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BAMBOOZLEPRONUNCIATION: (bam-BOO-zuhl) MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To deceive. 2. To confuse. ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1703. _________________________ BARBOOZLE - redundant term for a tipple BAMBOODLE - the proceeds of a mugging RAMBOOZLE - Sly Stallone is just putting you on 
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FLAPDOODLE
PRONUNCIATION: (FLAP-doo-duhl)
MEANING: noun: Nonsense.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1834.
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FLAYDOODLE - an idle drawing used to strike people across the shoulders and neck
FLAPOODLE - a Miami dog
FLAPNOODLE - waving linguini
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FIDDLESTICK
PRONUNCIATION: (FI-duhl-stik)
MEANING: noun: 1. The bow with which the fiddle is played.
2. Something insignificant.
interj.: Nonsense. (typically used as a plural)
ETYMOLOGY: From fiddle, from Old English fithele + stick, from Old English sticca. Earliest documented use: 1400s.
NOTES: The use of the word to refer to something of little value may be related to the fact that the verb fiddle has a contemptuous meaning: to fiddle is to do something frivolous, to do something aimlessly. How did the bow of a violin end up being a synonym for nonsense? No one knows, but any comedian would tell you that words ending in a K sound are funny. And when you have a word starting with F and ending in K, well, it would be a crime not to employ it as an interjection
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FIDDLETICK - something is rattling in my Stradivarius
FIDDLESTINK - my violin smells awful
RIDDLESTICK - a scytale
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UPBEAT
PRONUNCIATION: (UHP-beet)
MEANING: noun: An unaccented beat before the first beat of a measure.
adjective: Cheerful; optimistic.
ETYMOLOGY: From up + Old English beatan (beat). Earliest documented use: 1869.
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PUPBEAT - animal cruelty
UMPBEAT - what you want to do when he blows a call
PbEAT - cause of lead poisoning
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ORCHESTRATE
PRONUNCIATION: (OR-kuhs-strayt)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To compose or arrange music for performance by an orchestra.
2. To arrange elements of a situation to achieve a desired result.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin orchestra, from Greek orkhestra, from orkheisthai (to dance). Earliest documented use: 1858.
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OR CHESTER ATE - d'ya think maybe Chester skipped dinner?
ORCHESTRAFE - The airplanes are attacking Symphony Hall
PORCHES RATE - a nice veranda will enhance the curb appeal of your house
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CONCERT PITCH
PRONUNCIATION: (KAHN-suhrt pich)
MEANING: noun:
1. A tuning standard for musical instruments in which the note A above middle C is assigned a frequency of 440 cycles per second (audio).
2. A state of being tensely alert or ready.
ETYMOLOGY: From concert, from French concerter, from Italian concertare (harmonize) + pitch, probably from Old English pic. Earliest documented use: 1735.
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CONVERT PITCH - proseytizing spiel
CONCERT MITCH - Mr Miller, the oboist, will present concerti by Albinoni, Bach, Cimarosa, and Handel
CONCERT PITAH - pocket breads will be available at intermission
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TROMBENIK or TROMBENICK
PRONUNCIATION: (TROM-buh-nik)
MEANING:
noun: A lazy or a boastful person.
MEANING: noun: A lazy or a boastful person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish tromba (trumpet, horn) + -nik (suffix denoting a person associated with a particular quality, group, etc., e.g. nudnik). The English equivalent is a person tooting one’s own horn. Earliest documented use: 1931.
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TROMBON-ICK - I get nauseated just listening to horn music
TROMBENICE - brass player from the south of France
ROMBENIK - a square who sees things from a different angle
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ACTUATE
PRONUNCIATION: (AK-choo-ayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To put into motion or action; to activate; to motivate.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin actuare (to actualize), from actus (act), past participle of agere (to drive or do). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw, or move), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, agonistes, ambage, axiomatic, cogent, incogitant, exigent, exiguous, and intransigent. Earliest documented use: 1594.
