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NEMESIS
PRONUNCIATION: (NEM-uh-suhs)
MEANING: noun:
1. A formidable opponent or an archenemy.
2. A source of harm or ruin.
3. Retributive justice.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology, Nemesis was the goddess of vengeance. From Greek nemesis (retribution), from nemein (to allot). Ultimately from the Indo-European root nem- (to assign or take), which also gave us number, numb, astronomy, renumerate, and anomie. Earliest documented use: 1542.
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NAMESIS - the appellation of my female sibling
MNEMESIS - helps me remember whom not to fight
NEMESS - Scottish lad's defense against having to clean up his room
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AMAZON
PRONUNCIATION: (AM-uh-zon, -zuhn)
MEANING: noun: A tall, strong, powerful woman.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology, Amazons were a race of women warriors in Scythia (in modern Russia). One of the labors of Hercules was to obtain the magical girdle from the Amazon queen Hippolyta. Earliest documented use: 1398.
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AMAZONE - physicians' territory
AMPAZON - a truly expert electricienne
AMOZON - what makes that clean fresh smell after an early-morning lightning storm
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MUSE
PRONUNCIATION: (myooz)
MEANING: noun: A source of inspiration.
verb intr.: To be absorbed in thought.
verb tr.: To think or say something thoughtfully.
noun: A state of deep thought.
ETYMOLOGY: For the first noun: In Greek mythology, the Muses were nine goddesses, each of whom presided over an art or science. A museum is, literally speaking, a shrine to the Muses. Earliest documented use: 1390. Some other words related to the Muses are terpsichorean and calliopean.
For the rest: From Old French muser (to meditate, to idle). Earliest documented use: 1500.
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MAUSE - my mother stops for a moment, then continues
MUSET - (mathematics) the one after a Lambda-set
MUSEM - how to keep li'l kids a-grinnin'
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CRAMOISY
PRONUNCIATION: (KRAM-oi-zee, kruh-MOI-)
MEANING: adjective: Of a crimson color.
noun: Crimson cloth.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French cramoisi, from Spanish carmesi, from Arabic qirmizi (of kermes). Earliest documented use: 1423.
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SCRAMOISY - Get outa here, fast! And no need to be quiet about it, either.
CLAMOISY - chowderish
CHAMOISY - like a soft cloth for polishing
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KAPUT or KAPUTT
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-PUT, -POOT, kah-)
MEANING: adjective: Broken; ruined; finished.
ETYMOLOGY: From German kaputt (broken, ruined), from French être capot (to be without winning a trick in a game of piquet), perhaps from Provençal. Earliest documented use: 1895.
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A.K.A.PUT - another word for a particular risky stock market transaction
KIAPUTT - sound made by a small Rio engine
KAPTUT - disparaging a small hat
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LILAC
PRONUNCIATION: (LY-luhk, -lahk)
MEANING: noun: 1. Pale purple color. 2. Any of various shrubs having violet, pink, or white flowers.
adjective: Of a pale purple color.
ETYMOLOGY: From obsolete French lilac (in Modern French: lilas), from Spanish lilac, from Arabic lilak, from Persian lilak, from Sanskrit nil (blue). Earliest documented use: 1625.
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LI-LACK - cannot tell an untruth
LIL-ARC - small rainbow
LI-BAC - what your dentist tells you just before the tender ministrations begin
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ALEMBIC
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-LEM-bik)
MEANING: noun:
1. An apparatus formerly used in distilling.
2. Something that refines, purifies, or transforms.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French, from Latin alembicus, from Arabic al-anbiq (the still), from Greek ambix (cup). Earliest documented use: 1405.
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ALAMBIC - without mutton
ALIMBIC - born with phocomelia
ALUMBIC - the back pain is totally gone now
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TALISMAN
PRONUNCIATION: (TAL-is-man, -iz-)
MEANING: noun:
1. An object, such as a stone, believed to have occult powers to keep evil away and bring good fortune to its wearer.
2. Anything that has magical powers and brings miraculous effects.
ETYMOLOGY: From French or Spanish, from Arabic tilasm, from Greek telesma (consecration), from telein (to consecrate or complete), from telos (result). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwel- (to revolve), which also gave us colony, cult, culture, cycle, cyclone, chakra, collar, col, and accolade. Earliest documented use: 1599.
