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DESISTANCE
PRONUNCIATION: (di-SIS/ZIS-tuhns)
MEANING: noun: The act of ceasing a behavior, particularly one considered harmful or unwanted.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French desister (to withdraw), from Latin desistere (to leave off), from de- (off) + sistere (to stop, stand still). Earliest documented use: 1632.
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DEDISTANCE - to remove a prior standing away from, politically or psychlogically
DESI'S DANCE - how Lucille Ball's husband honored his Muse, Terpsichore
D.E.S. INSTANCE - di-ethyl-stilbesterol babies are an example of the reason we need post-marketing FDA oversight
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COLANDER or CULLENDER
PRONUNCIATION: (KUH/KAH-luhn-duhr)
MEANING: noun: A utensil with perforations, used for straining or draining foods.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Probably from Latin colare (to strain). Earliest documented use: 1450.
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CUL-ENDER - anus (same word in French as in English)
COLA AND ER - too much soda'll land you in the Emergency Room
SCULL-ENDER - an unexpected rock close to the surface of the regatta course
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PROSCRIPTION
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-SKRIP-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: A prohibition or the act of prohibiting, particularly one imposed by law.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin proscribere (to publish in writing, to name someone as outlawed), from pro- (front) + scribere (write). Earliest documented use: 1387.
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PROS CRYPTION - big shots trading Bitcoin
PYROSCRIPTION - therapeutic arson
PRO SCRIPT ICON - renowned choreographer of wrestling matches
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BENISON
PRONUNCIATION: (BEN-uh-zuhn/suhn)
MEANING: noun: A blessing; a benediction.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French beneison, from Latin benedicere (to bless), from bene (well) + dicere (to say). Earliest documented use: 1300.
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BEN'S SON - Adam or Hoss or Little Joe Cartwright
BERI SON - a new strain of thiamine deficiency disease, only half as deadly as the original
BAN IS ON - they just started enforcing the taboo
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AUTOGAMY
PRONUNCIATION: (o-TOG-uh-mee)
MEANING: noun: Self-fertilization, for example, of a flower by its own pollen.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Autogamie, coined in 1876 by Austrian botanist Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1831-1898). Earliest documented use: 1877
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AUTOGAME - Road Race, an early videogame from Sega (1976)
AOÛTOGAMY - when a French child has a May birthday (fertilization thus having occurred in August)
ALTOGAMY - impregnating a woman with a low-pitched voice
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COCKY
PRONUNCIATION: (KOK-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Brashly confident.
ETYMOLOGY: From cock, from Old English cocc (rooster). Earliest documented use: 1549.
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CACKY - the cloth (and the color) of a standard Army uniform
CROCKY - infested with large carnivorous aquatic lizards
CDC, KY - the address of the Frankfort office of the federal Communicable Diseases Center, in Kentucky
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NUDIFIDIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (noo-dee-FID-ee-uhn)
MEANING: noun: One who believes that faith alone is sufficient for salvation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nudus (bare) + fides (faith). Earliest documented use: 1616.
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NIDIFIDIAN - fauna that live in nests
NOD IF INDIAN - incline your head up and down if you come from the Asian subcontinent
BUD, I FIND IAN ! - Costello tells Abbott he's located their Scottish pal
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TITMAN
PRONUNCIATION: (TIT-muhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. The smallest or weakest in a group, such as the runt of a litter.
2. A person of short stature, physically or metaphorically.
ETYMOLOGY: From tit (any of various small birds), short for titmouse + man. Earliest documented use: 1807.
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TINTMAN - an amateur cosmetician
TIPMAN - the pool hall employee in charge of the cues
TILTMAN - a habitual cheater at Pinball machines
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PUSSIVANT
PRONUNCIATION: (POOS-uh-vant)
MEANING: verb intr.: To meddle, fuss, to move around busily.
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently a variant of pursuivant (follower), from French poursuivant (pursuer). Earliest documented use: 1882.
