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10/13/2002 4:46 PM
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This word was contained in the first and only post by
egdalrow Fri Mar 17 03:30:01 2000. He did not define it,
and nobody replied to his post. The word is "gulosity"
gulosity
n.
LL gulositas < gulosus, gluttonous < gula, GULLET6 [Now Rare] greediness
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#83509
10/13/2002 5:37 PM
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but what about the thirty-seven other words in that post?
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#83510
10/13/2002 5:51 PM
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Dear tsuwm: you did not hijack any of them then, and have not done so now.
Please feel free to post about the ones I left for you.
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10/13/2002 6:59 PM
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Dear tsuwm: You might have noted that the heraldry term "gules" is from same root:
gules (pronounced gyoolz)
n.
ME goules < OFr, gules, red-dyed ermine, orig. pl. of goule, the mouth < L gula, throat: see GULLET6 Heraldry the color red: indicated in engravings by parallel vertical lines
I wonder if the redness of the mouth that the two words have in common
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#83512
10/13/2002 7:03 PM
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Will one of you post a link to whomever you're talking about....? Please?
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#83513
10/13/2002 7:11 PM
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Or you could have shown that it is used in medical research:
"The tracer may be metabolized or undergo chemical reactions that result
in its being cleared from the region. The degree to which this happens is
indicated by the intraregion consumption or 'gulosity' "
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#83515
10/13/2002 7:18 PM
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A couple more citations:
he Shadowy World of International Finance
Mostly it doesn't -and the Flying Dutchman resumes his wanderings looking for more venal gulosity
and less legal probity. The Con-Men These are crooks who set up ...
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The Union of Death - Terrorists in the Balkans (I)
of new, privileged nomenklaturas. It is then that their true nature is exposed, mired in gulosity and
superciliousness as they become. Inveterate violators of basic ...
http://samvak.tripod.com/pp52.html
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#83516
10/13/2002 7:41 PM
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Thanks, of troy.
And I even remember having read that post and having enjoyed it even though it was before I'd joined the board.
I remember when going through some of the old files liking that one for its obscurity, and also because I'd just recently come across jentacular, which I think has something to do with breakfast. Jentacular may be an adjective referring to breakfast.
tsuwm? I think it's on one of your lists...
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#83517
10/14/2002 1:47 AM
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well, FWIW, here is the quote:
"She groaked whillim as they gulched and guttled. Fackins! She was an opsophagist, coenaculous and cuppendous - pabulous commesations were an ephialtes for the deipnetic. It was niminy gulosity, she wiste it, but they begat swilk an increment in her recrement, a cupidity that was ineluctable - it was the flurch of post-jentacular flampoints and licious lozens."
and, FTR, at least eight(8) of these words have been WWFTDs,
including, yes, gulosity. YCLIU.
p.s. - hope all of those initialisms didn't upset anyone.
p.p.s. - basically, the quote is a food post.
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