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PARAGNOSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (par-uh-GNO-sis)
MEANING: noun: Knowledge that cannot be obtained by normal means.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek para- (beyond) + gnosis (knowledge). Earliest documented use: 1933.
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PAPAGNOSIS - the wisdom that comes from knowing one's father
PARAGONOSIS -1. forever the model of excellence; 2, a parasitic disease
PA RAGE: NO, SIS - Dad has just refused my sister's request, and in no uncertain terms
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I'll be off the Web for a week; feel free to take over in the interval!
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BINNACLE
PRONUNCIATION -- (BI-ni-kuhl)
MEANING: noun: A container for housing instruments on a ship’s deck, in a car dashboard, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Portuguese bitácola or Old Spanish bitácula, from Latin habitaculum (dwelling place), from habitare (to inhabit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghabh- (to give or to receive), which is also the source of give, gift, able, habit, prohibit, due, duty, adhibit, debenture, habile. Earliest documented use: 1622.
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BIRNACLE - a container into which fits the mouthpiece-with-reed of a musical instrument such as a clarinet
BINANACLE - a frozen fruit-flavored confection, typically on two sticks
SINNACLE filled with a contemptuous disbelief in human goodness and sincerity
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BOLLARD
PRONUNCIATION: (BOL-uhrd)
MEANING: noun:
1. A short thick post on a ship or a wharf used for securing ropes.
2. A post used as a traffic control device.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably from Old Norse bole (tree trunk). Earliest documented use: 1844. The p-headed equivalent is pollard.
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BOLLYARD - where the play beisbol in Baltimore
BOLTLARD - animal fat used to grease a fastener
LOLLARD - one who goes around maniacally laughing out loud for no reason
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BATHOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (bath-uh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A fear of depths or of falling from a height.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek bathos (depth) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1903. A related term is acrophobia.
The p-headed word is pathophobia (an irrational fear of disease). [but see below]
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PATHOPHOBIA - fear of the beaten track
"BOAT-HO!"-PHOBIA - fear of encountering pirates
BATCHOPHOBIA - fear of small bunches
"BAH" O'PHOBIA - Irish fear of Scrooge
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BARAGNOSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (bar-ag-NO-sis, ba-RAG-no-sis)
MEANING: noun: Loss of the ability to sense weight.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek baros (weight) + a- (not) + gnosis (knowledge). Earliest documented use: 1921. A synonym is abarognosis, antonym barognosis. The p-headed word is paragnosis (knowledge that cannot be obtained by normal means).
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BAR AGNOSIA (or BAN AGNOSIS) - make education compulsory for all
BARRAGNOSIS - knowing a lot about bombardment
B.A. RAG? NO, SIS - I don't think my sibling should refer so disparagingly to her graduation gown...
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BOODLE
PRONUNCIATION: (BOOD-l)
MEANING:
noun: 1. An illegal payment, as in graft; 2. A crowd of people.
verb intr.: To take money dishonestly, especially from graft.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch boedel (property). Earliest documented use: 1833. Also see caboodle.
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BOO, DDE - Surprise, Mr. President!
BOIDLE - Ms. Derek is between films at the moment
BOOK,LE - reading material obtained from Amazon de France
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OLIVE BRANCH
PRONUNCIATION: (OL-iv branch)
MEANING: noun: An offer or gesture of peace, reconciliation, or goodwill.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, art, and warfare, gave Athens its first olive tree and hence Athens was named after her, or vice versa, i.e. Athena was named after Athens, depending on whether you believe god(s) and goddess(es) created humans or vice versa. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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OLIVA BRANCH - Tony's father's side of the family
OLIVE RANCH - where Popeye's girlfriend raises cattle
OLIVE BRANCA - daughter of Ralph; who's still trying to make peace with 1951
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CABBAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (KAB-ij)
MEANING: noun: 1. Money, especially in the form of bills.
2. A stupid or mentally impaired person.
3. A term of endearment.
4. Scraps remaining from a fabric that has been used to make a garment.
verb tr., intr.: 1. To get intoxicated.
2. To steal or pilfer.
3. To plagiarize.
ETYMOLOGY: For noun 4 & verb 2, 3: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of the word garbage. Earliest documented use: 1703.