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ACLU ATE - dinner with the American Civil Liberties Union
ACQUATE - get to know somebody when you have a stuffed nose
ACTLATE - pretend you didn't arrive on time
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PARLEY
PRONUNCIATION: (PAR-lee)
MEANING: verb intr.: To have a discussion, especially with an opposing party.
noun: A discussion, especially between opposing groups.
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently from French parler (to talk), from Latin parabolare (to speak or talk), from parabola (speech). Earliest documented use: 1490.
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PPARLEY - to discuss softly
PARLET - a capable but young golfer
PORLEY - not very well
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DECLAIM
PRONUNCIATION: (di/dee-KLAYM)
MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To speak rhetorically.
2. To speak in a pompous manner.
verb tr.: 1. To recite with eloquence.
2. To state with passion.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin declamare, from de- (intensive prefix) + clamare (to shout). Earliest documented use: 1374.
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E-CLAIM - file for benefits (insurance, Social Security, etc) via computer
DECLAM - remove bivalve molluscs
DEFLAIM - extinguish
DELAIM - successful outcome at Lourdes
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DIVARICATE
PRONUNCIATION: (dy-VAR-uh-kayt, -kit for adjective)
MEANING: verb intr.: To branch off or diverge.
adjective: Branched off or diverging widely.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin divaricare, from dis- (apart) + varicare (to straddle), from varicus (straddling). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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DIVARIATE - dependent on two and only two factors
DIVA, RICH, ATE - coloratura soprano with a lot of money went to dinner
DIVARICARE - Senator Divari's Universal Health Care proposal
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IMPIGNORATE
PRONUNCIATION: (im-PIG-nuh-rayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To pledge, pawn, or mortgage.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin impignorare/impignerare (to pledge), from pignus (pledge, pawn, mortgage). Earliest documented use: 1639.
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I'M PIG, NO RAT - Stefan Patsis is reducing his cast of characters
IMP, IGNORE AT E - you young rascal, pay no attention after the fifth letter
IMPUGN ORATE - You're such an untrustworthy speaker
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VELUTINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-LOO-tuh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Soft and smooth like velvet.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin velutum (velvet). Earliest documented use: 1826.
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DELUTINOUS - removing a stringed instrument
MELUTINOUS - thick and viscous, like honey
VELUMINOUS - dim and attenuated, like light through thick, creamy paper
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ELDRITCH
PRONUNCIATION: (EL-drich)
MEANING: adjective: Weird; supernatural; eerie.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English elf + rice (realm). Earliest documented use: 1508.
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EL DITCH - the Panama Canal (in Panama)
END RITCH - the goal of all fairy tales
ELD WITCH - Hermione, 80 years later
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KLUDGE
PRONUNCIATION: (klooj, kluhj)
MEANING: noun: An inelegant, improvised solution to a problem.
verb tr.: To improvise a haphazard solution to a problem.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1962.
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K-LUNGE - a quick thrust with a sharp weapon, that may turn abruptly in any of several directions
BLUDGE - to beat severely with a blunt object
K-LUDE - slang for a sedative drug popular the 60s (methaqualone)
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XERIC
PRONUNCIATION: (ZER/ZEER-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to very dry conditions.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek xeros (dry). Earliest documented use: 1926.
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EXERIC - and now known as Eberhart
XENIC - 1. Warrior Princessoid; 2. worthy of stopping a photographing the view
FERIC - petaining to Element Numbe 26 in its +3 state
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TRANSPICUOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (tran-SPIK-yoo-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Easily seen through or understood.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin transpicere (to see through), from trans- (across) + specere (to look). Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe) which also gave us suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer), espionage, despise, telescope, spectator, spectacles, conspectus, frontispiece, omphaloskepsis (navel gazing), perspicaciousness, perspicuous, prospicient, soupcon (a very small amount), speciesism, specious, and speculum. Earliest documented use: 1638.
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TRAINSPICUOUS - every car is a vibrant and different primary color
TRANS-PIC-UO-UP - if you're feeling blue after changing your gender this will make you feel better
TRANS-PICROUS - the alternating configuration of picric acid (cf. cis-picrous)
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GYVE
PRONUNCIATION: (jyv)
MEANING: noun: A fetter or shackle.
verb tr.: To restrain.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1275.
