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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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PARERGON
PRONUNCIATION: (pa-RUHR-gahn)
MEANING: noun:
1. An accessory, embellishment, or byproduct of a main work.
2. Subsidiary work undertaken in addition to one’s main employment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek parergon, from para- (beside) + ergon (work). Ultimately from the Indo-European root werg- (to do), which also gave us ergonomic, work, energy, metallurgy, surgery, wright, erg, georgic, and hypergolic. Earliest documented use: 1601.
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SPARERGON - a many-sided geometric figure with fewer sides than another one you were thinking of
PAPERGON - Hey! Somebody took my New York Times !
PARERGO - a golf score you have to achieve in order to participate in elite tournaments
Example: "He didn't make PARERGO he's not in the final rounds of the US Open."
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DETERGE
PRONUNCIATION: (di-TUHRG)
MEANING: verb tr.: To wash, wipe, or cleanse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin detergere (to wipe away), from de- (away from) + tergere (to wipe). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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DEETERGE - wash with an insecticide
DEBTERGE - launder one's financial obligations
DETERSE - add unnecessary verbiage to a text, like an author who is paid by the word
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(Does that make it aulogical?)
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TRANGAM
PRONUNCIATION: (TRANG-uhm)
MEANING: noun: A trinket, puzzle, or odd gadget.
ETYMOLOGY: Of obscure origin. Earliest documented use: 1658.
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ORANGAM - simian morning
RANGAM - asking your grandmother whether she just called you - "You RANGAM?"
TRIANGAM - a leg with three joints
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TRANSITIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (TRAN-zi-tiv, -si-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a construction in which an action passes to an object (e.g. a transitive verb).
2. Involving transition: intermediate, transitional.
3. Changeable; transient.
4. Concerning a relation such that if it holds between A and B, between B and C, it also holds between A and C.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin transire (to cross), from trans- (across) + ire (to go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ei- (to go), which also gave us exit, transit, circuit, itinerary, adit, ambit, and arrant. Earliest documented use: 1571.
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TRANSISTIVE - facilitating the passage of electrical current; compare "resistive"
TRAINSITIVE - partial to traveling by railroad
TRANSITHIVE - a company that will relocate bee colonies intact
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SYNOPTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-NOP-tik, si-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a summary or general view of something.
2. Covering a wide area (as weather conditions).
3. Taking a similar view (as the first three Gospels of the Bible: Matthew, Mark, and Luke).
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek synopsis (general view), from syn- (together) + opsis (view). Earliest documented use: 1764.
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GYNOPTIC - from a woman's point of view
SON-OP TIC - spasmodic movements made by experienced submarine crew members
SYNCOPTIC - a strobe light that flashes on the musical off-beats
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GUNG HO
PRONUNCIATION: (GUHNG-HO)
MEANING: adjective: Extremely eager and enthusiastic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Chinese gonghe, an acronym from the Gongye Hezuoshe (Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society). The term gonghe was interpreted to mean “work together” and was introduced as a training slogan by US Marine Corps officer Evans Carlson (1896-1947). Earliest documented use: 1942.
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BUNG HO - what the beer comes out when you open the keg
GING HO - a primitive tree with characteristic leaves, often with two lobes
GUNGAO - what the General used to shoot the chicken that made Chinese cuisine famous
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HO-HUM
PRONUNCIATION: (HO-huhm)
MEANING: interjection: An expression of boredom, indifference, or resignation.
adjective: Boring; dull; routine.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1924.
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HBO-HUM - what you get when your Movie channel is off the air
HOH-IUM - the element that makes water
HRH-UM - the King's Speech impediment
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HUMBUG
PRONUNCIATION:] (HUHM-buhg)
MEANING:
noun: 1. Nonsense; pretense; deception.
2. An impostor or fraud.
3. A kind of hard mint-flavored candy (British).
adjective: Deceptive.
verb tr., intr.: To deceive or hoax.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1750.
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HIMBUG - a male arthropod
MUMBUG - a software problem that hasn't showed up yet
HUKBUG - insect native to the Philippines
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BUGBEAR
PRONUNCIATION: (BUHG-bair)
MEANING: noun: A source of fear, problem, anxiety, or annoyance.
ETYMOLOGY: A bugbear is an imaginary creature, invoked to frighten unruly children. From bug (hobgoblin) + bear, from Old English bera, ultimately from the Indo-European root bher- (bright, brown), which also gave us brown, bruin, brunet/brunette, burnish, and berserk. Earliest documented use: 1552.
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RUGBEAR - Ursa horribilis after the hunt
BUGFEAR - arthropodophobia
BUGLEAR - when Reveille wakes you to the sound of nonsense poetry (or your own personal jet)
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BEAR LEADER
PRONUNCIATION: (bair LEED-uhr)
MEANING: noun: A tutor who travels with a young man.
ETYMOLOGY: From allusion to a literal bear leader, a man who led a muzzled bear from place to place to perform in the streets. Earliest documented use: 1749.