For everything else: From Anglo-Norman kaboche (head), from Latin caput (head). Earliest documented use: 1391.
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CARB-AGE - everything is sugars and starches these days
CABLAGE - what brings your TV service
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CAB-RAGE - drivers had it UP TO HERE with this traffic
CAB-BAGEL - New York taxi-driver's light breakfast
CABBAGO - backache after fourteen straight hours of driving
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PEA-BRAINED
PRONUNCIATION: (PEE-braynd)
MEANING: adjective: Extremely stupid.
ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to the small size of a pea. The word pea is formed from the misinterpretation of the already singular word pease. The word pease is fossilized in children’s nursery rhyme “Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold.” Another mistakenly formed singular is the word cherry from the already singular cherise. Earliest documented use: 1942.
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SEA-BRAINED - unable to think clearly because of the undulating surf and the winds, and possibly also seasickness
PEE-BRAINED - a piss-poor excuse for an intellect
PIE: A BRA IN ED - I always knew that talking horse was up to no good
PEAT-BRAINED - Just think, in another hundred million years it coulda been bituminous coal!
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MUSHROOM
PRONUNCIATION: (MUHSH-room)
MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To grow rapidly.
2. To develop into the shape of a mushroom.
3. To collect wild mushrooms.
adjective: 1. Of or relating to mushrooms.
2. Developing or growing quickly.
ETYMOLOGY: From allusion to the rapid growth of mushrooms, some literally appearing overnight. From Old French mousseron, from Latin mussirion. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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MUSTROOM - chamber in a winery where the grapes rest after they have just been pressed. Compare MASHROOM in a beer brewewry.
MUSHBROOM - for cleaning up after your dogs at Iditarod
MUSEROOM - where budding artists go for inspiration
MUSHROOM - right after the lambda shroom
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COUCH POTATO
PRONUNCIATION: (COUCH puh-tay-to)
MEANING: noun: A person who leads a sedentary life, usually watching television.
ETYMOLOGY: Why a couch potato? Why not a couch tomato or a couch pumpkin? The term was coined after boob tube, slang for television. One who watches a boob tube is a boob tuber and a tuber is a potato. According to the Bon Appétit magazine, the term was coined by Tom Iacino. Yesterday’s couch potato is today’s mouse potato, spending time in front of a computer screen, surfing the web. Earliest documented use: 1970s.
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OUCH POTATO - too hot to hold
COACH POTATO - 1. supposed to teach you how to play, but all he does is warm the bench
2. more perks than First Class, but less expensive
COUGH POTATO - when by accident you inhale the crumbs from the bottom of the bag of chips
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NEWSPEAK
PRONUNCIATION: (NOO-speek, NYOO-)
MEANING: noun: Deliberately ambiguous or euphemistic language used for propaganda.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984. Newspeak was the official language of Oceania. Earliest documented use: 1949.
USAGE:Oldspeak is the opposite of newspeak. For example, in 1984, the oldspeak “labor camp” is called a newspeak “joycamp”. But you don’t have to go to fiction to find newspeak.
What is “torture” in oldspeak becomes “interrogation”, or even better, “enhanced interrogation” in newspeak. While “waterboarding” itself is newspeak -- no, it’s not a water sport -- they go one step further and couch it as “enhanced interrogation”. As if in regular interrogation one is suffocated with regular water while waterboarding, but in enhanced they use nothing less than Evian.
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NOWSPEAK - the new Newspeak. See also NETSPEAK, NEOSPEAK.
FEWSPEAK - the utterances of a person who doesn't mince words
NEWSTEAK - Zymoveal (with apologies to Isaac Asimov)
NEWSPEEK - Read all about it! Take a look at tomorrow's Journal today!
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DOUBLETHINK
PRONUNCIATION: (DUB-uhl-thingk)
MEANING: noun: An acceptance of two contradictory ideas at the same time.
ETYMOLOGY: From George Orwell’s novel 1984. Earliest documented use: 1949.
NOTES: Better to do double entendre than to doublethink.
