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DEGAUSS
PRONUNCIATION: (dee-GOUS)
MEANING: verb intr.
1. To demagnetize.
2. To erase a disk or other storage device.
ETYMOLOGY: From gauss, a unit of magnetic field strength, named after the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855). Earliest documented use: 1940.
NOTES: You can friend & defriend and you can magnetize & demagnetize, but you can only degauss, you can’t gauss. You can debunk, but not bunk, and you can defenestrate, but not fenestrate. What other words like this can you think of? *
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[ * Actually, "fenestrate" is commonplace in medical parlance, meaning to create a hole (i.e. a window) in something. First coming to mind is a "fenestrated tracheostomy tube" so that a patient can breathe on his own even though the airway is obstructed by an artificial trach tube. It's part of the weaning process. -- Wofahulicodoc]
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DIGAUSS - alternating magnetism
DEGAULS - Paris airports
PEGAUSS - orthographically-challenged flying horse
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I'll be away from computer access for a week or so - if anyone else wants to contribute in the meantime, feel free!
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AYATOLLAH
PRONUNCIATION: (ah-yuh-TO-luh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A high-ranking religious leader of the Shiite Muslims.
2. A person having authority and influence, especially one who’s dogmatic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Persian ayatollah (literally, sign of god), from Arabic ayatullah, from aya (sign) + allah (god). Earliest documented use: 1950.
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AYATILLAH - call to the chief of the Huns
AFATOLLAH - fifty cents
AYATOLYAH - I've already answered this question
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PASHA
PRONUNCIATION:
(PA-shuh, PASH-uh, puh-SHAH)
MEANING:
noun: A person of high rank or importance.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Turkish pasa, from Persian padshah, from pati (master) + shah (king). Pasha was used as a title of high-ranking officials in the Ottoman Empire. Earliest documented use: 1648.
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HASHA - peppery Italian leftovers that make you sneeze
RASHA - former member of the former USSR
PEASHA - an athletic vegetable. (The PEASHA throws the ball the the KASHA.)
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CALTROP
PRONUNCIATION: (KAL-truhp)
MEANING: noun:
1. A device with (typically) four projecting spikes arranged in a way that one spike is always pointing up. Used to obstruct the passage of cavalry, vehicles, etc.
2. Any of various plants having spiny fruits.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English calcatrippe (any of various plants, such as thistle, that catch the feet), from Latin calcatrippa (thistle), from calx (heel) + trap. Earliest documented use: 1000.
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CALSTROP - a leather belt used to sharpen California
CALTROOP - a squad of the California National Guard
CALDROP - what will happen when the San Andreas Fault finally splits wide open and the western part of the state falls into the Pacific
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CHAGRIN
PRONUNCIATION: (shuh-GRIN)
MEANING: noun: Distress caused by disappointment or humiliation.
verb tr., intr.: To feel or cause to feel chagrined.
ETYMOLOGY: From French chagrin (sad, sorry, shagreen: rough skin). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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CH AGAIN - instruction from your German Elocution teacher
CHAIRIN - presidin over a meetin
CHAGRING - using your Dylsexia Bank credit card
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SINEWY
PRONUNCIATION: (SIN-you-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Strong; tough; stringy; forceful.
ETYMOLOGY: From sinew, from Old English seon(o)we, sionwe, etc. Earliest documented use: 1382.
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FINEWY - Elmer Fudd's best clothing
SINEWT - small salamander representing Sports Illustrated
SINERY - place of organized debauchery
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REPUGN
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-PYOON)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To oppose, resist, or fight.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French repugner, from Latin repugnare, from re- (again) + pugnare (to fight), from pugnus (fist). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peuk- (to prick) which is also the source of point, puncture, pungent, punctual, poignant, pounce, poniard, impugn, pugilist, and pugnacious. Earliest documented use: 1382.
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PREPUGN - to strike the first blow, even before the fight starts
REPUGH - to establish a new Charitable Trust
REPUGE - to move back to Seattle
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RUBBERNECK
PRONUNCIATION: (RUHB-uhr-nek)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To look or stare with undue curiosity.
noun: A person who stares in such a way.
ETYMOLOGY: From the idea of twisting one’s neck to stare at someone or something. Earliest documented use: 1892.