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REAR LEADER - the Duke of Plaza-Toro *
WEAR LEADER - Number One in the Fashion Hit Parade
BEAR READER - the Complete Winnie-the-Pooh Anthology
* "In enterprise of martial kind
When there was any fighting
He led his regiment from behind -
He found it less exciting..."
-- Gilbert and Sullivan, The Gondoliers
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MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK
PRONUNCIATION: (MUHN-day MOR-ning KWOR-tuhr-bak)
MEANING: noun: One who criticizes others’ actions and offers alternatives with the benefit of hindsight.
ETYMOLOGY: In the US, professional football games are often played on Sundays. A quarterback in a football game is a player who directs the offensive play of the team. The term alludes to a person offering an alternative course of action after the fact, perhaps on a Monday morning around the office water cooler. Earliest documented use: 1930.
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MONDAY MOURNING QUARTERBACK - Atlanta fans on February 6, 2017, after Super Bowl 51
MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBOCK - Patriots fans on the same date, hoisting a small beer in the morning to continue the celebration
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SLAM DUNK
PRONUNCIATION: (slam duhnk)
MEANING: noun: 1. In basketball, a shot in which a player jumps up and slams the ball down through the basket.
2. Something easy to do or certain to occur.
verb tr.: 1. To thrust the ball down through the basket.
2. To defeat decisively.
ETYMOLOGY: From slam (to hit or thrust), possibly of Scandinavian origin + dunk (to dip), from Pennsylvania German dunke (to dip). Earliest documented use: 1976.
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SLIM DUNK - a low-calorie doughnut
SLAM DUSK - violent nightfall
SLAM DUCK - when Donald is wresting with Huey, Dewey, and Louie
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BUSH LEAGUE
PRONUNCIATION: (bush leeg)
MEANING: noun: A minor league of a professional sport, especially baseball.
adjective: Second-rate, unpolished, or amateurish.
ETYMOLOGY: From allusion to the bushes, referring to uncultivated land, countryside, the sticks, or small towns. Earliest documented use: 1906.
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MUSH LEAGUE - professional Iditarod racing
BLUSH LEAGUE - competitive Cosmetology
BUSHL EAGLE - a large raptor which typically overwhelms its prey with eight pecks
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I'll be away for the next several days - please feel free to step in and post your own daffynitions in the meantime.
(For that matter, feel free to do so whether I do or not!)
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WHATABOUTERY
PRONUNCIATION: (wat-uh-BAUT-uhr-ee)
MEANING: noun: The practice of responding to an accusation by making a counter-accusation, real or imaginary, relevant or irrelevant.
ETYMOLOGY: From the response “What about ...?” to a criticism. Earliest documented use: 1974.
NOTES: The word was coined in 1974 in a story about the Northern Ireland conflict. It was widely employed by then USSR as a propaganda technique and is now often a favorite of Trump. It’s also known as whataboutism. See also tu quoque.
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CHATABOUTERY - the (dying) art of conversation; sometimes used disparagingly
WHATABOUTERY! - purple prose describing an exciting boxing match
WHATABOOTERY - slogan promoting a school for kickers
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MYTHOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (mith-uh-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An abnormal tendency to exaggerate or lie.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek mythos (myth) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1909.
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MOTHOMANIA - frenzied flutterings around a bright flame or light bulb
MYTHOMARIA - the fictitious Eighth Sea, wherein lies the continent of Atlantis
MYSTOMANIA - when the computer game went viral, 20 years ago
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TENESMUS
PRONUNCIATION: (tuh-NEZ-muhs, -nes-)
MEANING: noun: A distressing but ineffectual urge to defecate or urinate.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin tenesmus, from Greek teinesmos, from teinein (to stretch or strain). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which also gave us tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, pertinacious, detente, countenance, distend, extenuate, and tenable. Earliest documented use: 1527.
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TENNESMUS - a Chattanooga mouse
TETNESMUS - a valiant attempt at spelling the technical name for "lockjaw"
TEES MUS' - the beginning of instructions about what to do after your initial drive on the first hole
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XENOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ZEN-uh-FO-bee-uh, ZEE-nuh-)
MEANING: noun: A fear or hatred of people from other countries or cultures.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek xeno- (foreign) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1909.
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XEROPHOBIA - You mustn't divide by 0, I'm afraid !
OXENOPHOBIA - spooked by...you get the idea. Hates boustrephedon, even.
XENONPHOBIA - scared silly by an inert gas
OENOPHOBIA - violent opposition to mild alcoholic beverages, even the with dinner
XENOPHONIA - speaking in an alien language such as Klingon
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KAYFABE
PRONUNCIATION: (KAY-fayb)
MEANING: noun: Portrayal of staged events as real, especially in professional wrestling. (See also, “reality shows”)
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, perhaps Pig Latin or an alteration for “fake” or “be fake”. Earliest documented use: 1988.
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KAYBABE - Is that all right with you, Sweetie?
