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SATISFICE
PRONUNCIATION: (SAT-uhs-fys)
MEANING: verb intr.: To satisfy the minimum requirements in a given situation.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the scientist Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) in 1956, apparently as a blend of satisfy + suffice. Earliest documented use: 1561 (as a synonym of the word satisfy).
NOTES: While it may appear that satisficing is taking the easy way out, there are times when it’s the right thing to do. It can be bewildering to consider all the options that are available. Often it’s best to pick one or two important criteria and weed out the options, especially when stakes are low.
Sometimes making a suboptimal decision is best, when the alternative is decision paralysis because there are so many options. To satisfice is OK, we don’t always have to maximize or optimize. Sometimes good enough is more than good enough.
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SATISFINE - My college entrance exam score was quite sufficient, thank you for asking
SATIEFICE - how he wrote Gymnopédie and others like it
SATISFIDE, SATISNICE - and how he felt after writing it, and what he thought if it
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SCROUGE
PRONUNCIATION: (skrouj, skrooj)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To squeeze, press, or crowd.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of scruze (to squeeze), a blend of screw + squeeze. Earliest documented use: 1755.
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SYROUGE - the sweet red liquid you pour over your pancakes
SCAROUGE - Halloween makeup
'SCROUPE - Oui, Madame, your child 'as tracheo-bronchitis, zat is why she cough so much
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SENECTITUDE
PRONUNCIATION: (si-NEK-ti-tood, -tyood)
MEANING: noun: Old age.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin senectus (old age), from senex (old). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sen- (old), which is also the ancestor of senior, sir, sire, senate, senile, Spanish señor, and surly (which is an alteration of sirly, as in sir-ly). Earliest documented use: 1796.
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SELECTITUDE - good taste
BENECTITUDE - saintliness
SENECTITUNE - a Golden Oldie
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Senecatitude- idyllic view of Bedford Falls
Scenectitude- perspective beyond the pines (the h is silent)
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Senecatitude- idyllic view of Bedford Falls
Scenectitude- perspective beyond the pines (the h is silent) Tee hee. And let's not forget SCHENECTITUDE - location in upstate New York maybe 15 miles north-west of Albany (the CH is hard)
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WELTANSCHAUUNG
PRONUNCIATION: (VELT-ahn-shou-oong)
MEANING: noun: World view.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Weltanschauung (world view), from Welt (world) + Anschauung (perception). Earliest documented use: 1868.
NOTES: When we bring in a word from another language, sometimes we borrow it as it is and at other times make a literal translation, also known as a loan translation. The word weltanschauung appears so useful that English has borrowed the original form and also made a loan translation: world view.
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DELTANSCHAUUNG - familiarity with the waterways at the mouth of the Mississippi
WELTANSCHADUNG - awareness that the world is full of misfortunes
BELTANSCHAUUNG - overall philosophy of dieting
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Scenectitude- perspective beyond the pines (the h is silent) Tee hee. And let's not forget SCHENECTITUDE - location in upstate New York maybe 15 miles north-west of Albany (the CH is hard) ☺ that is what I was going for, though mine looks more like the film than the city.
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...and it's a double-dactyl, too!
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INFUNDIBULIFORM
PRONUNCIATION: (in-fuhn-DIB-yuh-luh-form)
MEANING: adjective: Funnel-shaped.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin infundibulum (funnel), from infundere (to pour in), from fundere (to pour). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gheu- (to pour), which is also the source of funnel, font, fuse, diffuse, gust, gush, and geyser. Earliest documented use: 1752.
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INFUNDIBULI-NORM - when just about everything is funnel-shaped
IN-FUN-BIBLIFORM - like reading Scripture for amusement
INFUNDIBULI-FARM - devoted to the culture and propagation of Morning Glories
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FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFiCATION
PRONUNCIATION: (FLOK-si-NO-si-NY-HIL-i-PIL-i-fi-KAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: Estimating as worthless.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flocci, from floccus (tuft of wool) + nauci, from naucum (a trifling thing) + nihili, from Latin nihil (nothing) + pili, from pilus (a hair, trifle) + -fication (making). Earliest documented use: 1741.
