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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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LUMPTY - it's done at 4 PM with a cube of sugar

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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