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WHONESS
PRONUNCIATION: (HOO-nis)
MEANING: noun: The essence of a person.
ETYMOLOGY: From who, from Old English hwa + -ness (quality). Earliest documented use: 1922.
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PHONESS - a female iPhone
WHO-NEST - where the good Doctor snuggles their partner
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PENNYWEIGHTER
PRONUNCIATION: (PEN-ee-way-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: One who steals jewelry, especially by substituting a fake for the real one.
ETYMOLOGY: From pennyweight jewelry, from pennyweight, the weight of a silver penny (1⁄240 of a pound). Earliest documented use: 1886.
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OPEN N.Y. WEIGHTER - serves in restaurants in Manhattan for a pittance; unlocks the door at the start of the day
PENNYWRIGHTER - makes inexpensive artifacts out of coins, to sell to tourists
PENNY-EIGHTER - one who advocates dividing a penny into eight equal pieces to use for purchasing very inexpensive items
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GARDYLOO
PRONUNCIATION: (gar-dee-LOO)
MEANING: noun: A warning cry.
ETYMOLOGY: Phonetic respelling of French imperative gardez l’eau (mind the water). Earliest documented use: 1771.
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GARY, LOO - Lieutenant, "Gary" is my first name, Sir.
WARD Y, LOO - You sure that's the closest latrine in this hospital, Medic?
GAR DYE LOT - They're making pigments out of fish now !
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HALLELUJAH
PRONUNCIATION: (hal-uh-LOO-yuh)
MEANING: interjection: Praise the Lord.
noun: An expression of joy, relief, praise, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Hebrew halaluyah (praise God), from halelu (praise, you all), second person plural imperative of hallel (to praise) + yah (God), shortening of Yahweh (God). Earliest documented use: 1535.
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HALL, ELIJAH - Master Hall is present and accounted for
HALLE LUJAH - Halle Berry after marrying Frank Lujah in Missouri
HALLEL, UTAH - name of a fictitious town, inserted into the atlas to demonstrate plagiarism
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DEKKO
PRONUNCIATION: (DEK-oh)
MEANING: noun: A look.
ETYMOLOGY: From Hindi dekho (look), imperative of dekhna (to look). Earliest documented use: 1855.
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DE-RKO - to sell your stock in a famous old theater chain
GEKKO - a small insect-eating animal with unique feet that enable it to run up walls and even hang from the ceiling
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NOLI ME TANGEREN
PRONUNCIATION: (NO-lee mee/may TAN-juh-ree)
MEANING: noun: 1. Someone or something that must not be touched or interfered with.
2. A warning against touching or meddling.
3. Any of various plants whose seed capsules burst open when touched.
adj.: Relating to prohibition or fear of being touched.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin noli me tangere (do not touch me), from noli (do not), imperative of nolle (to be unwilling) + me (me) + tangere (to touch). Earliest documented use: 1398.
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SOLI ME TANGERE - Don't touch anybody but me!
NOLI SE HANGERE - In the first place, hanging yourself is a difficult (not to say dangerous) thing to attempt, and in the second...in the second, it's suicide, and suicide is a capital offense! [after W S Gilbert]
NOLI ME TANGIERE - Whatever you do, Br'er Fox, don't throw me in Tangiers! [after Uncle Remus]
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LAMPOON
PRONUNCIATION: (lam-POON)
MEANING: noun: A biting satire directed against a person or institution.
verb tr.: To ridicule or satirize.
ETYMOLOGY: From French lampon, from lampons (let us drink), imperative of slang lamper (to gulp down), from laper (to lap up). Earliest documented use: 1645.
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L'ARPOON - a pointy stick used by French whalers
L'AMPOGON - a tool for increasing the number of sides on a many-sided drawing
LAMBOON - an automatic shearing machine that sheep can simply walk through
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GAUDY LOU - how the English described Louis XIV
GAWD A'LOO! - an oath (corruption of 'God of Love')
GARDE ÉLU - elite protection squad
WARDYLOO - Italian-American pronunciation of 'Waterloo' (cf. Chico Marx: "There ain't no Sanity Claus")
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LACE-CURTAIN
PRONUNCIATION: (LAYS-kuhr-tuhn)
MEANING: adjective: Aspiring to or pretentiously displaying middle-class respectability.
ETYMOLOGY: From the lace curtains once fashionable in middle-class homes. Earliest documented use: 1824.
