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BRAZEN
PRONUNCIATION: (BRAY-zuhn)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Shamelessly bold.
2. Made of or relating to brass.
verb tr.: To face an embarrassing or difficult situation in a shamelessly bold manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English braes (brass). Earliest documented use: 1000.
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BLAZEN - how the outlaws galloped into town with their gunza
BRATEN - the wurst possible Viennese sausage
BRAKE N - - how to slow down the fourteenth car of the train
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AURICOMOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (au-RI-kuh-muhs)
MEANING:. adjective: Relating to golden hair.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin auricomus, from aurum (gold) + coma (hair). Earliest documented use: 1864.
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AURICOROUS - golden-throated voices singing together
AGRICOMOUS - your typical Roman farmer's rodent
AFRICOMOUS - Sherlock Holmes' Giant Rat of Sahara
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PHILARGYRY
PRONUNCIATION: (fil-ARJ-uh-ree)
MEANING: noun: The love of money; greed.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek phil- (love) + argyros (silver). Ultimately from the Indo-European root arg- (to shine; white) that is also the source of argue (from Latin arguere, to make clear), argillaceous (clayey), and French argent (money). The word also appears in the chemical symbol for silver (Ag) and in the name of the country Argentina (where flows Rio de la Plata, Spanish for “river of silver”). Earliest documented use: 1529.
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PHIL-ARMY RY. - train taking fans from Philadelphia to West Point
PHILARGYRO - pile the makings into our submarine sandwich at that stand next to the Liberty Bell
CHILARGYRY - ...keep the sandwiches in the refrigerator till we get there
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TINPOT
PRONUNCIATION: (TIN-pot)
MEANING: adjective: Unimportant; of little worth.
ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a tin pot, in quality or sound, broadly from a reference to tin as a base metal compared to precious metals. Earliest documented use: 1838.
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INPOT - your status after calling a bet
LIN-POT - composer Manuel Miranda's beer-belly
TIN PLOT - one kind of mining survey
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LEAD BALLOON
PRONUNCIATION: (led buh-LOON)
MEANING: noun: A complete failure.
ETYMOLOGY: From lead (a heavy metal), from Old English lead + balloon, from Italian dialectal ballone (large ball), augmentative of balla (ball). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to blow or swell), which also gave us ball, boll, bole, bulk, bowl, boulevard, boulder, ballot, folly, and fool. Earliest documented use: 1924.
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PLEAD BALLOON - dialog from Judge Parker comic strip
LEAD GAL LOON - the matriarch of the loon flock
LEAN BALLOON - a zeppelin
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IRREFUTABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (ir-ih-FYOO-tuh-buhl, ih-REF-yuh-tuh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Impossible to deny or disprove; indisputable.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + refutare (to rebut). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhau- (to strike), which also gave us refute, beat, button, halibut, buttress, confute, prebuttal, and surrebuttal. Earliest documented use: 1620.
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MR REFUTABLE - never made a statement that couldn't be disproved
IRREFUL, ABLE - angry but competent
IRREPUTABLE - nobody anywhere knows anything about him !
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AMNESIA
PRONUNCIATION: (am-NEE-zhuh)
MEANING: noun: Loss of memory or a gap in one’s memory.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin amnesia, from Greek amnesia (forgetfulness), from a- (not) + mimneskesthai (to remember). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (to think), which also gave us mind, mental, mention, automatic, mania, money, praying mantis, monument, music, amnesty, mantra, remonstrate, monish, and mantic. Earliest documented use: 1786.
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NAMNESIA - inability to learn the lessons of history
DAMNESIA - complaint of a football player after multiple ACL injuries
AMNOSIA - "I poke around other people's business more than you do"
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PSYCHOGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (sy-kuh-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Originating in the mind (having a psychological rather than a physiological cause).
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek psycho- (mind) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1897.
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PSYCHO GENIE - Aladdin's companion, such as voiced by Robin Williams
PAY C.H.O.- GENIC - This new DNA will let you breed corn with a higher carbohydrate content, but it'll cost you
P.S. YECHOGENIC! - Oh, and another thing: that's disgusting !
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POLYDIPSIAPRONUNCIATION: (paw-lee-DIP-see-uh) MEANING: noun: Excessive or abnormal thirst. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (much, many) + dipsa (thirst). Earliest documented use: 1661. _________________________________ POLYPIPSIA - misreading your card as a ten when it's really an eight POLYDIP ASIA - an Indonesian RijstafelPOLY DISSIA - that parrot just cussed you out !
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PROPENSITY
PRONUNCIATION: (pruh-PEN-suh-tee)
MEANING: noun: An inclination to behave in a particular way
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pro- (toward) + 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, filipendulous, equipoise, perpend, pensive, and floccipend. Earliest documented use: 1550.
