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CUMBROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (KUHM-bruhs)
MEANING: adjective: Difficult to carry, use, or manage, especially because of size, weight, or complexity.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French encombrer (to hinder), from combre (dam). Earliest documented use: before 1400.
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CRUMBROUS - easily breakable into small pieces
CHUMBROUS - like a well-meaning but somewhat oafish friend
CAMBROUS - having multiple small protrusions around its otherwise-circular rim
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PISMIRE
PRONUNCIATION: (PIS/PIZ-myr)
MEANING: noun:
1. An ant.
2. An insignificant person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English pissemire, from pisse (urine) + mire (ant). Earliest documented use: 1395.
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PISPIRE - to sweat so much that there's no fluid left to make urine
PI-SMITE - the facial impact that is the basis of much clowning around
PIGSMIRE - the gunk that covers the swineyard
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PI-SMILE - the Aha! moment on realizing that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of every circle is the same
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DOWFART
PRONUNCIATION: (DAU-fuhrt)
MEANING: noun: 1. A dimwit.
2. A coward.
adj.: 1. Dim or dull.
2. Cowardly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Scots dowf (dull, dim) + -art, a variant of the usually pejorative suffix -ard. Earliest documented use: 1719. Also spelled duffart.
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DOWL ART - a toy structure made of round wooden sticks of various lengths
DORF ART - a picture adorning the roof of a building in Germany
DOWFARM - where startup companies are raised to grow into industrial giants
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