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RUMMY
PRONUNCIATION: (RUH-mee)
MEANING:
adjective: Odd or unconventional.
noun
1. Drunkard.
2. Any of various card games in which the objective is to make sets or sequences of three or more cards.
ETYMOLOGY:
adjective: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1828.
noun:
1. From rum (an alcoholic drink distilled from sugarcane products). Earliest documented use: 1843.
2. Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1910.
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ARUMMY - lily-like
RUB MY... - any of several gestures my dog makes, asking to be stroked someplace not yet specified
RUM,NY -
1. former Governor of Massachusetts and Presidential candidate
2. city in upstate New York about 17 miles west-north-west of Utica
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GAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (gayj)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A pledge: something offered as a guarantee.
2. Something thrown down as a symbol of a challenge to fight. (See also: gauntlet)
verb tr.:
To offer something as a guarantee of good faith.
Origin: From Old French g(u)age (to wage, gage), of Germanic origin. The Germanic w sound became g or gu in some French dialects. That’s the reason we have the doublets such as wage/gage, warranty/guarantee, ward/guard (also reward/regard), warden/guardian, war/guerre, and William/Guillaume. Earliest documented use: 14th century.
noun:
1. An instrument or criterion for measuring or testing.
2. The thickness or size of something. For example, diameter of a gun barrel, thickness of sheet metal, distance between the rails of a railroad track.
verb tr.: To measure or estimate.
Origin: From Old French gauge, or unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1444.
noun:
Any of the varieties of plum, such as the greengage.
Origin: After William Gage, botanist who brought it to England from France. Earliest documented use: 1718.
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GANGE - one river in India. Its source is in the North in the Himalayas near the border with Tibet, flows mainly from West to East and through Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal
GRAGE - where you pahk the cah
GAGLE - a colection of gese
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SPITFIRE
PRONUNCIATION: (SPIT-fyr)
MEANING: noun: Someone high-spirited, quick-tempered, and outspoken.
ETYMOLOGY: Describing one who appears to spit fire. Earliest documented use: 1600. A synonym, also a tosspot word, is shitfire.
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SPITFARE - what you roast and then eat at a barbecue. See also SPITFIRE above, PITFIRE, and (if the grill overturns) SPILTFIRE
SPITFORE - how the angry Scotsman warned he was about to tee off
SPLITFIRE - what Moses had to do to bring his people out of Egypt across the Red Volcano
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SHUTEYE
PRONUNCIATION: (SHUHT-eye)
MEANING: noun: Sleep.
ETYMOLOGY: Describing the literal shutting of one’s eyes when sleeping. Earliest documented use: 1899.
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SLUTEYE - what a hooker looks you over with
SHUTNEYE - a sweet-and-sour condiment eaten with many Indian foods
BHU-TEYE - what you use to lace up your footwear ( see also SHU-TEYE )
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ROTGUT
PRONUNCIATION: (ROT-guht)
MEANING: noun: A cheap or inferior alcoholic drink.
ETYMOLOGY: From the possibility that a drink that’s poorly made or adulterated could damage the internal organs of the drinker. Earliest documented use: 1632.
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ROTMUT - mixed-breed attack dog
ROTGOUT - Uric-acid-metabolism disease with necrotizing tophi
RO-TOUT - hang by a rope and give tips on the races
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CLUTCHFIST
PRONUNCIATION: (KLUHCH-fist)
MEANING: noun: A miser.
ETYMOLOGY: Describing someone who clutches money in a fist. From Old English clyccan (to clench) + fyst (fist). Earliest documented use: 1643.
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CLUTCHIST - one who declines to use a car equipped with automatic transmission
CLUTCHFISH - how many flying aquatic birds catch their dinner
CRUTCHFIST - a painful hand that won't open after prolonged use of crutches
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FUSSPOT
PRONUNCIATION: (FUHS-pot)
MEANING: noun: One who worries or complains about unimportant things: a fussy person.
ETYMOLOGY: From fuss (to worry or complain about trifles), of uncertain origin, perhaps an echoic word. Earliest documented use: 1921. A synonym, that is also a tosspot word, is fussbudget.
