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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,
but actually created in 1927 and still available today
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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