NOTES: The word has been applied to a tourist and to going on a sightseeing tour. Francis Scott Fitzgerald in Tender Is the Night (1934):
“At Mr. Bill Driscoll’s invitation she went on an excursion to Versailles next day in his rubberneck wagon.”
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RUBBERDECK - 1. why you don't slip when you're standing in a boat; 2. cards for playing Bridge
RUBBERNOCK - where the bowstring goes, in rubber arrows
ROBBERNECK - what thieves do with their Significant Others
("When a felon's not engaged in his Employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man's...")
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ARRAIGN
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-RAYN)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To call or bring a defendant before a court to hear and answer a criminal charge.
2. To criticize, accuse, or censure.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French araisnier, from Latin rationare (to talk, to reason), from ratio (reason, calculation). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ar- (to fit together), which also gave us army, harmony, article, order, read, adorn, arithmetic, rhyme, and ratiocinate. Earliest documented use: 1360.
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ORRAIGN - the western-US state between Washington and California
AFRAIGN - pertaining to the continent south of the Mediterranean Ocean
ARCAIGN - mysterious or secret, but in any case understood by only a few
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PRO SE
PRONUNCIATION: (pro say)
MEANING: adjective, adverb: On one’s own behalf (i.e., representing oneself in a court, without a lawyer).
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pro (for) + se (himself, herself, itself, themselves). Earliest documented use: 1861.
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PYRO SE - self-immolation
RO SE - an intermediate-color wine
PRE SE - ante-natal
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DEPOSE
PRONUNCIATION: (di-POHZ)
MEANING:
verb tr.: 1. To remove from a high office or throne suddenly and forcefully.
2. To examine under oath.
verb intr.: To give testimony.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French deposer, from Latin deponere (to testify, to put down), from de- + ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away), which also gave us after, off, awkward, post, puny, repose, pungle, apropos, and apposite. Earliest documented use: 1300.
The word depose is often used in another form, depone; the noun forms are deposer or deponent.
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DEDOSE - administer Narcan®
DÉPOUSE - get a divorce in Paris
DEOPOSE - God sits for his portrait in the Sistine Chapel
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Denose- to cut off your nose
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to spite your face, obviously.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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SURREBUTTAL
PRONUNCIATION: (suhr-ri-BUHT-l)
MEANING: noun: The response to a rebuttal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sur- (over, above) + rebuttal, from rebut (to refute), from Old French rebouter (to push back), from boute (to push). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhau- (to strike), which also gave us refute, beat, button, halibut, buttress, and prebuttal. Earliest documented use: 1889.
NOTES: It all starts with the verb butt (to strike or push), which leads to rebut (to refute), which, in turn, leads to surrebut, and so on. The English language has enough prefixes that you can continue this back and forth forever. There’s also surrejoinder, a reply to a rejoinder. Also see hemidemisemiquaver.
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SOURREBUTTAL - "Oh yeah? Well, your mudder wears Army boots!"
SUBREBUTTAL - Catalina aircraft and Radar and Destroyers with depth charges
SUCREBUTTAL - cellulite in your rear end from eating too much sugar
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SUBROGATE
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHB-ro-gayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To substitute one person or entity for another in a legal claim.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin subrogare, from sub- (in place of) + rogare (to ask, propose a law). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead, or to rule), which also gave us regent, regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, abrogate, arrogate, and derogate. Earliest documented use: 1427.
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SURROGATE - scandal about a horse-drawn carriage with the fringe on top
SUBROMATE - bromide of sulfur, sort of
SUBROSATE - "under the Rose;" clandestine
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GRIMTHORPE
PRONUNCIATION: (GRIM-thorp)
MEANING: verb tr.: To restore or remodel something without paying attention to its original character, history, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Edmund Beckett, first Baron Grimthorpe (1816-1905), an architect whose restoration of St. Albans Cathedral in England was criticized for radical changes made to the building. Earliest documented use: 1890.
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GRAMTHORPE - what Jim called his mother's mother
GRIMT-HORSE - a horse that's been bred for grimming
GRIM.THOR.BE - a description of Thor's demeanor after the fall of Asgard
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MITHRIDATIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (MITH-ri-day-tyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To develop immunity to a poison by gradually increasing the dose.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (now in Turkey) 120-63 BCE, who is said to have acquired immunity to poison by ingesting gradually larger doses of it. Earliest documented use: 1866. The noun form is mithridatism.
