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(continued from here, after 1,000+ posts!) ======================= HEIGHTISMPRONUNCIATION: (HY-tiz-uhm) MEANING: noun: Discrimination based on height, especially the unfair treatment of people who are short. ETYMOLOGY: Coined by sociologist Saul Feldman, from height, from Old English hehthu (height), from heah (high). Earliest documented use: 1971. _______________________________ HIGHTISM - discrimination based on one's name (obsolete) EIGHTISM - requirement that all mathematical statements shall be in Base 8 EIGHTISM (2) - monetary system based on the old Spanish dollar ( real de ocho) and its parts; "two bits" = a quarter = 25 ยข HEIGHTIST - synonym of aerialist, high-wire artist
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THEOPHORIC
PRONUNCIATION: (thee-uh/oh-FOR-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Having or derived from the name of a god.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek theo- (god) + -phoric (bearing). Earliest documented use: 1891.
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THEOPHOTIC - taking a picture of God
THEOCHORIC - singing God's praises (see also THEOPHONIC)
THEOPHORIC - I feel like a cup of tea
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EKPHRASIS
PRONUNCIATION: (EK-fruh-sis)
MEANING: noun: A description of or commentary on a work of visual art.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ecphrasis, from Greek ekphrasis (description), from ek (ex-, out) + phrazein (to explain). Earliest documented use: 1632.
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ELK PHRASIS - the Sayings of the BPOE
EKPHASIS - the opposite of EMPHASIS
EEKPHRASIS - mouse-aphobia
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DIEGETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (dy-uh-JET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Happening inside a story.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek diegesis (narrative). Earliest documented use: 1970.
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DIE AGE-TIC - in Berlin, the twitch in your eyelid that comes with growing oder
DI-ERGETIC - producing twice as much energy
DYE-GET, I.C. - an international company that produces and markets hair coloring
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YESTERWEEK
PRONUNCIATION: (YES-tuhr-week)
MEANING: noun: Last week.
adverb: During last week.
ETYMOLOGY: From yester- (a time one period before the present one), from Old English giestran (previous day) + week, from Old English wice (week). Earliest documented use: 1830.
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HESTERWEEK - the seven-day period when aficionados get together to re-read The Scarlet Letter.
EYES, TERWEEK! - Mr Terweek, copying answers from your neighbors' test papers is not permitted
YESTERWEED - a strain of marijuana so strong you're stoned for even before you use it
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TZIMMES or TSIMMES
PRONUNCIATION: (TSIM-is/uhs)
MEANING: noun:
1. Fuss; confusion.
2. A stew of fruits and vegetables, and sometimes meat.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish tsimes (stew). Earliest documented use: 1892.
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T. ZIMMER - less-known younger brother of the guy who replaced Jackie Robinson at 2nd Base
TO "I'M ME!"S - toasting the victims of identity theft
TRIMMES - modest haircuts at the Olde Barber Shoppe
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GRAVY TRAIN
PRONUNCIATION: (GRAY-vee trayn)
MEANING: noun: A situation offering a lot of money or benefits for little work.
ETYMOLOGY: The word gravy has been used for easily acquired money. Eventually it began to be used in the phrase: to ride the gravy train. Earliest documented use: 1895. See also sinecure.
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GRAVY TO RAIN - a task just a bit easier than turning wine into water
GRAVY STRAIN - taking the solids out of the drippings from roast turkey
GRAVY TRAIL - what Hansel and Gretel left after their father struck it rich and they ate roast beef instead of bread
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COLD TURKEY
PRONUNCIATION: (KOLD TUHR-kee)
MEANING: noun: 1. An abrupt and complete withdrawal, especially from an addiction.
2. A frank and direct expression of views.
adjective: Abrupt and complete.
adverb: Abruptly.
verb tr., intr.: To abruptly and completely withdraw, especially from something addictive.
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently from the serving of cold roast turkey which requires no preparation. Earliest documented use: 1921.
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OLD TURKEY - brand of cheap bourbon
COLA, TURKEY ! - Ya want root beer with that, fella?
COLD TURNKEY - even the guards wear a coat in that cheap Duke's dungeon
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NOTHINGBURGER
PRONUNCIATION: (NUH-thing-buhr-guhr)
MEANING: noun: Someone or something that turns out to be inconsequential.
ETYMOLOGY: From the metaphorical use of a burger missing a patty. Coined by Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons. Earliest documented use: 1942.
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NOT-HUNG BURGER - portrait of a bourgeois town resident that isn't yet up on the wall
BOTH IN G-BURG E.R. - the two of them have been taken to the city Emergency Room in Gettysburg
NO THINK! BURGER!! - Cookie Monster's cousin Hammie M. has no trouble deciding what to order at Macdonald's
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PLAIN VANILLA
PRONUNCIATION: (PLAYN vuh-NIL-uh)
MEANING: adjective: The basic, plain, or bland.
ETYMOLOGY: From plain + vanilla, from Spanish vainilla (little pod), from vaina (sheath), from Latin vaginฮฑ (sheath) + -illa (diminutive suffix). Earliest documented use: 1942.
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Once vanillin, the organic compound that gives vanilla its flavor, was synthesized, it became cheap to use vanilla flavor. It became the default flavor of ice-cream and soon the term was used for anything basic, unadorned, without any extras.
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PLAIN MANILLA - a simple unadorned Philippine city
SWAIN VANILLA - an uunremarkable, ordinary-loooking, but dependable suitor
PLAID VANILLA - a sweet Scottish dessert flavor
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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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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. Brideโs 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 ispravitelโno-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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LOB'S POUND
PRONUNCIATION: (LOBZ pound or lobz POUND)
MEANING: noun:
1. Prison.
2. Difficulty.
3. Entanglement.
ETYMOLOGY: From lob (a bumpkin, lout) + pound (enclosure). Earliest documented use: 1597.
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LOB'S POND - fishing hole out in the country
LOEB'S POUND - one-man show about the modernist American poet, commissioned by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA
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ALIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (AL-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Nutritious; nourishing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin alere (to nourish). Ultimately from the Indo-European root al- (to grow or to nourish), which also gave us adolescent, adult, old, alumnus, altitude, enhance, coalesce, prolific, altricial, adolesce, hauteur, and palimony. Earliest documented use: 1653.
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FALIBLE - capable of making misstakes
ALIBLED - what happened when the boxer sustained a cut
ALL-BLร - nothing but locally-grown flour in our French bread
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FULGURANT
PRONUNCIATION: (FUHL/FULL-guh-ruhnt)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Flashing like lightning.
2. Brilliant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fulgurate (to flash), from fulgor (brightness), from fulgere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which also gave us blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, flame, refulgent , fulminate, and effulgent. Earliest documented use: 1611.
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FULGRANT - a generous scholarship from the US government to fund "educational exchange" for US citizens to study abroad, and foreign students to do research here, at many levels of post-graduate study; it was begun after World War II after being proposed by Senator J. William Fulbright.
FULGURANTE - what you need to join a red-hot poker game
FUGURANT - capable of being developed into a many-voiced musical composition; Johann Sebastian Bach was a master of this type of composition
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ANFRACTUOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (an-FRAK-choo-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Full of twists and turns.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin anfractus (winding), from an- (around) + fractus, past participle of frangere (to break). Earliest documented use: 1425.
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ANFRANCTUOUS - like the diary of a young girl caught up with her family in a catastrophic situation beyond her control
ANFRACTIOUS - not unruly, quarrelsome, testy
ANFRACTUOUS - never looking similar, no matter how much the scale is magnifed or reduced
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HELlOTROPIC
PRONUNCIATION: (hee-lee-uh-TROP-ik, -TROH-pik)
MEANING: adjective: Turning toward the sun or the light.
ETYMOLOGY: from Greek helio- (sun) + -tropic (turning). Earliest documented use: 1875.
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HELlCOTROPIC - attracted to screwing
HELLOTROPIC - tending to turn to face those who greet you
ELlOT RO PIC - a photographic image created by Mr. E. Ro
HE-LlON TROPIC - preferring the lion with the best mane
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ANTELUCAN
PRONUNCIATION: (an-tuh-LOO-kuhn)
MEANING: adjective: Before dawn.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ante- (before) + lux (light). Earliest documented use: 1609.
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INTEL-U-CAN ! - motivational slogan for a chip-maker
TANTE LUCAN - my mother's sister from Berlin
ANTE-LUCAS - that would be Hollywood before 1977 and the release of Star Wars (His American Graffiti had come out in 1973, but that doesn't count)
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TERGIVERSATE
PRONUNCIATION: (tuhr-JIV-uhr-sayt, TUHR-juh-vuhr-sayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To evade or to equivocate.
2. To change oneโs loyalties.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tergiversari (to turn oneโs back), from tergum (back) + vertere (to turn). Earliest documented use: 1654.
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FERGIVER SATE - ran outa patience with this kind of behavior
TERGID VERSATE - producing bulging, ready-to-pop poetry
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LOGGERHEAD
PRONUNCIATION: (LOG-uhr-hed)
MEANING: noun:
1. A blockhead: a dull or slow-witted person.
2. A loggerhead turtle.
ETYMOLOGY: From dialectal logger (block of wood) + head, from Old English heafod (top of the body). Earliest documented use: 1595.
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LODGERHEAD - where the residents of the boarding house meet their bathroom needs
LONGERHEAD - one way to differentiate among hammers
LOGGER HEAR - how he knows to get out of the way when a tree is falling
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HOUGH
PRONUNCIATION: (hok)
MEANING: verb tr.: To cripple, disable, or to make ineffective.
noun: The joint in the hind leg of a quadruped animal such as a horse, equivalent to the ankle in a human.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hoh (heel). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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PHO: UGH! - I don't like that Vietnamese soup
HAUGH - a pugnacious air of superiority; if you have it you are "haughty"
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ANTIFRACTIOUS - holding together, like the strong nuclear force
ANTIFACTIOUS - dogmatic and untrue
ANAFRACTIOUS - breaking up (opposite of catafractious, breaking down)
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MERGIVERSATE - to summarize a chapter of the Bible
DIRGIVERSATE - to write elegiac poetry
TERGIVELATE - wearing a veil on one's back
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HOUGH HAI - Oh yes (an archaic dialect form of Och aye, pronounced the same)
O'HUGH - former derogatory term for a person of mixed Irish and Norman descent
HOUGHNUT - slang English term for a Huguenot (rhymes with 'doughnut')
HOUGH HOUGH HOUGH - Santa's cry (a pretentious literary spelling of 'Ho ho ho')
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MIDDLEBROW
PRONUNCIATION: (MID-uhl-brou)
MEANING: adjective: 1. (describing a person) Having tastes and interests that lie somewhere between sophisticated and vulgar.
2. (describing a work of art) Neither sophisticated nor vulgar.
noun: A person who has conventional tastes and interests.
ETYMOLOGY: Formed on the pattern of highbrow and lowbrow. From middle, from Old English middel (middle) + bru (brow). Earliest documented use: 1912.