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DOUBLETHICK - passes the straw test - put a straw in vertically and let go, and see if it remains upright
DOUBT E-THINK - computers are not intelligent
DOUBLET MINK - a close-fitting fur vest
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BIG BROTHER
PRONUNCIATION: (big BRUTH-uhr)
MEANING: noun: An authoritarian person, organization, government, etc., that monitors or controls people.
ETYMOLOGY: After Big Brother, a character in George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984. The term big brother for an elder brother has been documented from 1809.
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BIG BROTHEL - Th Biggest Little Whorehouse in Texas
PIG BROTHER - one who prefers his soup made from pork stock
BING BROTHER - that would be Bob Crosby
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UNPERSON
PRONUNCIATION: (UHN-puhr-suhn)
MEANING: noun: A person regarded as nonexistent.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined as a noun in George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984. Earliest documented use: 1646, as a verb meaning to depersonalize or to deprive of personhood. A synonym is nonperson.
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UNDERSON - any male offspring except the oldest (cf. UPPERSON)
GUNPERSON - hyper-protective of he Second Amendment, as he sees it
UMP: E.R., SON - headline for the article about a Little Leaguer who was was hit by a pitch and may have suffered a concussion
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OLDSPEAK
PRONUNCIATION: (OLD-speek)
MEANING: noun: Normal English usage, as opposed to propagandist, euphemistic, or obfuscatory language.
ETYMOLOGY: From George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984. Earliest documented use: 1949.
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O LAD, SPEAK - Say something already, kid!
OLDS PEEK - Grab a gander at that antique GM "Rocket 98" !
GOLD'S PEAK - Lessee now, that'd be about $1895 an ounce, back in 2011...
OLEDSPEAK - talk about those new screens made with Organic LEDs
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TITTUP
PRONUNCIATION: (TIT-uhp)
MEANING: noun: A lively movement; caper.
verb intr.: To move in an exaggerated prancing manner.
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently imitative of the sound of a horse’s hooves. Earliest documented use: 1691.
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SITTUP - what you do to develop your abs
TILTUP - what I do so I can see my monitor better
TINTTUP - what she does to her hair so she'll look younger
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ASSIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SYZ)
MEANING: noun: A session of a court or a verdict or an inquiry made at such a session.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French asise, from asseoir (to seat), from Latin assidere (to sit), from ad- + sedere (to sit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit), which also gave us sit, chair, saddle, soot, sediment, cathedral, preside, president, tetrahedron, surcease, assiduous, and sessile. Earliest documented use: 1297.
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ASKIZE - what also aren't cloudy all day at my Home on the Range
APSIZE - how big the program is that I wrote for the smartphone
SASSIZE - dis
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CRUNT
PRONUNCIATION: (krunt)
MEANING: noun: A blow on the head with a club.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1786.
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CRUENT - present indicative, third person plural of cruer, to designate as authoritative, especially regarding vineyards and viniculture
CORUNT - when there are two tiny little ones in a litter
CRUIT - what you hafta do to a yacht before you can race it
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COCKADE
PRONUNCIATION: (ko-KAYD)
MEANING: noun: An ornament, such as a rosette or a knot of ribbons, worn as a badge on a hat, lapel, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From French cocarde, from Old French coquarde, feminine of coquard (vain, arrogant), from coc (cock), of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1709.
NOTES: Not sure if cockade would become ade one day, but cockroach did turn into roach because the word has a supposedly dirty four-letter combination. In reality, the word is an anglicization of Spanish cucaracha.
Unfortunately, many schools and corporations will block this issue of A.Word.A.Day and as a result readers in those places will be deprived of this essential knowledge for success in modern life.
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COCOADE - a chocolate-flavored cool drink
COCKADEE - an adult male chickadee
COOKADE - lets you use many chefs without spoiling the broth
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FALLACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (fuh-LAY-shus)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Based on false reasoning.
2. Deceptive or misleading.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fallere (to deceive). Earliest documented use: 1473.
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SALLACIOUS - like this week's theme - sounds dirty, but gotcha.
FELLACIOUS - like this one. Portmento of hellacious fellas, meaning "a few good men, but all of 'em imps..."
MALLACIOUS - describing a delightful shopping place, unlike the similar-sounding but evil MALLICIOUS. Although that kind of place might have a great Food Court...