NOTES: This word was coined by combining four Latin terms flocci, nauci, nihili, pili, all meaning something of little or no value, which were listed in the well-known Eton Latin Grammar of Eton College in the UK. The word seems to be popular in the US government. It has been heard from the mouths of White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, Senator Robert Byrd, and Senator Jesse Helms, among others. A related word is floccipend.
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FLOCCI-NAUCCI-NIHILI-PILI-FICATION - declaring Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit and his siblings to be trivial and utterly worthless (they were, you will recall, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter)
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FLOCkINAUCINIHILIPILIFiCATION- blur to the ears
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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (NOO-muh-noh-UL-truh-MY-kruh-SKOP-ik-SIL-i-koh-vol-KAY-no-KOH-nee-O-sis, nyoo-)
MEANING: noun: A lung disease caused by silica dust.
ETYMOLOGY: From New Latin, from Greek pneumono- (lung) + Latin ultra- (beyond, extremely) + Greek micro- (small) + -scopic (looking) + Latin silico (like sand) + volcano + Greek konis (dust) + -osis (condition). Earliest documented use: 1935.
NOTES: Even though we have included the pronunciation of this word, we advise caution lest you may have to avail the services of an otorhinolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat specialist).
At 45 letters, it’s the longest word in any English language dictionary. It’s a trophy word -- its only job is to serve as the longest word. In day-to-day use, its nine-letter synonym “silicosis” works just as well. Whatever you call it, it is deadly. Here’s the story of an incident.
And what’s the shortest word in the English language? There are a number of them: A, I, O, but we’ll have to give it to I which is the skinniest as well. Try defining either of them in fewer letters than the spelling of the word.
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PNEURONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - a complicated degenerative disease of nerve cells (the P is silent, like the P in swimming)
PUN-EU-MONO-ULTRAM/IC-ROSCO-PICS-LILICO-VOLCANOCONIOSIS - play on words about truly-single-generic-arthritis-pills-showing-pictures-of-guns-owned-by-paper-cup-manufacturer-on-mountainous-volcanoes
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COPPER-BOTTOMED
PRONUNCIATION: (kop-uhr-BOT-uhmd)
MEANING: adjective: Reliable, genuine, or trustworthy.
ETYMOLOGY: From the practice of covering a ship’s hull with copper (or alloy) to protect it from salt water and marine organisms. Earliest documented use: 1795. Don’t confuse this term with copperplate.
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HOPPER-BOTTOMED - with legs like a rabbit or a kangaroo, for effective jumping
CHOPPER-BOTTOMED - having false teeth for the lower jaw only
COPPER-BLOTTO-MED - the pill that the police use to treat a hangover
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FLOTSAM
PRONUNCIATION: (FLOT-suhm)
MEANING: noun:
1. Goods found floating after a shipwreck.
2. People or things considered useless or unimportant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French floter (to float). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pleu- (to flow), which is also the source of flow, float, flit, fly, flutter, pulmonary, pneumonia, pluvial, and fletcher. Earliest documented use: 1607.
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FLOATSAM - called to Detective Spade when he fell overboard
FLOTOSAM - part of CB radio exchange between Florence and Samantha
FLOSSAM - what your dentist wants you to do to your teeth more often
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LEEWAY
PRONUNCIATION: (LEE-way)
MEANING: noun: The amount of freedom to do something: margin or latitude.
ETYMOLOGY: In nautical terminology, leeway is the sideways drift of a ship to leeward (away from wind). From Old English hleo (shelter) + way. Earliest documented use: 1669.
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LEEWAX - what you put on the sheltered side of the boat to minimize resistance
LEESWAY - how the Confederate C-in-C did things
LE WAY - the Eightfold Path sought by French Buddhists
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JETSAM
PRONUNCIATION: (JET-suhm)
MEANING: noun:
1. Goods thrown overboard to lighten a ship in distress.
2. Discarded material, debris, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of the word jettison. Earlier, jettison was the act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship in distress. From Latin jactare (to throw), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1491.
