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SELECTORATE
PRONUNCIATION: (si-LEK-tuhr-it)
MEANING: noun: A smaller group of people, as opposed to the general population, involved in picking a person, especially for a political position.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of select + electorate. Both from Latin legere (to choose). Earliest documented use: 1967. _________________________________
SELECT ORNATE - choose Rococo
SELECTOR AGE - How old is your Automatic Transmission shifter?
SELECTORATI - the Pulitzer Prize committee
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SHRINKFLATION
PRONUNCIATION: (shringk-FLAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The practice of reducing the size of products while selling at the same price.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of shrink + inflation. Earliest documented use: 2013. _______________________________
SHRINKFLATIRON - a smaller gadget to press your clothes with
SHRIEKFLATION - when you exclaim with horror upon seeing the latest CPI
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FRIZZLE
PRONUNCIATION: (FRIZ-uhl)
MEANING: verb intr.: To make a sizzling or sputtering noise. verb tr.: To fry until crisp or curled.
verb intr.: To form into small tight curls; to frizz. noun: A short curl.
ETYMOLOGY: For group 1: A blend of fry + sizzle. Earliest documented use: 1839. For group 2: Of unknown origin, perhaps from Old English fris (curled). Earliest documented use: 1565. __________________________
FRIZZLEE - the recipient of being crisped and curled (think "bacon")
GRIZZLE - to render streaked with grey, aged, weathered, and slightly unkempt
FRIZZLET - a young frizz
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SLOANE RANGER
PRONUNCIATION: (slohn RAYN-juhr)
MEANING: noun: A young, fashionable, upper-class person.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of Sloane Square (in Chelsea, London) + Lone Ranger, coined by the writer Peter York in Harpers & Queen magazine. Earliest documented use: 1975. ________________________________
LOAN ERANGER - Beware brokers bearing gifts
'S LOANER DANGER - what's the risk of using a car dealer's temporary replacement vehicle?
SLOANE RANTER - malcontent MIT B-school student who harangues a lot
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DA LONA RANGER – spaghetti Western
(anagram: RONALD REAGAN)
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FERTIGATION
PRONUNCIATION: (fuhr-ti-GAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The application of fertilizer by adding it to the water in an irrigation system.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of fertilizer + irrigation. Earliest documented use: 1967. ____________________________
FARTIGATION - Something smells rotten in the State of Denmark
FEETIGATION - ditto
FERMIGATION - the creation of a Fermi Gate, a hypothetical wormhole through which an advanced alien civilization could observe our society without being seen - a possible resolution of the Fermi Paradox
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MISOPHONIA
PRONUNCIATION: (mi-soh-FOH-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An intolerance of certain sounds, such as chewing, slurping, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek miso- (hate) + -phonia (sound). Earliest documented use: 2001. ____________________________________
MISOPHOBIA - fear of Japanese soup
MISTOPHONIA - the sighing of the breeze, heard on a foggy morning
MIS-OPTONIA - improper eyeball pressure; glaucoma
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LAWFARE
PRONUNCIATION: (LAW-fare)
MEANING: noun: The use of the legal system to overwhelm an opponent.
ETYMOLOGY: From law + warfare. Earliest documented use: 1975. ______________________________
SLAWFARE - side order at the deli
LA FARE - price of a ticket to the West Coast
LOW FARE - airline advertising feature
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GERONTOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (jer-uhn-TOK-ruh-see)
MEANING: noun: The system of government by old people.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek geronto- (old) + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1830. Note that the word senate is, literally, a council of elders, from Latin senex (old). ______________________________________
IGERONTOCRACY - government as practiced by Disney Inc.
GERONTOCRAZY - senile dementia
GERON TOO RACY - Geron can't have anything scheduled during prime time
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