FALLA PIOUS - A religious holiday in Valencia, Spain. On March 19 Las Fallas commemorates Saint José (the patron saint of carpentry) and the arrival of spring.
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SCARAMOUCH (-E)
PRONUNCIATION: (SKAR/SKER-uh-moosh/mooch/mouch)
MEANING: noun: A boastful coward, buffoon, or rascal.
ETYMOLOGY: After Scaramouche, a stock character in commedia dell’arte (Italian comic theater popular from the 16th to 18th centuries). His Italian name was Scaramuccia (literally, skirmish) -- he was often getting beaten up by Harlequin. The word is ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to cut), which also gave us skirmish, skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, scrape, scrobiculate (having many small grooves), incarnadine (flesh-colored), and acarophobia (fear of small insects; delusion that one’s skin is infested with bugs). Earliest documented use: 1662.
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SCARAMOUTH - souvenier of duelling (see also SCARABOUCHE)
SCARYMOUCHE - monster housefly
SCARAB-OUCH - beetle-bites sting!
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MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
PRONUNCIATION: (MOL-uh-tof KOK-tayl)
MEANING: noun: A crude bomb made of a bottle filled with a liquid fuel and fitted with a rag wick that is lighted just before the bottle is hurled.
ETYMOLOGY: After Soviet foreign minister, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890-1986). Earliest documented use: 1940.
NOTES: It could have been known a Skryabin cocktail. Molotov was born as Vyacheslav Skryabin, but he took the name Molotov (from Russian molot: hammer). During the Winter War between the USSR and Finland (1939-1940), when the Soviets received international criticism for the bombing of Helsinki, Molotov claimed they were delivering humanitarian aid. In response, the Finns sarcastically called those cluster bombs Molotov bread baskets.
If the Soviets were bringing bread to the party, the least the Finns could do was bring drinks. They called their makeshift incendiary devices Molotov cocktail and used them to destroy Soviet tanks.
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MOLOTOV MOCKTAIL - 1. a non-alcoholic beverage for someone trying to stay away from alcohol;
2. Russian denigration of the World's Oldest Profession
MOZL-O'TOV COCKTAIL - a glass lifted in an Irish pub as a gesture of congratulations
B-MOL "OTOV COCKTAIL" - a fanciful cantata by JSBach, written in B-flat
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ROISTER-DOISTER
PRONUNCIATION: (ROI-stuhr doi-stuhr)
MEANING: noun: A swaggering buffoon or reveler.
adjective: Engaged in swaggering buffoonery.
ETYMOLOGY: After Ralph Roister Doister, the eponymous main character of the playwright Nicholas Udall’s play written around 1552. From roister (to behave in a boisterous, swaggering manner), from Middle French rustre (boor), from Latin rusticus (rustic). Earliest documented use: 1592.
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ROOSTER-D'OISTER - two cartoon fowl, a male and his sister Pearl; second cousins to Warner Bros. character Foghorn Leghorn.
ROISTER, DO I SU'ER? - I'm asking Attorney Roister whether or not I should file an action against the woman
ROISTER, DO I STAR? - Hey there, King baby, am I the most important person in the show?
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BRAGGADOCIO
PRONUNCIATION: (brag-uh-DO-shee-o)
MEANING: noun:
1. An empty boaster.
2. Empty boasting.
3. Boastful behavior.
ETYMOLOGY: After Braggadochio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser’s 1590 epic poem The Faerie Queene. Earliest documented use: 1594. Here’s another word that came to us from the same book: blatant.
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ABRAGGADOCIO - incantation used by the Fairy Queene
BRAGGA-DO-CI-DO - egotistical square dancer
BRAGG ADO CIA - much fuss in the North Carolina fort but you're not cleared to hear it
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DICKENSIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (di-KEN-zee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Of or relating to Charles Dickens or his works.
2. Relating to social conditions marked by poverty, social injustice, mistreatment of children, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After the novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870), whose works portrayed poor social conditions of Victorian England. Earliest documented use: 1881. Many of Dickens’s characters have become eponyms themselves.