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METS A.M. - the New York Metropolitans have a game in the morning
JETSCAM - that free airplane ticket offer you got was a fraud
JETS ARM - Joe Namath, no doubt about it
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GROGGY
PRONUNCIATION: (GROG-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Dazed, weak, or unsteady, as from lack of sleep, tiredness, sickness, intoxication, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Old Grog, nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), who ordered diluted rum to be served to his sailors (and thus helped coin the term grog). The admiral earned the nickname from his habit of wearing a grogram cloak. Grogram is a coarse fabric of silk, wool, mohair, or a blend of them. The word grogram is from French gros grain (large grain or texture). Earliest documented use: 1770.
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GROGGUY - the plant store owner has a green thumb
GROGGLY - a particularly deceptive cricket pitch bowl
BROGGY - having a prominent Scottish accent
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FABIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (FAY-bee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Avoiding direct confrontation; cautious; delaying.
ETYMOLOGY: After the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (c. 280-203 BCE), from his guerrilla tactics in not engaging the enemy directly. Instead, he chose the war of attrition, avoiding direct confrontation, disrupting the enemy’s supply lines, etc. For this, he also earned the nickname Cunctator Earliest documented use: 1598.
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MABIAN - one who can see both sides to every argument, and is therefore chronically unable to makeup his mind
FA, BRIAN - No, Mr. Eno, the note before sol would really sound better there
FABIWAN - Ben Kenobi's younger brother. The force was weak in that one.
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STENT
PRONUNCIATION: (stent)
MEANING: noun: A tube inserted into a blocked vessel to keep it open.
ETYMOLOGY: After the dentist Charles R. Stent (1845-1901). Stent did pioneering work in coming up with a compound that made better molds for dentures. Later, the compound was used to make casts of other body parts and cavities. Stents correct stenosis (narrowing). Earliest documented use: 1878. The word stentorian is also an eponym, but it came from someone else
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STERT - a snorer
P.S.TENT - a portable outdoor shelter brought along as an afterthought
S-TEST - what statistician William S Gossett was fiddling with just before he conceived Student's t-test
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HYMENEAL
PRONUNCIATION: (hy-muh-NEE-uhl)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to a wedding or marriage.
noun: A wedding song or poem.
ETYMOLOGY: After Hymen, the god of marriage in Greek mythology. Earliest documented use: 1602
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HUME,NEAL - philosopher David's younger brother
HYMNEAL - like A Mighty Fortress
HYMENTAL - lofty thoughts
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EUHEMERISM
PRONUNCIATION: (yoo-HEE-muh-riz-uhm, -HEM-)
MEANING: noun: The idea that gods are based on historical heroes whose stories became exaggerated in retelling.
ETYMOLOGY: After Euhemerus, a fourth-century BCE Greek writer, who proposed that the gods of mythology were based on real heroes whose accounts became exaggerated with time. Earliest documented use: 1846.
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EUPHEMERISM - the idea that you should sanitize the name of anything earthy before you utter it
EDUHEMERISM - turning out scholars who are only half-educated
EUCHEMERISM - the original "Thou" of Martin Buber's I and Thou
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ROLAND
PRONUNCIATION: (RO-lund)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is an equal match for another. Typically used in the expression “to give a Roland for an Oliver” meaning “to give as good as one gets” (tit for tat).
ETYMOLOGY: After Roland, the legendary hero of the 11/12th century epic poem “Chanson de Roland” (Song of Roland). His tale was inspired by Charlemagne’s nephew and military leader. Oliver was friends with Roland and his equal. They fought each other but neither won. Earliest documented use: 1525. A related word is rounceval.
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OROLAND - what the Spaniards thought the New World was
GOLAND - communication from a hostile fighter intercept aircraft
ROMLAND - where all good memory chips go after they've given up the ghost...
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OLID
PRONUNCIATION: (O-lid)
MEANING: adjective: Foul-smelling.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin olere (to smell), which also gave us the opposite of today’s word: redolent. Earliest documented use: 1680.
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GLID - 1. past tense of glide; 2. present tense of glad
OMID - identifying the mantra
OOLID - an egg-shaped meteorite
OLIX - wordy, but without the Public Relations
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LATITUDINARIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (lat-i-tood-uh-NAY-ree-uhn, -tyood-)
MEANING: adjective: Holding broad and tolerant views, especially on matters of religion.
noun: One who is broadminded and tolerant, especially concerning religion.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin latitudo (breadth), from latus (broad). Earliest documented use: 1662.