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LACK-CURTAIN - "early-matrimonial" style; sparsely-furnished
PLACE-CURTAIN - determining social status of the owner by inspection of the facade of an edifice from the street, particularly the window furnishings
GLACÉ-CURTAIN - the world outside after a grand sleet-storm
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STILE
PRONUNCIATION: (styl)
MEANING: noun:
1. A set of steps or rungs allowing a person to go across a fence or wall while denying animals access.
2. A turnstile: a revolving gate that controls access to an area.
3. A support for overcoming an obstacle.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English stigel (stile). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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S.A.T.-ILE - where one ranks nationally on a Scholastic Aptitude Test
ST. ILEX - Holly's name after their sanctification
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MILLSTONE
PRONUNCIATION: (MIL-stohn)
MEANING: noun:
1. One of a pair of round stones used for grinding grain.
2. A heavy burden or source of distress, especially one that’s hard to get rid of.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English mylenstan (millstone), from Latin mola (mill, grindstone), from molere (to grind). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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MILLSTINE - Russian-American violinist, died in 1992 at the age of 90, known for his renditions of Bach
WILLSTONE - a rock placed on your last testament to keep the pages from blowing away
MILLI-STONE- about a sixth of an ounce (1 stone = 14 pounds = 168 ounces)
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LIGHTNING ROD
PRONUNCIATION: (LYT-ning rod)
MEANING: noun:
1. A grounded metal rod placed at the top of a structure to protect it from lightning.
2. A person or thing that frequently attracts criticism.
3. Someone who diverts criticism from another.
ETYMOLOGY: From lightning (a flash of light) and rod (a stick or pole), from Old English leoht and rodd. Earliest documented use: 1770.
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LIGHTING ROD - a stick with one or more light sources at intervals along it, to be mounted on a wall or under a shelf
LIGHTEN, INC ROD - a company that manufactures illumination devices
LIGHT NINA ROD - a device used by Al Hirshfeld to hide the name of his daughter in many a Sunday Times theater-page caricature in the 1950s and 1960s
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MORAL COMPASS
PRONUNCIATION: (MOR-uhl kuhm-puhs)
MEANING: noun: One’s inner sense of right and wrong.
ETYMOLOGY: From moral, from Latin mos (custom) + compass (an instrument for determining directions), from Old French compasser (to measure), from Latin com- (with) + passus (pace). Earliest documented use: 1817.
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CORAL COMPASS - how the sea organisms know to make such a perfect circle
ORAL COMPASS - open my mouth, stick out my tongue, and I can tell which way the wind is blowing
AMOR-AL COMPASS - an innate sense of knowing where to bestow my affections
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ACERBIC
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SUHR-bik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Having a sour or bitter taste.
2. Harsh, biting, critical.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin acerbus (sour, bitter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, mediocre, acerbate, acerate, paragon, acuity, and acidic. Earliest documented use: 1853.
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A.C. VERBIC - like an action word that runs on alternating current
"ACE" RUBIC - nickname of the Cube puzzle inventor
ACER BIN - where to throw your maple wood scraps
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POLEMICAL
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-LEM-uh-kuhl)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to or involving strong, critical, or controversial writing or speech.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek polemikos, from polemos (war). A related word is polemology (the science and study of human conflict and war). Earliest documented use: 1615.
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"POLE" MICAH - the minor Biblical prophet and early critic of social injustice was skinny as a rail
PTOLEMICAL - an Egyptian dynasty, initiated by founder of the theory that the Earth is the center of the Universe (and possibly father of Alexander the Great)
PRO-LEMICAL - in favor of jumping off a cliff as part of an unthinking mob
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ORECTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (o-REK-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to appetite or desire.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin orecticus (stimulating appetite), from Greek orektikos, from oregein (to desire). Earliest documented use: 1671.
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ORESTIC - pertaining the old Greek myth about betrayal, revenge, and justice (See also Electric, which is the same story except told from the viewpoint of his sister)
ORCTIC - like a Middle Earthian villain/warrior
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WRACKFUL
PRONUNCIATION: (RAK-ful)
MEANING: adjective: Ruinous.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from Middle Dutch wrak (wreck), influenced by Old English wraec (misery). Earliest documented use: 1558.
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WRACK FUEL - what the display shelves are powered by
WRANKFUL - overloaded with titles and medals; conceited
WACKFUL - replete with craziness
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MILKSTONE - small pellet of frozen milk for sprinkling on desserts
MAILSTONE - large paperweight formerly used in open mail trains in windy conditions
MEALSTONE - coin-shaped disk issued by a feudal lord to his serfs, which could be used at an inn instead of cash
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HOMILETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (hom-uh-LET-ik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a homily.
2. Relating to homiletics (the art of preaching).
3. Preachy.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek homiletikos (affable), from homilein (to talk with), from homilos (crowd), from homou (together). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sem- (one), which also gave us simultaneous, assemble, simple, Sanskrit sandhi (union), Russian samovar (a metal urn, literally, self-boiler), and Greek hamadryad (a wood nymph, who lives in a tree and dies when the tree dies), dissimulate, and simulacrum. Earliest documented use: 1644.