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GYRE - to go round and round like a dog (or a gyroscope) - see Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
YVE - a singular Saint Laurent
AYVE - what the Allied sailor said, confirming victory in Europe in World War Two
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JINX
PRONUNCIATION: (jinks)
MEANING: noun: 1. One that is believed to bring bad luck.
2. A state of bad luck.
verb tr.: 1. To cast a spell on.
2. To bring bad luck upon.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from jynx wryneck, a bird that was used in witchcraft. Earliest documented use: 1911.
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EIN X - marks der Spot, in Berlin
OINX - what pigs does
JEN-X - people born between the mid-60s to the early 80s, as they sloppily refer to themselves
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KLUTZ
PRONUNCIATION: (kluts)
MEANING: noun: A clumsy or stupid person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish klots (wooden block), from German Klotz (wooden block). Earliest documented use: 1968. Don’t confuse this word with kludge. A Yiddish synonym is schlemiel.
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KLOTZ - what stops you from bleeding
KLUTO - a midwestern dog is following a New York City dog and has misadventures (from a 1971 movie)
KLETZ - a bumbling Yiddish musician trying to play the clarinet
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ILKA
PRONUNCIATION: (IL-kuh)
MEANING: adjective: Each; every.
ETYMOLOGY: From ilk (each), from Old English ylc + a (indefinite article). Earliest documented use: 1200.
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MILKA -kitchen-English for "latte"
INKA - prefix for "dinka-doo" popularized in the Forties and Fifties by Jimmy Durante
ILKAT - Felix is sick
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YCLEPT
PRONUNCIATION: (i-KLEPT)
MEANING: adjective: Called or named.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English geclypod, past participle of (ge)clypian (clepe). Earliest documented use: 950.
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YCWEPT - what Elmer Fudd did, hunting Bugs Bunny (that Wascally Wabbit)
YSLEPT - took a nap,, first- or third-person depending on whether you pronounce the Y as a long I or a long E
CYCLEPT - struck hard by a one-eyed monster
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DOGMATIC
PRONUNCIATION: (dog-MA-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Expressing beliefs or opinions forcefully or positively as if they were true.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dogma (tenet), from Greek dogma (opinion), from dokein (to seem good, think). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dek- (to take, accept), which also gave us dignity, discipline, doctor, decorate, docile, deign, condign, doxy, heterodox, and philodox. Earliest documented use: 1605.
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DOGMATTIC - the place to store old, outdated authoritarian ideas
DOHMATIC - the verbal behavior of Bart Simpson
DOG MA TICK - the reason Fido is persistently infested by disease-carrying insects
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LUSTRATE
PRONUNCIATION: (LUHS-trayt)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To purify by means of rituals or ceremonies.
2. To remove undesirable people from an organization, especially in an abrupt or violent manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lustrare (to make bright). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leuk- (light), which also gave us lunar, lunatic, light, lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, translucent, lux, lynx, pellucid, lucubrate, lutestring, limn, levin, and lea. Earliest documented use: 1623.
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DUSTRATE - how much it costs to clean the house
LUSHRATE - percentage of the population that has alcohol-use disorder
LU'S TRADE - he swapped WHAT for WHAT?
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TOURBILLION
PRONUNCIATION: (toor-BIL-yuhn)
MEANING: noun: A whirlwind or whirlpool.
ETYMOLOGY: From French tourbillon (whirlwind), from Latin turbo (spinning top, whirl), from Greek turbe (turmoil, confusion). Earliest documented use: 1477.
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FOURBILLION - approximate number of seconds since 1891 (US)
TOURBULLION - what you can't do in Fort Knox, KY
TOUR BILL ICON - what you click on to pay for your vacation trip
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ANTIGODLIN
PRONUNCIATION: (an-ti-GOD-lin)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Out of line; lopsided; out of whack.