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PUSS SAVANT - the Marquis of Carabas, a wise cat (even if not in boots)
PUSS: I CAN'T - when you try to housebreak a feline and it won't cooperate
PURSIVANT - a junior Officer at Arms who can't spell
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MIMETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (mi/muh/my-MET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Copying the behavior, appearance, or characteristics of others.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek mimetikos (imitation), from mimesis, from mimeisthai (to imitate). Earliest documented use: 1632.
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MIMETRIC - a musician who speaks of Pounds and Fluid Ounces rather than Meters or Liters
MAMETIC- my unconventional Auntie has an odd twitch here and there
MIWETIC - in need of a dry diaper
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GOBBLEDEGOOK
PRONUNCIATION: (GOB-uhl-dee-gook)
MEANING: noun: Speech or writing marked by jargon, circumlocution, or unintelligible terms.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably from gobble, representing a turkey’s gobble. Earliest documented use: 1944.
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GOBBLE DE ROOK - I jump on your sacrifice of a castle, said the chess master
COBBLE DE COOK - get the chef some shoes
GOBBLE DE GOOP - As Ralph Kramden said to Ed Norton, "What's that slop yer eating?"
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COLUMANDER – informal term for the commander of a column
CULLODENER – a Scot who is still bitter about the crushing of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745
POLANDER – Polish nationalist seeking independence
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BERSERK
PRONUNCIATION: (ber-SURK/ZURK)
MEANING: adjective: Frenzied or deranged, especially in a violent manner.
noun: One who has become frenzied or deranged.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse berserkr (bear-shirt), from ber (bear), feminine of björn (bear) + serkr (shirt). Earliest documented use: 1814.
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BEESERK - how bees behave when their hive is threatened
BESSER: K - the twelfth meaning of the German word for "better"
BETS 'ER 'K - it's legal to wager
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KINDLER
PRONUNCIATION: (KIN-duh-luhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. A person or thing that starts a fire.
2. A person or thing that inspires, incites, or arouses.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably from Old Norse kynda (to ignite). Earliest documented use: 1439.
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KINDLER - someone who reads digital books on a commercially supplied device
KANDLER - a person who searches for spoiled eggs by shining a light through them
KINUDLER - a roue
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FAIRY-TALE
PRONUNCIATION: (FER-ee-tayl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Referring to a situation where improbable events lead to a happy ending.
2. Relating to a story with fantastical, untrue, or idealized elements.
ETYMOLOGY: From fairy, from Latin fata (the Fates), plural of fatum (fate) + tale, from Old English talu (story). Earliest documented use: 1904.
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AIRY-TALE - gossamer prose
FAIR-TALE - Charlotte's Web, i.e. (You say it's not? Just ask Templeton!)
FAIRY-TABLE - another name for mushroom
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FAIRY HAIL – rare meteorological phenomenon in intense cold
BEARY TALE – the story of Goldilocks
BEERY TRAIL – pub crawl
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RESURRECT
PRONUNCIATION: (rez-uh-REKT)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To raise from the dead.
2. To restore to use, practice, view, etc.
verb intr.: To rise from the dead.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from resurrection, from Anglo-French resurrectiun, from Latin resurgere (to rise again), from re- (again) + surgere (to rise). Earliest documented use: 1772.
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RECURRECT - to make the same amendments time after time
RESURJECT - to throw on top of something else...again
PRESURRECT - apply force before an expected event
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PENETRALIUM
PRONUNCIATION: (peh-nuh-TRAY-lee-uhm)
MEANING: noun: The innermost, secret, or hidden parts of something.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from penetralia (plural of penetrale), based on the mistaken assumption that its singular form was penetralium. From penetrare (to penetrate), from penitus (interior) + intrare (to enter).
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BENETRALIUM - the definitive biography of poet Steven Vincent Benet
PENETRANIUM - an icepick wound to the skull
PELE-TRALIUM - fanciful way to refer to the soccer paparazzi from 1956 to 1974 (especially Brazil)
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BRINDLE
PRONUNCIATION: (BRIN-duhl)
MEANING: noun: 1. Gray or tawny with streaks or spots of a darker color.