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TALI-MAN - a banana-counter
TALESMAN - a story-teller (see also TALKSMAN)
ALI'S MAN - Cassius Clay's valet
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SYBARITICPRONUNCIATION: (sib-uh-RIT-ik) MEANING: adjective: Devoted to or relating to luxury and pleasure. ETYMOLOGY: After Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in southern Italy noted for its wealth, whose residents were notorious for their love of luxury. Earliest documented use: 1619. _______________________________ ASYBARITIC - incapable of feeling pleasure; anhedonic SIBARITIC - pleased not to be an only child SYMBARITIC - a. full of images representing other things; b. like a lion
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DALMATIC
PRONUNCIATION: (dal-MAT-ik)
MEANING: noun: A loose, wide-sleeved outer garment worn by some monarchs at their coronations and by deacons, bishops, etc. in some churches.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French dalmatique, from Latin dalmatica vestis (Dalmatian garment) since these garments were originally made of Dalmatian wool. Dalmatia is a region along the Adriatic coast of Croatia. That’s also where Dalmatian dogs got their name from. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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ALMATIC - charitable
DEALMATIC - for shoppers reluctant to haggle
DALMAGIC - best-selling book of recipes for Indian food
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SARDINE
PRONUNCIATION: (sahr-DEEN)
MEANING: verb tr.: To pack tightly.
ETYMOLOGY: The verb form developed from the tight packing of the sardine in cans. From French sardine, from Latin sardina, from Greek Sardo (Sardinia). Earliest documented use: 1895.
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TSARDINE - the person in charge of educating the children of the traditional rulers of Russia
STARDINE - where the elite meet, greet, and eat
TARDINE - the color of Dr Who's vehicle
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FRIEZE
PRONUNCIATION: (freez)
MEANING: noun:
1. A decorative horizontal band, as on a building.
2. A coarse woolen fabric.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: After Phrygia, an ancient country in Asia Minor, noted for embroidery. Earliest documented use: 1563.
For 2: From French frise, perhaps from Latin frisia (Frisian wool). Earliest documented use: 1418.
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MR.IEZE - stories by Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey and Rex Stout and such
FRIETZE - Ms. Frietze Rietz, aunt of Nancy in the old comic strips
FLIEZE - tiny jumping insects that torment dogs and form circuses
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PIERIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (py-EER-ee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to learning or poetry.
ETYMOLOGY: After Pieria, a region in Greece. In Greek mythology, Pieria was home to a spring that was sacred to the Muses and inspired anyone who drank from it. Earliest documented use: 1591.
NOTES: Alexander Pope in his poem “An Essay on Criticism” (1709) wrote
“A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
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PTERIAN - winged
PIPERIAN - inimical to mice
PIEVIAN - 3.1416 liters of bottled water
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PLETHORA
PRONUNCIATION: (PLETH-uhr-uh)
MEANING: noun: An abundance or excess.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin plethora, from Greek plethore (fullness), from plethein (to be full). In the beginning the word was applied to an excess of a humor, especially blood, in the body. Earliest documented use: 1541.
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PLETHORAE - abundances (fem.)
PLETHERA - soft forgetfulness
PLETHIRA - an over-funded retirement plan
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COMESTIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-MES-tuh-buhl)
MEANING: noun: An article of food.
adjective: Fit to eat; edible.
ETYMOLOGY: From French comestible (edible, food), from Latin comedere (to eat up), from com- (intensive prefix) + edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite), which also gave us edible, obese, etch, fret, edacious, anodyne, esurient, prandial, and postprandial. Earliest documented use: 1483.
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COMBESTIBLE - makes the most impressive bonfires
COMESSIBLE - two army battalions that can eat together
COMETIBLE - the comet named for astronomer Alfred Ible, its discoverer
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MYRIAD
PRONUNCIATION: (MIR-ee-ehd)
MEANING: noun: A large number.
adjective: Large in number, variations, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek myriás (ten thousand, countless). Earliest documented use: 1555.