2. Diagonal.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. The term is used in the American south. Perhaps from anti- (against) + goggling, from goggle (to look obliquely). Perhaps influenced by the folk etymology “against God”. Earliest documented use: around 1900.
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ANTIGON-LIN - Orestes' drama is recast in Federalist America and done in Rap
ANTIGODLING - I hate that baby Eros with his bow and arrow
ANTIGODLINE - No, I don't think a direct phone to Heaven would be a good idea
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AGGRATE
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-GRAYT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To please or gratify.
ETYMOLOGY: From Italian aggradare (to please), from Latin aggratare, from gratus (pleasing, grateful). Earliest documented use: 1590.
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AGGERATE - properly described, after previously having been over-hyped
AG ORATE - the Attorney General will speak...
AGOG RATE - ..and how many people are waiting eagerly to hear it
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MORBIDEZZA
PRONUNCIATION: (mor-bi-DET-suh)
MEANING: noun: An extreme softness, smoothness, or delicacy, especially in works of art, sculpture, music, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Italian morbidezza (softness, smoothness), from morbido (soft, smooth), from Latin morbidus (diseased), from morbus (disease). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mer- (to rub away or to harm), which also gave us morsel, mordant, mortal, mortgage, nightmare, amaranth, amaranthine, daymare, mortify, premorse, and ambrosia. Earliest documented use: 1624.
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MORBIDEZRA - American poet writing about death, disease, and unhappiness
AMOR B.I.D. EZZA - fall in love two times every day, Ezzy!
MORBIDEZIA - the black sheep of the Addams Family; second cousin to Itt and Morticia
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VOCIFERATE
PRONUNCIATION: (vo-SIF-uh-rayt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To shout or utter loudly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vox (voice) + ferre (to bear). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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VOICI-FERATE - to exclaim loudly in French "Here it is!"
VOCIFERRATE - to speak in a steely voice, which brooks no refusal
VOCIFERANTE - how much it costs to play at the Vocifer Poker Palace
VOCO-FER-ATE - I call for an octet in Rome
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JUXTAPOSE
PRONUNCIATION: (JUHK-stuh-pohz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To place side by side for comparison or contrast.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from juxtaposition, from Latin juxta (near, next) + French poser (to place). Ultimately from the Indo-European root yeug- (to join), which is also the ancestor of junction, yoke, yoga, adjust, enjoin, rejoinder, junta, junto, syzygy, jugular, jugulate, subjugate, zeugma, and rejoinder. Earliest documented use: 1851.
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JUXT S'POSE - let's pretend
JUXTAPPOSE - that's redundant!
JUNTA POSE - the rulers put it there
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HAWKSHAW
PRONUNCIATION: (HAWK-shaw)
MEANING: noun: A detective.
ETYMOLOGY: After the name of a detective in the 1863 play
The Ticket-of-Leave Man by Tom Taylor. The character also
appeared in the comic strip Hawkshaw the Detective
by Gus Mager. Earliest documented use: 1863.
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HAWKSLAW - the relationship between size and force on a solid object,
as described by Robert Hawks in the 17th Century
("Stress is proportional to Strain")
HAWKSHAWL - what Hawkwoman wears when she's chilled
HAWKSHOW - a convention of falconers
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QUINGENTENARY
PRONUNCIATION: (kwin-jen-TEN-uh-ree)
MEANING: noun: A 500th anniversary. (Also known as a quincentenary)
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quingenti (five hundred), from quinque (five) + centum (hundred). Earliest documented use: 1884.
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QUINCENTENARY - worth a nickel (formerly "duocentenary" (as in "Put your two cents in") but what with inflation and all...)
RUINGENTENARY - causing the downfall of an otherwise fine fellow
QUINRENTENARY - increasing the monthly payment by a factor of five after the property emerges from the Rent Control laws
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FABULIST
PRONUNCIATION: (FA-byuh-list)
MEANING: noun:
1. A writer or teller of fables.
2. A liar.
ETYMOLOGY: From French fabuliste, from Latin fabula (talk, tale, legend), from fari (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1593.
