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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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