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MYTRIAD - composer's proud claim to his unique three-note chord
MYRIADH - patriotic hymn heard in Saudi Arabia (cf. SYRIAD "toward Syria")
MR IAD - Paul M Zoll (1911-99); American cardiologist, pioneer in the development of the Implantable Automated Defibrillator
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NUGATORY
PRONUNCIATION: (NOO-guh-tor-ee, NYOO-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Of little value; trifling.
2. Having no force; ineffective.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nugatorius (trifling), from nugari (to trifle). Earliest documented use: 1603.
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MUGATORY - what many a Whig would like to do (but instead, being Gentlemen, they content themselves with NAGATORY)
NEGATORY - military slang for the opposite of "affirmative"
NUTATORY - pertaining to nodding movement, more specifically to the perturbation of the axis of a spinning symmetrical object in a gravitational field (actually that may be a real word; see NUTATION)
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FRUCTIFY
PRONUNCIATION: (FRUHK-tuh-fy, FROOK-)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To make or become fruitful.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fructificare (to bear fruit), from fructus (fruit). Earliest documented use: 1325.
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FRUCTIFLY - Drosophila melanogaster
ERUCITFY - what a Guy calls enriching the atmosphere by belching
FRICTIFY - roughen
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AU COURANT
PRONUNCIATION: (o koo-RAN) [the last syllable is nasal]
MEANING: adjective:
1. Up-to-date; fully-informed.
2. Fashionable.
ETYMOLOGY: From French au courant (literally, in the current, i.e. knowledgeable or up-to-date), from Latin currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which also gave us car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, caricature, cark, discursive, and succor. Earliest documented use: 1762.
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AD COURANT - "On Sale TODAY ONLY!"
EAU COURANT - where to go white-water rafting
AU SCOURANT - used to get the tarnish off your gold bullion
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RUNNEL
PRONUNCIATION: (RUHN-l)
MEANING: noun: A small stream or channel.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English rinnan (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root rei- (to flow or run), which also gave us run, rival, and derive. Earliest documented use: 1577.
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RUNEL - a small mark or letter, of mysterious or magical (but not very great) significance
TRUNNEL - what a locomotive and the cars it's pulling go through on the trip under Mont Blanc
RUNNELM - warning cry to an Ent when woodcutters are detected entering the forest
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CONCUR
PRONUNCIATION: (KUHN-kuhr)
MEANING: verb intr.: To agree, approve, or coincide.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin concurrere (to run together, meet, or coincide), from con- (with) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which also gave us car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, caricature, au courant, cark, discursive, and succor. Earliest documented use: 1522.
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CONCURD - 1. a kind of cottage cheese; 2. a supersonic commercial airplane, no longer in active service
COINCUR - to take on a debt together, as when two people sign a mortgage
CMONCUR - Get moving, you mangy dog!
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PALINDROME
PRONUNCIATION:
(PAL-in-drohm)
MEANING:
noun: A word, phrase, sentence, or a longer work that reads the same backward and forward. For example, “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!”
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek palindromos (running again), from palin (again) + dromos (running). Earliest documented use: 1637.
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PALINROME - you have a friend in the old city
PALINGROME - it's turning white
PALINGROME - and they're putting a wall around it
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EXCURSUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ik-SKUHR-suhs, ek-)
MEANING: noun:
1. A detailed discussion about a particular point, especially when added as an appendix.
2. A digression.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin excurrere (to run out), from ex- (out) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which also gave us car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, caricature, au courant, concur, cark, discursive, and succor. Earliest documented use: 1803.
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EXCURCUS - Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bauley, after they close a couple of months from now
LEXCURSUS - Luthor has a few unpleasant things to say about Superman
ENC: URSUS - along with this letter please find one bear
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SADIRON
PRONUNCIATION: (SAD-eye-uhrn)
MEANING: noun: A heavy flatiron pointed at both ends and having a detachable handle.
ETYMOLOGY: From sad (obsolete senses of the word: heavy, solid) + iron. Earliest documented use: 1759.