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MUDDLEBROW - an eyebrow raised only part way because you're only slightly puzzled
MIDDLEBREW - beer that has been decanted halfway through the fermentation process
MIDDLE-FROW - second German wife out of three
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FOOTLOOSE
PRONUNCIATION: (FUUT-loos)
MEANING: adjective: Free to go or do as one pleases without concerns or commitments.
ETYMOLOGY: From foot, from Old English fot (foot) + loose, from Old Norse laus (loose). Earliest documented use: 1650.
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FORTLOOSE - military installation near Tacoma, Washington
AFOOT; LOOSE - pair of synonyms for "roaming free and untrammeled"
FONTLOOSE - the result of not spacing your type so all the lines on the composing stick are the same length. It's unfortunately easy to pie your type in this situation...
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DOGFOOD
PRONUNCIATION: (DOG-food)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To test a companyโs product by having its employees use it in their regular workday.
ETYMOLOGY: From dog + food. The origins of the term are disputed. Earliest documented use: 1996.
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DIGFOOD - beets and other root crops, grubs, peanuts, potatoes, truffles, and any of a number of other edibles that grow undergrounnd
HOGFOOD - "What's that slop you're eating?" said Ralph Kramden to Ed Norton
DOG.FOO - an experimental dog for beta-testing; can be altered for development while original remains as archival copy
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DOT-CONNECT
PRONUNCIATION: (DOT-kuh-nekt)
MEANING: verb intr.: To make connections between different pieces of information in order to reach a conclusion.
ETYMOLOGY: From the expression โto connect the dotsโ. From puzzles in which a line is drawn between a sequence of numbered dots to reveal a picture. From dot, of uncertain origin + connect, from Latin connectere (to join together). Earliest documented use: 2003.
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DON'T-CONNECT - two or more things that should not be juxtaposed lest dire consequences follow
DOC-CONNECT - to reach an actual physician
DOT-CONVECT - to float gently but randomly in the sunlight, llke dust particles
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CROWDFUNDPRONUNCIATION: (KRAUD-fuhnd) MEANING: verb tr.: To fund a project by raising money from a large number of people, mostly strangers and usually via the Internet. ETYMOLOGY: From crowd, from cruden (to press, to hurry) + fund, from Latin fundus (bottom, estate). Earliest documented use: 2008. ________________________ CROW-FUND - ask random people for money for the benefit of Corvids CROWD-FOUND - raise a mob CROWN-FUND - see Morton's Fork
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NEURODIVERGENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (nyoor-oh-duh/dy-VUHR-juhns)
MEANING: noun: The diversity of brain function, encompassing variations from what is considered typical.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek neuro (nerve) + divergence, from Latin di-/dis- (apart), from Latin vergere (to bend). Earliest documented use: 2013.
NOTES: Neurodivergence includes conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and others. It underscores that there is no single โnormalโ way the brain functions. The opposite of neurodivergent is neurotypical.
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NEURODIVENGENCE - retaliating against your subconscious
NEUTRODIVERGENCE - getting your ass in gear
EURODIVERGENCE - fragmentation in the EC.
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DEEPFAKE
deepfake
PRONUNCIATION: (DEEP-fayk)
MEANING: noun: Digitally manipulated images, video, or audio that make someone appear to do or say something they did not.
ETYMOLOGY: A combination of deep learning + fake. Coined by a user of the Reddit website. Earliest documented use: 2017.
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DEEPLAKE - Lake Mead
BEEPFAKE - when the driver behind you honks the horn and pulls out to go around you, but doesn't speed up enough to pass
KEEP FAKE - I know it's counterfeit but I still want to retain it for myself
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MIDDLESOW - pig in the middle
MIDDLEBOW - the viola player in a string trio or quartet
FIDDLEBROW - the bridge on a violin
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FOOTHOSE - socks
FOOLHOOSE - old Scottish term for a lunatic asylum
FOOTMOUSSE - ointment used in chiropody
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HOT-CONNECT - to weld
SOT CONNECT - dating agency for alcoholics
DOT-CORRECT - to be a stickler for accuracy and detail
Last edited by A C Bowden; 03/17/24 01:41 AM.
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NEURODETERGENCE - brainwashing
NEUTRODIVERGENCE - a mutation that is neither beneficial nor harmful
NUCLEODIVERGENCE - the difference between isotopes of a chemical element
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ADAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (AD-ij)
MEANING: noun: A general truth conveyed succinctly and often metaphorically.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ad- (to) + aio (I say). Earliest documented use: 1530.
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ADOGE - Venetian nobleman and head of state
A.D. AGE - the Christian Era
ADDAGE - what kids do on their fake ID
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ACCEDE
PRONUNCIATION: (ak-SEED)
MEANING: verb intr.
1. To agree to a request, proposal, or demand, especially at the insistence of someone.
2. To assume a high office, such as a throne.
3. To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ad- (to) + cedere (to yield). Earliest documented use: 1465.
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ACEDE - what grows into aplant
TACCEDE - rolled down to the end of the runway prior to takeoff
ACC ODE - a poem extolling the benefits of the American College of Cardiology
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EFFACE
PRONUNCIATION: (i-FAYS)
MEANING: verb tr.: To erase or to make inconspicuous.
ETYMOLOGY: From French effacer, from Latin ex- (out, away) + facies (face). Earliest documented use: 1490.
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EFFARE (1) - paying for passage on public transportation with your smartphone
EFFARE (2) - a clandestine sexual relationship
LEF-FACE - a command from your drill sergeant
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FACADE
PRONUNCIATION: (fuh-SAHD)
MEANING: noun:
1. The front of a building or a side facing a street or a public space.
2. The front part of something.
3. A false or superficial appearance.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French faรงade, from Italian facciata, from faccia (face), from Latin facia (face), from facies (face). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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FICADE - a deduction from your wages to pay for for future Social Security Retirement benefits
FARรADE - a tongue-in-cheek representation, intended not to be taken seriously
FACTADE - an enzyme supplement that may make unpleasant truths easier to swallow
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BEACHHEAD
PRONUNCIATION: (BEECH-hed)
MEANING: noun:
1. An area of the shore secured by an advancing military force from which to advance further inland.
2. A foothold opening the way for further advance.
ETYMOLOGY: From beach, of unknown origin + Old English heafod (top of the body). Earliest documented use: 1920.
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REACH HEAD - I managed to get to the outhouse
BEACH-HEAL - what you long for after you burn your feet on the hot sand
BE ACTH HEAD - Cushingoid facies from a pituitary tumor
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FANCADE - parade of a victorious football team showing the Cup to their supporters
FACILADE - simplified version of a classic literary work
FANCYADE - upmarket drink made from a blend of exotic fruit juices
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BLEACHHEAD - to brainwash (as in NEURODETERGENCE)
EACHHEAD - per capita
BEACHYHEAD - geographical feature similar to the well-known cliff on the south coast of England
BREACHHEAD - medieval spiked club
BEACHHEAD - Gaelic transliteration of 'behead'.
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WHELM
PRONUNCIATION: (hwelm, welm)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To submerge.
2. To overcome; overwhelm.
noun: An overwhelming or engulfing quantity of something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hwelman. Earliest documented use: verb 1300, noun 1576.
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CHELM - literary middle-European city inhabited by innocent but well meaning dummies
WHY ELM? - Can't anywhere else be the site of nightmares?
WHEEL M - the thirteenth part of a complicated gadget drawn by Rube Goldberg
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KNEECAP
PRONUNCIATION: (NEE-kap)
MEANING: noun: A small, flat, triangular bone that covers the front of the knee.
verb tr.: 1. To attack the knee as a way to cripple someone.
2. To undermine or disable, especially in an excessive manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From knee, from Old English cneow + cap, from Old English caeppe, from Latin cappa (cap). Earliest documented use: noun: 1660, verb: 1975. Also see hough and hamstring.
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KNEE CAPP - the middle joint on Li'l Abner's legs
KNEE CHAP - how you disable an assailant in the seedier parts of London
KNEE "C" APP - a small smartphone program that enables your third knee
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GEGG
PRONUNCIATION: (geg)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To play a hoax or practical joke.
noun: A trick or practical joke.
ETYMOLOGY: Of Scottish origin. Earliest documented use: verb: 1826, noun: 1855.
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GREGG - a common school of transcribing Shorthand [Pitman being the other]
GENG - past tense of Scottish "gang", as in "the best-laid plans...geng aft agley"
GEGI - what comes around goes around ("garbage egress, garbage ingress")
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T-BONE
PRONUNCIATION: (TEE-bohn)
MEANING: verb tr.: To collide with the side of, especially referring to a vehicle. Also known as broadside.
noun: 1. A collision of this kind.
2. A cut of meat with a T-shaped bone.
ETYMOLOGY: From the shape of the T-shaped bone. Earliest documented use: literal: 1916, metaphorical: noun: 1938, verb: 1968
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dB-ONE - a brand of commercial amplifier
TB. CONE - a device for the protection of medical workers who might be exposed to tuberculosis patients
T-BORNE - carried by the Metropolitan Transit Authority
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MANICURE
PRONUNCIATION: (MAN-i-kyoor)
MEANING: noun: A cosmetic treatment of a personโs hands, especially the nails.
verb tr., intr.: 1. To take care of the hands and fingernails.
2. To groom in a meticulous manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From French manicure (now manucure), from Latin manus (hand) + cura (care). Earliest documented use: noun: 1866, verb: 1893.
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MAGICURE - a panacea that stopped off on Madison Avenue
PANICURE - it's used to calm a frightened mob
MANICURVE - any of several serpentine roads along the California shoreline - you gotta be crazy to drive on them
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UMBRA
PRONUNCIATION: (UHM-bruh)
MEANING: noun:
1. Shade; shadow.
2. The darkest inner part of a shadow, as during an eclipse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin umbra (shade, shadow). Earliest documented use: 1601. Some other words coined from the same Latin root are bumbershoot, umbriferous, umber, adumbrate, and umbrage.
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JUMBRA - extra-large brassiere
UM, BREA - it's tar, I think
DUMB RA - stupid Sun God !
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OCCULTATION
PRONUNCIATION: (ah-kuhl-TAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. The state of being hidden or blocked.
2. The passage of a celestial object in front of another, hiding it from view.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin occultare (to conceal), frequentative of occulere (to conceal), from culere (to hide). Earliest documented use: 1453.
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OSCULTATION - mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
OCCULTATICON - old mechanical device for displaying eclipses (see "orrery")
ROCCULTATION - commercialization of the the popularity and reputation of boxer Marciano
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PENUMBRA
PRONUNCIATION: (pi/puh-NUHM-bruh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A surrounding area or fringe, a zone of influence or activity that is less distinct or certain.
2. A partly shaded region between fully dark and fully lit.
3. The diffuse area around the dark central area of a sunspot.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin paene (almost) + umbra (shadow). Earliest documented use: 1665.