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PLATITUDINARIAN - one whose speech is peppered with inanities
(edit - Oops! Turns out that's a real word. "First use 1855" - wofa)
LATITUDINARIAT - a rope noose that gives its captives room to move
LATINUDINARIAN - fond of images of unclad women painted by Spaniards, which are uncommon due to the Church's disapproval; still there are Goya's Naked Maja,, and works by Velazquez and Picasso and others
LA TITUA IN ARIAN' - a recently-discovered Mozart opera, never yet performed
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FULIGINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (fyoo-LIZ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Sooty; dusky; obscure.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fuligo (soot).
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FUMIGINOUS - smoking
MULIGINOUS - stubborn
FULGINOUS - radiant
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EMESIS
PRONUNCIATION: (EM-uh-sis)
MEANING: noun: The act or process of vomiting.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek emein (to vomit). Earliest documented use: 1875.
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EMFSIS - special importance, value, or prominence
ESMESIS - when molecules of a solvent pass through a semipermeable membrane from a more concentrated solution into a less concentrated one, thereby increasing the disparity of concentrations on the two sides of the membrane; the opposite of OSMOSIS (see also Maxwell's Demon)
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TAUTOLOGOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (to-TOL-uh-guhs)
MEANING: adjective: Involving unnecessary repetition of an idea, especially in different words, for example, a good-looking beautiful woman.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek tauto- (same), contraction of “to auto” (the same) + -logy (word). Earliest documented use: 1646.
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TAUNTOLOGOUS - teasing
TOUTOLOGOUS - selling tips at the racetrack
TABUTOLOGOUS - referring to strongly-disapproved-of (if not forbidden) practices
TAUTOLOGONS - geometric figures with self-referential and redundant sides
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SNOLLYGOSTER
PRONUNCIATION: (SNOL-ee gos-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: A shrewd, unprincipled person.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of snallygaster, a mythical creature said to prey on poultry and children, possibly from Pennsylvania Dutch schnelle geeschter, from German schnell (quick) + Geist (spirit). Earliest documented use: 1846.
NOTES: According to a Georgia editor, “A snollygoster is a fellow who wants office, regardless of party, platform, or principles, and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumnacy.”
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'S NOLLY-GO-STIR - when the lawyer says you're pleading nolo contendere and the best you can hope for is a jail sentence
SNOLLYNG OSTER - a blender making an angry, aggressive noise
SNOLLY GO STERN - Ahoy there, Yacht Snolly, reverse engines!
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HIGHBINDER
PRONUNCIATION: (HY-byn-duhr)
MEANING: noun: A swindler, gangster, or a corrupt politician.
ETYMOLOGY: After the Highbinders, a Chinese gang in New York and other cities from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. Earliest documented use: 1806.
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THIGHBINDER - poultice for a torn quadriceps
HIGHMINDER - one with his head in the clouds
HIGHBANDER - member of a piccolo ensemble
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WIREPULLER
PRONUNCIATION: (WAIR-pool-uhr)
MEANING: noun: A person who manipulates or exerts control from behind the scenes.
ETYMOLOGY: From wire + puller. Earliest documented use: 1824.
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WIREPOLLER - assesses public opinion via Western Union
DIREPULLER - dentist full of doom and gloom
WIREPULLET - what chicken-fencing is made of
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FOUR-FLUSHER
PRONUNCIATION: (FOHR-flush-uhr)
MEANING: noun: A pretender, bluffer, or fraudster.
ETYMOLOGY: In a game of poker, a full flush is five cards of the same suit. A four-flush, only four cards of the same suit, is almost worthless. A player pretending to have a full flush while holding only a four-flush, is said to be a four-flusher. Earliest documented use: 1904.
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FOUR-FLASHER - a poker player who "accidentally" lets you see one of his hole cards, and it's low (a four)
FLOUR-FLUSHER - in charge of disposing of any spoiled or insect-ridden ground grain
FOUR OF LUSHER - an aspiring rock band based in a New Orleans high school
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JACKLEG
PRONUNCIATION: (JAK-leg)
MEANING: adjective: Unskilled; unscrupulous; incompetent.
noun: An unskilled or unscrupulous worker.