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PR OPEN SITE - where publicists and agents are welcome
PROP ENMITY - I can fly any jet plane made, but I just don't get along with the other kind...
PRODENSITY - I like the massive ones
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MISOCAINEA
PRONUNCIATION: (mis-oh-KY-nee-uh, mi-soh-)
MEANING: noun: A hatred of new ideas.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek miso- (hate) + -cainea (new). Earliest documented use: 1938.
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MISO-CAINE - Japanese soup that numbs the back of your throat
MISS O'CAINEA - that Irish lass whose father had a boat named after him
ISO-CAINEA - the class of compounds with the same atomic composition as cocaine, but different in molecular structure
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POLYGYNY
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-LIH-juh-nee)
MEANING: noun: The practice of having two or more female partners.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (many) + -gyny (woman). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gwen- (woman), quean, banshee, zenana, gynecology, and gynophobia (the fear of women). Earliest documented use: 1780.
NOTES: A counterpart of this term is polyandry, the practice of having two or more male partners. The generic term is polygamy, having two or more partners.
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POLYGON Y - twenty-fifth in a series of closed figures comprised of straight lines chained end-to-end, never crossing and with the last completing the chain by attaching to the free end of the first
POLOGYNY - the all-women's polo team
POLGY, NY - a Catskills community with mostly Polish residents
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DEONTOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (dee-ahn-TAH-luh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The theory or study of duty and obligation, with a focus on the right action as determined by a set of rules, irrespective of the consequences of the action.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek deont- (obligation) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1829.
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DENTOLOGY - knowleldge of teeth
DON'T-OLOGY - the art of proscribing
ODEONTOLOGY - the study of grand roofed performance venues
DEO-NATOLOGY - lore pertaining to the birth of the gods
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SILVICOLOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (sil-VIK-uh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: Living or growing in woods.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin silvi- (wood) + -colous (inhabiting). Earliest documented use: 1906.
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SILVICOLOURS - what the Lone Ranger's horse looks like on the BBC
SILICOLOUS - afflicted with ludicrous bowel habits
SILICOLOUS - having predominantly the characteristics of element #14
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BOUNDER
PRONUNCIATION: (BAUN-duhr)
MEANING: noun: An ill-bred, vulgar man.
ETYMOLOGY: From bound (to leap or jump), from French bondir (to bounce), from Latin bombitare (to hum), from Latin bombus (humming), from Greek bombos (booming, humming). Earliest documented use: 1842.
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BOXUNDER - what is beneath the gazinta, with the gazonta uppermost. See also GO-UNDER
BOULDER - more stonily impudent
B.U. UNDER - site of much of the action in Neal Stephenson's The Big U
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TOPLOFTYPRONUNCIATION: (TOP-lof-tee) MEANING: adjective: Haughty; pretentious. ETYMOLOGY: From top + loft (upper floor, attic), from Old English loft (air, sky), from Old Norse loft (air, sky, upper room). Earliest documented use: 1859. __________________________________ STOPLOFTY - an anti-snobbery movement TOOL OF TY - A Louisville Slugger bat, 34.5 inches long, weighing 40 to 44 oz. (see here) TOP OF TEY - The Daughter of Time, or perhaps Brat Farrar, by mystery writer Josephine Tey. It's hard to give one the edge over the other.
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WORRYWART
WUH-ree-wahrt)
MEANING: noun: One who worries excessively and unnecessarily.
ETYMOLOGY: From worry, from Old English wyrgan (to strangle) + wart, from Old English wearte. The word wart was apparently chosen for alliteration. Earliest documented use: 1956.
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WORRYWARP - the twisted viewpoint you get from worrying too much
WORRYTART - pastry you eat when you're stressed
LORRYWART - fanciful name for the ding you got in a London parking lot on your new truck
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AIRLING
PRONUNCIATION: (AIR-ling)
MEANING: noun: A carefree, thoughtless person.
ETYMOLOGY: A combination of air, from Latin aer (air) + -ling (small, young, inferior). Earliest documented use: 1611.
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AIRLING'S - flight leaving from Dublin
HAIRLING - Carnogie for men
AIRFLING - tossing my baby son straight up and then catching him again
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APPROBATION
PRONUNCIATION: (ap-roh-BAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: Approval, praise, commendation, or official sanction.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin approbation, from ad- (toward) + probatus, from probare (to test the goodness of). Earliest documented use: 1393.
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APT. PROBATION - when you try living in a flat for a month to see how you like it, before you sign the lease
AP-PRONATION - turning the news agency onto its belly
A.B. PROBATION - they announce your degree but don't actually award it to you until you've proved you deserve it
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PROMONTORY
PRONUNCIATION: (PROM-uhn-tor-ee, -tree)
MEANING: noun:
1. A point of high land projecting into a body of water.
2. A projecting part of the body, for example, of a bone.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin promontorium, alteration of promunturium, influenced by mons (mountain). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (project), which is also the source of menace, mountain, eminent, promenade, demean, amenable, mouth, and minatory. Earliest documented use: 1548.
