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BIBBLE

PRONUNCIATION: (BIB-l)

MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To eat or drink noisily.
verb intr.: 2. To drink habitually or to excess.
3. To produce bubbles or a bubbling sound.
noun: 4. Nonsense; something worthless or deceptive.

ETYMOLOGY: Senses 1-2: From bib (to drink) + -le (a frequentative ending). Probably from Latin bibere (to drink).
Senses 3-4: A variant of bubble, of expressive origin.
Earliest documented use: 1529.
See also: misophonia.
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BIBILE - diminutive name for Israeli former prime Minister

BI-BILE - describing a liver that synthesizes two distinct secretions

BIRBLE - what a Jabberwock does as it whiffes through the tulgey wood

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JACTATION

PRONUNCIATION: (jak-TAY-shuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. Boasting.
2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin jactation (tossing, boasting), from jactare (to throw, boast), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1576. Also spelled as jactitation.
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JAVATION - adding coffee flavoring

JA-STATION - a place where all the Germans agree with you automatically

X-ACTATION - carving with a very small, very sharp knife

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STELA

PRONUNCIATION: m. (STEE-luh)

MEANING: noun: An upright stone or pillar inscribed or sculpted, often serving as a monument. Also known as a stele.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek stele (pillar). Ultimately from the Indo-European root stel- (to put or stand), which is also the source of stallion, stilt, install, gestalt, stout, and pedestal, and epistolary. Earliest documented use: 1776.
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STELLA !!! - starlike in Boston (even before Tennessee Williams!)

ST RE, LA - the second note and the sixth note of the scale have been canonized

U.S. TELA - diminutive name of a large American telecommunications, cable, and internet company

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MOITY

PRONUNCIATION: (MOI-tee)

MEANING: adjective: Containing moits -- foreign particles in wool, such as straw or bark.

ETYMOLOGY: From moit (a small impurity in wool), a variant of mote (speck), from Old English. Earliest documented use: 1844. Moity is sometimes used as a variant spelling of moiety (a half or portion).
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AMO-ITY - a declaration of love

MO-IFY - to make the lawn evenly shorter

MOOTY - describing a cow who won't stay quiet, or an argument that needn't be heard at all

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CRUNK

PRONUNCIATION: (kruhnk)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Intoxicated.
2. Crazy.
3. Excited.
4. Wonderful.

ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Possibly a nonstandard past tense of crank, a variation of drunk, or a blend of crazy + drunk. Earliest documented use: 1972.
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GRUNK - Patriots former tight end, Number 87, after a few too many

CARUNK - not the grandaddy of automobiles, but at least its father's brother

CRUNA - what they called Perry Como or Bing Crosby when they came to Boston

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MOATY – well-defended

MORONITY – a measure of stupidity (the reciprocal of IQ)

HOITY-MOIETY – what you get when you omit the 'toity'

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CRWTH

PRONUNCIATION: (krooth)

MEANING: noun: An ancient stringed instrument that’s typically associated with Welsh music. Also called a crowd.

ETYMOLOGY: From Welsh. Earliest documented use: 1837.
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GRWTH - gttng bggr nd bggr

CRWETH - provide sailors for a ship in the Middle Ages

CROTH - how you get from one thide of the road to the other

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CWTCH

PRONUNCIATION: (kuch [u as in push or bush])

MEANING: noun: 1. A hiding place, such as a cupboard or a cubbyhole.
2. A hug or a cuddle.
verb tr.: To hug or cuddle.
verb intr.: 1. To crouch down.
2. To hide.

ETYMOLOGY: From Welsh cwtsh (hug, cuddle, recess, hiding place). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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C-WATCH - standing guard for the night shift

COWTCH - what you occupy to watch TV

CWTCH - "CWTCH she love, CWTCH she woo, CWTCHY CWTCHY CWTCHY CW,
Has anybody seen my girl"?
(from "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue")

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TRIMMER

PRONUNCIATION: (TRIM-uhr)

MEANING: noun:
1. One who adjusts beliefs, opinions, and actions to suit personal interest.
2. A person or a tool that clips, shortens, neatens, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From trim, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English trymman/trymian (to arrange, strengthen, etc.). Earliest documented use: 1513.
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BRIMMER - a native of Birmingham, to another native

TRIMER - the mega-continent consisting of North, Central, and South America

TRIOMER - a plastic made of chains of three linked small subunits (cf. dimer)

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BILGE

PRONUNCIATION: (bilj)

MEANING: noun: 1. The bottom (inner or outer) part of a ship or a boat.
2. Water, oil, and waste that collect in the lowest part of a ship or a boat.
3. Nonsense; rubbish.
4. The bulging part of a barrel or a cask.
verb: 1. To bulge or swell.
tr., intr. 2. To break a hole. 3. To spring a leak.

ETYMOLOGY: Probably a variant of bulge, from Old French boulge, from Latin bulga (bag). Earliest documented use: 1522.
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BILOGE - having two tiers of boxes between the theater floor and the balcony

BILBE - a bible for the dyslexic

ABILGE - full to the brim with sewerage

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