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FRUITERER
PRONUNCIATION: (FROO-tuhr-uhr)
MEANING: noun: A fruit seller.
ETYMOLOGY: From fruiter (fruit-seller) + -er (occupational suffix). From Latin fructus (enjoyment, fruit), past participle of frui (to enjoy). Earliest documented use: 1408.
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FOR U, ITERER - a Latin scholar gives a present to a roadie, announces it in Netspeak
FRUSTERER - one who cuts off the top part of a cone or pyramid with a plane parallel to the base
FRUG IT, ER, ER... - a dancer in Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity is discomfited after realizing he's just been using unacceptable language
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INNUMERATE
PRONUNCIATION: (i-NOO/NYOO-muhr-it)
MEANING: adjective: Marked by ignorance of mathematical concepts.
noun: A person who is unable to count or do simple mathematics.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + numerate (able to understand mathematical concepts), from numerare (to number), from numerus (number). Earliest documented use: 1959.
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SIN-NUMERATE - How do I offend thee? Let me count the ways
IN SUMER-ATE - like the time Lhude-ly to Sing Cuccu
INNUBERATE - dined in the hired car with driver
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PULE
PRONUNCIATION: (pyool)
MEANING: verb intr.: To whimper or whine.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1398.
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PUTE - What others think of you...but only the very first time. After that it's "repute," for good or ill.
PHULE - 1) to deceive by a false internet message for nefarious purposes; 2) one so deceived
P-UKE - what you might do after hearing a ukulele softly but poorly played
PURL-E - the stitch you would use to knit a scarf meant to get you through the Gates of Heaven
PURÉ - a thick masculine soup
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AGON
PRONUNCIATION: (AG-on), plural agones (AG-uh-neez)
MEANING: noun: A conflict, contest, or struggle.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek agon (struggle, contest). Earliest documented use: 1592.
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AWGON - "More? There is no more!" (A"ll gone!") in baby-talk). Oddly enough, the French equivalent "YA-poo!," derived from the Prench "Il n'y a plus!," has the same intonation when spoken, even though it's in a different language entirely.
ARGON - a French forest reputed to be inert.
AGONG - Surname of a great Australian tennis player (Evonne Gool) from the 1970s and early 80s
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EXFOLIATE
PRONUNCIATION: (eks-FO-lee-ayt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To remove or shed dead cells, leaves, bark, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exfoliare (to strip off leaves), from ex- (out) + folium (leaf). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to thrive), which also gave us bloom, flower, flour, foil, folio, and feuilleton. Earliest documented use: 1639.
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EXFILIATE - to disown any and all male offspring
EXFOLLIATE - come to one's senses after a period of silliness
EX-BOLL I ATE - the song of a boastful cotton-plant eater
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