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MAGNILOQUENT

PRONUNCIATION: (mag-NIL-uh-kwuhnt)

MEANING: adjective: Characterized by lofty, grandiose, or pompous speech or writing.

ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from magniloquence, from Latin magnus (large) + loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1640.
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MAGNILOQUEENT - delivered by our gifted orator of a monarch

MAGNITOQUENT - ...wearing a large hat

MAGNILOQUINT - full of five-syllable words

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CORSET

PRONUNCIATION: (KOR-sit/suht)

MEANING: noun: A close-fitting undergarment, worn historically by women to shape the body and make the waistline smaller.
verb tr.: To confine, control, or regulate strictly.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French corset, diminutive of cors (body), from Latin corpus (body). Earliest documented use: 1299.
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CARSET - identical vehicles, one for each day of the week

CORKSET - assorted bottle stoppers

CORBET - Tom, the Space Cadet if the 1950s

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TIGHT-LACED

PRONUNCIATION: (TYT-laysd)

MEANING: adjective: Excessively proper, strict, or old-fashioned.

ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a tightly laced bodice, popular in the past. Earliest documented use: 1741.
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TIGHT-LACKED - loose and rattling

EIGHT-LACED - having multiple redundancies of fasteners

TIGHT-PLACED - next to no wiggle-room

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BODICE-RIPPER

PRONUNCIATION: (BOD-is rip-uhr)

MEANING: noun: A type of historical romance, such as a novel or film, featuring passionate and often explicit romantic encounters and forced seduction.

ETYMOLOGY: From bodice (fitted upper part of a woman’s dress), a respelling of bodies, plural of body + ripper, from rip, from Middle English ripper (to pull out sutures). Earliest documented use: 1979.
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BODICE-ZIPPER - a closure that makes getting out of a tight corset much easier

BODICE-RIPPLER - a maneuver that increases the showiness of the upper body, used by strip-teasers to call attention to their bosom without showing any more

BODICE-TIPPER - customer who stuffs a $20-dollar-bill in a lap-dancer's bra

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STARCHY

PRONUNCIATION: (STAR-chee)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to, containing, or stiffened with starch.
2. Stiff and formal.

ETYMOLOGY: From the use of starch in stiffening cotton and linen in laundering. Earliest documented use: 1633.
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SITARCHY - government by stringed musical instruments playing ragas

ST. ARCHY - how you address a canonized cockroach (according to Mehitabel)

STAR CRY - what a movie idol does, after not winning the Oscar as expected

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VELVET GLOVE

PRONUNCIATION: (VEL-vet gluhv)

MEANING: noun: An outward appearance of gentleness concealing an underlying firmness or resolve.

ETYMOLOGY: From velvet, from Old French veluotte, from velu (velvety), from Latin villus (tuft) + glove, from Old English glof. Earliest documented use: 1850.
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VELVET GROVE - an orchard of velvet trees

ELVET GLOVE - hand covering worn by the King on formal occasions (i.e. he wasn't playing the guitar)

VELVET LOVE - the fondness of teens and pre-teens for a horse-loving 12-year-old, based on a story by Enid Bagnold and a 1940s movie with Mickey Rooney and a young Elizabeth Taylor

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DISJECT

PRONUNCIATION: (dis-JEKT)

MEANING: verb tr.: To scatter or disperse.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin disjicere (to scatter), from dis- (apart) + -jicere, from jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1581.
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MISJECT - to commit a throwing error

DISK-E.C.T. - shock therapy for a computer hard drive that's become psychotic and does crazy things

DIS JEST - a joke by Rodney Dangerfield, who complained he never got any respect

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