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FLABULIST - prospective customers for the new Fitness Center
FAQULIST (or FACULIST)- what the teaching staff are most likely to need to answer
FIBULIST - one who smites enemies with a lower-leg-bone (as opposed to Samson, who used the jawbone of an ass)
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NUMPTY
PRONUNCIATION: (NUHMP-tee)
MEANING: noun: A fool.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps alteration of numbskull, remodeled after Humpty Dumpty. Earliest documented use: 1985.
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NUMSTY - the pigpen is awash with novacaine
NEMPTY - what you get your nickel deposit back for
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RENTIER
PRONUNCIATION: (ran-TYAY)
[the first syllable is nasal]
MEANING: noun: A person who lives on income from rent, interest, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From French rentier (a person of independent means), from rente (private income). Earliest documented use: 1650.
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R-MENTIER - where Mademoiselle comes from (Hinky-dinky-par-lay-voo) (can be sung)
RENTIFER - hire a Christmas tree
RUNTIER - smaller and misshapen and less vigorous
RONTIER - all's quiet at the outermost known edge ( no ⨍ )
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FINK
PRONUNCIATION: (fink)
MEANING: noun: 1. A contemptible person.
2. An informer.
3. A strikebreaker.
verb intr.: 1. To inform against someone.
2. To fail to do something promised.
3. To stop working.
ETYMOLOGY: The origin of the term is not certain. One theory suggests it’s named after Pinkerton, a private security company whose agents were hired to break up strikes late in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Another possibility is that it’s from German slang Fink (finch), used by students for other students who were not affiliated with a fraternity (i.e., they were free birds). Earliest documented use: 1903.
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FLINK - what connects an E with a G
FANK - a young child's expression of gratitude
FIN-KO - Monsieur Louis ended ze boxing match wiz a knock-out
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SWELLHEAD
PRONUNCIATION: (SWEL-hed)
MEANING: noun: A vain, conceited person.
ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a person’s having a high opinion of themselves, as having a big swelled head. From swell, from Old English swellan + head, from Old English heafod (top of the body). Earliest documented use: 1845.
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SWELLHEAR - what happens when you the organ pedal press
WELLHEAD - where the oil comes out of the ground
SWELL-HEX-AD - Weasleys' Joke Shop has a great promotion for their new jinx in both the Quibbler and the Daily Prophet
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RURBAN
PRONUNCIATION:
(RUHR-buhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Having characteristics of both rural and urban life.
ETYMOLOGY:
A blend of rural + urban, from Latin rus (country) and urbs (city). Earliest documented use: 1915.
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FURBAN - one goal of PETA
QURBAN - list of Thou Shalt Nots in Arabic
RUMBAN - 1. Prohibition
2. pertaining to a Cuban dance
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SQUIGGLE
PRONUNCIATION: (SKUI-guhl)
MEANING: noun: An irregularly curling or looping line, string, etc.
verb tr., intr.: 1. To make an irregularly curling or looping line.
2. To squirm or wriggle.
3. To scribble.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps a blend of squirm + wriggle. Earliest documented use: 1804.
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SQUIGGLER - someone who catches queer eels
QUIGGLE - a Quidditch maneuver whereby the Snitch you thought you had trapped veers unpredictably
SHUIGGLE - what you do with your toes in the shoe-store fluoroscope machine
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PALIMONY
PRONUNCIATION: (PAL-uh-moh-nee)
MEANING: noun: Financial support or other compensation given by one member of an unmarried couple to another after separation.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of pal and alimony, from Latin alimonia (sustenance), from alere (to nourish). Ultimately from the Indo-European root al- (to grow or to nourish), which also gave us adolescent, adult, old, alumnus, altitude, enhance, coalesce, prolific, outre, and hauteur. Earliest documented use: 1977.
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MALIMONY - 1. Financial support or other compensation given to your mother
2. Financial support or other compensation given with bad intentions
HALIMONY - Financial support or other compensation given to your estranged computer
FPALIMONY - Financial support or other compensation given with a large payment up front,
followed subsuquenly by much smaller payments
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