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re: PRECOCIOUS - good point. Similarly - I suppose it's just about impossible to be tardy to the church service if you're PRELATE. Some other prefixes lend themselves well to this kind of wordplay. I'm thinking of a chatboard where we came up with dozens (if not hundreds) of misreadings invoking DIS-, allegedly meaning "not." Or not. DISASTER = remove a flower (or, if you're from Brooklyn, the flower at hand) DISCOVER = your Frisbee is upside down You get the idea.
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DAISY CUTTER
PRONUNCIATION: (DAY-zee kuht-uhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. In a ball game, a ball that moves close to the ground.
2. A horse that lifts its feet very little off the ground.
3. A bomb powerful enough to flatten a large area, such as a forest.
ETYMOLOGY: From daisy, from Old English dæges eage (day’s eye, referring to the flower closing at night) + cutter, from Middle English cutten. Earliest documented use: 1791.
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DAISY CURTER - she says even less than Donald
DARSY CUTTER - That would be Elizabeth ignoring her eventual swain in the first three-quarters of Pride and Prejudice
DAISY BUTTER - stupid goat keeps charging at the flowers, trying to hit them with its horns
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And PRELATE notwithstanding, I have to object to your declaration of No, not yet. If not now, when?
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SWAN SONG
PRONUNCIATION: (SWAN song)
MEANING: noun: A farewell or final performance, appearance, or accomplishment.
ETYMOLOGY: From the ancient belief that swans sang before dying. From Old English swan. Ultimately from the Indo-European root swen- (to sound), which also gave us sound, sonic, sonnet, sonata, and unison. Earliest documented use: 1596.
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SWAIN SONG - what Romeo sings to Juliet's balcony
SWANS OMG - very surprised to see the graceful white birds
SWAN'S O-NEG - he Ugly Duckling is a universal blood donor
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HAIRCUT
PRONUNCIATION: {HAIR-kuht)
MEANING: noun: A reduction in value.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hǣr + Middle English cutten. Earliest documented use: 1955.
NOTES: The term haircut is used metaphorically in many ways, such as when assessing the value of an asset pledged as collateral against a loan. For example, a bank might decide that an asset worth $1000 could take a 20% haircut and thus be used to secure a loan of at most $800. The term is also used for other reductions: a pay cut, a cut in benefits, a reduction in the repayment of a loan, etc.
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FAIRCUT - an equitable division
HAIR CUTE - that's a fetching new "do" you just got
"HA" IS CUT - all the humor has been removed from my production
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PICADILLY CIRCUS
PRONUNCIATION: (pik-uh-dil-ee SUHR-kuhs)
MEANING: noun: A place that is very busy, crowded, or noisy.
ETYMOLOGY: After Piccadilly Circus, a busy area in London where several roads meet. The area has tourist attractions, entertainment, shopping, and large illuminated ads. A circus here means a traffic roundabout, but what about Piccadilly? It’s named after a tailor who made a fortune selling piccadill/pickadill, a lace collar popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. The American equivalent of the term is Grand Central Station (a train station in New York City), though for look and feel Times Square (also in NYC) would be closer.
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PICK A DILLY CIRCUS - select a doozy
PISCADILLY CIRCUS - a compilation of tall tales and other unlikely yarns about the ones that got away
PICARD ILL; Y CIRCUS - Starship Captain is indisposed, and the club is is providing entertainmenet
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RUSTICLE
PRONUNCIATION: (RUHS-tuh/ti-kuhl)
MEANING: noun: An icicle-like formation of rust, as on an underwater shipwreck.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of rust + icicle, coined by oceanographer Robert Ballard while describing such formations on the hull of the Titanic, the wreckage of which he discovered. Earliest documented use: 1986.
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RUSTICLEF - a musical symbol covered with Fe2O3
LUSTICLE - aphrodysiac
RESTICLE - what's left of my frozen sherbet on two sticks
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INFODEMIC
PRONUNCIATION: (in-fuh/foh-DEM-ik)
MEANING: noun: A glut of mostly unreliable, rapidly spreading information relating to an event, crisis, disease, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of information + epidemic, coined by the author and columnist David J. Rothkopf in a Washington Post column about the SARS epidemic. Earliest documented use: 2003.
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IN-LODE MIC - lets miners call the surface
INTO DE MIC - where the emcee wants his guests to speak
INFODERMiC - some kinds of knowledge really get under your skin
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INTERROBANG (or INTERABANG)
PRONUNCIATION: (in-TER-uh-bang)
MEANING: noun: A punctuation mark (‽) formed by a question mark (?) superimposed on an exclamation point (!).
ETYMOLOGY: Coined in the TYPEtalks Magazine in which the editor Martin K. Speckter (1915-1988), an advertising executive, selected the word interrobang from the suggestions sent by the readers. From interrogation point (question mark) + bang (slang for exclamation point). Earliest documented use: 1962.
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INTERROBONG - smoking pot makes you question everything
INTERIOBANG - keep your explosions inside you
INTER A GANG - when you lure the chasing hoodlums into an ambush and trigger an avalanche
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TULGEY
PRONUNCIATION: (TUHL-jee)
MEANING: adjective: Thick, dark, and scary.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem “Jabberwocky” in the book Through the Looking-Glass, perhaps as a blend of tough/turgid + bulgy. Earliest documented use: 1871.
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THUL-GUY - native of the South Sandwich Isands
TULLEY - roaster and distributor of gourmet coffees
BULGEY - eating a bit too much, are we?
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