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PRICKMEDAINTY
PRONUNCIATION: (prik-mee-DAYN-tee)
MEANING: noun: One overly concerned with their personal appearance: dandy.
adjective: Overly concerned about one’s appearance.
ETYMOLOGY: A combination of prick (to pierce) + me + dainty (delicate), from Old French daintie (pleasure), from Latin dignus (worthy). Earliest documented use: 1529.
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TRICK ME DAINTY - it doesn't hurt as much that way
PRICK MED, AIN'T Y'? - A step backwards! That's how they used to give vaccinations!
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CUMBERWORLD
PRONUNCIATION: (KUHM-buhr-wurld)
MEANING: noun: A useless person.
ETYMOLOGY: A cumberworld is one who encumbers the world, literally speaking. From cumber (hinder), from Anglo-French acumbrer (hinder), from combre (dam, barrage) + world. Earliest documented use: 1374. Another way to describe a cumberworld might be a waste of oxygen.
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UMBERWORLD - what you get when you do it up brown
QCUMBERWORLD - populated by salt-free pickles
LUMBERWORLD - stone, glass, brick and metal have not been recognized as construction materials
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PSYCHROLUTE
PRONUNCIATION: (SY-kroh-loot)
MEANING: noun: One who likes to bathe in cold water, especially outdoors in natural bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin psychrolutes (bather in cold water), from Ancient Greek psychrolouteín (to bathe in cold water), from psychro- (cold) + louein (to bathe). Earliest documented use: 1872.
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PSYCHROLITE - a colorful mineral imagined to be of meteoric origin
p-SYNCHROLUTE - a soft rhythmical melody that repeats incessantly
POSYCHROLUTE - a liquid plant food that promotes brilliantly-colored flowers
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EMPLEOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (em-plee-uh/oh-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: Mania for holding public office.
ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish empleomanía, from empleo (employment) + -manía (mania). Earliest documented use: 1841.
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HEMPLEOMANIA - irrational preoccupation with the use of marijuana
TEMPLEOMANIA - a fanatical interest in the history and eventual reconstruction of Solomon's twice-destroyed Temple, in Jerusalem
TEMP LEO-MANIA - an unhealthy but self-limited fascination with the question of whether Leo was the first, or the second, or the third King of Armenia eleven hundred (or so) years ago
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RUPESTRIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (roo-PES-tree-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to, composed of, or carved on rocks.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rupes (rock). Earliest documented use: 1800.
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RUDESTRIAN - a sidewalk-user who deliberately steps off the curb just as the light turns red
RUPERTRIAN - a devotee of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films
RUMPESTRIAN - a New York City tourist gaping at the skyscrapers while trying to cross the street, who therefore trips and falls on his backside (see also RUBESTRIAN)
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ABULIA
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-BOO/BYOO-lee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An inability to make decisions.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek aboulia, from a- (not) + boule (will). Earliest documented use: 1848.
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FABULIA - the habit of telling stories with morals
ABUSIA - Surface Transit strike in the city
AMULIA - why the Erie Canal shut down: without Sal, and thus without propulsive power
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SIDERODROMOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (sid-uh-ruh-droh-muh-FOH-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The fear of trains.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek sidero- (iron) + dromos (running) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1879.
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¡SI! AERODROMOPHOBIA - That's right! Fear of airports !
SIDEROPROMOPHOBIA - fear of lobbyists for the iron-and-steel industry
SIDERODROMO-POO-BIA - "Passengers should please refrain from flushing toilets while the train is standing in the station..."
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OMBROPHOBE
PRONUNCIATION: (AHM-bruh-fohb)
MEANING: noun:
1. One who hates or fears rain.
2. A plant that cannot tolerate rainy conditions.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ombro- (rain) + -phobe (one who fears or hates). Earliest documented use: 1897.
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OMBRO-PHOEBE - a small bird (an eastern flycatcher) that avoids rain
OM-BRIO-PHOBE - one who eschews al liveliness in sindu or Vedic chanting
OMBRO-PROBE - a device for studying the interior of stormclouds
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