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OPENUMBRA - what you do in the ra (that's "the start of rain")
PENUM BARA - little-known cousin of silent movie star Theda
PENTUMBA - dance popular in Latin America in the 1960s after Dave Brubeck released "Take Five"
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UMBRAGEOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (uhm-BRAY-juhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Inclined to take offense easily.
2. Cast in shadow; shaded.
3. Providing shade.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin umbra (shade, shadow) + -ous (full of). Earliest documented use: 1587.
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YUMBRAGEOUS - sinfully tasty
'UMBLAGEOUS - disagreeably unctuous and blatantly subservient
UMBRAGE-TOUS - (French) sensing disrespect everywhere; offended by everything
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OCULATION - making eyes at someone
OCTALATION - conversion of a number from base 10 to base 8
INCULTATION - wacky initiation ceremony
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TOTALITY
PRONUNCIATION: (toh-TAL-i/uh-tee)
MEANING: noun:
1. The condition or quality of being complete or whole.
2. An aggregate amount or sum.
3. The phase of an eclipse when an obscuring body completely blocks the light source, e.g., when the moon completely blocks the view of the sun.
ETYMOLOGY: From total, from Latin totus (entire). Earliest documented use: 1598.
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TOTAMITY - the full amount of comradeship
TORALITY - 1. doughnut-shapedness; 2. degree of holiness ascribed to a sacred writing
TOTALITE - upper-caste person with everything
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PRECIPITATE
PRONUNCIATION: (verb: pri-SIP-i-tayt; noun, adjective: pri-SIP-i-tit/tayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To make something, especially something undesirable, happen prematurely or suddenly.
2. To throw suddenly.
3. To cause (water vapor in the atmosphere) to condense and fall as rain, snow, hail, etc.
4. To cause a solid substance to be separated from a solution.
verb intr.: 1. To separate from a solution as a solid.
2. To condense from water vapor in the atmosphere and fall as rain, snow, hail, etc.
adjective: 1. Headlong; hasty; rash; abrupt.
2. Happening unexpectedly.
noun: 1. A solid separated from a solution.
2. Moisture condensed as rain, snow, hail, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin praecipitare (to cast down headlong), from prae- (before) + caput (head). Earliest documented use: 1528.
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PRECAPITATE - before the enumeration (before the heads were counted)
PRECUPITATE - before Cupid shot his arrow
PRECHIPITATE - when computers used vacuum tubes
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TITRATE
PRONUNCIATION: (TY-trayt)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To carefully adjust something in measured increments to achieve a desired balance or effect.
2. To determine the concentration of a solution by gradually adding another solution until a specific reaction, often indicated by a color change, occurs.
ETYMOLOGY: From French titrer (to assay), from titre (title, fineness of alloyed gold or silver). Earliest documented use: 1860.
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TINTRATE - hairdesser's fee
NITRATE - the charge for picking louse eggs outa the kids' hair
TATRATE - what it costs to get a tattoo
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PEDUMBRA - the shadow cast by one's feet while walking.
PLENUMBRA - complete darkness.
PENUMBRATE - to adumbrate, but not very much.
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CRUCIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (KROO-suh/si-buhl)
MEANING: noun:
1. A vessel used for heating substances to a high temperature.
2. A trying experience.
3. A situation or place where forces interact to bring about great changes.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin crucibulum (crucible). Earliest documented use: 1475.
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CRUCICLE - the vacation ship's staff enjoys a frozen treat on a stick (originally, two sticks)
CRUBIBLE - Holy Scripture with very short almost velvety pages
CARUCIBLE - like a male voice range capable of reaching high notes
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VOLATILE
PRONUNCIATION: (VOL-uh-tuhl/tyl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Fluctuating widely and unpredictably.
2. Evaporating easily.
3. Explosive.
4. Capable of flying.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin volare (to fly), which also gave us volitant, vole, and volley. Earliest documented use: 1325.
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VIOLATILE - made of fiddle-shaped stones, that can cover a floor or a wall
OVOLATILE - round or egg-shaped
VOILร-TILE - fond of saying "There it is!" on every occasion
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SUBLIMATE
PRONUNCIATION: (verb: SUHB-luh-mayt, noun, adj.: -mit)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To divert basic or instinctual impulses to something more socially acceptable.
2. To refine or purify.
verb tr., intr.: To directly transform from solid to gas, or vice versa, bypassing the liquid state.
adjective: Refined; purified; elevated; exalted.
noun: A substance obtained by sublimating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sublimare (to elevate). Earliest documented use: 1425.
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STUBLIMATE - your Significant Other didn't shave
SULLI-MATE - W S Gilbert
SUBLIMEATE - steak dinner at the Capital Grille restaurant
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CRUCIBLE (adj) - potentially crucial.
CRUCIBELL - 19th-century warning signal on road/rail crossings.
CRUCIBALL - (1) spot-the-ball newspaper soccer puzzle. (2) game played in medieval monasteries, between two teams representing God and the Devil (banned by the papal decree De Ludis Profanis).
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NEOPHILIA
PRONUNCIATION: (nee-uh-FIL-ee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The love of whatโs new or novel.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek neo- (new) + -philia (love). Earliest documented use: 1899. The opposite is neophobia.
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ONE-O-PHILIA - love of tightly-fought low-scoring games
DEOPHILIA - affection for The Banana-Boat Song ("Daylight Come and me want go Home")
NETOPHILIA - penchant for playing way up toward the front of the tennis court
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PYROPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (py-roh-FOH-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An extreme fear of fire.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pyro- (fire) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1858.
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PAROPHOBIA - fear of not making the cut after you've shot only even par on the first two rounds
SYROPHOBIA - fear of living in Damascus
YR-O-PHOBIA - the club that gifts you a different fear every day for 365 days
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ZOOLATRY
PRONUNCIATION: (zo-OL-uh-tree)
MEANING: noun:
1. The worship of animals.
2. Extreme devotion to animals, for example, to oneโs pets.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zoo- (animal) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1784.
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AZO-OLATRY - worship of nitrogen
BOOLATRY - worship of simple logical concepts ( and, or, not, both )
ZOO, LARRY? - Curly and Moe are thinking of visiting the captive animals on display
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CRYPTOGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (krip-tuh-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Of unknown origin or cause.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek crypto- (secret, hidden) + -genic (producing, produced by). Earliest documented use: 1873.
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CRYPTOGENIE - Robin Williams blue cartoon character role in Aladdin at its most obscure
CRY "PETOGENIC" - claim loudly that something is the origin of domesticated animals
CRAPTOGENIC - describing the source of all b******t
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SUBLINEATE - to underline.
S'BLIMEY MATE (contraction of "May Jesus blame me") - oath used in parts of 19th-century London.
DUBLINATE (adj) - pertaining to the style of James Joyce and his imitators.
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PROPRIOCEPTION
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-pree-uh/oh-SEP-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The awareness of location of parts of oneโs body.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin proprius (oneโs own) + reception, from recipere (to receive), from capere (to take). Earliest documented use: 1906.
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PROPRIOCEPT-ICON - how you recognize the applet that displays the location of your body parts
PRO PRIORCEPTION - in favor of picking up an earlier broadcast
PRO PRINCEPTION - a professional campaign director to facilitate the ascension of the eldest son to the throne
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MACROSMOTICPRONUNCIATION: (mak-rahz-MAT-ik) MEANING: adjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek macro- (large) + osmatic, from French osmatique, from Greek osme (smell). Earliest documented use: 1890. ___________________________________ MACRO-S'MORIC - like very large cookies made of Graham crackers and chocolate bits and marshmallows MACRO-SMOOTIC - longer than the Harvard Bridge in Boston (which is 364.4-and-one-ear Smoots in length) MACH-OSMOTIC - diffusing through a semi-permeable membrane at supersonic speed
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PHOTOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (fo-tuh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek photo- (light) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1772.
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PROTOPHOBIA - a fear that is as yet only half-formed
PHOBOPHOBIA - what Franklin D Roosevelt was warning about with his admonition "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself"
PHONOPHOBIA - fear of the needle shrieking while skittering across an old 78-rpm record
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AMUSIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ay-MYOO-zee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The inability to recognize, reproduce, or appreciate music.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek a- (not) + mousike (music), from Mousa (Muse). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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AMUSIAL - not having a shortstop, in St Louis
CAMUSIA - strangeness (just ask a scholar of French literature)
"AM USA !" - said Uncle Sam when he was just a nephew
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GUSTATORY
PRONUNCIATION: (GUHS-tuh-TOR-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the sense of taste.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin gustare (to taste). Earliest documented use: 1684.
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JUSTATORY - dismissive pre-Revoutionary-War term for anyone sympathetic with the British
GESTATORY - pertaining to pregnancy
ANGUSTATORY - beef-flavored
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ELLIPTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (i-LIP-tik)
MEANING: adjective
1. Marked by extreme economy of expression in speech or writing.
2. Cryptic, ambiguous, or obscure.
3. Marked by ellipsis: the omission of one or more words from a sentence.
4. Relating to or shaped like an ellipse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek eleipein (to come short). Earliest documented use: 1715. The word is also used in its longer form, elliptical.
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ELLIP-STIC - mouth-coloring for men
ELL-OPTIC - the twelfth lens
ELI-P.T.-IC - like freshman Physical Education at Yale
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TRIANGULATION
PRONUNCIATION: (try-ang-gyuh-LAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. Determining the position of a point by measuring angles to it from two points a known distance apart.
2. Positioning between two extremes, especially in politics.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin triangulare (to make a triangle), from triangulus (three-cornered). Earliest documented use: 1818.
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TRIANNULATION - three simultaneous divorce ceremonies
TRI-BANGULATION - wearing exactly three wristlets
TRIANNULATION - converting a modest show into a three-ring circus
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SQUARELY
PRONUNCIATION: (SKWAIR-lee)
MEANING: adverb:
1. In a straightforward or frank manner.
2. Firmly.
3. Directly.
4. At right angles.
ETYMOLOGY: From square, from Latin exquadrare (to square). Earliest documented use: 1557.
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SQUAD-RELY - a US Armed Forces habit: the practice of depending on ones companions
QUARELY - iritable
'SQUARTELY - it's by 32-ounce increments
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TANGENT
PRONUNCIATION: (TAN-juhnt)
MEANING: noun: 1. A line of thought or action that diverges from the main topic or course.
2. A line that touches a curve or a surface at one point but doesnโt cross it.
adjective: 1. Straying from the main topic.
2. Touching a curve or a surface at one point without crossing it.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin tangere (to touch). Earliest documented use: 1594.