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WHOMILETIC - I'm very objective about the people I rent to. Just in case.
HEMILETIC - The place is for rent only half the time.
HOMILECTIC - After thinking about the candidates, I've chosen to move my family here.
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NOMOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (no-muh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun:
1. The fear or dislike of laws or rules.
2. The fear of not having access to or being unable to use one’s mobile phone.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1: From Greek nomo- (custom, law) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1803.
For 2: From no + mobile + phobia. Earliest documented use: 2008.
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NOMORPHOBIA - fear of narcotic withdrawal symptoms
NAMOPHOBIA - fear of being in Saigon with the Army
NOMOPHIBIA - I'm missing a bone in my lower leg, but I'm not sure which one!
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PARTOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (par-TOK-ruh-see)
MEANING: noun: Government or rule by a single political party.
ETYMOLOGY: From party, from Old French partie, from Latin partire (to divide, share) + Greek -cracy (rule). Probably modeled after Russian partokratija. Earliest documented use: 1966.
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PORTOCRACY - a kind of government that can be easily relocated to someplace else
PASTOCRACY - government blindly subservient to historical precedent
BARTOCRACY - government by a mischievous, rebellious, misunderstood, disruptive and "potentially dangerous" perennial 10-year-old
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OPSOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (op-so-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An excessive longing for a particular food.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek opson (delicacies) + - mania (excessive enthusiasm). Earliest documented use: 1857.
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IPSOMANIA - delight in selfness
HOP-TO-MANIA - can't stand not being busy all the time
OSOMANIA - I love all the bears in the Madrid Zoo! And also Papa and Mama and Baby, and Pooh, and Paddington, and Berensteins', and...
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ONYCHOPHAGY
PRONUNCIATION: (ah-nuh-KAH-fuh-je)
MEANING: noun: The practice of biting one’s nails.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek onycho-, from onyx (nail) + -phagia (eating). Earliest documented use: 1898. Also known as onychophagia.
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O NYC - HO! pH AGO - an apostrophe, greeting New York City's previous acidity
ON CHO, PHAGE - instruction to an eater of carbohydrates
ONLY CHOMP HAGY - a zombie with a very limited taste
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PANTOCRACY - everyone makes up their own laws
PARTOGRAPHY - the art of designing party political emblems
CARTOCRACY - colonial rule involving the arbitrary drawing of borders on maps
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OPTOMANIA - the tendency of restaurants to offer an excessive range of choices
OSSOMANIA - the practice of some serial killers to remove and hoard the bones of their victims
OOPSOMANIA (or WHOOPSOMANIA) - a morbid desire to drop and break things
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MYCOPHILE
PRONUNCIATION: (MY-ko-fyl)
MEANING: noun: A mushroom enthusiast.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek myco- (mushroom, fungus) + -phile (lover). Earliest documented use: 1885.
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MYCO-PROLE - a very ordinary and commonplace mushroom
MUCOPHILE - Have Cystic Fibrosis and Proud Of It !
MY COP HOLE - where the local policeman can get a few minutes without being disturbed
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ELSEWHITHER
PRONUNCIATION: (ELS-with-uhr, els-WITH-)
MEANING: adverb: In a different direction.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English elleshwider, from elles (else) + hwider (whither). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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EASEWHITHER - to loosen the cinch on a saddle
ELSE HITHER - if yer not pleased by what's yon
ELSIE, WHITHER? - Where'ya goin', Elsie?
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POSTHASTE
PRONUNCIATION: (post-hayst)
MEANING: adverb: With great speed.
ETYMOLOGY: From the phrase “haste, post, haste” Earliest documented use: 1545.
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POST TASTE - the gustatory qualities of your breakfast cereal
POST CHAST - after you've lost your virginity
MOST HASTE - makes most waste
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ABREAST
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-BREST)
MEANING: adverb:
1. Side by side and facing the same direction.
2. Informed; up-to-date.
ETYMOLOGY: From a- (on, at) + breast, from Old English breost. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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A BEAST - a two-L llama (apologies to Ogden Nash)
LA BREAST - pertaining to the pit with the most tar
AIR EAST - a new airline headquartered in Shanghai
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AD NAUSEAM
PRONUNCIATION: (ad NAW-zee-uhm)
MEANING: adverb: To an excessive degree.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, from ad- (toward) + from nausea (sea-sickness), from naus (ship). Earliest documented use: 1565.
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BAD NAUSEAM - a really really awful case of seasickness
ADO NAUSEAM - all this fuss is giving me a tummy-ache
AD PAUSE A.M. - believe it or not they couldn't find any sponsors for the morning time-slot
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ANYWHEN
PRONUNCIATION: (EN-ee-hwen)
MEANING: adverb: At any time.