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US-SPOT - our favorite trysting place
FUSES-POT - the rheostat (potentiometer) that used to go where the circuit-breakers are now
FUSSPORT - where Lucy van Pelt lives
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PLUNDERBUND
PRONUNCIATION: (PLUN-duhr-buhnd)
MEANING: noun: A group of political, business, and financial interests engaged in exploiting the public.
ETYMOLOGY: From plunder (pillage), from German plündern (to loot) + bund, from German Bund (association). Earliest documented use: 1902.
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BLUNDERBUND - bumblingly inept leadership
PLUMDERBUND - explore the depths of the Merkel government
PLUNDERBAND - a gang of hoodlums
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OREXIGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-rek-suh-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Stimulating the appetite.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek orexis (longing) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1907.
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OREO-IGENIC - cookiemaker
T.REXIGENIC - ancestor of the Dinosaurs
OR EX-GENIC - alternatively, inheritable but outside the DNA
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PALILOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-LIL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: A repetition of words, especially for emphasis.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek palin (again) + -logy (words). Related words are palinode and palindrome. Earliest documented use: 1721.
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PARLILOGY - halting French speech
PAULILOGY - the study of the various Popes Paul
MALILOGY -
1. bad words
2. the study of a small West African nation
3. wife of Father Lilogy
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QUINCENTENARYPRONUNCIATION: (kwin-sen-TEN-uh-ree) MEANING: noun: A 500th anniversary. adjective: Of or relating to a 500th anniversary. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quinque (five) + English centenary (100 years). Earliest documented use: 1877. _____________________ QUINE CENTENARY - celebrated about three months ago (see HERE) SQUINCENTENARY - strabysmus was recognized 500 years ago QUID CENTENARY - what was celebrated one hundred years after the British Pound Sterling was introduced
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ARACHNOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-rak-nuh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An irrational fear of spiders.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek arakhne (spider) + -phobias (fear). Earliest documented use: 1925.
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BARACH? NO! PHOBIA - your worst fear is that the President is a former black Senator from Illinois
A RANCH - NO PHOBIA - now that I'm a cattleman I'm not afraid of anything
ARACHNOPHONIA - belching
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ANECDATA
PRONUNCIATION:
(an-ik-DAY-tuh)
MEANING: noun: Anecdotal information gleaned from casual observation.
Example: My uncle has been smoking for 20 years and hasn’t been diagnosed with cancer yet; that shows that cigarettes are safe.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of anecdotal + data. From Greek anekdota (things unpublished), from an- (not) + ekdidonai (to publish), originally applied by the Greek historian Procopius to his unpublished memoirs of the Emperor Justinian and his consort Theodora. Earliest documented use: 1980s. A related term is cherry-picking. Also see anecdotage.
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ANECODATA - absence of measurement of the environmental impact
A NERD AT A - the beginning of a tasteless joke
ANECDATE - a teenager's tale of last night's exploits (some might say, another tasteless joke)
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WORKFARE
PRONUNCIATION: (WUHRK-fer)
MEANING: noun: A social welfare program in which those receiving aid are required to perform work.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of work + welfare. Earliest documented use: 1968.
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WORKFARCE - a sinecure
PORKFARE - Congressional largesse
WORKCARE - health benefits provided by your employer
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BACKRONYMPRONUNCIATION: (BAK-ro-nim) MEANING: noun: A word re-interpreted as an acronym. ETYMOLOGY: A blend of back + acronym. Earliest documented use: 1983. NOTES: In a backronym, an expansion is invented to treat an existing word as an acronym. For example, some believe that the word NEWS is an acronym for North, East, West, and South. In reality, the word is coined from “new” as in: What’s new? When naming something, sometimes a suitable name is chosen and then an acronym is retrofitted on top of it: USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism). The clunkiness of the expansion is a quick giveaway. How about forming a backronym for ACRONYM itself: A Contrived Result Of Nomenclature Yielding Mechanism? Often, backronyms serve a useful purpose as mnemonics. For example, see Apgar score. _________________________________ HACKRONYM - Highly Appreciated Child Keeps Repairing Or Negating Your Mistakes BACHRONYM - Hofstadter's Contracrostipunctus Acrostically Backwards Spells "JSBACH" MACKRONYM - an extraordinarily large name, like " Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" (That's "Webster Lake" to you. YCLIU)
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LUNK
PRONUNCIATION: (lungk)
MEANING: noun: A dull or slow-witted person.
