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AILUROPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ai-loor-uh-FOH-bee-uh, ay-)
MEANING: noun: A fear of cats.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ailuro- (cat) + phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1905.
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MAILUROPHOBIA - fear of getting prostate cancer
AXILUROPHOBIA - fear of armpits
ALLUROPHOBIA - fear of being attractive
ABLUROPHOBIA - My eyes! I can't see!
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PYROMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (py-roh-MAY-nee-uh, -MAYN-yuh)
MEANING: noun: An obsessive impulse to start fires.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pyro- (fire) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1840.
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PROMANIA - I'm just wild about professionals...
PYGOMANIA - ...and fascinated by backsides
PO ROMANIA - the river and the European country it doesn't flow through
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CLAUSTROPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (klo-struh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A fear of being in a confined place or a restrictive situation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin claustrum (lock, bolt, confined place) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1879. The opposite is agoraphobia.
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CLASSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the best of one's kind
CLUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being part of a bunch
CLAUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the World's Best Santa
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Pyromaniña - señorita with a hot temper ?
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Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants... Claustrophibia- Musculskeletal stress. (When the tibia is broken it may cause edema. In some cases claustrophibia occurs.) I came across Che Gelida Manina recently during a project on The Three Tenors. Timing.
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SILLAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (see-AHZH)
MEANING: noun: The trail of scent that lingers behind from a perfume; also, the degree to which it lingers.
ETYMOLOGY: From French sillage (wake, trail). Earliest documented use: early 1800s.
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ILLAGE - the total amount of time spent being sick
SILLRAGE - uncontrollable fury at seeing dead insects right outside your window
SILTAGE - all that fine dirt clogging the harbor (see also FILLAGE)
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Snillage- the effect of kindness and helpfulness
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ANDROCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (an-DROK-ruh-see)
MEANING: noun: A system ruled by men.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin andro- (male), from Greek + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1903.
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ADDOCRACY - government by accretion (see also ANDOCRACY)
AND/ORCRACY - government that goes two steps forward, one step back
ANY-ROCRACY - government at random
MANDROCRACY - you don't really want me to explain that, now do you?
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PINETUM
PRONUNCIATION: (py-NEE-tuhm)
MEANING: noun: An arboretum of coniferous trees such as pines.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pinetum (pine grove), from pinus (pine). Earliest documented use: 1828
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SPINETUM - a place where small upright pianos are grown
OPINETUM - a place where opinions are thoughtfully digested
PRINETUM - very poorly pronounced Springtime in Paris
PINEMUM - a late-fall-flowering conifer
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ARCTOPHILE
PRONUNCIATION: (ARK-tuh-fyl)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is very fond of teddy bears or collects them.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek arctos (bear) + -phile (lover). Earliest documented use: 1970.
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ARC-TOP-TILE - cover your bathroom floor with the image of rainbows
ARCHOPHILE - lover of the Place d'Étoile in Paris
ARCTOCHILE - the coldest region in South America
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MAKE-WORK
PRONUNCIATION: (MAYK-wuhrk)
MEANING: noun: Work of little value, devised mainly to keep someone busy.
ETYMOLOGY: From make, from Old English macian (to make) + work, from Old English worc (work). Earliest documented use: 1911.
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FAKE-WORK - like Wally in Dilbert
MANE-WORK - currying a horse
MAKE-WOK - manufacture Chinese cooking utensil
MAGE-WORK - spellcasting
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ADHOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (ad-HAWK-ruh-see)
MEANING: noun:
1. A flexible, adaptable organization that lacks a formal structure.
2. An organization characterized by lack of planning, responding to problems as they emerge rather than anticipating and avoiding them.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Warren Bennis and Philip Slater in their book The Temporary Society. From Latin ad hoc (for this, i.e. for a particular purpose only) + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1966.
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MADHOCRACY - government by jumping on a horse and riding off in all directions
ADHOCRACE - quick runoff after an elected official retires unexpectedly
A.B.HOCRACY - government by Bachelors of Arts
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meme
PRONUNCIATION:
(meem)
MEANING:
noun:
1. An element of culture, idea, behavior, etc., that’s transmitted from person to person.
2. An image, video clip, etc. often with amusing caption, that’s transmitted virally on the Internet.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek mimeisthai (to imitate, copy); coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene in 1976.
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MEMSE - a Parisian describing a borogove
MEMES- The sound of children waving their hands and begging to be called upon
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TEETOTAL
PRONUNCIATION: (tee-TOH-tuhl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Practicing abstinence from alcohol.
