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ODORABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (OH-duhr-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Able to be smelled.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin odor (smell). Earliest documented use: 1589.
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FODORABLE - eligible for inclusion in a travel reference guide
ODOTABLE - a list of milage between places, often included on a road map [remember those?!]
ODORABLE - skunkish
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IMPASSIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (im-PAS-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Not susceptible to suffering, pain, or injury.
2. Incapable of feeling emotion.
ETYMOLOGY: From French impassible, from Latin impassibilis, from in- (not) + passibilis (passible), from passus, past participle of pati (to suffer). Earliest documented use: 1340.
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I'M PARSIBLE - you can figure out what I'm trying to say
IMP AS BIBLE - little scamp has its own scripture
IMPASS ISLE - When you get to that island, you can't go forward, but you can't go back either. You're stuck.
["Oh, help and bother!" said Pooh!]
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NOS VŒUX - for better, for worse, etc
NO 'VOUS' - please address me as 'tu'
NIVEAU? - Are you upper, middle or working class?
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TOUCH GRASS
PRONUNCIATION: (tuhch GRAS)
MEANING: verb intr.: To spend time in the real world, especially as a corrective to excessive online activity.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally a derogatory remark implying someone is delusional or out of touch due to internet addiction; later adopted as a mantra for digital well-being. Earliest documented use: 2016.
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COUCH GRASS- smoke pot in the comfort of your living room
TOUCH GLASS - show how clean the windowpane really is
TOUGH GRASS - Zoysia
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DOOMSCROLL
PRONUNCIATION: (DOOM-skrohl)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To scroll through the news or other online material compulsively, especially negative or distressing stories.
ETYMOLOGY: From doom, from Old English (judgment, law) + scroll, a blend of Old French scrow (writing) + rowle (roll). Earliest documented use: 2020.
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DOORSCROLL - pretentioius term meaning "mezuzah"
DOOM STROLL - taking a walk, remembering the apocalypse
LOOM SCROLL - written list of the punchcard deck that directed a Jacquard fabric on a Jacquard machine
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SHADOW BAN
PRONUNCIATION: (SHAD-oh ban)
MEANING: verb tr.: To block or restrict someone without their being aware of it.
noun: The practice of doing so or an instance of it.
ETYMOLOGY: From shadow, from Old English sceadu (shade) + ban, from bannan (to proclaim). Earliest documented use: 2007.
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SHADOW BANK - an offshore bank, itself a shell company, for purposes of laundering money and avoiding taxes
SHADOW BIN - where all the shadows are stored when the sun goes behind a cloud
SHADOW MAN - he Knows What Evil Lurks in the Mind of Man (maniacal laughter)
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