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THITHER
PRONUNCIATION: (THITH-uhr)
MEANING: adverb: To or towards that place.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English thider. Earliest documented use: before 1150. _____________________________
TITHER - an agent, who takes 10% off the top
THINTHER - a dietary supplement, to help lose weight
PHITHER - what you could knock a surprised Irishman over with
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AUTOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (aw-toh-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: 1. An obsession with oneself; egomania. 2. An obsession with automobiles or fast driving.
ETYMOLOgy: From Greek auto- (self), also short for automobile + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented: for 1: 1835, for 2: 1902. __________________________
AUTONANIA - a robotic au pair
ATOMANIA - hysterical belief in the Red Menace, now undergoing a resurgence
ABUTOMANIA - pathological need to have next-door neighbors
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AIRHEAD
PRONUNCIATION: (AIR-hed)
MEANING: noun: 1. An area in a hostile territory, secured for bringing in supplies and personnel by air. 2. A silly or unintelligent person. 3. A horizontal channel created to provide ventilation in a mine.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1: From air + beachhead. Earliest documented use: 1943. Also see bridgehead. For 2: From the metaphorical notion that a person’s head contains only air. Earliest documented use: 1971. For 3: From air + head (source of a channel). Earliest documented use: 1817. ___________________________
AIRHERD - a flock of domesticated eagles
AIR HEAD - the bathroom in a jetliner
FAIR HEAD - a Middle Ages blonde, for whom Knights of Old went on Quests (both meanings of for)
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MONOPHAGY
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-NAH-fuh-jee)
MEANING: noun: 1. The eating of only one kind of food. 2. The act of eating alone.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek mono- (one) + -phagy (eating). Earliest documented use: 1625. ___________________________
NONOPHAGY - suffering from very many dietary restrictions
C'MONOPHAGY - refusal to sit down to a meal unless coaxed
SONOPHAGY - obtaining an ultrasound image of the body by having the patient eat the transducer
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SECULAR
PRONUNCIATION: (SEK-yuh-luhr)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Relating to worldly rather than religious matters. 2. Occurring once in an age or century. 3. Enduring over an extended period. noun: 1. A member of clergy not bound by monastic vows. 2. A layperson.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French seculer, from Latin saeculum (generation, age). Earliest documented use: 1290. ______________________________________________
SPECULAR - observational
SECULAW - a legal code unrelated to any religion
S.E.C. USAR - commission charged with regulating investments in the US Army Reserve
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WONKY
PRONUNCIATION: (WONG-kee)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Unreliable; unsteady; not working properly. 2. Concerned with minute details in a field; nerdy.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1: Of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal wanky, alteration of wankle, from Old English wancol (unsteady).Earliest documented use: 1919. For 2: Of uncertain origin, perhaps related to the first term or the term wanky. Earliest documented use: 1978. ___________________________
ZONKY - narcoleptic
"WON" KEY - a "you-lose" shortcut for text messages
WON'TY - two years old and generally negative; synonym of SHAN'TY
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NEFANDOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (nuh-FAN-duhs)
MEANING: adjective: So wicked as to defy description: abominable, appalling.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nefandus (wicked), from ne- (not) + fandus (to be spoken), gerundive (verbal adjective) of fari (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1649. ______________________________
NEF AND US - you and me and the son of my sister
ONE-FAN-DOUS - having only one follower
N.E. FAN DOUSE - Tom Brady is leaving the Patriots
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MINACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (mi-NAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Threatening or menacing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin minari (to threaten), from minae (threats). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (project), which is also the source of menace, mountain, eminent, promenade, demean, amenable, and mouth. Earliest documented use: 1660. A synonym is minatory. __________________________
MINXACIOUS - cunning, impudent, provocative, and verging on mean
AMINACIOUS - containing nitrogen
MINDACIOUS - thoughtful; paying attention; sometimes, objecting
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