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SADION - an unhappy charged atom (sometimes molecule)
SADILON - what you put on your horse before you jump on and ride away
SANDIRON - a Trappist golf club
SADICON - (1) a conference of people who like to hurt others; (2) see title, above
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ADORAL
PRONUNCIATION: (ad-OHR-uhl)
MEANING: adjective: Located toward the side or end where the mouth is located, especially in animals that don’t have clear upper and lower sides.
ETYMOLOGY: From ad- (toward) + oral (relating to the mouth), from Latin os (mouth). Earliest documented use: 1862.
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DADORAL - a father in name only
AND/ORAL - mugwumpian; can't make up its mind
ADORAY - technologically-enhanced love potion
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LUSTHOUSE
PRONUNCIATION: (LUST-hous)
MEANING: noun:
1. A country house or a summer house.
2. A tavern with a beer garden.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch lusthuis (country house), from German Lusthaus (summer house), from lust (pleasure). Earliest documented use: 1590.
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LUFTHOUSE - literally, "sky-house" - an aircraft hangar
LUSTROUSE - 1. a shining woman; 2. unusually honest name for a provocative perfume
LUNTHOUSE - the former home of theater stars Alfred and Lynn
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BODKIN
PRONUNCIATION: (BOD-kin, -kuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. A small, pointed instrument for making holes in cloth, etc.
2. A blunt needle for drawing tape or cord through a loop or a hem.
3. A long, ornamental hairpin.
4. A dagger or stiletto.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1386.
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CODKIN - scrod, haddock, or other similar species of fish
BADKIN - the black sheep of the family
BOYKIN - my male second cousin once removed
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ATROPHY
PRONUNCIATION: (A-truh-fee)
MEANING: noun: A wasting away or decline, due to disease, injury, lack of use, etc.
verb tr., intr.: To wither or cause to waste away.
ETYMOLOGY: From French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia, from a- (without) + trophe (food). Earliest documented use: 1620.
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GATROPHY - prize for winning the Thugs' Pistol Contest
ATRO.WHY - response to the question "Did you say 'atro-' or 'iatro-'?"
ATOPHY - freedom from gouty nodules
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GEMUTLICH
PRONUNCIATION: (guh-MOOT-lik, -MUT-likh)
MEANING: adjective: Cozy; comfortable; pleasant; friendly.
ETYMOLOGY: From German gemütlich (cozy, comfortable, etc.), from Gemüt (nature, mind, soul) + -lich (-ly). Earliest documented use: 1852. A related word is gemutlichkeit.
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GEMUTLOCH - habitat of Gemut, that other Scottish monster
AGEMUTLICH - get seven years older for every one year that elapses
GEMUTL-ICK - mawkish; cloyingly welcoming
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ANSCHAUUNG
PRONUNCIATION: (AHN-shou-uhng)
MEANING: noun:
1. Intuition.
2. Outlook, attitude, opinion, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Anschauung (view, contemplation, perception), from anschauen (to look at), from an- (at) + schauen (to look). Earliest documented use: 1820. Also see weltanschauung.
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ANSCHAULUNG - occupational disease of laborers in the German province of Anschau
ANSCHA HUNG - headline after the posse caught up with horse thief Jesse Anscha
ANSCHAJUNG - aunt of Karl, the famous psychologist
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GESELLSCHAFT
PRONUNCIATION: (guh-ZEL-shaft)
MEANING: noun: Social relations based on impersonal ties, such as obligations to an institution or society.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Gesellschaft (society, company, party), from Geselle (companion) + -schaft (-ship). Earliest documented use: 1964.
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GESELLS CHART - spreadsheet describing all the books of Dr Seuss [Theorore Giesel]
GISELL SCHAFT - Mr. Lanson, Ms. Collins and Your Hit Parade treated Ms. Mackenzie poorly
GOSELLSCHAFT - Your job is to find a buyer for the coal mine
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GESAMKUNSTWERK
PRONUNCIATION: (guh-ZAHMT-koonst-vuhrk)
MEANING: noun: A work of art that makes use of many different art forms.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), from gesamt (total, whole) + Kunst (art) + Werk (work). Earliest documented use: 1939.
