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from 9/30/26 above:
IDIOCRACY - government twice yearly by joyful Islamic festival, with minor lesser governing on a weekly basis
Correction: that should have been "EIDEOCRACY"
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ANDROGENOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (an-DROJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Producing only or predominantly male offspring.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek andro- (male) + -genous (producing). Earliest documented use: 1750s.
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ANDIROGENOUS - giving rise to fireplace instruments
ANEROGENOUS - without any component of sexual stimulation
ANDROGEN-OPUS - the synthesis of masculinizing hormone was a major accomplishment
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CALQUE
PRONUNCIATION: (kalk) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A word or expression formed by translating the components of a term from another language; a loan translation.
ETYMOLOGY: From French calque (copy), from calquer (to trace or copy), from Italian calcare (to press or tread), from Latin calcare (to tread on), from calx (heel). Earliest documented use: 1926.
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BALQUE - a relatively esoteric baseball term referring to a disallowed movement on the part of the pitcher permitting any baserunner to advance gratuitously
CALOQUE - vernacular for "in the vernacular"
CASQUE - flowery term for a barrel, though less precisely defined
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VINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (VY-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to, resembling, or containing wine.
2. Having the color of red wine.
3. Given to drinking wine excessively or showing the effects of doing so.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vinum (wine), which also gave us vintage and vignette. Earliest documented use: 15th c.
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VINCUS - a periwinkle plant
VINOUT - no more French wine!
VI NOUS - we six Parisians
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VORACITY
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh/vo-RAS-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: An excessive desire to eat or consume something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vorare (to devour). Earliest documented use: 1526.
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IVORACITY - a modren urban landscape carved from an elephant tusk
HORA CITY - the venue for the Israeli Dance festival
OVORACITY - egggishness
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VENUST
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-NUHST) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: adjective: Beautiful, graceful, elegant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin venustus (charming, beautiful), related to venus (love, charm) and to Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Earliest documented use: 1513.
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VENUE SET - we decided where we're perfoming
OVENUST - most roaster-like
RENU ST - where things are validated again
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CALENDER
PRONUNCIATION: (KAL-uhn-duhr) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A machine that presses paper, cloth, or other materials between rollers to smooth, glaze, or thin them.
verb tr.: To process material in such a machine.
ETYMOLOGY: From French calandre (calender) and calandrer (to calender), ultimately from Latin cylindrus (roller), from Greek kulindros (roller, cylinder), from kulindein (to roll). Earliest documented use: 1513.
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Ca-ENDER - the big earthquake that splits the San Andreas fault so far that the West Coast ends up 5 miles offshore
CALL-ENDER - "So long" - "Love ya" - "Me, too" - "Bye"
CAR-ENDER - the rear bumper
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WHEAL
PRONUNCIATION: (hweel, weel) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A small swelling on the skin, as from an insect bite, an allergic reaction, or a blow.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps an alteration of wale, from Old English walu (ridge). Earliest documented use: before 1390.
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WHEAZL - an animal that goes "Pop!" when you chase it all around the mulberry bush
WHE-ALL - first person plural subjective case pronoun in Biloxi
RHEAL - like a small three-toed ostrich-like bird that can't fly
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EXUTE
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-ZOOT/ZYOOT) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: verb tr.: To strip or deprive of something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exuere (to remove, strip off, or divest). Earliest documented use: 1535.
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EX-UTE - formerly a native of the North American southwest
E-MUTE - 1. to riot; 2. you, after your parents say "OK, That's it, you're off all social media for a week"
EXPUTE - to assert that a quality or motive is lacking in a person, cause, or object (cf. IMPUTE)
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IRRUPT
PRONUNCIATION: (i-RUHPT) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: verb intr.:
1. To burst or break in.
2. (Of a population) To increase suddenly in number.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin irrumpere, from in- (into) + rumpere (to break). Earliest documented use: 1855.
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IRR, UPS - a package with a minor or superficial defect not affecting its declared function, delivered by a brown truck
I.R. SUPT - the superintendent radiates warmth
IRRUST - I oxidize in Edinburgh if you leave me out in the rrain
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ZILLIONAIRE
PRONUNCIATION: (zil-yuh-NAYR) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A person with incalculably enormous wealth.
ETYMOLOGY: From zillion (a very large but unspecified amount), patterned on million and billion. Earliest documented use: 1926.
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NILLIONAIRE - a person with incalculably enormous wealth...until the market tanked
ZILLICONAIRE - a person who made iot of money from an electronics company based in California
ZILLIONAFIRE - when an expensive military satellite malfunctions and burns up on reentry
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SPIZZERINCTUM
PRONUNCIATION: (spiz-uh-RING-tuhm) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: Energy, courage, and determination.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin uncertain; perhaps from the US dialect word spizarinctum (cash), probably an alteration of specie (coin money). Earliest documented use: 1831.
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'S PIZZER INCUM - How Papa Gino's in Boston makes a profit
SIZZERIN' TUM - the beer-belly you get from using shears too much
SIZZLER INC. TUM - ...and the one you get from eating too much steak (sInce 1957, anyway; nowadays you'll have to go to California or Australia or Southeast Asia to patronize the restaurant)
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ZAZZY
PRONUNCIATION: (ZAZ-ee) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: adjective: Flashy, colorful, or stylish.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1961.
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RAZZY - (noun) onomatopoetic colloquial expresson of mockery
WAZZY - inebriated utterance of the verb "to be," past tense interrogatory, third person masculine singular
ZAZY - like the Zcandinavian Airlinez Zystem
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IZZARD
PRONUNCIATION: (IZ-uhrd) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: The letter Z.
ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of earlier ezod/ezed, probably from French et zede (and zed), said at the end of the alphabet. Earliest documented use: c. 1726.
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IZARD - implicit response to the Woodie Guthrie song "Hard, ain't it hard, ain't it hard / To love one who never did love you..."
SIZZARD - cut with shears
'IZCARD - what the Cockney throws when he wants to draw one in a game of Poker
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EPICUREAN
PRONUNCIATION: (ep-i-kyoo-REE-uhn, -KYOOR-ee-uhn) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: adjective: Devoted to refined sensual pleasure, especially fine food and comfortable living.
noun: A person with such tastes; an epicure.
ETYMOLOGY: After the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE). Earliest documented use: c. 1400.
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E-PICTUREAN - like a computer-generated image
EPIDUREAN - outside the outermost membrane (there are three) around the brain and spinal cord
EPIC UREA - a highly reactive source of nitrogen, prized in the manufacture of explosives
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HERODIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (huh-ROH-dee-uhn) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: adjective:
1. Cruel; tyrannical.
2. Pompous or bombastic.
ETYMOLOGY: After Herod the Great (c. 73-4 BCE), king of Judea under Roman authority. Earliest documented use: 1581.
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HE RODE AN - I don't know what he was sitting on, but it begins with a vowel
NERO DIA - the Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned had his birthday declared a holiday
HEROD: I CAN - Rome's declared King of Judea asserts his omnipotence to the Press[/b]
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HERODOTEAN
PRONUNCIATION: (hih-rahd-uh-TEE-uhn) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: adjective:
1. (Of an account or narrative) Very large in scope or extremely detailed.
2. Fanciful or overly dramatic.
ETYMOLOGY: After Herodotus (c. 484-425 BCE), Greek historian. Earliest documented use: 1748.
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HEROD OCEAN - what the Israelites had to cross when fleeing from slavery in Judea
HERO D.O.T. EARN - the protagonist got a paying job with the Department of Transportation
HER ODO TEAM - she let the shapeshifter and his department to help govern DS-9
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