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MUGWUMP
PRONUNCIATION: (MUG-wump)
MEANING: noun: An independent, especially in politics.
ETYMOLOGY: From Massachusett mugquomp (leader, great man). Massachusett is a language in the Algonquian language family. Earliest documented use: 1828.
NOTES: The word mugwump was used in 1884 to describe a Republican who refused to support their presidential candidate James Blaine due to his reputation for corruption. These Republicans instead supported the Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland ensuring his victory.
The word is sometimes explained as denoting a person who sits on the fence, with his mug (face) on one side and wump (rump) on the other.
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MUGDUMP - I told you, make it a garage, not a chimney!
SMUGWUMP - when you get whopped upside the head for arrogant supercilious condescension
MUGLUMP - a sugar cube
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TOTEM
PRONUNCIATION: (TOH-tuhm)
MEANING: noun: A person, object, group, etc. that serves as an emblem or symbol.
ETYMOLOGY: From Ojibwe/Ojibwa language of the Algonquian language family in North America. Earliest documented use: 1609.
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TO THEM - where you send people's presents
TOTERM - how long a pregnancy should last
TOTLEM - what many drivers do to speeding cars
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PROSOPOPEIA or PROSOPOPOEIA
PRONUNCIATION: (pruh-so-puh-PEE-uh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A figure of speech in which an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking or acting.
2. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or something abstract is represented as possessing human form: personification.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin prosopopoeia, from Greek prosopopoiia (personification), from prosopon (face, mask), from pros- (facing) + ops (eye) + poiein (to make). Earliest documented use: 1550.
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PROSOPOPERA - A figure of speech in which an imaginary or absent person avoids verse while singing
PROMOPOPEIA - advertisement for a succulent tropical fruit about 6-18 inches long, 4-12 inches in diameter, known as Papaya or sometimes Pawpaw.
PRO-STOP-OPEIA - in favor of interrupting travel frequently for a bathroom break
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ULLAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (UL-ij)
MEANING: noun: The amount of liquid by which a container falls short of being full.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French ouillage/eullage, from ouiller/eullier (to fill a cask), from ouil (eye, hole), from Latin oculus (eye). Earliest documented use: 1444.
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DULLAGE - over one hundred (all too often conflated with ILLAGE)
URL-AGE - the Day of the Internet Address
UGLAGE - repugnant appearance
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TROMPE L'OEIL
PRONUNCIATION: (tromp loi)
MEANING: noun:
1. A style of painting in which objects are rendered in extremely realistic detail, giving an illusion of reality.
2. A painting, mural, etc., made in this style.
ETYMOLOGY: From French, literally “fools the eye”, from tromper (to deceive) + le (the) + oeil (eye). Earliest documented use: 1889.
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ROMPE L'OEIL - a sight for sore eyes
TROMPE L'OIL - Tweet: the US will unilaterally withdraw from OPEC
TROMPE L'OREIL - makeup that covers a multiple of sins
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OCELLUS
PRONUNCIATION (o-SEL-uhs)
MEANING: noun:
1. A small simple eye common to invertebrates.
2. An eyelike colored spot on an animal (as on peacock feathers, butterfly wings, fish, etc.) or on a leaf of a plant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ocellus (little eye), diminutive of oculus (eye). Earliest documented use: 1819
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OTELLUS - beseeching the Oracle
OCELLES - not A or B or AB celles
BOCELLUS - a singular well-known tenor
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RED-EYE
PRONUNCIATION: (RED-eye)
MEANING: noun:
1. The phenomenon of a person’s eyes appearing red in a photograph taken with a flash.
2. A late-night flight or overnight flight.
ETYMOLOGY: An airplane flight that takes place in the night is called a red-eye because it deprives travelers of a full-night’s sleep and as a result may cause bloodshot eyes. Earliest documented use, for 1: 1966, for 2: 1964.
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RED DYE - a pigment for imparting a red color (see also REDDLE)
RE-DYE - use it again
RED-EYRE - Jane's older brother
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EUCATASTROPHE
PRONUNCIATION: (yoo-kuh-TAS-truh-fee)
MEANING: noun: A happy ending, especially one in which, instead of an impending disaster, a sudden turn leads to a favorable resolution of the story.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter in 1944, from Greek eu- (good) + catastrophe, from kata- (down) + strophe (turning). Earliest documented use 1944.
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NEUCATASTROPHE - recent disaster in Berlin
EUCALASTROPHE - the koalas have no source of food any more
EU, CAT, ASK RO PHE - hey Felix, inquire in the row after Upsilon
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PS. Shouldn't the opposite of "catastrophe" be "anastrophe"? But that means something different. You want consistency? Don't look to language for it.
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OCHLOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ahk-luh-FOH-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A fear or dislike of crowds.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ochlos (mob) + -phobia (fear). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wegh- (to go or to transport in a vehicle), which also gave us ochlocracy, away, weigh, Norwegian, wag, wagon, devious, vex, pervious, walleyed, and earwig. Earliest documented use: 1885.
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OCHSOPHOBIA - fear of the New York Times
OCULOPHOBIA - fear of eyeballs
OCALOPHOBIA - fear of Central Florida cities
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PERISTERONIC
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-ris-tuh-RON-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to pigeons.
ETYMOLOGY: From Ancient Greek peristera (dove, pigeon). Earliest documented use: 1868. Some other peristeronic words are columbarium and columbine.
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PERSISTERONIC - 1. related through my female sibling; 2. the robot just won't stop!
PERIMTERONIC - edgewise
'YPERSTERONIC - like the ultimate 'roid
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