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STRIDULANT
PRONUNCIATION: (STRIJ-uh-luhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Shrill; making a harsh grating sound.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin stridere (to make a harsh sound). Earliest documented use: 1843.
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STRID-U-LAST - I was the last one to stride you, and now you're "it"
STRIDULART - graphic designs produced by a small strid
STRIDE, LANT - walk up boldly, then urinate in the beer
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MONDAIN
PRONUNCIATION: (mon-DAYN)
MEANING noun: A sophisticated man; a man belonging to fashionable society.
adjective: Worldly; fashionable.
ETYMOLOGY: From French mondain (socialite), from Latin mundus (world). Earliest documented use: 1833.
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MONDRAIN - dyslexic painter of black-outlined rectangles filled with primary colors
MONDARIN - my 60s pop-singer (Mack the Knife, Splish-Splash and others)
MONDAIC - complaining because it's the first workday of the week
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ARTLESS
PRONUNCIATION: (ART-les)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Without guile; sincere; simple.
2. Free of artificiality.
3. Lacking art or skill.
ETYMOLOGY: From art, from Latin ars (art) + less, from Old English leas (without). Earliest documented use: 1586.
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TARTLESS - what the Queen was, after the Knave of Hearts stopped by
ARTLENS - lets you see the paintings better
ARTLOSS - "The Mona Lisa has been stolen!"
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LISTERIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (LIS-tuh-ryz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To make antiseptic.
ANAGRAM: listerize = sterilize
ETYMOLOGY: Coined after Joseph Lister (1827-1912) surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic medicine. Earliest documented use: 1888. Besides this word, some other things named after Joseph Lister are Listerine (originally a surgical antiseptic), the bacterial genus Listeria, and the slime mold genus Listerella.
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LOSTERIZE (anagram: ZOSTERILE) - afflicted by re-activated Herpes zoster virus causing shingles obscuring the cornea, and therefore unable to see
(BTW, purists would reserve the word "anagram" for this kind of self-defining rearrangement. What you and I call an anagram, they would call a "transposal.")
LISZTERIE - anything composed by Franz Liszt
LISTPRIZE - what you get for paying the full amount for something
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ADULATORY
PRONUNCIATION: (AJ-uh-luh-tor-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Praising or admiring slavishly.
ANAGRAM: adulatory = laudatory
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin adulari (to flatter, to fawn upon, like a dog wagging its tail). Earliest documented use: 1587.
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ODULATORY (anagram: LOUDATORY) - high-decibel speech after too much low-alcohol beer
ADULTORY - hanky-panky on the Conservative side of the aisle
ADULSTORY - the kind you have to put down after reading the first three pages
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BABBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (BAB-uhl)
MEANING: noun: 1. Foolish, excited, or incoherent chatter.
2. A murmuring sound, for example of flowing water.
verb intr.: 1. To talk excitedly, excessively, or incomprehensibly.
2. To make a murmuring sound, as flowing water.
verb tr.: 1. To say something rapidly, excitedly, or incoherently.
2. To reveal something confidential carelessly.
ANAGRAM: babbled = blabbed
ETYMOLOGY: Probably from the repetition of the syllable ba, which occurs in a child’s early speech. Earliest documented use: 1250. The word babel (as in the Tower of Babel) has nothing to do with babbling or blabbing.
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BABY LE - identifying a Vietnamese infant (anagam: BABELY)
B-ab BLUE - the color of a β-antibody
B-ABLE - worth a better grade than C, but not much
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METATHESIS
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-TATH-uh-sis)
MEANING: noun:
1. The transposition of letters, sounds, or syllables in a word. Example: aks for ask.
2. In chemistry, double decomposition.
ANAGRAM: metathesis = It’s the same.
ETYMOLOGY: Via Latin from Greek metatithenai (to transpose), from meta- (among, after) + tithenai (to place). Earliest documented use: 1538.
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MEGATHESIS - biggest damn dissertation ever! (anagram: GAME HEISTS)
MUTATHESIS - tendency to change
GETATHESIS - state your conjecture (anagram: ASSET EIGHT)
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BLATE
PRONUNCIATION: (blayt)
MEANING: verb intr.: To babble or to cry.
adjective: Timid.
ANAGRAM: blate = bleat
ETYMOLOGY: For verb: Apparently an alteration of bleat, whose earlier pronunciation rhymed with the word great. Earliest documented use: 1878.
For adjective: From Scots blate (timid, sheepish). Earliest documented use: 1000.
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BLOATE - obs. to become distended with gas (anagram: OBLATE)
BLATTE - (German, pl. of Blat) paper pages (anagram TABLET)
LbLATE - the pounds you inexorably acquire as you age (anti-gram*: BALLET)
*The opposite of an anagram: where an anagram is self-defining, an antigram is opposite-defining)
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DROOG
PRONUNCIATION: (droog)
MEANING: noun: A member of a gang; a henchman.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, from Russian drug (friend). Earliest documented use: 1962.
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DROHOG - a salt-water mollusc, native to islands in the North Atlantic
DROOGI - a pastry to be enjoyed with coffee
DRONG - a genetically modified pet, bred for strength
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BLATANT
PRONUNCIATION: (BLAY-tuhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Conspicuously obvious or offensive.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the poet Edmund Spenser (1552/1553-1599) in his epic poem The Faerie Queene, perhaps from Latin blatire (to chatter). Earliest documented use: 1596.
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LA TANT - the one who owns la plum
BLEATANT - a ewe's sister (see also BAATANT)
(EWE TANT = former UN Secretary-General)
BLOATANT - full of gas (see also FLATANT)
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