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PROMONITORY - in favor of watchers
PROTON TORY - a subatomic British politician
PROMO-STORY - an infomercial
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EXIGENCY
PRONUNCIATION: (EK-si-jen-see, eg-ZIJ-uhn-see)
MEANING: noun: An urgent need or requirement.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exigere (to demand, to drive out), from ex- + agere (to drive). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, exiguous, incogitant, intransigent, cogent, axiomatic, ambagious, ambage, agonistes, and actuate. Earliest documented use: 1588.
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EX-AGENCY - used to work for the CIA
EXILENCY - 1. title of great respect; 2. expulsion
EIGENCY - property of a vector which, when operated by a non-zero square matrix, gives a scalar multiple of itself
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CONSTRUE
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-STROO)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To interpret, understand, analyze, or explain.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin construere (to construct), from con- (with) + struere (to pile up or arrange). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ster- (to spread), which also gave us structure, industry, destroy, street, stratagem, stratum, stratocracy, and Russian perestroika. Earliest documented use: 1362.
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CORNS TRUE - when your feet tell you it's going to rain, and it does
CONSTRUM - the prisoner invented a new guitar-picking style
COMSTRUE - what happens to your dream when you wish upon a star
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DISINTERESTED
PRONUNCIATION: (dis-IN-truh-stuhd, dis-IN-tuh-res-tid)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Free of bias or self-interest; impartial.
2. Indifferent or not interested.
3. No longer interested.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dis- (apart, away) + interesse (to be in between), from inter- (between) + esse (to be). Earliest documented use: 1631.
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DISH - INTERESTED? - look at the figure on that girl!
DIS I'N'T 'ERS, TED - Teddy, it doesn't belong to that woman
DIS IN: THERE'S TED ! - Headline: "Senator Kennedy found!"
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VARDY
PRONUNCIATION: (VAHR-dee)
MEANING: noun: Judgment or opinion.
ETYMOLOGY: A dialect variant of verdit, from verdict, from Anglo-Norman ver (true) + dit (statement, speech), from dicere (to say). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deik- (to show, to pronounce solemnly), which also gave us judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, paradigm, interdict, fatidic, diktat, retrodiction, and interdigitate. Earliest documented use: 1738.
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PARDY - what you do when you break it
VERDY - a green opera composer
BARDY - Shakespearean
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[Anu added:
...this shortening (or respelling of a word based on its pronunciation) happens more often than you might think. Chances are you already use such words without a second thought. Examples: ornery (from ordinary), raiment (from arrayment), and donut (from doughnut).
An extreme example of this process of linguistic evolution is the transition of eleëmosynary to the present-day alms.]
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JUBEROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (JOOB-uhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Doubtful; undecided; hesitating.
ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of dubious. Earliest documented use: 1871.
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J-JUBEROUS - resembling a small jelly candy
JABEROUS - like a manxome creature with biting jaws and snatching claws and flaming eyes, that burbles as it whiffles through the woods
UBEROUS - for hire to drive you somewhere
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SCROOCH
PRONUNCIATION: (skrooch)
MEANING: verb intr.: To crouch or huddle.
verb tr.: To squeeze.
ETYMOLOGY: A dialect variant scrouge (to squeeze or crowd), perhaps influenced by crouch. Earliest documented use: 1844.
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SHROOCH - when the catch-of-the-day was Haddock, instead of Cod (cf. scrod/shrod)
SACRO-OCH - said by a Scotsman with a pain shooting down his leg
SCROOGH - he who said "Bah, 'umbug"
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VARDY
PRONUNCIATION: (VAHR-dee)
– a leading British soccer player (plays for Leicester City).
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VARDY
PRONUNCIATION: (VAHR-dee)
– a leading British soccer player (plays for Leicester City). Interesting. One might expect Anu to be aware of the football world. Is there also a Jouber or a Scrooch or a Meech who plays?
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MEECH
PRONUNCIATION: (meech)
MEANING: verb intr.:
1. To move in a furtive manner.
2. To loiter.
3. To whine.
ETYMOLOGY: A variant of mitch (to steal, hide, shirk), from Old French muchier (to hide). Earliest documented use: 1624.
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CME - ECH - never was fond of compulsory Continuing Medical Education
MERCH - Newspeak for "sales goods"
MEECE - several gadgets I use for I/O on my old computers
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SNOOT
PRONUNCIATION: (snoot)
MEANING: noun: 1. A snob. 2. A nose or snout.
verb tr.: To treat with disdain.