ETYMOLOGY: From jack (man, worker) + blackleg. Earliest documented use: 1839
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JOCKLEG - what Eddie Arcaro used, to urge his horse to run faster
TACKLEG - the portion of the America's Cup course that's heading into the wind
J.C. KLEG - putative founder of Kleg's Hardware Store
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ADONIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (AD-uh-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To make more attractive; to spruce up.
ETYMOLOGY: After Adonis, a beautiful youth in Greek mythology, loved by Aphrodite. Adonis’s name has become a synonym for a very handsome young man. Earliest documented use: 1611.
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AVONIZE - convert your salesforce to a door-to-door format
ADONAIZE - apotheosize; ascribe Godlike powers
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BOGART
PRONUNCIATION: (BO-gart)
MEANING: verb tr.
1. To hog or to take more than the fair share of something.
2. To bully, act tough, or to be belligerent.
ETYMOLOGY: After film actor Humphrey Bogart (1900-1957) who played tough-guy roles. Earliest documented use: 1965.
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BIGART - Mount Rushmore
DOGART - poker-playing as depicted by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
BOWART - the story of William Tell
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HOOVERIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (HOO-vuh-ryz)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To be sparing in the use of something, especially food.
ETYMOLOGY: After Herbert C. Hoover (1874-1964), who as the head of the US Food Administration during the WWI, encouraged citizens to eat less and save food for soldiers. Earliest documented use: 1917.
NOTES: “To hooverize” is not the same as “to hoover”. The latter is a synonym of “to vacuum” (also used metaphorically for “to devour” or “to consume”). It’s the genericizing of the word Hoover, a popular brand name for vacuum cleaners. The word is mostly used around the UK. The brand is named after American industrialist William Henry Hoover (1849-1932).
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HOOTERIZE - what owls see with
HOOVERITE - someone who lives a few miles south of Las Vegas and doesn't want to admit it
HOVERIZE - what helicoptering parents do to their children
HO-OVERSIZE - dam big model trains
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MOLOCHIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (MOL-uh-kyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To sacrifice.
ETYMOLOGY: After Moloch, a Canaanite god of the Bible, associated with the practice of child sacrifice. Earliest documented use: 1825.
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MOLOCCHIZE - to give organs of vision to small Italian burrowing mammals
YOLOCHIZE - to convert to a lifestyle of self-indulgence, on the grounds that "You Only Live Once"
MOLOCHEZE® - brand name for a new mild cheese-food spread
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NAPOLEONIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (nuh-PO-Lee-uh-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To occupy or govern in a domineering or aggressive manner.
2. To aggrandize oneself.
ETYMOLOGY: After Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general and emperor. Earliest documented use: 1822
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NAPO-LEGO-NIZE - to make a kit of interlocking construction blocks that assembles into a statue of Napoleon
NAPOLEONITE - resident of an Ohio city, north of Lima and northeast of Florida
NaPALEONIZE - to turn into an old salt
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DEFEASIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (di-FEE-zuh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Capable of being revised, defeated, or annulled.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French desfaire (to undo or destroy), from Latin dis- (apart, away) + facere (to do). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhe- (to set or put), which is also the source of do, deed, factory, fashion, face, rectify, defeat, sacrifice, satisfy, Sanskrit sandhi (joining), Urdu purdah (veil or curtain), and Russian duma (council). Earliest documented use: 1586.
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DEFLEASIBLE - those jumping parasites can be removed
DREFEASIBLE - it could be made into a good rap
DE-FENSIBLE - the protective wall can be removed (but that would make it less so)
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USURIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (yoo-ZHOOR-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Charging excessive rates, especially for lending money.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin usus (use), past participle of uti (to use). Earliest documented use: 1610.
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UXURIOUS - showering one's wife with richness and good things
USER-IOUS - addicted to the computer
USURPIOUS - power-hungry
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BENTHOS
PRONUNCIATION: (BEN-thos)
MEANING: noun: Organisms that live at the bottom of a body of water.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek benthos (depth of the sea). Earliest documented use: 1891.
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BENTHOS - Librium, Valium, etc, (if you lisp)
BENTHOSE - chordee
PENTHOS - one-time competitor to Playboy
BEN THOR - Modi or Magni
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