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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 Eminem’s 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 deity’s 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 & Juliet’s 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 Shaw’s 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. It’s not known if these two words are related to today’s 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 “of dune” (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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