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Thanks, Andreaz! Mumpsimus goes straight into my favourite words list!
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Andreaz re : Mumpsimus
Excellent. Now I know will use at first opportunity and send friends scurrying to the dictionary. The excercise will benefit them! Thank you Andreaz
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Defines my ex to a T --one of his favorite saying was "Don't try and confuse me with all the facts-- I have already made up my mind" he said it jest-- but at times it really defined how he operated.
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>why didn't o-rex fill us in earlier, i wonder?
'cuz I were thrown off by the wizard thing, is why! :-Ž
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The word is: mumpsimus (MUMP-suh-muhs) noun
Ha, I love it. I will have it embroidered on the strap of my golf bag to keep me on my game.
In the beginning I didn't know proper golf terminology so I would choose a stick (club), put my ball on my pick (tee), often go into the sand pit (trap), grunge (rough) and I rarely went in the middle (fairway) or near the flag (on the green).
Now here is the hic…I play golf with a couple of couple of guys who take the game way too seriously and I was getting a little too serious myself, until one day when I let out a 'tabernacle' after hitting into the woods. Well, I decided right there and then that this was just a game and NO reason to be getting all stressed about so I adopted my 'misnomers' as a gentle reminder that it IS just a game.
Next time one of the guys says, "why on earth don't you use the right terms?" I can honestly say it is a raging case of mumpsimusism.
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OED2 adds (whimsically??)
3. attrib., quasi-adj. Stupidly conservative. 1680 R. Bolron Narrative 9 The Jesuits+are the most Zealous for the propagation of their Religion in their old Mumpsimus Way. 1821 Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 330/2 All the fat and sleek people+the mumpsimus, and ‘well as we are’ people, are perfectly outrageous at being compelled to do their duty.
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