KAYFOBE - a person frightened of the eleventh letter of the alphabet
KAYFADE - what happened to the sign on the K-Mart store after years of exposure to the sun
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OVINE
PRONUNCIATION: (O-vyn)
MEANING: adjective: Of, relating to, or resembling, sheep.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ovis (sheep). Ultimately from the Indo-European root owi- (sheep), which also gave us ewe. Earliest documented use: 1676.
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OVINET - to catch falling eggs
0NINE - the year before Hurricane Danielle but after Hurricane Bertha
UVINE - pertaining to the dingle-dangle in the back of your throat
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UBERTY
PRONUNCIATION: (YOO-bur-tee)
MEANING: noun: Abundance; fruitfulness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin uber (rich, fruitful, abundant, etc.). Earliest documented use: 1412.
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QBERTY - like a '80s arcade game character
UMBERTY - like a sort of brown or red earth tone
UBERTH - the higher of two bunks (as opposed to the lower, known as the LBERTH)
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LECTION
PRONUNCIATION: (LEK-shuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. A version of a text in a particular copy or edition.
2. A selection read in a religious service. Also known as pericope.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lection- (reading), from lectus, past participle of legere (to read, choose, collect). Ultimately from Indo-European root leg- (to collect) which also gave us lexicon, lesson, lecture, legible, legal, select, alexia, cull, ligneous, lignify, prolegomenon, subintelligitur, and syllogistic. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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LE CATION - a positively-charged particle, as discussed in Chemistry class at the Sorbonne
LECTIRON - a speaker's platform made of metal
LECTIWON - Read all about my victory!
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RILL
PRONUNCIATION: (ril)
MEANING: noun:
1. A small stream.
2. A narrow groove carved by erosion.
ETYMOLOGY - From Dutch ril or Low German Rille (groove). Ultimately from the Indo-European root rei- (to flow or run), which also gave us run, rival, derive, and runnel. Earliest documented use: 1552.
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MRILL - mascot of a campaign among young children to promote health - inspired by "MR ICK" for poison awareness
R G-I'LL - a phonetic sock pattern
RI ML - Rhode Island becomes the first state to adopt metric units (see also RI LB)
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OTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (O-tik, OT-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the ear.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ous (ear). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ous- (ear), which also gave us ear, aural, auscultation, scout, and otorhinolaryngology. Earliest documented use: 1657.
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OOTIC - easily impressed(see also "AAHTIC")
ORIC - full of gold alternatives
OTPIC - my glasses have a terrible distoriton
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DRAMA QUEEN
PRONUNCIATION: (DRAH-muh kween)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is prone to behaving in an exaggeratedly dramatic way: creating unnecessary scenes or making a big deal of small matters.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek drama (action, play) + Old English cwen (woman, queen). Earliest documented use: 1923.
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DRAM QUEEN - connoisseuse of fine after-dinner liqueurs
DRAMA QUEEG - Humphrey Bogart
DRAMA QUEUEN - lines for theater tickets in Berlin
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ILLITERATI
PRONUNCIATION: (i-lit-uh-RAH-tee)
MEANING: noun: Illiterate or uninformed people.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin illitterati, plural of illiteratus (illiterate). Earliest documented use: 1788.
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BILLITERATI - the cost of being unable to read
ILLITTERATI - people who dislike strewn-about trash
ALLITERATI - folks who insist on using the same sound in several consecutive words or syllables
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DASTARD
PRONUNCIATION: (DAS-tuhrd)
MEANING: noun: A malicious, sneaking coward.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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D.A.'S TARDY - the District Attorney is late
DAS WARD - a basic political division of Berlin
DA START - the beginning of Brooklyn
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SAMFIE
PRONUNCIATION: (SAM-fee, -fy)
MEANING: noun: A swindler or a conman.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, perhaps from a West African language. Earliest documented use: 1929. The word is typically used in the form “samfie man”.
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SCAMFIE - denunciation for committing a any of several deceptive or reprehensible acts (cf SHAMFIE, SPAMFIE)
DAMFIE - an expletive indicating an indignant objection or refusal (pronounced "DAM FĪ")
SAMFEE - what the government will charge you to fire a Surface-to-Air Missile
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MAMMOTHREPT
PRONUNCIATION: (MAM-uh-thrept)
MEANING: noun:
1. A spoilt child.
2. A person of immature judgment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mammothreptus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek mammothreptos (brought up by one’s grandmother), from mamme (grandmother) + trephein (to bring up or nourish). Earliest documented use: 1601.
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MAMAMOTHREPT - the matriarch of wool-eating insects said something about Physical Therapy
MAMMOTHREPO - after missed payments on the ice-age mammal
MAMMOTHREPOT - a huge number of seedlings needed replanting
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COCKSURE
PRONUNCIATION: (KOK-shoor, kok-SHOOR)
MEANING: adjective: Arrogantly or presumptuously overconfident.
ETYMOLOGY: From cock (a euphemism for god) + sure, from Old French seur, from Latin securus (secure). Earliest documented use: 1520.
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MOCKSURE - bravado
CORKSURE - a product marketed to guarantee fizz tomorrow in the soda bottle you open today
COCKLURE - a fertile hen
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