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DICKENS,IVAN - Charles' Russian cousin
DICKENS I CAN - David Copperfield thinking positively
DUCKENESIAN - the nationality of Donald's South Pacific cousin [yes, that's two changes, not one]
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RASPBERRY
PRONUNCIATION: (RAZ-ber-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A sound, similar to breaking wind, made by pushing the tongue between the lips and blowing air through the mouth.
2. A rejection, disapproval, or contempt.
ETYMOLOGY: Rhyming slang, raspberry tart ⇨ fart. Earliest documented use: 1890. A synonym is Bronx cheer.
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RASHBERRY - a berry known to activate allergies and make your skin red and itchy
GASPBERRY - a berry that makes you either flatulent or eructative, or both, and occasionally gives you a catch in your breath for good measure
RASP BEERY - Wallace's older brother Rasputin, to his friends
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TITFER
PRONUNCIATION: (TIT-fuhr)
MEANING: noun: Hat.
ETYMOLOGY: Rhyming slang, tit for tat ⇨ hat. Earliest documented use: 1927.
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TIFFER - a spatter; one who engages in small quarrels
TITLER - one who uses a particular brand of golf ball
SITFER - what you do to have your portrait painted
TINFER - what the Woodsman's pet in Oz wears to protect it from the cold and rain
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OSCAR
PRONUNCIATION: (OS-kuhr)
MEANING: noun: Cash.
ETYMOLOGY: Rhyming slang, Oscar Asche ⇨ cash. Asche (1871-1936) was an Australian actor, director, and writer. Earliest documented use: 1917.
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OS-EAR - when the auricular cartilage is calcified and rigid, like a bone
O, SCAT - what you say to chase away an exasperating cat
iOS CAR - a self-driving vehicle controlled by an iPhone
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BORACIC
PRONUNCIATION: (buh-RAS-ik, bo-)
Also brassic (BRA-sik)
MEANING: adjective: Poor or broke.
ETYMOLOGY: Rhyming slang, boracic lint ⇨ skint. Boracic lint was a type of medical dressing dipped in a solution of boracic/boric acid. See more at skint. Earliest documented use: 1959.
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BORACID - a brand of boric acid (H3BO3)
BORN CIC - ...and some achieve Commander-in-Chief, and some...
BOREACIC - pertaining to the Southern Hemisphere
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SCOOBYPRONUNCIATION: (SKOO-bee) MEANING: noun: Clue. ETYMOLOGY: Rhyming slang, Scooby-Doo ⇨ clue. Scooby-Doo is a dog in television series and films. Earliest documented use: 1993. _____________________ SCOMBY - sick from eating spoiled fish SCOO'BOY - what the 2-year-old male Montessori student called himself 'SCOOBA - Havana is the capital of what big Caribbean island 100-odd miles south of Florida?
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ZANY
PRONUNCIATION: (ZAY-nee)
MEANING: adjective: Amusingly strange, comical, or clownish.
ETYMOLOGY: From French zani, from Italian zanni, a nickname for Giovanni. The term has its origin in the comedy theater commedia dell’arte popular in 16-18th century Italy. Giovanni, Italian form of the name John, was originally the generic name of the servant, a stock character who tried to mimic his master, himself a clown. Earliest documented use: 1596.
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ZZNY - and you thought the city never sleeps ...so there!
CZANY - Austrian composer of School of Velocity and hundreds of other piano practice pieces, as he was known in Boston
NANY - a funeral song, as in a choral work by Brahms and a poem by Schiller
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PUNCHINELLO
PRONUNCIATION: (pun-chuh-NEL-o)
MEANING: noun: A grotesque or absurd person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Italian (Naples dialect) polecenella (a short, fat buffoon, principal character in Italian puppet shows), diminutive of pollecena (turkey pullet), ultimately from Latin pullus (young chicken). From the resemblance of punchinello’s nose to a turkey’s beak. Earliest documented use: 1662.
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MUNCHINELLO a fat buffoon who eats all the time (see also PAUNCHINELLO}
PUNCHINJELLO - a gelatin dessert made with fruit punch (caution: if you try to spike it, the alcohol will prevent it from gelling)
PUNCHING 'ELLO - the practice of greeting friends with a knuckle to the upper arm
PUNCHLINE: LLO - (you make up this one)
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ALAZON
PRONUNCIATION: (AL-uh-zon)
MEANING: noun: A person characterized by arrogance, braggadocio, lack of self awareness, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Alazon, a stock character in ancient Greek comedy. Earliest documented use: 1911.
