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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 Baltimore–Washington 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 Frisbee® 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 sacré bleu, minced oath for sacré 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: “Speaking of ignorance, what in tarnation is going on with the Miss USA pageant?”
Dianne Williamson; It’s Kind of a Wacky Li’l 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: “‘But what about the Sorbonne?’
‘The Sorbonne can go to Ballyhack.’”
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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