|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
CASTANEOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ka-STAY-nee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Deep reddish-brown.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin castanea (chestnut). Earliest documented use: 1688.
_______________________
FASTANEOUS - not quite at the same moment, but almost
CASTONEOUS - being the first to blame
CAST A NEVUS - go fishing using skin spots to bait your hook
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
RUBRICATE
PRONUNCIATION: (ROO-bri-kayt)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To color or mark with red.
2. To highlight or decorate.
3. To provide with a rubric (a guide, rule, commentary, etc.).
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rubricare (to color red), from rubrica (rubric, red earth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reudh- (red), which also gave us red, rouge, ruby, ruddy, rubella, robust, rambunctious, raddle, corroborate, roborant, robustious, rubicund, rufescent, and russet. Earliest documented use: 1570.
PRONUNCIATION: (ROO-bri-kayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To color or mark with red.
2. To highlight or decorate.
3. To provide with a rubric (a guide, rule, commentary, etc.).
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rubricare (to color red), from rubrica (rubric, red earth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reudh- (red), which also gave us red, rouge, ruby, ruddy, rubella, robust, rambunctious, raddle, corroborate, roborant, robustious, rubicund, rufescent, and russet. Earliest documented use: 1570.
________________
RUBBRICATE - to cover with a flexible insulating material
RUBICATE - to put an obstacle irrevocably behind you
HUBRICATE - to display overweening pride
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
CERULEAN
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-ROO-lee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Sky blue.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin caeruleus (sky blue), from caelum (sky). Earliest documented use: 1677.
______________________________
CERN LEAN - experimental physics research lab after repeated budget cuts
ACERULEAN - like dwarf or bonsai maple trees
CHERULEAN - angelic
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
BRUNNEOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (BRUH-nee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Dark brown.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin brunus (brown). Earliest documented use: 1815.
______________________________
HR-UNNEOUS - the Human Relations department is a one-person operation
RUNNEOUS - a high-scoring baseball game
BRUN NEONS - unusual brown-colored advertising signs outside the Folies-Bergère in Paris
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
VARIEGATE
PRONUNCIAION: VAR-ee-uh-gayt, VAR-i-gayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To diversify, enliven, or to make more interesting, especially with colors.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin variegare (to diversify with colors), from varius (various) + agere (to do). Earliest documented use: 1653.
_____________________________________
VARIG-GATE - a political scandal about airlines in Brazil
VARIEGAZE - don't look in the same place all the time
OVARIEGATE - egg-shaped
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
GOSHEN
PRONUNCIATION: (GO-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: A place of comfort and abundance.
ETYMOLOGY: After Goshen, a fertile region in Egypt, east of the Nile delta. In the Bible, it was allotted to the Israelites. They were also spared from the plagues of flies and hail. Earliest documented use: 1625.
________________________
GOT HEN - purchased a chicken
NOSHEN - the very idea!
GROSHEN - very small Austrian coins, paradoxically enough
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
CHRISTEN
PRONUNCIATION: (KRI-suhn)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To name someone or something.
2. To use something for the first time.
3. To initiate a person, especially a child, into the Christian church, by baptizing and giving a name.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English cristen (Christian), from Latin Christus, from Greek Khristos (anointed), from khriein (to anoint). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghrei- (to rub), which also gave us cream, grime, and grisly. Earliest documented use: c. 450 CE.
______________________________
CHRISTEEN - artist Jan's unheralded younger brother
CHRISTEIN - a vessel to contain sacramental beer
CHARISTEN - plural form in German of "charist," an old word meaning "a cook who always burns the meat"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
SODOM
PRONUNCIATION: (SAHD/SOD-uhm)
MEANING: noun: A place considered to be full of wickedness and sin.
ETYMOLOGY: After the biblical city of Sodom. In the biblical account, Sodom and Gomorrah were sinful places, so Yahweh rained fire and brimstone (sulfur) upon them. Earliest documented use: 1550.
______________________________________
ODOM - 1970s baseball pitcher for the Oakland As, the likes of whom you see only once in a Blue Moon
SODAM - before "hot," a common summertime complaint
S.O. DOME - Canadian sports arena, named for an oil company
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
RECHABITE
PRONUNCIATION: (REK-uh-byt)
MEANING: noun:
1. One who abstains from intoxicating drinks.
2. One who lives in tents.
ETYMOLOGY: After Rechabites, a biblical clan named after the patriarch Rechab, whose members were commanded to not drink, not live in houses (instead live in tents), and not cultivate fields. Earliest documented use: 1382.
_____________________________
REHABITE - one devoted to returning to their former state
RECHABYTE - an amount of computer data so large it'll make you sick to your stomach
RE: HABITE - now, about residing in France...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,735 Likes: 2 |
TOWER OF BABEL
PRONUNCIATION: (TOU-uhr ov BAY-buhl)
MEANINGnoun:
1. A scene of noise or confusion.
2. An ambitious or impractical plan.
ETYMOLOGY: From Hebrew Babhel (Babylon). According to the Bible, at one time everyone on Earth spoke the same language (though earlier it says that they spoke different languages). When people got together to build a city with a tower that reached the heavens, God was not happy and halted the project by confounding their speech, making them unable to understand one another. Earliest documented use: 1718.
_______________________________
TOWER OF BABE - 714 home runs, which stood for years until topped by Aaron
TOWEL OF BABEL - for when you've worked up a sweat trying to understand other people's language
TOPER OF BABEL - little-known fact that the calamity of Babel came because they drank too much to understand each other
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,614
Members9,187
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
202
guests, and
1
robot. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