NOTES: Mithridates VI’s father was poisoned. No wonder VI wanted to develop tolerance to poison. The story goes that after VI’s defeat by Pompey, he didn’t want to be captured alive. So he tried to end his life by taking poison. That didn’t work, so he had a servant stab him with a sword.
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MITHRIDASIZE, -TIME - the precise schedule of administering sub-toxic doses, stipulating size and frequency
MYTHRIDATIZE - to expunge all mention of gods and goddesses, and stories of creation and epic deeds and conflict, from folklore and libraries
MITCHRIDATIZE - what Democrats would like to do to the United States House of Representatives
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PENELOPIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-NEL-uh-pyz)
MEANING: verb intr.: To delay or gain time to put off an undesired event.
ETYMOLOGY: From Penelope, the wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus in Greek mythology. She waited 20 years for her husband’s return from the Trojan War (ten years of war, and ten years on his way home). She kept her many suitors at bay by telling them she would marry them when she had finished weaving her web, a shroud for her father-in-law. She wove the web during the day only to unravel it during the night. Earliest documented use: 1780. Her name has become a synonym for a faithful wife: penelope.
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PENNELOPIZE - to be pound-foolish
PENELOPHIZE - to discourse on the vagaries of the judicial system (see also PENELOPINE)
PENELOPRIZE - what Odysseus found waiting when he finally got home
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ROBINSON CRUSOE
PRONUNCIATION: (ROB-in-suhn KROO-soh)
MEANING: verb tr.: To maroon, to isolate, or to abandon.
noun: A castaway; a person who is isolated or without companionship.
ETYMOLOGY: After the title character of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe was a shipwrecked sailor who spent 28 years on a remote desert island. Earliest documented use: 1768. Crusoe’s aide has also become an eponym in the English language: man Friday.
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ROBING SON CRUSOE - Let's get you some clothes, kid
ROBINSON CRUISOE - baseball player sponsored a boat trip and nobody cared
ROBINS ON CARUSOE - hear the birds critique a real tenor!
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OUT-HEROD
PRONUNCIATION: (out-HER-uhd)
MEANING: verb tr.: To surpass in cruelty, evil, extravagance, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Herod the Great (74/73 BCE - 4 BCE), who was depicted as a tyrant in old mystery plays. Earliest documented use: 1604.
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OTHER-OD - take much too much, but not of an opioid
OUTRE-ROD - a weird wooden staff
OUT-HERD - keep the cattle under better control
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EKE
PRONUNCIATION: (eek)
MEANING: verb tr.: To earn a living, to supplement, or to make something last with great effort. (usually used in the phrase “to eke out”)
adverb: Also.
ETYMOLOGY: For verb: From Old English ecan (increase). Ultimately from the Indo-European root aug- (increase), which also gave us auction, author, auctorial, authorize, inaugurate, augment, august, auxiliary, nickname (“a nickname” is a splitting of the earlier “an ekename”, literally, an additional name), and wax (the verb). Earliest documented use: 888.
For adverb: From Old English éac. Earliest documented use: 700.
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EKOE - a kind of tea without the usual diuretic effect (no P)
EPE - a male duelling sword
'EFE - what the Cockney called the Chief of Police of Mexico City
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HAP
PRONUNCIATION: (hap)
MEANING:
noun: 1. Chance; fortune; 2. An occurrence.
verb tr.: 1. To occur; 2. To clothe, cover, or wrap.
ETYMOLOGY:
For noun and verb 1: From Old Norse happ (good luck). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kobe (to suit, fit, or succeed), which also gave us happen, happy, hapless, and mishap. Earliest documented use: 1350.
For verb 2: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1390.
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HAAP - a large musical instrument with many strings, when played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
HAPO - a curly-haired comedian who never-spoke but did play the haap, when he appeared in Boston
IHAP - where he got a pancake breakfast during these Boston appearances
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AVER
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-VUHR)
MEANING: verb intr.: To affirm; to assert; to allege.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French averer, from Latin ad- (to) + verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1380.