ETYMOLOGY: Short for lunkhead, from lunk (a blend of lump + hunk) + head. Earliest documented use: 1867.
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LUN, UK - Capital of England, in the vernacular
LUNIK - first Russian vehicle to the Moon
BLUNK - past participle of BLINK
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HERSTORY
PRONUNCIATION: (HUHR-stuh-ree)
MEANING: noun: History as seen from a woman’s point of view, one that doesn’t obscure women’s role.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of her + history, from Latin histor (learned), ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which is also the source of guide, wise, vision, advice, idea, story, and polyhistor. Earliest documented use: 1970.
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CHER'S TORY - pop singer goes into British politics
HEARSTORY - why you take your kids to the library Reading Hour
HERO STORY - Leander will tell you all about it if you ask
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CORNPONE
PRONUNCIATION: (KORN-pohn)
MEANING: adjective: Rustic; folksy; countrified.
noun: Unleavened corn bread, baked or fried.
ETYMOLOGY: From English corn + Virginia Algonquian apones (bread). The s in apones was dropped to make the word singular. Some other originally singular words that again became singular in English are cherry (from French cerise) and pea (from Latin pisa). Earliest documented use: 1860.
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ACORNPONE - unleavened bread, baked or fried, made of oak seeds. If sneered at, it's SCORNPONE; if eaten for breakfast it's MORNPONE
CORNBONE - an imaginative child's word for "cob"
CORNPOE - a rustic, folksy, countrified writer of horror tales and macabre verses
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BAYOU
PRONUNCIATION: (BY-yoo)
MEANING: noun: A sluggish marshy area of water, typically an overflow or tributary to a lake or river.
ETYMOLOGY: Via Louisiana French from Choctaw bayuk (small stream). Earliest documented use: 1766.
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'AYOU ! - informal greeting in Brooklyn
BAY-O - the Shrimp Boat song ("...Daylight come and I want go home")
WAYOU - sign that points to the EXI
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SAGAMORE
PRONUNCIATION: (SAG-uh-mohr)
MEANING: noun: A chief or a leader.
ETYMOLOGY: From Eastern Abenaki sakama. Earliest documented use: 1613. A related word is sachem.
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WAGAMORE - what your puppy's tail does to tell you he likes something
SAL AMORE - a crystalline love potion you sprinkle on food
SACAMORE - past tense of SYCAMORE; also, to catch up on your sleep
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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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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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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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AMATORCULIST
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-ma-TOR-kyuh-list)
MEANING: noun: A pretend or insignificant lover.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin amatorculus (a little lover), diminutive of amator (lover), from amor (love). Earliest documented use: 1731.
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AMAT OCULIST - he loves his eye doctor
AMA TORCH LIST - the Spirit of Medicine lives, and these people have agreed to help carry it
A MOTOR C.U. LIST - the Consumers' Union's annual issue of Consumer Reports, devoted exclusively to automobiles
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ABNEGATION
PRONUNCIATION: (ab-ni-GAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: Self-denial.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin abnegation, from ab- (away, off) + negare (to deny), from nec (not). Earliest documented use: 1398.
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AB-NEG ACTION - having the rarest of blood types
ABS-NEGATION - abdominal obesity
GABNEGATION - squelching of rumors
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TRUMPED-UP
PRONUNCIATION: (trumpt-up)
MEANING: adjective: Faked or fraudulent.
ETYMOLOGY: A corruption of the word triumph, from Old French triumphe, from Latin triumphus (triumph), from Greek thriambos (hymn to Dionysus). Also see, trumpery. Earliest documented use: 1728.
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TRUMPED-UMP - "After review, the ruling on the field is reversed."
