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#95816
02/16/2003 5:08 PM
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hunch
vt.
5< ?6 to draw (one‘s body, etc.) up so as to form a hump; arch into a hump
vi.
1 to move forward jerkily; push; shove
2 to sit or stand with the back arched
n.
1 a hump
2 a chunk; lump; hunk
>3 a guess or feeling not based on known facts; premonition or suspicion: from the superstition that it brings good luck to touch a hunchback
I never before heard the origin of "hunch" meaning "a guess".
Most famous hunchback in literature, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame. I don't
recall plot ever involving anybody's touching him for good luck.
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#95817
02/16/2003 5:12 PM
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hunker
vi.
5orig. dial., prob. < or akin to Faroese hokna, to crouch < ON hokra, to creep < IE *keuk3 (< base *keu3, to bend) > Sans w@wjm, to cower6 to settle down on one‘s haunches; squat or crouch: often with down
n.
[pl.]
1 haunches
2 buttocks; rump
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#95818
02/16/2003 5:23 PM
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I could find no English definition for this, and wonder how the Scripps-Howard's
Caroline's Corner would have defined it. In German, "Hure" is a female sex worker.
Which reminds me that the etymology of "prostitute" is a bit anomalous. Its root
is "stare" to stand. Not the ordinary posture of the sex worker.
Edit: belatedly I remember seeing Pompeii mural with sexworker standing astride
client supine recumbent on narrow table. De gustibus non est. Maybe he was fastidious
and desired no closer contact.
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#95819
02/16/2003 5:39 PM
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biologic taxonomic e.g. Silver chub (Hybosis storeriana
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#95820
02/16/2003 5:42 PM
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hydargyrum - obsolete term for liquid mercury
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#95821
02/16/2003 5:54 PM
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Hygrodeik
A form of psychrometer with wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers mounted on opposite
sides of a specially designed graph of the psychrometric tables. It is so arranged that the
intersections of two curves determined by the wet-bulb and dry-bulb readings yield the relative
humidity, dew-point, and absolute humidity.
"psychrometer" is a word I haven't heard for sixty years. Sounds like a psychiatric word but isn't.
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#95822
02/16/2003 5:58 PM
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Wood eating, not treefrog eating. Nor a threat to one of our members.
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#95823
02/16/2003 6:03 PM
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Did you know there is a bone in your tongue? Maybe this was posted previously.
hyoid
adj.
5Fr hyo:de < ModL hyoides < Gr hyoeidcs, shaped like the letter " (upsilon) < hy, upsilon + 3eidcs, 3OID6 designating or of a bone or bones supporting the tongue at its base: U3shaped in humans
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the hyoid bone or bones
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#95824
02/16/2003 7:31 PM
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AHD claims not stare, to stand, but statuere, to cause to stand. All the difference in the world.
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#95825
02/16/2003 8:25 PM
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Dear Faldage: that does sound more logical. Inciddentally, I suspect the idiom "I won't stand
for thatt" isn't based on same root. The mare stands for the stallion. Lovely simile.
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