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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-shən"] - 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 BLÉ - 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 – it takes my breath away!
EXULATION – exterior insulation
EXILLARATION – 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-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 Thomson’s 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 (collier’s faith), from German köhlerglaube (collier’s 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 Québec
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.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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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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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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Carpal Tunnel
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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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