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JAMMY
PRONUNCIATION: (JAM-ee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Covered with, made with, or like jam; sticky or sweet in texture or appearance.
2. Easy, pleasant, desirable, or profitable, often referring to a situation or opportunity.
3. Lucky, implying an unearned or undeserved advantage.
ETYMOLOGY: From jam (fruit preserve made by boiling fruits with sugar), metaphorically extended to denote something desirable or fortunate. Earliest documented use: 1853.
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JAMBY - like a doorsill
JA, EMMY - Indeed, you did get an award for excellence in a TV production
YAMMY - a bit too reminiscent of sweet potato
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TRIPE
PRONUNCIATION: (tryp)
MEANING: noun
1. The lining from the stomach of a ruminant animal, especially cattle and sheep, used as food.
2. Worthless or rubbish (often used to describe written or spoken material).
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French tripe/trippe (entrails). The metaphorical sense emerged from tripe’s historical reputation as inexpensive, less desirable food. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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TRI-PED - once had three feet (past tense of TRIPOD)
TRAIPE - singular of TRAIPSE; one step in a long trek
TRIOE - three female musicians playing together
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BARMY
PRONUNCIATION: (BAR-mee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Full of froth.
2. Exciting or excited.
3. Crazy; foolish; eccentric.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1 & 2: From barm (froth on malt liquors), from Old English beorma.
For 3: An alteration of balmy.
Earliest documented use: 1535.
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BERMY - covered with rows of piled-up dirt or snow
BARE MY... - what my swimsuit is designed to do
BAMMY - archrival of Auburn
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TAFFY
PRONUNCIATION: (TAF-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A soft, chewy candy made by boiling sugar, butter, and other ingredients, then repeatedly pulling the mixture to incorporate air, resulting in a light, fluffy texture.
2. Insincere flattery.
ETYMOLOGY: An earlier form of the word toffee, ultimately of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1817.
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STAFFY - having too many people on the payroll
TAN-FY - nickname of the old Woolworth's 5-and-10-cent stores
TAFTY - tending to approve of the policies of the 27th POTUS (1909-1913)
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WHATNESS
PRONUNCIATION: (WAT-nis)
MEANING: noun: That which constitutes the fundamental nature of a thing: the essence or inherent quality.
ETYMOLOGY: From what, from Old English hwæt (what). Earliest documented use: 1611. See also, quiddity.
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WHAMNESS - the knockout potential of a boxer's plunch
CHATNESS - an artificial assessment of intelligence
WHATNESS - capacity for playing second base (with a tip o' the hat to Abbott and Costello)
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WHITNESS – minuteness of a part in relation to the whole
WHATLESS – null, void, incoherent
THATNESS – the quality of an out-of-body experience (illeity)
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FLESHMENT
PRONUNCIATION: (FLESH-muhnt)
MEANING: noun: Excitement resulting from a first success at something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English flǣsc (flesh). Earliest documented use: 1616.
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FLASHMENT - the seal around the chimney so the roof doesn't leak at the joint
FLEISHMENT - the clandestine substitution of margarine for butter in a recipe
FLESHMEN - obligate carnivores
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PEJORISM
PRONUNCIATION: (PEJ-uh-riz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: The belief that the world is becoming worse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin peior (worse). Earliest documented use: 1879. One holding such a belief is a pejorist.
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MEJORISM - the chief official of Mexico City is a confirmed optimist, and believes that things will inevitably get better
PERORISM - a habit of saving the most telling arguments to the end of your presentation
"P.E.-OR"-ISM - an approach to High School gym class that lets the student substitute an equivalent activity
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UNIQUITY
PRONUNCIATION: (yoo-NIK-wuh-tee)
MEANING: noun: The quality of being the only one of its kind.
ETYMOLOGY: From French unique, from Latin unus (one). Earliest documented use: 1789.
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UNEQUITY - when you have to pay someone to buy your house from you
UNQUITY - not likely to give up and stop trying
UNITUITY - the essence of one-ness, like the set consisting of the Null-set
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WHERENESS
PRONUNCIATION: (HWAIR-nis)
MEANING: noun: The condition or essence of being situated or existing in a specific place or location.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hwǣr. Earliest documented use: 1674.
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WHERELESS - not a citizen of any country
WERENESS - having a past life
WHEZENESS - asthma
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