NOTES: The concept is Gesamtkunstwerk is associated with the composer Richard Wagner who described it in a series of essays in an attempt to synthesize music, drama, dance, poetry, etc.
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GESAMKUNSTWERE - a play performed by a singing, dancing, sculpting, painting wolf who recites poetry...EXCEPT not when the moon is full
GESAMKUNSTWEAK - an inferior attempt at combining artistic forms (see above)
GESAMEKUNSTWERK - see above again
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KRUMMHOLZ
PRONUNCIATION: (KROOM-holts)
MEANING: noun: Stunted trees near the timber line on a mountain.
ETYMOLOGY: From German, from krumm (crooked) + Holz (wood). Earliest documented use: 1908.
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DRUMMHOLZ - openings in a percussion instrument, designed to let the sound resonate further
SKRUMMHOLZ - hanky-panky on the Rugby pitch
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GLOCALIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (GLO-kuh-lyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To make a product or service available widely, but adapted for local markets.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of global and localize. Earliest documented use: 1989.
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BLOCALIZE - to split into disjointed fragments, often working at cross-purposes
GLOCALIE - to utter falsehoods indiscriminately big and small
GLOCKALIZE - to transcribe music so it can be played on the glockenspiel
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SOLUNAR
PRONUNCIATION: (so-LOO-nuhr)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the sun and the moon.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of solar and lunar. Earliest documented use: 1936.
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SULUNAR - like a Star Trek lieutenant
SOLULNAR - pertaining to the forearm of the Sun
SOLUNARD - a healing salve that dissolves in water
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JUDDER
PRONUNCIATION: (JUHD-uhr)
MEANING: verb intr.: To shake or vibrate violently.
noun: An intense shaking or vibration.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of jolt/jar/jerk and shudder. Earliest documented use: 1926.
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JUDDLER - a puddle-jumper
JUDDIER - more blotchy in red and yellow (jaundiced + ruddier)
JURDER - one of twelve peers empaneled to hear a capital case (juror + murder)
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DRIPPLE
PRONUNCIATION: (DRIP-uhl)
MEANING: verb intr.: To flow in a small stream or to fall in drops.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of drip and dribble. Earliest documented use: 1821.
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DIPPLE - a minuscule dab of salsa on your corn chip
TRIPPLE - a three-bagger with a negligible response from the crowd
GRIPPLE - the feeblest of handshakes
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MASSTIGE
PRONUNCIATION: (mas-TEEZH, -TEEJ)
MEANING: noun: Products that have the perception of luxury, but are relatively affordable and marketed to masses.
adjective: Relating to such a product.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of mass market and prestige. Earliest documented use: 1996.
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AMASSTIGE - what you get for having the biggest collection of anything
MANSTIGE - French equivalent of "street cred;" compare "macho"
MASSTINGE - a touch of Boston (including the frugality)
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SHOWBOAT
PRONUNCIATION: (SHOH-boht)
MEANING: verb intr.: To seek attention by showy, flamboyant behavior; to show off.
noun: One who seeks attention in such a way; a show-off.
ETYMOLOGY: After riverboats, with onboard theater and troupes of actors, that stopped at towns along the river to offer entertainment. Earliest documented use: 1839.
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SHOWBEAT - conduct the orchestra more vigorously
SHOPBOAT - I'll need to buy some stuff on my Caribbean cruise
SHOWBOUT - broadcast the Liston-Ali boxing match
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GASLIGHT
PRONUNCIATION: (GAS-lyt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To manipulate psychologically.
ETYMOLOGY: From the title of the classic movie Gaslight (1940 and its 1944 remake), based on author Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play. The title refers to a man’s use of seemingly unexplained dimming of gaslights (among other tricks) in the house in an attempt to manipulate his wife into thinking she is going insane. Earliest documented use: 1969.
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GA BLIGHT - serious peach-tree disease
GAS FIGHT - boys sitting around a campfire eating beans (think Blazing Saddles)
GALS LIGHT - what Wonder Woman uses to see when it's dark
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