
SLYBOATS - Pirates of the Caribbean
SLYBOTS - clever little computer subroutines that sniff around the net without letting you know they're there...
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FLAGRANT
PRONUNCIATION: (FLAY-gruhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Conspicuously offensive.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flagrare (to burn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which is also the source of blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, flame, refulgent, fulminate, effulgent, and flagrante delicto. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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FLAG-RANT - impassioned statement about injustice unremedied country-wide (cf. Colin Kaepernick)
FLYGRANT - scholarship to Pilot school
FLAGRAFT - command vessel in a fleet of very primitive warships
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MENDACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (men-DAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Telling lies, especially as a habit.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mendac-, stem of mendax (lying), from mendum (fault or defect) that also gave us amend, emend, and mendicant. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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AMENDACIOUS - changing frequently what one has written or promulgated
MENTACIOUS - full of thoughts about the chin
MENACIOUS - threatening
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