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TAN-GENE - ...and he gets darker-skinned, not sunburnt, just like everyone else in his family
BAN-GENT - the rule says No Men Allowed
DANG E.N.T. - dad-burned otorhinolaryngologist
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ASYMPTOTE
PRONUNCIATION: (AS-im-toht)
MEANING: noun:
1. Something or someone that gets closer and closer but never touches.
2. A straight line whose distance to a curve approaches zero as the curve approaches infinity.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek asymptotos (not falling together), from a- (not) + syn (with) + ptotos (falling), from piptein (to fall). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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ASYMPTONE - what a symp sounds like (see also ASYMPNOTE)
A SYMPH TOTE - a souvenir gift for donating to your local orchestra
EASY M.P. TOTE - a simple way to carry Military Police
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SNAIL MAIL
PRONUNCIATION: (SNAYL-mayl)
MEANING: noun: The physical delivery of letters and other material. Also, a piece of such mail.
verb tr., intr.: To send a letter or other material by the postal system.
ETYMOLOGY: From snail, known for its sluggishness, from Old English snรฆgl + mail, from Old French malle (bag). Earliest documented use: 1929.
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NAIL MAIL - armor made by cutting the heads off nails and twisting the remaining shafts into interlocking rings to form a deflector when worn
STAIL MAIL - when you send a check to your bank and it's returned because it took more than six months to arrive
SAIL MAIL - an invitation to join the crew of an Americas' Cup yacht
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GREENMAIL
PRONUNCIATION: (GREEN-mayl)
MEANING: noun: The practice of buying a large quantity of a companyโs stock as a means of hostile takeover, then selling it back to the company at a higher price.
verb tr.: To subject a company to this tactic.
ETYMOLOGY: From green (money), from greenback (US currency note, from the color of its printing) + mail (as in blackmail), from Middle English male (rent or tribute), from Old English mal (agreement, pay), from Old Norse mal (agreement). Earliest documented use: 1983.
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GREENMALL - a place to buy flowers, vegetables, seedings, grass, sod, and other organics, along with the tools and supplies useful in nurturing them, with many vendors in one market
AGREE'N'MAIL - what you do with the contract from an online company
GREEDMAIL - spam
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POSTAL
PRONUNCIATION: (POHS-tuhl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to the mail or the post office.
2. Very angry, insane, or violent.
ETYMOLOGY: From French poste, from the posting of horse riders at intervals to transport letters along a route. Earliest documented use: sense 1: 1842, sense 2: 1993.
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POSIAL - Flowery
PROSTAL - Of or pertaining to a cancer that afflicts only men
PROSTAL - when a paid athlete takes much more time than necessary to make his next action
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MAILED FIST
PRONUNCIATION: (MAYLD fist)
MEANING: noun: A threat or show of force to maintain control.
ETYMOLOGY: Translation of German gepanzerte Faust (mailed fist), from Panzer (armor) + Faust (fist). The word mail here is an armor made of interlinked rings, as in chain mail, from Old French maile (loop). Earliest documented use: 1897.]
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MAILED FISH - starts to smell after three days...
MA, I LED LIST - Look, Mother, I was the first one mentioned!
MAULED FIST - my third metatarsal bone is broken
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GRAYMAIL
PRONUNCIATION: (GRAY-mayl)
MEANING: noun: 1. A defense tactic in an espionage trial where the accused threatens to reveal secrets to avoid prosecution.
2. Email that the recipient no longer finds valuable even though itโs not spam. For example, a newsletter from a company where one has shopped.
verb tr.: To compel the prosecution to drop charges by threatening to disclose sensitive information.
ETYMOLOGY: Formed on the pattern of blackmail, utilizing โgrayโ to denote something that is indeterminate or falls into a โgray areaโ. The word mail here (as in blackmail) is from Middle English male (rent or tribute), from Old English mail (agreement, pay), from Old Norse mal (agreement). Earliest documented use: 1978.
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BRAYMAIL - postal service on Animal Farm
GRANMA, IL - how I just addressed a card to my father's mother in Chicago
GRAYMAIR - the old horse ain't what she used to be, now that she's aging
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'A' TYMPNOTE - type of tuning for kettledrums
A LIMPNOTE - not a bang but a whimper
ASEPTITE - soft mineral that can be rubbed against the hands to sterilize them
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POSITAL - hypothetical
PASTAL - relating to spaghetti etc
PROS(I)TAL - full of Bavarian heartiness
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GALVANIC
PRONUNCIATION: (gal-VAN-ik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Stimulating; energizing; shocking.
2. Relating to electric current, especially direct current.
ETYMOLOGY: After Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), physician and physicist known for his pioneering experiments on the electrical stimulation of animal tissues, which demonstrated the existence of electricity within biological organisms. Earliest documented use: 1797.
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GAL MANIC - the woman goes crazy sometimes
GALVANIA - a small former SSR just east of Minsk
GALLANIC - French, and full of respect, courtesy, and consideration
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STAN
PRONUNCIATION: (stan)
MEANING: noun: An extremely zealous or obsessive fan.
verb tr., intr.: To be or act as such a fan.
ETYMOLOGY: After Stan (short for Stanley), the title character of rap artist Eminemโs song from the year 2000. Earliest documented use: 2000.
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ISTAN - the former Constantinople, after the male in the herd died
STOAN - what you don't want to throw first, but you also don't want it unturned
STRAN' - to leave without transportation home
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MAECENATISM
PRONUNCIATION: (my/mi-SEE-nuh-tiz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: Patronage, for example, the support or financial sponsorship provided to artists, musicians, or writers.
ETYMOLOGY: After Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (c. 70-8 BCE), a wealthy adviser to the Roman Emperor Augustus. Maecenas was renowned for his generous patronage of poets like Horace and Virgil. Earliest documented use: 1606.
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MARE CENATISM - a large flat bright region on the back of the moon, not visible from Earth
MAE-CENT-ISM - campaign to replace Lincoln's head on the penny with the bust of a movie star
MARC-ENATISM - doctrine that Cleopatra was actually Marc Anthony's mother
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ALASTOR
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-LAS-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: An avenger.
ETYMOLOGY.
After Alastor, a deity or spirit of vengeance in Greek mythology. The name is apparently from Greek a- (not) + lathein (to forget), alluding to this deityโs role in ensuring that the members of a family remember acts of vengeance and commit fresh crimes, thus perpetuating the cycle of bloodshed (think Romeo & Julietโs families). Earliest documented use: 1603.
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ATLAS' TOR - the hill on which the Titan stood with the world on his shoulders
ALA STORE - place to buy your wings
ALAS...TORY - Not a popular position in pre-Revolutionary War Boston
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PYGMALION
PRONUNCIATION: (pig-MAYL-yuhn, -MAY-lee-uhn)
MEANING: noun: A mentor, especially a man who mentors a woman.
adjective: Describing a word considered offensive, such as a swear word.
ETYMOLOGY: From George Bernard Shawโs 1913 play Pygmalion. Earliest documented use: noun: 1926, adjective: 1914.
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PYGMY LION- Prince of the Beasts
PY(G) MALIGN - Post-Year of Graduate School is evil...
PYGAMA LION - if Calvin and Hobbes had evolved slightly differently
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PITCH-PERFECT
PRONUNCIATION: (pich-PUHR-fikt)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Perfect in every way, especially in being sensitive to a particular situation.
2. Right tone, pitch, mood, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From pitch, from Old English pic + perficere (to finish), from per- (across) + facere (to do). Earliest documented use: 1902.
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ITCH-PERFECT - the ultimate Poison Ivy remedy
PINCH-PERFECT - like my one-year-old nephew's pink cheeks
PITCH PER FEET - the proper slope for a pedestrian walkway
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FANFARE
PRONUNCIATION: (FAN-fayr)
MEANING: noun:
1. A showy public display.
2. A brief, lively sounding of brass instruments, especially trumpets, in a celebration.
ETYMOLOGY: From French, ultimately of echoic origins. Earliest documented use: 1605. Also see fanfaron and fanfaronade. Itโs not known if these two words are related to todayโs word.
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HANFARE - meals on the Millennium Falcon
FANFAR - a person sitting in the last row of top tier of the stadium
FANFIRE - how you put the "blast" in "blast furnace"
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DOWNBEAT
PRONUNCIATION: (DAUN-beet)
MEANING: noun: 1. The downward stroke of a conductor indicating the first or an accented beat of a measure.
2. The first beat of a measure.
adjective: 1. Gloomy or pessimistic.
2. Understated, muted, or restrained.
ETYMOLOGY: From down, from Old English dun/dune, from adune (downward), from the phrase โof duneโ (off the hill), from dun (hill) + beat, from Old English beatan. Earliest documented use: 1766.
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DAWNBEAT - more succinct version of "The early bird gets the worm"
DOWNBOAT - launch the life-raft !
DOWNBLEAT - plaintive sound from a duck after its feathers are plucked
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BOOGIE
PRONUNCIATION: (BOOG-ee)
MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To move, go, or depart quickly.
2. To dance in an energetic manner, especially to rock music.
noun: 1. A style of blues music played on the piano, characterized by a fast tempo and repetitive bass pattern.
2. A form of lively dance.
ETYMOLOGY: From boogie-woogie, from African American Vernacular English. Further etymology is uncertain, perhaps of West African origin. Earliest documented use as both noun and verb: 1929.
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BONGIE - affectionate name for a child's favorite water-pipe
B.O.-OGRE - a storybook monster who smells bad
MOOGIE - describing music that sounds as if it came from a synthesizer
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FIDDLE-FADDLE
PRONUNCIATION: (FID-uhl-fad-uhl)
MEANING: noun: Nonsense.
verb intr.: To trifle.
ETYMOLOGY: Reduplication of fiddle, from Old English fithele, of obscure origin. Earliest documented use: 1577.
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FIDDLE-ADDLE - when the Concertmaster who lives upstairs drives you crazy with incessant practicing
FIDDLE-PADDLE - what the string player had to do when up the creek with no other means of propulsion
PIDDLE-FADDLE - the reason many players use a folded diaper between the violin and their clavicle, especially if the instrument has a liquid tone
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HOORAY HARRY
PRONUNCIATION: (hoo-ray HEN-ree)
MEANING: noun: A young, upper-class man who behaves in a loud, obnoxious, and often pretentious manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From hooray, from hurra, alteration of huzza, perhaps a hoisting cry + Henry, a generic use of the name. Earliest documented use: 1936.
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HOLO-RAY HENRY - the guy who designed the first personal projector
HOTRAY HENRY - Who invented that gadget for keeping things warm on the buffet table?
SHOO RAY, HENRY - Hank, tell Ray to get outa here!
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NERVOUS NELLIE or NELLY - n. nervous nelly, -nelly
PRONUNCIATION: (nuhr-vuhs NEL-ee)
MEANING: noun: One who is unusually nervous, timid, or fearful.
ETYMOLOGY: From nervous, from nervus (nerve) + Nelly/Nellie, a female given name. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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NERVOUS KELLY - how he felt after seeing the "NINA" in the want-ad
NE'ER VOUS, NELLIE - Non, Mademoiselle, you don't have to worry about this
NERVOUS NEELIE - how Francie Nolan's brother (in Brooklyn) felt about going on his first date
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Are you thinking of the Duke of Sussex? 