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EAVER - a small animal or bird that lives in the overhang of your roof
AVCR - what we used to use to record TV programs for later viewing
AVEBR - one of the principal parts of dyslexic speech
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LAM
PRONUNCIATION: (lam)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To beat soundly; to thrash.
verb intr.: To escape from the law.
noun: An escape from the law.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1595.
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LKM - Royal Dutch Dyslexic Airline
LPM - a Long-Playing record changer in the Southern hemisphere (rotates 33 1/3 times a minute, but left instead of right below the equator)
LAI - a flower garland in Oahu presented to a Bostonian on arrival
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ANA
PRONUNCIATION: (A-nuh)
MEANING: noun: A collection of items, such as quotations, anecdotes, etc. related to a person, place, etc.
adverb: In equal quantities (used in prescriptions).
ETYMOLOGY: For noun: From the suffix -ana (collection of information related to someone or something, as in Shakespeareana, Victoriana, etc.). Earliest documented use: 1728.
For adverb: From Greek aná (of each). Earliest documented use: 1500.
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AFNA - Mozart's Symphony Numba 35
ANGA - that negative feeling when you ask a simple question and you get the wrong ansa
GNA - a female gnu
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RETRAL
PRONUNCIATION: (REE-truhl, RE-)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Located at the back. 2. Backward.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin retro (back). Earliest documented use: 1822.
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FRETRAL - toward the fingerboard of your guitar
TETRAL - quadripartite
PETRAL - 1. toward Fido (or Felix, or whomever)
2. gas for yer Morris Minor
3. a stormy bird
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LATERITIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (lat-uh-RISH-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Resembling, made of, or the color of, bricks.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin later (brick). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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LATHERITIOUS - causing the washing machine to fill with suds and overflow
LAGERITIOUS - keeping everyone well-supplied with beer
LATER IT'S IOUs - the results of sitting in now at a poker game where you're clearly outclassed
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COADJUTANT
PRONUNCIATION: (ko-AJ-uh-tuhnt)
MEANING:
noun: A helper or an assistant.
adjective: Helping or cooperating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin co- (with) + ad- (about) + juvare (to help). Earliest documented use: 1708.
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COEDJUTANT - my junior officer is female
COADJITANT - fellow-troublemaker
COADJUVANT - one of several additives that enhance the reaction
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EMPYREAN
PRONUNCIATION: em-PIR-ee-uhn, -pye-REE-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to the highest heaven, believed to contain pure light or fire.
2. Relating to the sky; celestial.
3. Sublime; elevated.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin empyreus, from Greek empyrios (fiery), from pur (fire). Other words derived from the same root are fire, pyre, pyrosis (heartburn), and pyromania (an irresistible impulse to set things on fire). Earliest documented use: 1500. A synonym of the word is empyreal.
NOTES: This is where the idiom “to be in seventh heaven” (a state of great bliss) comes from. In many beliefs, heavens are a system of concentric spheres, the seventh heaven being the highest and a place of pure bliss.
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EMMYREAN - TV-award-winning
EMPTYREAN - totally devoid of substance. Sometimes synonymous with EMMYREAN, above
AMPYREAN - describing hoity-toity electricity
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NIVEOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (NIV-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Snowy or resembling snow.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin niveus, from nix (snow). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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SNIVEOUS -- a disparaging term applied cruelly by the members of the Marauders' Gang: having the characteristics of Severus Snape
NAIVEOUS - inspiring innocence in the onloooker
FIVEOUS - pentacular
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UNITASKING
PRONUNCIATION: (YOO-ni-tas-king)
MEANING: noun: Doing one thing at a time.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after the word multitasking. Earliest documented use: 1985 (multitasking is from 1966).
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MUNITASKING - what the City Manager does
NITASKING - Do you have lice?
UNTASKING - "You're fired!"
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ALLISION
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-LIZH-uhn)
MEANING: noun: A moving object striking against a stationary object.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin allidere (to strike against), from ad- (toward) + laedere (to harm). Earliest documented use: 1615 (collision is also from 1615).
NOTES: In maritime usage, the term allision is used for a vessel striking a fixed object, while collision is between two moving ships. Frequently, the word collision is used in both cases.