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ALAMON - a square dance maneuver, akin to the Grand Right and Left
ALE-ZON - a new beer hall in Munich
ALARON - a trim tab on the tail of an airplane (usually one of a pair)
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EIRON
PRONUNCIATION: (AY-ron)
MEANING: noun: A person characterized by self-deprecation and awareness of irony.
ETYMOLOGY: After Eiron, a stock character in ancient Greek comedy. It’s from Greek eiron (dissembler), which also gave us the word irony. Eiron is the opposite of Alazon. He uses self-deprecation and feigned ignorance to triumph over Alazon. Earliest documented use: 1872.
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E-ICON - small image on a desktop or hand-held electronic device representing a program or file
ERRON - the subatomic particle from which all sins ultimately arise
ELIRON - a trim tab on the tail of an airplane (usually one of a pair) - see also ALARON, above
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CAPITANO
PRONUNCIATION: (kap-uh-TAH-no)
MEANING: noun: A swaggering, cowardly person, especially a soldier, policeman, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Capitano, a stock character in commedia dell’arte, from Italian capitano (captain), from Latin caput (head). Earliest documented use: 1594.
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CARPITANO - a painful syndrome that is frequently the result of repetitive strain injury to the wrist
CAPRITANO - skin pigmentation due to sunbathing on an island off Italy (unless you spend too much time in the Blue Grotto)
CAPITALO - an upper-case letter frequently confused with a zero
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COLUMBINE
PRONUNCIATION: (KOL-uhm-byn)
MEANING: noun: 1. A servant girl.
2. A saucy sweetheart.
3. Any of various plants of the genus Aquilegia.
adjective: Of or relating to a dove, in innocence, gentleness, color, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: For noun 1, 2: After Colombina, a stock character in commedia dell’arte, the mistress of Harlequin. From Italian colombina (small dove, a guileless woman). Earliest documented use: 1723.
For noun 3: From the resemblance of an inverted flower to five doves. Earliest documented use: 1325.
For adjective: From Latin columba (dove, pigeon). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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COLUMNINE - comes just before the tenth vertical row (see also COLUMEINE, the first vertical row in Berlin)
COLUMBIANE - a woman from Bogotá
COLUMBRINE - what you use to make pickled colums
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RADDLE
PRONUNCIATION: (RAD-l)
MEANING: noun: Red ocher, used for marking animals, coloring, etc.
verb tr.: 1. To mark or paint with red ocher.
2. To twist together or interweave.
3. To beat or to cause to have a worn-out appearance.
ETYMOLOGY: noun & verb 1: A variant of ruddle, from rud (red). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reudh- (red), which also gave us red, rouge, ruby, ruddy, rubella, corroborate, robust, rambunctious, roborant, russet, and robustious. Earliest documented use: 1325.
verb 2: From English dialect raddle (stick interwoven with others in a fence). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reidh- (to ride), which also gave us ride, raid, road, ready, and raiment. Earliest documented use: 1470.
verb 3: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1677.
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REDDLE - a red dye popular in the early 19th century. See Diggory Venn, the Reddleman, in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native
FADDLE - something that enjoys a massive but short-lived popularity
RA:DDE - Eisenhower's very junior position at Columbia before he became President
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MIZZLE
PRONUNCIATION:
(MIZ-uhl)
MEANING: noun: Fine rain or drizzle.
verb intr.: 1. To rain in fine drops.
2. To leave suddenly.
3. To confuse.
ETYMOLOGY: noun, verb 1: From Middle English misellen (to drizzle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root meigh- (to urinate), which also gave us mist, thrush, mistletoe, and micturate. Earliest documented use: 1439.
verb 2: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1772.
verb 3: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1583.
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MIZZLES - a viral infection with skin rash and fever, usually just a nuisance in childhood but potentially serious in adults
MOZZLE - fortune, often with "tov" ("good")
MIZZ-LEZ - what a lazy markzman tries to do
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