ANTITHALIAN

PRONUNCIATION: (an-tee-THAY-lee-uhn)

MEANING: adjective: Opposed to fun, festivity, or joy.

ETYMOLOGY: From anti- (against) + Thalia, the muse of pastoral and comic poetry. Earliest documented use: 1818.
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ANT ITALIAN - Roman formics

ANTI THE ALIAN - I don't like furriners

"AIN'T" IS THALIAN - comic poets talk funny, too