ETYMOLOGY: A variant of snout, of German/Dutch origin. Earliest documented use: 1861.
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SUNOOT - the weather on a bright day in Glasgow
SNOWT - there's been a blizzard!
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DIVERSIVOLENT
PRONUNCIATION: (dy-vuhr-SIV-uh-luhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Desiring strife.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin diversus (diverse), from divertere (to turn aside), from di- (away, apart) + vertere (to turn) and volens, present participle of velle (to wish). Earliest documented use: 1612.
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DIVERSIVALENT - describing an element with many different possible valencies, e.g. carbon or silicon
DIVERS "I VOLE...NOT!" - assorted protestations in response to the question "Are you a man or a rodent?"
DIVER'S TiVo LENT - Greg Louganis doesn't have his TV streamer right now, but he expects it to be returned shortly
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SMATCHET
PRONUNCIATION: (SMACH-uht)
MEANING: noun: An insignificant contemptible person.
ETYMOLOGY: Of Scottish origin. Earliest documented use: 1582.
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SMATSHET - what you will probably do if you see an ugly bug on the table in front of you
SMART CHET - what David Brinkley called his fellow newscaster, after a particularly penetrating insight
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MENSCH
PRONUNCIATION: (mench, mensh)
plural menschen (MEN-chuhn, MEN-shuhn) or mensches
MEANING: noun: A decent, upright, honorable person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish mentsh (man, human being), from Middle High German mensch, from Old High German mennisco. Earliest documented use: 1911.
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MENSAH - a social group of very high-IQ Southerners
MEN'S "ICH" - a treatise about the German male ego
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UNFLAPPABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (uhn-FLAP-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Staying calm even in difficult circumstances.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English flap (to beat or shake), probably of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1958.
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UN-LAPPABLE - impossible to outrace by more than one full length around the course
UNIFLAPPABLE - when you can shake the wrinkles out, but only once
UNFAPPABLE - Major Hoople when he can't be disconcerted or taken aback
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CIRCUMSPECT
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHR-kuhm-spekt)
MEANING: adjective: Careful to consider all circumstances and potential consequences; prudent.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin circumspicere (to look around; to take heed), from circum (around) + specere (to look). Earliest documented use: 1422.
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CIRCUMSPENT - all-around just plain broke
CIRCUS PECT - can't wait to get to out see the Big Top and the wild animals (especially the trained chickens)
SIR CUMSPECT - an occasional visitor the the Round Table, never without his eyeglasses
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CYNEGETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (sy-nuh-JET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the chase or hunting.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek kunagos (hunter), from kuon (dog) + igetis (leader). Earliest documented use: 1716.
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CYNEGESIC - feeling like a dog
CINEGETIC - always looking for a good movie
ICYNEGETIC - promoting melting
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CATERWAUL
PRONUNCIATION: (KAT-uhr-wol)
MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To make a shrill sound as if of a cat in heat or of cats quarreling.
2. To quarrel noisily.
noun: 1. The cry of a cat in heat.
2. A shrill sound, such as a shriek or a loud cry.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English caterwawlen, from cater (tomcat or cat) + wawlen (to howl). Earliest documented use: 1386.
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CATERWALL - when the side of the house is covered with gypsy moth larvae
CATE, RAUL - Señor Cate's full name
CATER WAFL - what you'll get if you're careless about arranging for brunch
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DOGGED
PRONUNCIATION: (DAW-gid, DOG-id)
MEANING: adjective: Stubbornly determined or persistent.
ETYMOLOGY: If you have ever faced a dog digging in his heels, you know what dogged is. The word dog is from Old English docga. Also see recalcitrant. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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DOGGE - an olde Irish setter (see aso DOG RED)
NOGGED - tipsy after too much New Years' cheer
DONGED - the next step after your car is dinged
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CANICULAR
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-NIK-yuh-luhr)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the dog days.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin canicularis (relating to the dog star, Sirius), from canicula (small dog, Sirius), from canis (dog). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwon- (dog), which is also the source of canine, chenille (from French chenille: caterpillar, literally, little dog), kennel, canary, hound, dachshund, corgi, cynic, cynosure, cynegetic, canaille, and cynophobia. Earliest documented use: 1398.
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CANINULAR - like small eyeteeth
CARICULAR - of the schedule of what's to be learned in Spelling class (obviously much needed)
CLANICULAR - like a small totem
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FAT CAT
PRONUNCIATION: (FAT cat)
MEANING: noun: A rich, privileged person, especially one who influences elections by making contributions to political campaigns.
ETYMOLOGY: The term was originally used in the 1920s to describe rich political backers in the US elections. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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FAT RAT - Templeton after a week at the fairground
FAT CAPT - Major Hoople before his promotion
FATMAT - 1. where Garfield sleeps; 2. place for Sumo wrestling matches
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