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REPTILIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (rep-TIL-ee-uhn, -TIL-yuhn)
MEANING.
adjective:
1. Contemptible.
2. Treacherous.
3. Like a reptile.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin reptile, from repere (to creep). Earliest documented use: 1835.
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SEPTILIAN - a one followed by about a gazlllon zeroes (or maybe only 21)
REPTILICAN - inhabitant of the country of Reptilica
RETILIAN - someone who favors redoing the bathroom down to the grout
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eager beaver
PRONUNCIATION:
/(ee-guhr BEE-vuhr)
MEANING: noun: One who is enthusiastic and hard-working, sometimes to the point of being overzealous.
ETYMOLOGY: From eager, from Old French egre, from Latin acer (sharp) + beaver, from Old English beofor. Earliest documented use: 1942.
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EAGER BEAVER
PRONUNCIATION: (ee-guhr BEE-vuhr)
MEANING: noun: One who is enthusiastic and hard-working, sometimes to the point of being overzealous.
ETYMOLOGY: From eager, from Old French egre, from Latin acer (sharp) + beaver, from Old English beofor. Earliest documented use: 1942
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EAGLER BEAVER - a swimming toothed rodent who hunts raptors
EAGER BEATER - a gung-ho Quiddich player with a paddle
EAGER SEAVER - Tom can't wait for his next turn to pitch
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TESTUDAL
PRONUNCIATION: testudinal
PRONUNCIATION: (tes-TOOD/TYOOD-i-nuhl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Slow.
2. Arched.
3. Old.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin testudo (tortoise). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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TEST U, DAN'L? - before you go into the Lion's Den, we should see whether you're coming down with COVID-19
TEST URAL - assay the earth from the euro-asian mountains
UTES-'TUDAL - really dislikes the Southwestern Indians
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WEASEL
PRONUNCIATION: (WEE-zuhl)
MEANING: noun: 1. Any of various small slender carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela.
2. A sneaky, cunning person.
verb intr.: 1. To evade an obligation.
2. To be evasive by using ambiguous or misleading words.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English wesule. Earliest documented use: c. 450 CE.
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WHEASEL - have a mild attack of asthma
WE, ABEL - Adam's son has a split personality
WEAK SEL - this Parisian salt has no flavor
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BIG FISH
PRONUNCIATION: (big fish)
MEANING: noun: An important person or entity.
ETYMOLOGY: From big, perhaps of Scandinavian origin + fish, from Old English fisc (fish). Earliest documented use: 1827.
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I.G. FISH - the Inspector General in charge of seafood
BIG GISH - Lillian's put on a lot of weight since her acting days, hasn't she
BIG FIST - adapted from Theodore Roosevelt: what you may need to carry if you don't have a stick but still you want to speak softly
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BRIDEWELL
PRONUNCIATION: (BRYD-wel)
MEANING: noun: A prison.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally it was a well, named for St. Bride (or Brigid) in London. The name St. Bride’s Well became Bridewell. Over time, the site has served as a church, a palace, an orphanage, a hospital, and finally, gained notoriety as a prison. Earliest documented use: 1583.
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BRIDGEWELL - what you have to play to be a Life Master
RIDEWELL - desirable quality for a horse at a Dude Ranch
BRIDE WEILL - generic way to refer to Lotte Lenya immediately after she married Kurt
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GULAG
PRONUNCIATION: (GOO-lahg)
MEANING: noun:
1. The system of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
2. Any prison or forced labor camp, especially one for political prisoners.
3. A place of great hardship.
ETYMOLOGY: From Russian Gulag, acronym from Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-trudovykh LAGerei (Chief Administration for Corrective Labor Camps). Earliest documented use: 1946.
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G. SLAG - seventh on a list of by-products of the production of iron from ore
GAUL A.G. - the Attorney General of ancient France
GUY-LAG - men can take a little longer to understand things sometimes
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CALABOOSE
PRONUNCIATION: (KAL-uh-boos)
MEANING: noun: A prison.
ETYMOLOGY: From Louisiana French calabouse, from Spanish calabozo (dungeon), from Latin calafodium, from fodere (to dig). Earliest documented use: 1797. Another Spanish word for a prison that has become part of the English language is hoosegow.
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CA. LA BOSE - high quality speakers made near Louisiana
CALLABOOSE - the lily display was rudely heckled
CA. LAB OOZE - my place in UCLA just synthesized Slime
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PANOPTICON
PRONUNCIATION: (pan-OP-ti-kon, puh-NAHP-ti-kahn)
MEANING: noun:
1. A circular prison with a watchtower in the center so that any inmate can be observed from a single point.
2. A place marked by constant surveillance.
ETYMOLOGY: The design of such a prison was proposed by the utilitarian and philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1787. From Greek pan (all) + optikon (sight, seeing). Earliest documented use: 1787.
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ANOPTICON - a magnifying device with no lenses in it (per Isaac Asimov)
PA? NO PAT ICON - when the states each selected a logo, Pennsylvania couldn't decide what theirs should be
PAIN-OPTICON - my hearing aids hurt my ears
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