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WALLISION - to hit the wall
ALLISIN - the ultimate triumph of evil
ALLISON - Noah's comment just before he set sail in the Ark
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MIDDLESCENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (mid-uhl-ES-uhns)
MEANING: noun: The middle-age period of life.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after adolescence. Earliest documented use: 1965 (adolescence is from 1425).
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MUDDLESCENCE - the next phase characterized by lapses but not yet demented
MIDDLESCIENCE - more than introductory but not an advanced degree
MINDLESCENCE - what Jedi have to study
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YEASAYER
PRONUNCIATION: (YE-say-uhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. A person with a confident and positive outlook.
2. A person who agrees uncritically; a yes-man.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after the term naysayer. Earliest documented use: 1934 (naysayer is from 1628).
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YEASTYER - makes better-rising bread
YEASLAYER - proponent of capital punishment
TEASAYER - gives a predictable answer when asked, "Coffee, tea, or milk?"
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LONGLIST
PRONUNCIATION: (LONG-list)
MEANING: noun: A preliminary list of candidates, such as people, places, things, etc. (for a prize, job, etc.), from which a shortlist is compiled.
verb tr.: To place on a longlist.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after the word shortlist. Earliest documented use: 1972 (shortlist is from 1927).
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BONGLIST - social marijuana smokers
JONGLIST - entertainer/mime/jester/singer/storyteller
LONGLIFT - world's tallest elevator
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Then make it so.
BIRMINGHAMIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (BUHR-ming-ham-aiz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To render artificial.
ETYMOLOGY: After Birmingham, UK, where counterfeit coins were produced in the 17th century. Another word with a similar sense has formed from the corruption of the name Birmingham: brummagem. Earliest documented use: 1856.
NOTES: True to their name, in Birmingham, they have artificial grass, artificial body parts, artificial collections, and even colleges offering degrees in artificial intelligence.
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BIRMINGHAMICE - fake jewelry
BRRMINGHAMIZE - to take the heat off counterfeit stolen property
BIRMINGHAMAIZE - corn grown in the West Midlands region of England
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BARBADOS
PRONUNCIATION: (bar-BAY-doz, -dos, duhs)
MEANING: verb tr.: To forcibly ship someone to another place to work.
ETYMOLOGY: After Barbados, an island country in the Caribbean, formerly a British colony. Between 1640 and 1660 thousands of Irish people were sent by the British as indentured servants to work in Barbados and elsewhere in the Caribbean. The name of the island is from Portuguese/Spanish barbados (bearded ones). It’s not clear whether this refers to the people, the appearance of the dense vegetation, or something else. Earliest documented use: 1655.
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PARADOS - two deuces, in a Guadalajara poker game
EARBADOS - musically raucous and out-of-tune
CARBADOS - 1. fusses made about dietary sugar and starch; 2. the prescribed amount of these nutrients
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SOLECIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (SOL-uh-syz)
MEANING: verb intr.: To make an error in language, etiquette, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Soloi, an ancient Athenian colony in Cilicia, whose dialect the Athenians considered as substandard. Earliest documented use: 1627. The noun form is solecism
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SOLESIZE - how big did you say your feet are?
LOLECIZE - to render humorous enough for social media
SOLECIDE - what we risk commtting by overfishing
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LOCARNIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (lo-KAHR-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To bring about peace or settle a disagreement by negotiation.
ETYMOLOGY: After Locarno, Switzerland, where in Oct 1925, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy met to settle post-WWI disputes and concluded the Locarno Treaties. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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LOCHARNIZE - flood Yon Bonnie Banks by constructing a large dam
LOCARBIZE - remove the sugars and starches
NOCARNIZE - adopt a meatless diet
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DEBUNK
PRONUNCIATION: (di-BUNGK)
MEANING: verb tr.: To expose the falseness of a claim, myth, belief, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. In 1820, Felix Walker, a representative from that area, made a pointless speech in the US Congress. While his colleagues in Congress urged him to stop and move to vote on an issue, Walker claimed that he had to make a speech “for Buncombe”. Eventually, “Buncombe” became a synonym for meaningless speech, became shortened to “bunkum”, and then to “bunk”. And if there’s bunk, it’s one’s duty to debunk. Earliest documented use: 1923.
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EBUNK - to telecommute to summer camp
DEBUCK - to swindle, US style
DEDUNK - to wring the coffee out of a doughnut
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