2. Total; absolute.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Richard Turner of Preston, England, in a speech calling for total abstinence, apparently as an emphatic form of the word total. Earliest documented use: 1833.
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TWEETOTAL - utterly and unbearably cute, dainty, and quaint
TEYTOTAL - eight (the number of detective stories published by Elizabeth Mackintosh under her pseudonym)
FEE TO TAL - amount for Soviet chess champion Mikhial to play
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BOOBOISIE
PRONUNCIATION: (boo-bwa-ZEE)
MEANING: noun: Ignorant or uncultured people regarded as a class.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by H.L. Mencken, as a blend of boob (a stupid person) + bourgeoisie (the middle class), from French bourgeois, from Latin burgus (fortress, fortified town). Earliest documented use: 1922.
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BOOBO I SEE - Send In the Clowns
BO OBOISTE - Ms Derek really rocks on the double-reeds
BOOBO ISLE - colony for exiled victims of the Plague
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Boo!poisie- Suprise poetry, read with a musical-aire
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BOO, BOISE - Happy Halloween, all you folks in Idaho!
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EKISTICS
PRONUNCIATION: (i-KIS-tiks)
MEANING: noun: The study of human settlements, drawing on such disciplines as city planning, architecture, sociology, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Constantinos A. Doxiadis (1913-1975), Greek architect and urban planner, from Greek oikistikos (of settlement), from oikizein (to settle), from oikos (house). Earliest documented use: 1968.
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EEKISTICS - the study of mice
EXISTICS - the study of being
E-LISTICS - high-falutin' name for programming in LISP (name derived from LISt Processing)
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Epistics- the quantifiable likelihood that there will be an adrenal medullary secretory response to stimulation of the medulla oblongata
Epistics- what mama knows
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BLACK DOG
PRONUNCIATION: (blak dog)
MEANING: noun: Depression.
ETYMOLOGY: In the beginning, a black dog was a canine of dark complexion. Then it started to be used metaphorically to refer to a counterfeit coin, perhaps because such a coin was made of base metals (instead of silver or gold) that turn black over time. Eventually, the term began to be applied to depression. The lexicographer Samuel Johnson used the term in the 1780s for his own depression: “When I rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking.” In modern times, Winston Churchill popularized the term when he used it to describe his own depression. Earliest documented use: 1665.
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BLANK DOG - catatonia
BRACK DOG - an old salt
BACK DOG - a second Rottweiler, to guard the rear of the house
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Slack Dog- one who does yoga
Block Dog- one who walks around the block once or twice
Brack Dog- one who is stupid, worthless, no good, goddamn, freeloading so of a birch. (With apologies, The Breakfast Club reference.)
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GOBEMOUCHE
PRONUNCIATION: (GOB-moosh)
MEANING: noun: A gullible or credulous person.
ETYMOLOGY: From French gobe-mouche (flycatcher, sucker), from gober (to suck or swallow) + mouche (fly). Earliest documented use: 1818.
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GOBETOUCHÉ - throw your fencing match
GOOBEMOUCHE - peanut butter
GO BEM OUCH - Take that, you Bug-Eyed Monster!
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MOONCALF
PRONUNCIATION: (MOON-kaf)
MEANING: noun:
1. A daydreamer or absent-minded person.
2. A fool or simpleton.
3. A congenitally deformed person.
ETYMOLOGY: From the earlier belief that a misshapen birth was a result of the effects of the moon. Earliest documented use: 1565.
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MUONCALF - a kind of young bovine lepton, specifically with a charge of -1 and a spin of 1/2
MOONHALF - the left butt-cheek (or the right, if you prefer)
MONCALF - the back of my lower jambe
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PORK BARREL
PRONUNCIATION: (PORK bar-uhl)
MEANING: noun: The spending of government funds on projects designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
ETYMOLOGY: In the beginning, a pork barrel was a barrel for storing pork. Over time, it became synonymous with ready supply of money, and eventually with government projects or appropriations designed to please voters. Sometimes, the term is used, simply, as pork, instead of pork barrel. Earliest documented use: 1705.
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PERK BARREL - like a job jar, only in reverse: stick in your hand and pull out a benefit (compare WORK BARREL)
FORK BARREL - eating utensils enough for the whole city
PORK BARBEL - what pigs use for strength-training
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RAILBIRD
PRONUNCIATION: (RAYL-buhrd)
MEANING: noun:
1. A horse-racing enthusiast.
2. A spectator at a contest.
3. An observer who offers uninvited advice or criticism.
ETYMOLOGY: A railbird is someone who watches horse races or training sessions from the railing along the track. Bird is slang for a person with a specific character, a peculiar person. Earliest documented use: 1793.