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BOUGIE ROUGE - candlelit piano improvisation by Liberace
BOGGY BOGGY BLUE - upbeat version of the old English folksong The Foggy Foggy Dew
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FLASH HARRY
PRONUNCIATION: (flash HAR-ee)
MEANING: noun: A man who dresses and behaves in a vulgar, showy, or pretentious manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From flash (showy) + generic use of the name Harry. Earliest documented use: 1960.
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FLASH LARRY - cousin of Leisure Suit Larry (in the Land of the Lounge Lizards)
FLASH HARPY - a mythological Siren, without clothes
LASH-HARRY - to torment your enemies with a whip as they flee before you
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DROWNBEAT - fortissimo rhythm on percussion
DOWNBOAT - bathyscaphe
DOWNBITE - orthodontic term
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AUNT SALLY
PRONUNCIATION: (ant SAL-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. An object of criticism.
2. Someone or something set up as an easy target for criticism in order to deflect it from others.
ETYMOLOGY: From aunt, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (fatherโs sister), diminutive of amma (mother) + Sally, a form of the name Sarah. Earliest documented use: 1858.
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TAUNT SALLY - we do tease her a lot
PUNT SALLY - sudden attack via a flat-bottomed riverboat
AUNT SALTY - Mom's sister can swear like a sailor!
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GOOD-TIME CHARLEY/CHARLIE
PRONUNCIATION: (GOOD-tym char-lee)
MEANING: noun: One devoted to the pursuit of convivial fun and amusement.
ETYMOLOGY: From good-time (pleasure-seeking) + Charlie/Charley, diminutive of Charles. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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GOOD-TIME HARLEY - devoted to pursuit of a convivial motorcycle ride
GOOD-LIME CHARLIE - makes the best drink in Margaritaville
GOOD-TIDE CHARLIE - prefers to wait until the proper moment, and then lead on to Fortune; Shakespeare's metaphor for "caveat emptor"
[Make that "carpe diem". What was I thinking ?!]
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PERP
PRONUNCIATION. (puhrp)
MEANING: noun: One who commits a crime or is accused of committing one.
ETYMOLOGY: Short for perpetrator, from perpetrare (to carry out), from per- (through) + patrare (to bring about), from pater (father). Earliest documented use: 1968.
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PURP - what you get when you mix red and blue paint together (if you're into "perp"s)
(ERP) - belch from the OK Corral
PIER "P" - between Pier "O" and Pier "Q"
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PEJORIST
PRONUNCIATION: (PEJ-uh-rist)
MEANING: noun: A person who believes that the world is getting worse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin peior (worse). Earliest documented use: 1879.
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PEZORIST - a collector of plastic themed candy-dispensers; popular in the 19650s and 60s,
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MEJOR-IST - a Spanish-speaker who thinks things can always be improved
PEORIST - citizen of central Illinois (about 400 miles east of Omaha, Nebraska)
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GABERLUNZIE
PRONUNCIATION: gab-uhr-LUHN-zee)
MEANING: noun: A wandering beggar, especially one who is licensed.
ETYMOLOGY: From Scots, further origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1508.
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GABERLUNGIE - air-breathing
GABERDUNZIE - a tightly woven fabric with a smooth, lustrous finish, twill weave, and diagonal ribs on the right side.
GABERLUN-ZINE - an electronic publication devoted to news of Gaberlun.
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DANDIPRAT
PRONUNCIATION: (DAN-dee-prat)
MEANING: noun
1. An inconsequential person.
2. A person of small stature.
3. A child.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1525. Dandiprat was also the name of a silver coin in 16th-century England, worth three halfpence.
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DANDI CRAT - proponent of government by the foppish
DONDI PRAT - comic strip waif makes an ass of himself
D. AND I RAT - we're turning States evidence
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LOGODAEDALUS
PRONUNCIATION:
(log-uh-DEE-duh-luhs)
MEANING:
noun: One skilled with words.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin logodaedalia, from Greek logodaidalia, from logodaidalos, from logos (word) + daedalus (skillful). Earliest documented use: 1611.
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LOCO DAEDALUS - How could he fly so close to the Sun like that? Of course he was crazy!
LOGO: DAEDALUS - Assessing the interest level in Portrait of the Artise and Uysses Steven decided to establish a formal Web presence with all the trappings, and hired a commercial artist to design a truly memorable icon
LO! GOD AGED ALL US - Dust we were and to dust returneth, eventually
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LENTITUDE
PRONUNCIATION: (LEN-tuh-tood/tyood)
MEANING: noun: Slowness or sluggishness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lentus (slow). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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LENTITUDE - the sense of entitlement and grudging surliness that accompanies a loan
LANTITUDE - mixing urine with one's beer
LENTITTDE - the water level in the bay rises and falls twice a day, but oh, so slowly
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VIRID
PRONUNCIATION: (VIR-id)
MEANING: adjective: Bright green.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin viridis (green), from virere (to be green). Earliest documented use: 1600.
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VIROID - like Roman numeral 6
VIRIDE - when you take your girlfriend Violet for a spin in your convertible
VIXID - Who was that foxy lady I saw you with last night?
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COTERMINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (koh-TUHR-muh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Having the same or coincident boundaries.
2. Meeting at the ends.
3. Contained within the same boundaries.
4. Having the same scope, meaning, extent, etc.: synonymous.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of conterminous, from Latin con- (with) + terminus (boundary). Earliest documented use: 1799.
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CO-VERMINOUS - simultaneous infestation of rate and mice
CO-GERMINOUS - having chicken pox and a strep throat at the same time
COPTER-MINUS - we need one more MedEvac aircraft
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SALVIFIC
PRONUNCIATION: (sal-VIF-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Having the power to save or redeem.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin salvus (safe). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which also gave us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, solicitous, solicitude, salutary, and salubrious. Earliest documented use: 1591.
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SAL' VI-IC - Room 6-99 in the Rome Hilton
SOLVIFIC - genius at working out problems
SALVIAFIC - like a plant in the largest genus of the sage family Lamiaceae
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AUNT RALLY - large family get-together
GAUNT SALLY - spoof version of 1970s rock band Thin Lizzy
VAUNT ALLY - stick up for your friend
AUNTIE'S ALL(E)Y - BBC broadcasting station at Alexandra Palace, London (from the BBC's nickname 'Auntie', and the building's nickname 'Ally Pally')
AIN'T SILLY - Well said!
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DANDICAT - Puss in Boots
CANDIMAT - vending machine for confectionery
RANDIPRAT - lecherous fool
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HYALINE
PRONUNCIATION: (HY-uh-lin/leen)
MEANING: adjective: Like glass: transparent or translucent.
noun: A substance that is transparent or translucent.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hualos (glass). Earliest documented use: 1661.
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HYALIE - nickname for a Forida racetrack
HYALIE - or a former Emperor of Ethiopia
SHY A LINE - how to describe my incomplete script
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BALSAM
PRONUNCIATION: balsam
MEANING: noun
1. Something that soothes or heals.
2. An aromatic resinous substance from certain trees and plants.
3. A preparation, for example an ointment, made with such a substance.
4. Such a tree or a plant.
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From Latin balsamum, from Greek balsamon, of Semitic origin. Earliest documented use: before 1150
(BAWL-suhm)
MEANING: noun
1. Something that soothes or heals.
2. An aromatic resinous substance from certain trees and plants.
3. A preparation, for example an ointment, made with such a substance.
4. Such a tree or a plant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin balsamum, from Greek balsamon, of Semitic origin. Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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BAWL, SAM - if you're gonna play such sad songs on your piano, that's what I'm gonna do
BALSA "OM" - a talisman carved out of soft wood, for purposes of meditation
BALI SAM - the consort of Bloody Mary, in South Pacific
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EXULTATION
PRONUNCIATION: (eg-zuhl-TAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The act or state of triumphant joy.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exsultare (to exult, to leap up), from ex- (out) + saltare (to leap), frequentative of salire (to leap). Earliest documented use: 1425.
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EXCULTATION - counteracting the brainwashing practiced by some extreme groups
LEXULTATION - the joy of reading a dictionary
EXUSTATION [pronounced "eks-you-STA-shษn"] - former name of the tube connecting the oropharynx with the middle ear
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BALDERDASH
PRONUNCIATION: (BAWL-duhr-dash)
MEANING: noun: Nonsense.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1596.
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BALDER CASH - remuneration for selling your hair to a wig-making company
BALD END ASH - what's left after you burn your hairless wood baseball bat
BALD, DER DACH - today the walls; soon, the roof!
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BALLSOME - having cojones
BALL SUM - the number of spheres that will fit into a given volume
BALHAM - a London suburb, near the proverbial 'man on the Clapham omnibus'
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AMIABLE amiable
PRONUNCIATION: (AY-mee-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Pleasant; friendly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin amicus (friend), which also gave us amity, amicus curiae, amigo, inimical, and enemy. Earliest documented use: 1375.
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ACIABLE - ful of oxidant berries
ARIA BLร - song about French wheat
ACMIABLE - Wile E. Coyote can order this item from the catalog
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PALOOKA
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-LOOK-uh)
MEANING: noun:
1. Someone incompetent or inexperienced, especially as a boxer.
2. A clumsy or foolish person.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. The word was popularized by the comic strip Joe Palooka, which debuted in 1930. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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PA, LOOK ! - See, Dad? No hands!
POLO OKA - a gourd which when dried is used for a ball in the gentlemen's sport involving ponies and mallets
PALOOMA - a Spanish bird, "doove" in English
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LYCANTHROPY
PRONUNCIATION: (ly-KAN-thruh-pee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A delusion that one has transformed into a wolf.
2. The process of or ability to transform into a wolf.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek lykos (wolf) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1584.
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SLYCANTHROPY - becoming a clever and deceptive critter every full moon
LYCANTH ROPE - a thick cable made from lycanth stems and leaves
LYSANTHROPY - transforming into a disinfectant
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HELIOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (hee-lee-uh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: Fear of sunlight or bright light.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek helio- (sun) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1885.
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HELIOPHORIA - the glorious sense of the warm sun on your skin
HELICOPHOBIA - fear of screwing
HELIOPROBIA - sending exploratory instruments to examine the sun
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EXHALATION โ it takes my breath away!
EXULATION โ exterior insulation
EXILLARATION โ strict association of cause and effect (from Latin ex illa re, 'from that fact')
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PIZZAIOLO
PRONUNCIATION: (peet-suh-YO-lo)
MEANING: noun: A pizza maker.
ETYMOLOGY: From Italian pizzaiolo (pizza maker). Earliest documented use: 1956.