ETYMOLOGY: From any + when, from Old English ǣnig + hwenne. Earliest documented use: 1834.
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MANYWHEN - Parallel Universe hypotheses
A NEW HEN - After the Little Red Hen ate the bread she had had to bakeall by herself, another fowl took over her role in the barnyard
AND WHEN - often associated with where
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WRITHEN
PRONUNCIATION: (RITH-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Twisted; coiled; contorted.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English, past participle of writhan (to twist). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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WORI THEN - condensed form of "cross that bridge when we come to it"
WRIT, HON - What's a four-letter crossword entry meaning "written court order," Dear?
WRY, THEN - looking for a synonym of "skewed," other than "twisted"
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SHRIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (shryv)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To hear a confession.
2. To impose penance.
3. To free from guilt.
verb intr.: 1. To make a confession.
2. To hear a confession.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English scrift (confession, penance), from scrifan (to shrive: to impose penance). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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SCRIVE - alt. form of "scribe," to write (see scrivener)
SH! RIVER! - Be quiet! We're getting close to the Potomac!
SHE RIVE - the strong lady is ripping mad
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TIDINGS
PRONUNCIATION: (TY-dingz)
MEANING:
noun: News.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English tidung (announcement, piece of news), from tidan (to happen). Earliest documented use: before 450.
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TI-DINGE - what makes my cravat wrinkled, worn, and faded
ID-INGS - figuring out conclusively who is who
TI-DING - to resonate with the sound of the seventh note of a diatonic scale
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SCREED
PRONUNCIATION: (skreed)
MEANING: noun:
1. A long piece of writing or speech, especially one that’s tedious or denunciatory.
2. A long strip of material such as wood, plaster, metal, or paper.
3. A tool (a strip of wood or metal) used to level off freshly poured concrete.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English screade (strip). Earliest documented use: 1350.
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U.S. CREED - "We hold these things to be self-evident: that all men are created equal..." etc
U.S.C. REED - the oboist for the Trojans' student orchestra
SPREED - shopped for a lot of expensive stuff, without too much thought
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BOUNDEN
PRONUNCIATION: (BOUN-duhn)
MEANING: m adjective: Obligatory; binding.
ETYMOLOGY: A past participle of bind, from Old English bindan (to bind). Earliest documented use: 1325.
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BOSUN DEN - where Smee entertains visitors on Captain Hook's ship, the Jolly Roger
BO, UNDER - what Ms Derek's name is, in Australia
BONN-DEN - the closest Germany gets to Cheers!
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GALLIO
PRONUNCIATION: (GAL-ee-oh)
MEANING: noun: One who is indifferent or uncaring.
ETYMOLOGY: After Junius Annaeus Gallio Annaeanus, a Roman senator, noted for refusing to intervene in a dispute. Earliest documented use: 1850. Adjective: gallionic.
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GALLIC - major ingredient of aioli, in Boston
GALL IOU - an impudent promissory note
GAL LOO - bathroom for women, in London
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BABBITTRY or BABBITRY
PRONUNCIATION: (BAB-uh-tree)
MEANING: noun: Complacent materialism and smug conformity.
ETYMOLOGY: After George Babbitt, who demonstrated middle-class values and attitudes in the novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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RABBITRY - hopping, eating greens from the garden, saying "Eh, what's up, Doc?" and such like
RABBI TRY - it's the Hebrew teacher's turn
BARBITRY - the art of shaping the beard
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CHAUVINIST
PRONUNCIATION: (SHO-vuh-nist)
MEANING: noun: One who believes in the superiority of one’s country, group, gender, etc.
adjective: Believing in or relating to such beliefs.
ETYMOLOGY: After Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier in Napoleon’s army, noted for his fanatical patriotism. The figure of Nicolas Chauvin was popularized in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers. Earliest documented use: 1877. The concept is known as chauvinism.
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CHAUVI NAST - the cartoonist's maiden aunt
ICH-AU-VIN-IST - I exemplify Teutonic egotism bolstered by wine
CHAUD IN 1 ST. - warmth on First Street
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DANTEAN
PRONUNCIATION: (DAN-tee-uhn, dan-TEE-uhn)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to Dante or his writings.
2. Having a hellish quality.
ETYMOLOGY: After Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), author of Divine Comedy (1321), an epic poem depicting hell, purgatory, and paradise. Earliest documented use: 1785.
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DANTE RAN - what the poet did after reading the inscription on the Gates of Hell and abandoning all hope
ANTEAN - a beforehander
DON'T-EAN - opposite of sycophantic
DAN TEAM - QB Marino really was the Dolphins in the late 1980s and 90s
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