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GRAILBIRD - one whose life is devoted to the search for the Holy
RAINBIRD - a totem of the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest, who brings water to the forests
RAILBIN RD - a road named for the storage yard it originally led to
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MEGALOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (meg-uh-lo-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A mental illness characterized by delusional fantasies of greatness, wealth, power, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek megal- (large, great) + Latin -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1885.
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MEGANOMANIA - to be so agog about the Prince Harry's fiancée that you can't even spell her name
MEGA-LOAM-ANIA - i"m gonna have the best lawn ever when I put down all this great soil
MEDALOMANIA - an irrational drive to attain Eagle Scout
MEGALOMANGIA - a feast for the Emperor of Rome
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Smegalomania- excessive enthusiasm for the ring
Regalomania- excessively entertaining or entertained
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LEPTODERMOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (lep-tuh-DUHR-muhs)
MEANING: adjective: Having a thin skin.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek lepto- (thin) + -dermous (skin). Earliest documented use: 1888. The opposite is pachydermous.
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LEAPTODERMOUS - jumping out of one's own skin
LEPTODERMOUSE - Mickey, you've lost weight!
SLEPT-ODER-MOUS - snoozing small rodent on the river
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'leptodormous- a sleep talker ("Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.")
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SAPROGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (sap-ro-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Causing or produced by decay.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek sapro- (rotten) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1876.
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SAPOROGENIC - giving rise to a Japanese Winter Olympics site
SAPROENIC - causing wine to turn to vinegar
'SPROGENIC - 's not antigenic (so it doesn't stimulate allergies)
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'sprogenic- in support of aphaeresis
(even though I had an adverse stem cell reaction)
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Just as long as he doesn't charge us 10/6 for that...
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ECTOGENOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ek-TOJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Able to survive outside a host (as some bacteria and other parasites do).
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ecto- (outside) + -genous (producing). Earliest documented use: 1883.
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ECTOGENROUS - sharing one's wealth with the outside environment (see also ECOGENROUS)
ECTOGELOUS - with an external coating of Jell-O
PECTOGENOUS - for enlarging the female bust
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CARCINOGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (kahr-si-nuh-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Capable of causing cancer.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek carcino- (cancer) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1916.
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CALCINOGENIC- producing calcium deposits
CHARCINOGENIC - why you shouldn't eat VERY-very-well-done beef
CARCINOGENIE - See, this crab found an old lamp on the beach, and rubbed it, and...
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HOBBESIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (HOB-zee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Of or relating to Thomas Hobbes or his ideas.
2. Grim, selfish, unrestrained, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After English philosopher and author Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), who in his book Leviathan displayed a grim, dog-eat-dog view of human nature. Earliest documented use: 1776.
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HOBBESICAN - Calvin's declaration of quiet confidence
HOBOESIAN - like a vagrant
HOBBLESIAN - limping
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MARIVAUDAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (mar-uh-VO-dazh)
MEANING: noun
1. Affected writing style.
2. Banter, especially of flirtatious nature.
ETYMOLOGY: After the French novelist Pierre de Marivaux (1688-1763), known for the verbal preciousness of his romantic comedies. Earliest documented use: 1765.
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MARIV ADAGE - a pithy saying about evening in Jerusalem
MARDI VAUDAGE - Tuesday's nonsense
MARI VEAUDAGE - my husband can't talk about anything but veal
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MARINISM
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-REE-ni-zuhm)
MEANING: noun: A literary style marked by extravagant imagery, elaborate metaphors, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After the Italian poet Giovanni Battista Marino (1569-1625). Earliest documented use: 1867.
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MARTINISM - seven parts gin to one part vermouth, plus an olive, in a small glass, please
MARIANISM - 1. insisting on having a certified librarian;
2. hasn't been a really good contralto since Ms. Anderson
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CERVANTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (suhr-VAN-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Of or relating to Miguel de Cervantes, especially his satirizing of the chivalric romances.
ETYMOLOGY: After the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), best known for Don Quixote. Earliest documented use: 1760. Many of Cervantes’s characters have also become eponyms.
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SERVANTIC - below-stairs shenannigans
CURVANTIC - what a good pitcher can make a baseball do
FERVANTIC - Portmanteau word, combining fervent and frantic
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