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PINZAIOLO - an actor who does impressions of an operatic bass
PIZZACOLO - a cheesy very high-pitched musical instrument
PIZZAIOLIO - pizza with a mixture of toppings
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SCIAMACHY or SCIOMACHY
PRONUNCIATION: (sy-AM-uh-kee) (Also skiamachy (sky-))
MEANING: noun: A mock fight or a fight with an imaginary enemy.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek skiamachia, from skia (shadow) + -machia (battle). Earliest documented
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SCI-AMOCHY - indulging in a cup of coffee as you read your science magazine
SCI-AMACHY - fighting over the just-arrived issue; also, my magazine hurts
SCIATACHY - pain in the low back radiating down one or both legs
SOCIAMACHY - a flame war on a social internet platform
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CRACKER-BARREL
PRONUNCIATION: (KRAK-uhr bar-uhl)
MEANING: adjective: Plain, rustic, homespun, direct, or unsophisticated.
ETYMOLOGY: From cracker (wafer), from crack, from Old English cracian (to resound) + barrel, from Old French baril, from Latin barriclus (small cask). Also see pork barrel and double-barreled. Earliest documented use: 1877.
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CRANKER-BARREL - how the gasoline-air mixture gets from the carburetor into the cylinders of your Model T
CRACKLER BARREL - a whole lot of bubble-wrap
CRACKER-BARRED - no Ritz saltines permitted
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JAMBOREE
PRONUNCIATION: (jam-buh-REE)
MEANING: noun: A large rally, assembly, celebration, etc. characterized by festive activities and a sense of community.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting Movement, popularized the term by using it for the first World Scout Jamboree in 1920. However, the term existed even before the movement was founded. Earliest documented use: 1868.
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LAMBOREE - Springtime celebration when the first pregnant ewe delivers
JUMBOREE - a festival of elephants
JA, MORE E - yes, Concertmeister, play louder on your open first string (about 330 Hz)
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LICKETY-SPLIT
PRONUNCIATION: (lik-uh-tee-SPLIT)
MEANING: adverb: At great speed.
ETYMOLOGY: A fanciful formation from lick (fast) + split. Earliest documented use: 1859.
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CLICKETY-SPLIT - timing he individual laps in a long track race
LINKETY-SPLIT - how my watchband broke
LICKETY-SPLINT - instant first-aid for broken bones
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RIPSTAVER
PRONUNCIATION: (RIP-stay-vuhr)
MEANING: noun: Something or someone remarkable.
ETYMOLOGY: From rip (to tear) + stave (to break or crush). The combination of these verbs suggests a forceful energy or a breaking of boundaries, implying something exceptional. Earliest documented use: 1828. A synonym is ripsnorter.
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RIP-STAYER - a stitch placed at the end of a tear so it won't extend further
RIP-STAVER - one who tears barrels open with his bare hands
TRIP-STAVER - an event that makes planned travels unnecessary
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HUNKY-DORY
PRONUNCIATION: (HUHNG-kee DOR-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Very satisfactory; fine.
ETYMOLOGY: From hunky (satisfactory), from hunk (in a good position), from Dutch honk + dory (of unknown origin). Earliest documented use: 1866.
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HUNNY-DORY - how Pooh transports his jars of sweets up and down the stream
HUNKY-DORA - the tomboy explorer
HUN SKY-DORY - small amphibious German warplane, ca. 1917
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ADULTERATE
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-DUHL-tuh-rayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To add a cheaper or inferior substance to something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin adulterare (to corrupt), from ad- (toward) + alter (other). Earliest documented use: 1526.
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ADULTER AGE - how old you have to be to buy alcohol or tobacco products (usually 18 but may vary by state)
ADULTERITE - what people consider you a grown-up after you do it
ADULATE RATE - speed at which flattering remarks issue from your obsequious mouth
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METROMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (met-ruh-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A mania for writing poetry.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek metro- (measure, meter) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1791.
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METROMANIC - giddy over riding on the subway
MELT ROMANIA - what will happen in Bucharest if global warming continues unabated
METEROMANIA - the parking-limit enforcers are going crazy
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SEXENNIAL
PRONUNCIATION: (sek-SEN-ee-uhl)
MEANING: noun: An event occurring every six years.
adjective: Happening every six years; lasting for or relating to six years.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sex (six) + annus (year). Earliest documented use: 1646.
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HEXENNIAL - like a six-carbon unsaturated hydrocarbon with a low flash point
SELENNIAL - moonstruck
SEXENONIAL - characterized by fifteens, like the game of cribbage
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PLACER
PRONUNCIATION: (for 1 & 2: PLAS-uhr, for 3 & 4: PLAY-suhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. A deposit of valuable minerals found in sand or gravel.
2. A place where such a deposit is washed to extract the valuable minerals.
3. One who finishes in a particular place in a contest.
4. One who arranges something.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1 & 2: From Spanish placer (sandbank), from Catalan placer (shoal), from Latin platea (street), from Greek plateia hodos (broad street). Earliest documented use: 1829.
For 3 & 4: From place, from Latin platea (street), from Greek plateia hodos (broad street). Earliest documented use: 1578.
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UPLACER - one who fastens footwear firmly on the feet
POL-ACER - a Canadian (maple-leaf) politician
P.R. ACER - one who pulls off a public-relations riumph
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PSYCHROPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (sy-kruh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An abnormal fear of cold.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek psychro- (cold) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1727.
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PSYCHROPHONIA - the noise made by very cold ice as it shrinks further
PSYCHROPROBIA - micro-mapping the temperature gradients in vessels of liquid helium
POSY-CHRO-PHOBIA - fear of bright-colored flowers
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CHEKHOV'S GUN
PRONUNCIATION: (chek-ofs GUHN)
MEANING: noun:
1. The literary principle that if an element is introduced in a story, it must be shown to have a purpose.
2. An element introduced in a story that is revealed to have a purpose later on.
ETYMOLOGY: After the playwright and doctor Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) who espoused this principle. Earliest documented use: 1951.
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CHEKHOV'S GUN - a special removable adhesive devised by Dr Chekov for attaching moustache and beard to the actors' faces, as needed, as part of their costume
CHECK-H.O.V. GUN - for when traffic enforcers encounter road rage while verifying compliance with the High-Occupancy Vehicle regulations
CHEKHOV'S NUN - unexpected cast member in The Three Sisters
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PARKINSON'S LAWPRONUNCIATION: (PAHR-kin-suhnz law) MEANING: noun: The observation that work expands to fill the time available. ETYMOLOGY: After C. Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993), author and historian, who first articulated this observation in 1955 in an article in The Economist. Earliest documented use: 1955. _____________________________ PARKINSON'S LAWN - Grassy expanses grow to fill time available for watering, mowing, fertilizing, weeding, grub treatments, aerating, and other things you haven't even thought of PARKING SON'S LAW - start turning the steering wheel back when you're even with the tail ight PARKINSON SLAM - see https:// www.facebook.com/watch/?v=485244885181880
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BARNEY'S BULL
PRONUNCIATION: (bar-neez-BUL)
MEANING: noun: Someone or something in a very bad condition or situation.
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently from a popular 19th-century pantomime in which an escaped bull is chased by various characters until the exhausted animal
s captured by a farmhand. Earliest documented use: 1834.
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BLARNEY'S BULL - Yes, it is
BARN EYES BULL - Ferdinand gets looked at by an owl
BARNEY SKULL - ...and all this time Hamlet's been using the wrong name
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JOHN THOMSON'S MAN
PRONUNCIATION: (jon THOM-suhnz man)
MEANING: noun: A man excessively submissive to his woman.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps the original form was Joan Thomsonโs man. Earliest documented use: 1513. Some other adjectives to describe such a man are uxorious and henpecked.
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JOINT: HOMSON'S MAN - Funny name, but it's a reasonably good pub
JOHN THOMSON'S MANE - J.T. has quite the head of hair, doesn't he?!
JOHN THOMSON'S MOAN - cain't tell whether he's in misery or ecstasy
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COLLIER'S FAITH
PRONUNCIATION: (KAHL-yuhrz fayth)
MEANING: noun: Unreasonable faith; blind faith.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fides carbonarii (collierโs faith), from German kรถhlerglaube (collierโs faith). The term may have arisen from the dangerous and uncertain nature of coal mining. Earliest documented use: 1680.
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COLLIE'S FAITH - Timmy will always be there to save Lassie. Or the other way 'round.
COLLIER'S FAINT "H" - coal-miner's distinct Cockney accent
COLLIDER'S FAITH - the physicist's confidence that his cyclotron will behave as expected
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CHEKHOV'S GUN - a special removable adhesive devised by Dr Chekhov for attaching moustache and beard to the actors' faces, as needed, as part of their costume
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GRUNTLED
PRONUNCIATION: (GRUHN-tuhld)
MEANING: adjective: Contented; happy.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from disgruntled, from dis- (intensifier) + gruntle (to grumble), frequentative of grunt. Earliest documented use: 1938.
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GAUNTLED - put through a series of [usually unpleasant] experiences administered by a line of people consecutively
GRANT-LED - 1. the Union armies in the later stages of the U. S. Civil War; 2. most scientific research these days, unfortunately
GRUNT-LEAD - (verb) to make an inadvertent sound of reluctance as one plays the first card in a Bridge hand; (noun) the card so led
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EPT
PRONUNCIATION: (ept)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Competent; skillful.
2. Effective; appropriate.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from inept, from Latin ineptus (unsuitable or absurd), from in- (not) + aptus (apt). Earliest documented use: 1938.
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LE PT - physical therapy school in Quรฉbec
EPOT - marijuana for vaping
ERT - what flowers grow in, on Flatbush Avenue
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Sorry to be gone so long,my browser company was migrating to yahoo for some reason and I got lost.
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I appreciate the sentiment. Thanks, wofa.
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RUTH
PRONUNCIATION: (rooth)
MEANING: noun:
1. Compassion.
2. Contrition.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English ruthe, from ruen (to rue). Earliest documented use: 1200. The common affixed form is ruthless.
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RITH - one of the three Rs, according to modern "shorthand" parlance 9cf "rents" for parents and "shrooms" for mushrooms)
DRUTH - if you had yours you'd prefer comparatively more than one of them
WRUTH - what God did when he invented the telegraph (sorta) according to the first message ever sent, in 1884 opening the BaltimoreโWashington line
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RECK
PRONUNCIATION: (rek)
MEANING: noun: Care or concern.
verb tr., intr.: To care or concern.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English reccan (to care). Earliest documented use: 1150. The common affixed form is reckless.
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GRECK - past tense of "GREEK"
MR ECK - pitcher Dennis Eckersley, formally
ZECK - Nero Wolfe's nemesis
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DESCRIPT
PRONUNCIATION: (di-SKRIPT)
MEANING: adjective: Having distinctive features or qualities.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin descriptus, past participle of describere (to describe), from de- (off) + scribere (to write). Earliest documented use: 1665. The opposite, more common affixed form is nondescript.
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DESCRIPT - take away a doctor's license to order medicines
DECRIPT - translate code into plaintext
DISC RIPT - my Frisbeeยฎ is torn
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GEE-WHIZ
PRONUNCIATION: (jee-WIZ/HWIZ)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Marked by wonder, surprise, enthusiasm, etc.
