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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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