2. An animal, especially a dog, cat, or cow, with a brindle coat.
adj.: Of the color brindle.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from brindled, an alteration of brinded (streaked or spotted), from Old Norse. Earliest documented use: 1676.
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B. RIDDLE - He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's younger sister Barbara
BRIDLE - a girl getting married at the age of four
BRINDALE - a broad valley that's been inundated by salt water
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JURISPRUDE
PRONUNCIATION: (JOOR-uhs-prood)
MEANING: noun: One who flaunts legal knowledge or is excessively preoccupied with the nuances of law.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from jurisprudence (influenced by prude), from Latin jus (law, right) + prudentia (knowledge).
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AURISPRUDE - one who can be influenced by ambient sounds
JURISPRUNE - a wizened old lawyer, stuck in his ways
JUDI'S PRUDE - Dame Dench is getting quite Victorian in her old age
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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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EQUATIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (EK-wuh-tiv)
MEANING: adjective: Expressing identity or a degree of comparison.
noun: A case in some languages indicating equivalence or similarity between two things.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aequare (to make equal). Earliest documented use: 1913.
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PEQUATIVE - like a whaling ship
EQUOTIVE - taking someone's words out of context
EQUUTIVE - horsey
EQUALIVE - falsely sweet; saccharine (as it were)
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ZYGOMORPHIC
PRONUNCIATION: (zy-guh-MOR-fik)
MEANING: adjective: Having a single plane of symmetry: divisible into two mirror-image halves along only one axis.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zygo- (yoke) + -morphic (shaped). Earliest documented use: 1875. The term contrasts with actinomorphic structures (from actino- meaning ray), which have radial symmetry.
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ZYMOMORPHIC - budding, yeast-shaped
ZYGOMORPHIA - a sleep-like state induced by a product of fermentation (a drubnken stupor, for example)
ZYGOTOMORPHIC - shaped like a fertilized egg
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EXCUBANT
PRONUNCIATION: (EKS-kyoo-buhnt)
MEANING: adjective: On guard.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin excubare (to lie on guard), from ex- (out) + cubare (to lie down), which also gave us cube, cubicle, concubine, and incubate. Earliest documented use: 1831.
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EXCUBART - pictures drawn by former boy scouts
EXCURRANT - a former berry
EXCUMBANT - the ousted ruler
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FORSWUNK
PRONUNCIATION: (for-SWUNK)
MEANING: adjective: Exhausted.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English forswinken (to overwork), from forswink (to exhaust), from for- + swink (to labor). Earliest documented use: 1250.
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swing, in case you should come in contact with the ball for real
FORSKUNK - what to be alert for on the course, in case you forgot your nose-plugs
HORS-WUNK - euphemism for what you have to muck out of the stables
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SKUNKWORKS
PRONUNCIATION: (SKUNGK-wurks)
MEANING: noun: A small, loosely structured corporate research and development unit or subsidiary formed to foster innovation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Skonk Works, a fictional facility in Al Capp’s comic strip Li’l Abner that processed dead skunks, old shoes, kerosene, and other odd ingredients. Earliest documented use: 1960.
NOTES: The term gained real-world application in 1960 when Lockheed Martin used it to describe a secretive unit tasked with developing advanced fighter planes. The facility, located near a plastic factory with an acrid odor, inspired an engineer to nickname it Skonk Works, later adapted to Skunkworks. The term now symbolizes agile, creative problem-solving in corporate or engineering environments.
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SUNKWORKS - what they did when they threw to motor overboard
SKU INKWORKS - the labelling factory that imprints the Stock Keeping Unit number on an item in the store, which we call a "bar code"
SKUNKWONKS - specialists in the care and feeding of Mephitis mephitica
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SAD SACK
PRONUNCIATION: (SAD sak)
MEANING: noun: A well-meaning but hopelessly inept person.