2. New; impressive; exciting.
interjection: Expressing surprise, dismay, enthusiasm, annoyance, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Euphemism for Jesus, with the second syllable replaced by whiz, a playful exclamation evoking surprise and wonder. Earliest documented use: 1872.
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BEE-WHIZ - apiarist
GEE-WHIP - to increase the speed of a spacecraft by sending it in a carefully calculated path around a large massive object
GEE-WHIZ - 1) one who knows all the words beginning with the seventh letter of the alphabet;
2) one who can control a horse using only verbal commands
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SACRE BLEU
PRONUNCIATION: (sah-kruh/kray BLUH/BLOO)
MEANING: interjection: An expression of surprise, dismay, annoyance, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From French sacrebleu (sacred blue), from sacrรฉ bleu, minced oath for sacrรฉ dieu (holy god). The term is no longer used in contemporary French. Earliest documented use: 1869.
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SABRE BLEU - an anodized sword wielded by the French Foreign Legion
S.A. TREBLE U. - where Salvation Army workers go to learn high-pitched songs
SAC-REBEL, E.U. - protesters in the European Union who carry their meager possessions with them in a bag
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TARNATION
PRONUNCIATION: (tar-NAY-shuhn)
MEANING: interjection: Used to express surprise, anger, irritation, annoyance, etc.
noun: Damnation; hell.
adjective: Damned.
adverb: Damnably.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of darnation (influenced by tarnal) which itself is a euphemism for damnation, from Latin damnare (to condemn), from damnum (damage). Earliest documented use: 1790.
USAGE: โSpeaking of ignorance, what in tarnation is going on with the Miss USA pageant?โ
Dianne Williamson; Itโs Kind of a Wacky Liโl World; Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Massachusetts); Jun 10, 2012.
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TEAR NATION - when a country becomes when everyone has a ripping good time
TAR NOTION - Br'er Fox's idea of how to catch Br'er Rabbit with a baby doll
TARNATHON - twenty-four solid hours of people taking tarns
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BALLYHACK
PRONUNCIATION: (BAL-ee-hack)
MEANING: noun: Hell.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps after the Irish village Ballyhack, where a castle was the holding place for confederates caught in a rebellion before they were expelled. Earliest documented use: 1843.
USAGE: โโBut what about the Sorbonne?โ
โThe Sorbonne can go to Ballyhack.โโ
John Dos Passos; Three Soldiers; George H. Doran Company; 1921.
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BULLY HACK - when the victim takes bloody revenge
BALLSY HACK - brazenly gaining unauthorized access to someone else's computer
BALL YACK - trash-talk in the sports arena
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GORBLIMEY
PRONUNCIATION: (gor-BLY-mee)
MEANING: interjection: An expression of surprise, dismay, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:m. A contraction of โGod blind meโ. Earliest documented use: 1896. Also used in the form corblimey and blimey.
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GORE LIMEY - the former American VP joins the Royal Navy
IGOR, BLIMEY - Surprise! It's the Russian!
GOR, BLIMEY ! - the Cockney expresses surprise
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MACHTPOLITIK
PRONUNCIATION: (MAHKHT-pol-ee-teek)
MEANING: noun: Power politics: policies that advocate the use of power and physical force to attain their goals.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Machtpolitik (power politics), from Macht (power, strength) + Politik (politics, policy). Earliest documented use: 1916. Compare with realpolitik
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MACHET'POLITIK - policies that rely on the use of sharp heavy blades to attain their goals
MATCH-POLITIK - a public-relations campaign to change smoking habits
NACHTPOLITIK - bedroom negotiations
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DOGWATCH
PRONUNCIATION: (DOG-wach)
MEANING: noun:
1. A short watch, especially one of the two two-hour watch duties on a ship: 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm.
2. A night shift, especially the last one.
ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of either Dutch hondenwacht or German Hundewache. Perhaps from the assumption that only dogs are awake at night, or from the short sleep of a dog. Earliest documented use: 1657.
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DIGWATCH - treasure-hunting at the beach
DOOGWATCH - following a TV series about an improbably young doctor
DOGWITCH - if Hermione Granger had married Sirius Black, their children might be...
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PRONUNCIATION: (BRIJ-hed)
MEANING: noun:
1. A foothold opening the way for further advance.
2. A fortified position at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy.
ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of French tรชte de pont (bridge head). Earliest documented use: 1760. Also see beachhead.
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BRIDEHEAD - BBC series about an old aristocratic British family, prequel to a 1945 book by Evelyn Waugh
RIDGEHEAD - a geological formation often seen at the Continental Divide
BRIDGE MEAD - a brew often served shipboard at the Officer's Mess
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EARWORM
PRONUNCIATION: (EER-wuhrm)
MEANING: noun:
1. A catchy song or tune that keeps involuntarily repeating in oneโs mind.
2. An agricultural pest commonly known as corn earworm, of the species Helicoverpa zea or Helicoverpa armigera.
ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of German Ohrwurm (earwig, earworm). Earliest documented use: 1598. See also earwig.
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BEARWORM - a parasite that infects ursines
EARWARM - what people wear hats to keep their
FEARWORM - that gnawing worry you just can't shake
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IMMISERATION
PRONUNCIATION: (i-miz-uh-RAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. The act of making miserable or the state of being made miserable.
2. Impoverishment.
ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of German Verelendung (impoverishment) using Latin in- (into) + miserable, from Latin miserari (to pity), from miser (pitiable, wretched). Earliest documented use: 1942. Also spelled as immiserization.
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IMMIE-SERATION - cutting a sawtoothed surface into your marble
I'M MISER-ACTION ! - Scrooge McDuck announces he's a tightwad
I'M MISTER "-ATION" - I specialize in making verbs into nouns
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GRAWLIX
PRONUNCIATION: (GRAW-liks)
MEANING: noun: The characters, such as @#%$*!, used to convey profanity in a comic.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the cartoonist Mort Walker (1923-2018). Earliest documented use: 1964.
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CRAWLIX - long critters that move around on many short legs
GRABLIX - what actress Betty does to an ice cream cone
GRAW LOX - smoked salmon caught in the sea near Graw, in Ireland
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BARDOLATRY
PRONUNCIATION: (bar-DAH-luh-tree)
MEANING: noun: Excessive admiration of William Shakespeare.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by George Bernard Shaw from bard (poet) + -latry (worship). Shakespeare is often referred to as the Bard of Avon, or simply the Bard. Earliest documented use: 1901.
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BIRDOLATRY - excessive admiration of Indiana native, Boston Celtic Number 33
BAR-IDOLATRY - having extreme reverence for lawyers
BAR NO L.A. TRY - internal slogan to encourage the Olympics be held in Los Angeles, California
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SEMELPAROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (se-MEL-puh-ruhs)
MEANING: adjective: Reproducing only once in a lifetime.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the biologist LaMont C. Cole (1916-1978). From Latin semel (once) + -parous (producing). Earliest documented use: 1954. The opposite is iteroparous, reproducing multiple times in oneโs lifetime.
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USE ME, L. PAROUS - Louis Parous, the casting director, gets a lot of requests like this
SEMEL: PAR OUT - Psychiatry Grand Rounds topic for the week: When Consistenly Excellent Isn't Good Enough
SEMI-ELGAROUS - how to describe the Enigma Variations when re-written eliminating every second note
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BROADBROW
PRONUNCIATION: (BRAHD-brow)
MEANING: noun: A person with a broad range of interests.
adjective: Appealing to people with a broad range of interests.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), from broad + brow, on the pattern of highbrow and lowbrow. Earliest documented use: 1924. Also see middlebrow.
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BROADBREW - vulgar name for beer produced by a niche company owned by women
BROADBLOW - a rare fan-shaped display produced by a spouting whale
BROAD B-ROW - second tier of seats at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
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TOPOPHILIAPRONUNCIATION: (top-uh-FIL-ee-uh) MEANING: noun: The love or the emotional connection to a particular place. ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the poet John Betjeman (1906-1984), from Greek topo- (place) + -philia (love). Earliest documented use: 1947. _____________________ TYPOPHILIA - unusual fondness of making careless mistakes at the keyboard TORPOPHILIA - pathological admiration of lethargy and sloth TOP O' PHILIP - a felt "Robin Hood" hat, often red, with a feather (see illustration)
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EVANESCENT
PRONUNCIATION: (e-vuh-NES-uhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Fading quickly; transitory.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ex- (out) + vanescere (to disappear), from vanus (empty). Earliest documented use:
1708.
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HEVANESCENT - a gift from the Gods, if your spelling isn't too good
VANE'S SCENT - that's the smell of the rooster who tells you the direction of the wind
EVADE CENT - accept not even a penny
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SPLENDIFEROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (splen-DIF-uhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Extraordinarily impressive; magnificent.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin splendor (brilliance) + -fer (bearing). Earliest documented use: 1500.
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SPLEENDIFEROUS - when he's angry, it's just a little different from most of us
SPENDIFEROUS - throwing money around wildly, without regard to the cost of things
'S PLEAD IF ERROUS - if I made a mistake I'll beg your pardon
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ONTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (ON-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Having or relating to a real existence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek onto (being). Earliest documented use: 1907.
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ANTIC - scurrying, busy, active; like an insect of the family Formicidae
OSTIC - bony
ONOIC - (pronunciation: "oh-NO-ick"): dismayed upon discovering something unexpected and unwanted
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PHANTASMAGORICAL
PRONUNCIATION: (fan-taz-muh-GOR-i-kuhl)
MEANING: adjective: Illusory; strange; deceptive; imaginary; surreal; hallucinatory.
ETYMOLOGY: From French fantasmagorie, from fantasme (phantasm) perhaps combined with Greek agora (assembly). Earliest documented use: 1828.
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PHANTASMAORICAL - describing the spirit world of indigenous New Zealand
PHANTASMAYORICAL - the wildest dreams of the Chief Executive Officer of New York City
PHANTASMAGONICAL - like the maunderings of the Transformation Professor at Hogwarts
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CONSUMMATE
PRONUNCIATION: (adj.: KON-suh-muht, kuhn-SUH-muht; verb: KON-suh-mayt)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Complete or perfect.
2. Highly accomplished or skilled.
verb tr.: 1. To finish, complete, or make perfect.
2. To make a marital or other romantic union complete by having sex.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin consummatus (brought to completion), past participle of consummare (to complete or sum), from con- (together) + summa (sum). Earliest documented use: 1447.
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COSUMMATE - two people add up the same column of numbers and get the same answer
CONSUME, ATE - present and simple-past tenses of the fuzzy verb "to ingest"
CONSUME MATE - what a female praying mantis often does after copulation
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EFFERVESCENT
PRONUNCIATION: (ef-uhr-VES-uhnt)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Lively; animated; vivacious.
2. Bubbling.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin effervescere (to foam up), from ex- (out, up) + fervescere (to start boiling), from fervere (to be hot or to boil). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreu- (to boil or to bubble), which also gave us brew, bread, broth, braise, brood, breed, barmy, defervescence, and perfervid. Earliest documented use: 1684.