RUMPED-UP - skunk's position just prior to spraying
THUMPED-UP - my pillow is now ready for my nap
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STORMY PETREL
PRONUNCIATION: (STOR-mee PE-truhl)
MEANING: noun:
1. One who brings trouble or whose appearance is a sign of coming trouble.
2. Any of various small sea birds of the family Hydrobatidae having dark feathers and lighter underparts, also known as Mother Carey’s Chicken.
ETYMOLOGY: The birds got the name storm petrel or stormy petrel because old-time sailors believed their appearance foreshadowed a storm. It’s not certain why the bird is named petrel. One unsubstantiated theory is that it is named after St. Peter who walked on water in the Gospel of Matthew. The petrel’s habit of flying low over water with legs extended gives the appearance that it’s walking on the water. Earliest documented use: 1776.
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STORE MY PETREL - I'm going on vacation - can you keep my bird for a while?
STORMY PETROL - wild oscillations in the price of fuel
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MELANCHOLIA
PRONUNCIATION: (mel-uhn-KOH-lee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A feeling of deep sadness; depression.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin melancholia, from Greek melancholia (the condition of having an excess of black bile), from melan- (black) + chole (bile). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, gloaming, glimpse, glass, arsenic, and cholera. Earliest documented use: 1398.
NOTES: In earlier times it was believed that four humors controlled human behavior and an imbalance resulted in disease. According to this thinking, an excess of black bile secreted by the spleen resulted in melancholia or ill humor.
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MELANCHOVIA - pizza made with honey and small salt-water fishlets
MELANCHORIA - a bad place to moor your boat
ME AN CHOLIO - down by the schoolyard, according to Paul Simon
MEL AND CHOLIA - a new Goth singing group
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PENSIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (PEN-siv)
MEANING: adjective: Sadly thoughtful; wistful.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French pensif (pensive), from penser (to think), from Latin pensare (ponder), frequentative of pendere (to weigh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which also gave us pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, penthouse, depend, spontaneous, vilipend, pendulous, ponderous, filipendulous, equipoise, prepend, and perpend. Earliest documented use: 1393.
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PENSAVE - a 529 plan headquartered in Pittsburgh (see also PENGIVE)
SPENSIVE - costly (see also XPENSIVE)
PEN,SIRE - what the King uses to sign his edicts
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HUCKSTER
PRONUNCIATION: (HUHK-stuhr)
MEANING: noun: One who sells things of questionable value in an aggressive or dishonest manner.
verb tr.: To sell something of questionable value aggressively or dishonestly.
verb intr.: To haggle.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle Dutch word hokester (peddler), from hoeken (to peddle). Earliest documented use: 1200s.
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HUCKSTEE - the victim
HUNKSTER - one sharp dude
SHUCKSTER - diffident hillbilly
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METAGROBOLIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (me-tuh-GRAHB-uh-lyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To puzzle or to mystify.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle French matagraboliser. Earliest documented use: 1635.
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PETAGROBOLIZE - to turn into 10^15 Groboli
ME TAG ROBOT IZE - I shall label the visual sensors used by Asimov's Daneel Olivaw
META-GLOBOLIZE - add to a spherical molecule (e.g. a buckyball) two radicals separated by 120 degrees (compare ortho- and para-globolize)
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QUAQUAVERSAL
PRONUNCIATION: (kwah-kwuh-VUR-sal)
MEANING: adjective: Sloping downward from a center in all directions.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quaquaversus, from quaqua (in all directions), from qua (in what direction) + versus (towards), from vertere (to turn). Earliest documented use: 1691.
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QUAQUAHERSAL - practice for the stage production of Make Way For Ducklings
QUADQUAVERSAL - the joint between the driveshaft and the axle on a 4x4 vehicle
QUAQUAMERSAL - a preservative for vaccines made in duck eggs
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WHIGMALEERY
PRONUNCIATION: (hwig-muh-LIR-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A whim.
2. A fanciful contrivance.
ETYMOLOGY: It’s a Scots term, but we know little about it beyond that. Earliest documented use: 1730.
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SHIGMALEERY - a drunk describing his distrust for sums (or standard deviations)
WHIGMALEVERY - a mechanical voting machine with a bias for Liberalism
WHIGGALEERY - worried about a shimmy
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