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ANTITUSSIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (an-tee-TUHS-iv, an-ty-)
MEANING: adjective: Suppressing or relieving coughing.
noun: Something that suppresses or relieves coughing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin anti- (against) + tussis (cough). Earliest documented use: 1909.
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ANTIBUSSIVE - give this to your date to avoid an unwelcome kiss
ALTITUSSIVE - when your lungs are telling you IT'S TOO HIGH UP HERE, THE AIR IS TOO THIN
ANTITULSIVE - Stay away from Oklahoma !
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APERIENT
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-PIR-ee-uhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Having a laxative effect: stimulating evacuation of the bowels.
noun: Something that relieves constipation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aperire (to open). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to cover), which also gave us overt, cover, warranty, warren, garage, garret, garment, garrison, garnish, guarantee, and pert. Earliest documented use: 1626.
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AMPERIENT - pertaining to electrical current
NAPERIENT - 1. pertaining to logarithms; 2. in need of a brief midday sleep
APORIENT - that point in your travels where you are furthest to the east
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EMETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (i-MET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Causing vomiting.
noun: Something that causes vomiting.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin emeticus, from Greek emetikos, from emetos (vomiting), from emein (to vomit). Earliest documented use: 1658.
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EMETRIC - abandoning grams/cm/etc measurements and re-adopting pounds and inches and stuff; the next step after Brexit
EMETIO - magic spell that makes you vomit
REMETIC - destroys your dreams
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DIURETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (dy-uh-RET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Causing an increased production of urine.
noun: A substance that causes such an increase.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin diureticus, from Greek diouretikos, from diourein (to urinate), from dia- (across) + ourein (urinate), from ouron (urine). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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DOURETIC - possessing a sour disposition because of annoying urination problems
DIURECTIC - having an appetite that waxes and wanes in a 24-hour cycle
DIUREMIC - twice as much kidney failure as it used to be
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ANALGESIC
PRONUNCIATION: (an-uhl-JEE-zik, -sik)
MEANING: adjective: Reducing or eliminating pain.
noun: Something that reduces or relieves pain.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin analgesia (absence of pain), from Greek analgesia, from an- (not) + algos (pain). Earliest documented use: 1852.
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BANALGESIC - a pain-reliever with nothing to distinguish it from any other
ANALOGESIC - not communicating in a digital fashion
ANALGENIC - a DNA-carried tendency to be an asshole
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DOG DAYS
PRONUNCIATION: (dog dayz)
MEANING: noun:
1. The hottest period of the summer.
2. A period of stagnation, lethargy, inactivity, or decline.
ETYMOLOGY: A translation of Latin dies caniculares (puppy days), from Greek kunades hemarai (dog days), so called because Sirius, the Dog Star, rises and sets with the sun around this time of the year. The ancient Romans and Greeks considered this period unhealthy and unlucky. The star got its name from Greek seirios (scorching). Earliest documented use: 1538.
NOTE: Due to precession (gradual shift in the Earth’s axis of rotation), the dog days have shifted since the time of ancient Romans and Greeks. In about 10,000 years, dog days will fall in winter. Enjoy them while you can.
This may be an apt time to say that astrology should be spelled as b-u-n-k. Things have moved around there since astrology was invented. Constellations ain’t where they used to be. You weren’t born under the zodiac sign you think you were. The fault, dear reader, is not in our stars. Or planets. Jupiter has no effect whatsoever on you. This was a public service announcement. You’re welcome.
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DOG BDAYS - occurring every 52 1/7 days, i.e. seven times a year
DOS DAYS - the time, before Apple Computer presented the Macintosh, when computers ran under a Disk Operating System
DOG DAYO - sung by the animal who controls the rats on a banana boat
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LIONIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (LY-uh-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To view or treat someone as an object of great importance.
ETYMOLOGY: From the view of the lion as the king of animals. From Anglo-French liun, from Latin leo, from Greek leon. From Earliest documented use: 1825.
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LbONIZE - to gain weight
LRONIZE - to convert to dianetics
LIGNIZE - to make stiff and wooden
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CHICKENHAWK
PRONUNCIATION: (CHIK-en hawk)
MEANING: noun:
1. Any of various hawks believed to be preying on chickens.
2. A person who favors military action, yet has avoided military service.
ETYMOLOGY: From the slang usage of the word chicken for a coward and hawk for someone who pursues an aggressive policy. Earliest documented use: 1827.
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SCHICKENHAWK - having just had a close shave, it's now called a bald eagle
CHICKINHAWK - the raptor just raided the henhouse
CHICKENHARK - what you wake up saying when the rooster gets laryngitis
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BLACKBIRD
PRONUNCIATION: (BLAK-buhrd)
MEANING: noun: 1. Any of various birds having black plumage.
2. An indentured laborer or slave kidnapped from the South Pacific.
verb tr.: To kidnap a person to work as an indentured laborer or slave.
verb intr.: To engage in slave trade.
ETYMOLOGY: From the former use of the term blackbird for someone from the South Pacific islands. From the 1860s to 1904 they were kidnapped to mine guano in Peru and work in sugarcane and cotton plantations in Australia and Fiji, and elsewhere. Earliest documented use: 1350 (for the figurative sense of the word: 1845). Also see shanghai and barbados.
Read more about blackbirding here and here.
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BLACKBID - six spades, doubled and redoubled
BLACKBARD - Uncle Remus
BLOCKBIRD - the Lego Falcon
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SPREADEAGLE
PRONUNCIATION: (SPRED-ee-guhl)
MEANING:
noun: An emblematic representation of an eagle with outspread wings.
verb tr.: To position someone with arms and legs stretched out.
verb intr.: 1. To assume the form of a spread eagle.
2. To be boastful or bombastic in a display of nationalistic pride.
adjective: 1. Lying with arms and legs stretched out.
2. Boastful or bombastic in a display of nationalistic pride.
ETYMOLOGY: The eagle, in various positions, has been a popular bird in heraldry. A spread eagle is on the coats of arms of Germany, Poland, Romania, and the United States. Earliest documented use: 1550. Also see frogmarch.
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SPIREA-D EAGLE - national symbol bedecked with perennial red or white flowers
SPREADBEAGLE - promote the wider reading of Snoopy comic strips
SPREADE-AGE - the area of Ye Olde Ranch
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