ETYMOLOGY: Named for the bumbling US Army private in George Baker’s (1915-1975) comic strip of the same name. See also: schlemiel.
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SAiD SACK - the word came back from HR - "Fire 'em!"
WAD SACK - a bag to carry all your $20 bills in
MAD SACK - if you're the quarterback...don't make the opposing linemen angry!
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EMBIGGEN
PRONUNCIATION: (em-BIG-uhn)
MEANING: verb tr.: To make larger.
ETYMOLOGY: From em- (to cause to be in) + big (large) + -en (verbal suffix), formed on the pattern of enliven. Earliest documented use: 1884.
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EMBAGGEN - answer to "What are you doing behind the checkout counter?"
EMBRIGGEN - (German; obsolete) to confine to the ship's lockup
AMBIGGEN - "to start," usually used as the present participle "ambiggening"
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LOWER SLOBBOVIA
PRONUNCIATION: (LOH-uhr sloh-BOH-vee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A place regarded as isolated, underdeveloped, or unimportant.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Al Capp in the comic strip Li’l Abner as the name of a fictional, perpetually snowbound, impoverished, and comically backward country. Earliest documented use: 1946.
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FLOWER SLOBBOVIA - the Slobbovia River
LOWERS LOBO-VIA - the false teeth for my mandible arrived by wolf-mail
BOWER SLOBBOVIA - the official courtship site for Slobbovians
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CROMULENT
PRONUNCIATION: (KROM-yuh-luhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Valid; acceptable; satisfactory.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the television writer David X. Cohen in the animated television series The Simpsons. Earliest documented use: 1996.
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FROMULENT - you are the source of what I borrowed
CROWULENT - describing the rarely-heard wavering call of a black bird
BROMULENT - calming to an unsettled stomach (and, it leaves a pink moustache)
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ELSEWHEN
PRONUNCIATION: (ELS-wen)
MEANING: adverb: At another time.
ETYMOLOGY: A combination of else, from Old English elles + when, from Old English hwenne. Earliest documented use: 1418.
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MEL SEW HEN - my cousin Melvin is fixing a torn stuffed chicken
ELSE WHET - You'll just have to put up with that dull knife, unless...
ELSIE? WHEN? - arranging an assignation at the dairy farm
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TOWARDLY
PRONUNCIATION: (TO-uhrd-lee, TORD-lee)
MEANING: adverb: 1. In a compliant or docile manner.
2. In a pleasant manner.
adjective: 1. Compliant.
2. Pleasant.
3. Favorable.
ETYMOLOGY: From toward, from to + -ward (directional suffix). Earliest documented use: 1513.
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TO HARDLY - a split infinitive in the making (obsolete, unfortunately)
TOEWARDLY - in the direction of the feet
TO WARILY - excessively cautious
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SPASSING
PRONUNCIATION: (PAS-ing, PAH-sing)
MEANING: adverb: To a surpassing degree.
adjective: Transitory or cursory.
noun: The act, process, or instance of transition, movement, or transference from one state, place, time, or condition to another.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French passer, from Latin passare (to pass), from passus (step, pace). Earliest documented use: 1340.
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PASTSING - ruminating on might-have-beens
PASHING - imaginative play pretending to be a middle-eastern potentate
P.A. SING - the doctors' assistants put on a musical show
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SEEMLY
PRONUNCIATION: (SEEM-lee)
MEANING: adverb: 1. In a pleasing manner.
2. Suitably.
adjective: 1. Pleasing; handsome.
2. Appropriate; fitting.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse sœmiligr (seemly), from sœmr (fitting). Earliest documented use: 1225. Seemly should not be confused with seemingly, which means “apparently”.
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SEAMLY - overly-complicated in its fabrication, with more places than needed where materials are joined
STEMLY - with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics
SHE EM'LY - oh, just another girl who thinks she can write poems
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