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BREWSTERED
PRONUNCIATION: (BROOS-tuhrd)
MEANING: adjective: Very rich.
ETYMOLOGY: After Montgomery Brewster, the title character of the 1902 novel Brewster’s Millions by George Barr McCutcheon. Earliest documented use: 2001.
NOTES: In the novel Brewster’s Millions, Montgomery Brewster inherits $1 million when his grandfather dies. An uncle who hated this grandfather promises Brewster $7 million if he could spend that one million from the grandfather within a year. There are certain conditions, of course...
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BREW STEREO - the flavor of this beverage has a special depth
BREWS TIERED - a layered mixture of beers and ales of contrasting colors
BREWSTER, ED - interim president (as of 2021) of Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, WA
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HOOVER
PRONUNCIATION: (HOO-vuhr)
MEANING: noun: A vacuum cleaner.
verb tr.: 1. To clean, especially with a vacuum cleaner.
2. To consume or acquire quickly, eagerly, or in large amounts.
ETYMOLOGY: After the industrialist William Henry Hoover (1849-1932). Earliest documented use: 1934.
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HOPOVER - what you do when you come to a small puddle in the sidewalk
HOOKER - a water-pipe used by a Bostonian to smoke marijuaner
HO! OVERT! - what a voluble detective says upon seeing a flagrant violation
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COOKIE MONSTER
PRONUNCIATION: (KU-kee mon-stuhr)
MEANING: noun: Someone or something that is insatiably hungry or greedy.
ETYMOLOGY: After Cookie Monster, a puppet character in the children’s television show Sesame Street. Earliest documented use: 1971.
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COOKIE, MON! (STERN) - stage instructions to a Rasta parrot on how to demand a cracker
LOOKIE MONSTER - how to explain to a child about a Basilisk or Medusa
COOTIE MONSTER - the scourge of pre-adolescent males
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MARPLOT
PRONUNCIATION: (MAHR-plot)
MEANING: noun: A meddlesome person who spoils a plan by interference.
ETYMOLOGY: After Marplot, the titular character in the 1709 play The Busy Body by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723). Marplot means well and tries to help only to get in the way of others and foul things up. Earliest documented use: 1709.
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FARPLOT - by stereotype, the North Forty
OMARPLOT - the Rubáiyát Conspiracy
MERPLOT - factions in the French Navy are up to something
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PANGLOSSIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (pan-GLOS-ee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Blindly or unreasonably optimistic.
noun: One who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances.
ETYMOLOGY: After Dr. Pangloss, a philosopher and tutor in Voltaire’s 1759 satire Candide. Pangloss believes that, in spite of what happens -- shipwreck, earthquake, hanging, flogging, and more -- “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” The name is coined from Greek panglossia (talkativeness). Earliest documented use: 1831. The word pangloss is used in the same manner.
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MANGLOSSIAN - after gender-reassignment surgery
PAN-GLOSS-MAN - the superhero who shines cooking utensils
ANGLO'S SIAN - "Jane" (from the Welsh)
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BREADCRUMB
PRONUNCIATION: (BRED-cruhm)
MEANING: noun:
1. A small fragment of bread.
2. One in a series of markers placed as a navigational aid.
3. One of several hints or clues leading to a person, place, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From bread, from Old English bread + crumb, from Old English cruma. Earliest documented use: 1519.
NOTES: In the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, their parents drop the two siblings off in the forest because they are not able to feed them (if only there had been a strong social safety net). The smart kids drop breadcrumbs along the way so they can trace their steps back and find their way home.
In computing, website design, etc., breadcrumbs help users as a navigation aid and tell them where they are in a program, website, etc.
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BREA CRUMB - a small lump of tar washed up on the Spanish coast
DREADCRUMB -a tiny remaining germ of fear after the acute episode has been resolved
BREAD-C RUMBA - that new Latin dance craze
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TOM THUMB
PRONUNCIATION: (tom THUM)
MEANING: noun.
1. A very short person.
2. An insignificant or unimportant person, especially one who lacks the power or ability in spite of high rank.
ETYMOLOGY: After Tom Thumb, the hero of many folktales, who is the size of his father’s thumb. Earliest documented use: 1579. Also see lilliput and lilliputian.
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TOM THOMB - a tiny but fully functional Native American drum
TOE THUMB - vernacular for hallux
TOM RHUMB - nickname for Tom Loxodrome, a gifted navigator of the Sixteenth Century and contemporary of Gerardus Mercator, the mapmaker
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DOMDANIEL
PRONUNCIATION: (dom-DAN-yuhl)
MEANING: noun: A place of wickedness.
ETYMOLOGY: From French domdaniel (house of Daniel), apparently from Latin or Greek. Earliest documented use: 1801.
NOTES: It’s not clear who Daniel is in the term Domdaniel. The place Domdaniel was introduced by a French continuation of the Arabian Nights by Dom Chaves and M. Cazotte in the late 18th c. Later, the place has appeared in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, and Neil Gaiman, among others.
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DOC DANIEL - what my patients called me before I retired
DOOM,DANIEL - he may have survived the den of the Lion but his days are numbered...
DO MD, ARIEL - urging the Little Mermaid to vacation in Maryland
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CHICKEN LICKEN
PRONUNCIATION: (CHIK-en LIK-n)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is a pessimist and alarmist, always warning others of impending calamities.
ETYMOLOGY: After a hen in a children’s tale who, when hit on the head by a falling acorn, believes the sky is falling. Earliest documented use: 1922. The character is also known by other names, such as Chicken Little and Henny Penny.
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CHICKEN LICHEN - what grows on the North side of the neck, half alga, half fungus
CLICKEN LICKEN - chocolate-covered crickets
THICKEN LICKEN - wait for the dough to firm up before you scrape out the bowl
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OPEN SESAME
PRONUNCIATION: (oh-puhn SAYS-uh-mee)
MEANING: noun: Something that is an easy and effective way to bring out a desired result, gain access, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From the phrase “Open sesame” that opened the door to the robbers’ cave in the story “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”. Earliest documented use: 1722.
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OPEN BESAME - French kiss
OPEN-SEA ME - I'm a completely different person on a boat
OPENS E-NAME - I'm researching the meaning of your hashtag
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