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E.F. SERVES CENT - Eugene Frances grasps for every penny !
OFFER V. E. SCENT - Would you like to re-experience the aroma of Victory-in-Europe Day, which ended World War Two in the West?
EFFER DESCENT - he who Effs goes down
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MALODOROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (mal-OH-duhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Having a foul smell.
2. Highly improper.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French mal- (bad) + odorous (having a smell), from Latin odor (smell). Earliest documented use: 1850.
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MALODOROUST - after the skunk sprayed, everyone left in a hurry
MAN-ODOROUS - the guy really needs a shower
MALLODOROUS - the garbage collectors' strike created a very smelly shopping center
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PIQUANT
PRONUNCIATION: (PEE-kuhnt/kahnt, pee-KAHNT)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Pleasantly pungent or spicy.
2. Engaging or stimulating in a provocative manner.
3. Sharp or stinging.
ETYMOLOGY: From French piquer (to prick). Earliest documented use: 1494.
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PI-QUART - how much milk you want after you eat the whole thing by yourself
BIQUANT - purchase a specified anouont
PI-QUINT - approx 15.7080
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FULGENT
PRONUNCIATION: (FUHL-juhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Shining brilliantly; radiant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fulgere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which is also the source of blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, and flame. Earliest documented use: 1475.
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FUNGENT - a gigolo
BULGENT - showing a beer-belly
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ASPERSION
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SPUHR-zhuhn/shuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. A damaging accusation: slander.
2. The sprinkling with water, as in baptism.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aspergere (to sprinkle), from ad- (toward) + spargere (to strew). Earliest documented use: 1570.
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ASPERSICON - a collection of insinuations
ASSERSION - accusation made while intoxicated
CASPER'S ION - a friendly but charged ghost
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MISOGYNOIR
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-soj-uh-NWAR)
MEANING: noun: Hatred or prejudice directed toward Black women.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the scholar and writer Moya Bailey (b. 1983) as a blend of misogyny + French noir (black). The word misogyny is from Greek miso- (hate) + gyne (woman). Earliest documented use: 2010.
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MI SONY NOIR - my black Spanish/Italian Play-Station
MISS GYN, SIR - You say you won the beauty contest for physicians? What title was that, Madam?
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OUTGRABE
PRONUNCIATION: (out-GRAYB)
MEANING: verb intr.: To emit strange noises, such as bellowing, whistling, and shrieking.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky. He described the word as connected with the old verb to grike or shrike. Earliest documented use: 1855.
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OUTGRATE - to scrape off more parmesan cheese than the other contestant
OUTGRAB - what you have to do to get the bride's tossed bouquet
OUTGO ABE - how Andy Johnson became US President
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INTERTEXTUALITY
PRONUNCIATION: (in-tuhr-teks-chuh-WA-luh-tee)
MEANING: noun: Interpretation of a text in relation to other texts, rather than in isolation.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the philosopher and novelist Julia Kristeva (b. 1941) in French as intertextualitรฉ, from inter- (between) + textuel (textual), from Latin texere (to weave). Ultimately from the Indo-European root teks- (to weave), which also gave us context, texture, tissue, tectonic, architect, technology, subtle, and subtile. Earliest documented use: 1970.
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INTERTEXT-QUALITY - how much and what part of your text is informed by others'
INTERSEX-TU-ALITY - addressing a member of another gender by the familiar ("tu") pronoun
INTERTENTUALITY - hanky-panky on an overnight hike
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GENTEELISM
PRONUNCIATION: (jen-TEE-liz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: The substitution of a word that is believed to be more polite or refined. For example, washroom for lavatory.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the lexicographer H.W. Fowler (1858-1933). From genteel, from French gentil (noble), from gens (clan). Earliest documented use: 1926.
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GENT-PEEL-ISM - distraction by a male stripper
GEN-ZEEL-ISM - an oversimplification referring to people born between 1997 and 2012, when they get overenthusiastic
DENT-EELISM - promoting the teeth of long, sinuous, ray-finned fish
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GOOGOLPLEX
PRONUNCIATION: (GOO-guhl-pleks)
MEANING: noun: The number 1 followed by a googol number of zeros.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Milton Sirotta (1911-1981), nine-year-old nephew of the mathematician Edward Kasner. From googol + -plex as in duplex. Earliest documented use: 1937.
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GOOGOLPLEA - to beg so persistently and tiresomely it feels like forever
GOGOLPLEX - the extraordinately-involved plot of the latest work by the author of Taras Bulba
GOO-GOLF LEX - PGA regulation prohibiting the application of any foreign substance to a golf ball that is in play
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ELOCUTIONARY
PRONUNCIATION: (el-uh-KYOO-shuhn-uhr-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to public speaking, especially in clear, expressive, and often emphatic manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin eloqui (to speak out), from ex- (out) + loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1846.
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ELOCAUTIONARY - being careful choosing one's words
E.L.O. CUT IN ARY - Electric Light Orchestra plans to have its next release in Pakistan!
LOCUTIONARY - done by Captain Picard while he was part of the Borg Collective
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COMMENSURABILITY
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-men-suh/shuh-ruh-BIH-lih-tee)
MEANING: noun:
1. The quality of being in proportion or suitable in relation to something else.
2. The quality of being measurable by a common standard; comparability.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin com- (together) + mensurare (to measure). Earliest documented use: 1570.
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COMPENSURABILITY - eligibility for insurance if you can't work any more
COMMENSUR-AGILITY - the measure of your gymnastics proficiency
COMMEN SURF ABILITY - You can join us and ride the waves! It's easy, and lots of people are doing it!
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VITUPERATORY
PRONUNCIATION: (vy-TOO/TYOO-pruh-tor-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Criticizing bitterly, scathing, abusive.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vituperare (to blame), from vitium (fault) + parare (to make or prepare). Earliest documented use: 1586
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VITUP-ORATORY - inflammatory rhetoric
VIT. OPERA TORY - a British Conservative who believes Puccini musical works will improve your health
VI. SUPERATORY - The sixth item on the agenda will be a discussion by the building manager
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EQUIVOCACY
PRONUNCIATION: (i-KWIV-uh-kuh-see)
MEANING: noun: The quality of being deliberately ambiguous or vague.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aequi-/equi- (equal) + vocare (to call), from vox (voice). Earliest documented use: 1646.
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EQUINOCACY - the bi-annual festival marking the advent of summer and of winter
EQUUVOCACY - Mr Ed, of course, of course
ETUI-VOCACY - advocating for the rights of sewing kits
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PERFUNCTIONARY
PRONUNCIATION: (puhr-FUNK-shuh-ner-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Done without any interest, care, or effort.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of perfunctory, from Latin perfunctorius (careless), from perfungi (to get through with), from per- (through) + fungi (to perform). Note that fungus has a different origin, likely from Greek spongos (sponge). Earliest documented use: 1838.
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APER FUNCTIONARY - a person who does the routine jobs for a professional mimic
SERF UNCTIONARY - what Uriah Heep would have been back in the Middle Ages
PERJUNCTIONARY - overly connected
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POLYANDRY
PRONUNCIATION: (POL-ee-an-dree)
MEANING: noun: The practice of having multiple husbands or male mates at the same time.
ETYMOLOGY:From Greek poly- (many) + -andry (male). Earliest documented use: 1680.
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POLY-ANGRY - when you don't give your parrot a cracker
PONY AN' DRY - what I get when I don't take my horselet out in the rain
'POLY AND RYE - a shot and a board game
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HYPERNYM
PRONUNCIATION: (HY-puhr-nim)
MEANING: noun: A broad term that encompasses specific words within a category. For example, color is a hypernym of red, blue, green, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hyper- (over, above) + -onym (name). Earliest documented use: 1971. The counterpart is hyponym.
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HYPER-NOM - a chatboard alias with ADHD
HOPERNYM - euphemism for "Pollyanna"
HYPER-NIM - a two-person game where players alternate removing one or more tokens from a multi-dimensional array of piles. Whoever takes the last token is the loser.
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ARTHROPLASTY
PRONUNCIATION: (AR-thruh-plas-tee)
MEANING: noun: The surgical repair or replacement of a joint.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek arthro- (joint) + -plasty (formation, repair, molding). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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EARTHROPLASTY - plate tectonics
ARTHROBLAST - an embryonic cell precursor that differentiates into a new joint
A.C.T.H.-ROPLASTY - genetic manipulation that alters the folding of Adreno-Cortico-Tropic Hormone, and thus its shape
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NEOPHILE
PRONUNCIATION: (NEE-uh-fyl)
MEANING: noun: One who loves new or novel things.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek neo- (new) + -phile (lover). The opposite is neophobe.
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GEOPHILE - lover of our home planet; or, a tree-hugger, if that's your persuasion.
ONE-O-PHILE - one who appreciates very close, low-scoring games
NEONPHILE - lover of brightly-colored lights
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HEIROPHANT
PRONUNCIATION: (HY-uhr-uh-fant, HY-ruh-)
MEANING: noun:
1. An interpreter of sacred mysteries or esoteric knowledge.
2. One who explains or provides commentary on complex or obscure topics.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hiero- (sacred, priestly) + -phant (one who shows). Earliest documented use: 1676.
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HEIR TO pH: ANT - the Formicidae had a prehistoric progenitor who first produced formic acid in the species
THEIR "O'PHANT" - they had an ancestor, Patrick Phant, who founded the clan
HEIROPLANT - the Priests' potions were of vegetable origin
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EXHORT
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-ZORT)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To urge, persuade, advise, etc. earnestly.
noun: The act or an instance of earnest urging, advising, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ex- (out) + hortari (to urge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gher- (to like or want), which also gave us yearn, charisma, greedy, and hortatory. Earliest documented use: 1475.
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SEXHORT - attempt to seduce
EXSHORT - a dwarf after receiving Growth Hormone. Sometimes, anyway
EPHORT - What you get an "E" for in Spelling class. Nice try, but...no.
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EXTORT
PRONUNCIATION: (ik-STORT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To obtain something by psychological pressure, intimidation, force, threat, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin extorquere (to wrench out), from ex- (out) + torquere (to twist). Earliest documented use: 1529.
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EXTART - reformed prostitute
EXTORY - disgruntled British Conservatory
EXCORT - like Exchequer, Queens Bench, and Common Pleas, since the Judicature Act of 1873
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NEMOROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (NEM-uh-ruhs)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to a forest; wooded.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nemus (grove). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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FEMOROUS - like a long legbone
NEMO ROUSE - wake up Jules Verne's submarine captain
ONE-MOR-OUS - ...and Baby makes three
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MEMOROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (MEM-uhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Likely to be remembered; notable.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin + memoria (memory). Earliest documented use: 1530.
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MENOROUS - suitable for holding candles
MEMO: ROUST - Note: Get 'em outa here!
MAMOROUS - formally in love with a woman
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