#98552
03/13/2003 2:27 PM
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What's notable about notaphily? There is one problem though. Nothing else you handle has
been is so pollouted. Filthy lucre? Currency gets handled by people who don't ever wash their
hands. I had patients who encolpolated bills to conceal them. It used to make me iss to see
cashiers licking their fingers as they counted currenc;y. Drggies leave traces of drugs on all
the currency they handle. So in your cash cache, you have everything vile. Deposit them in a
bank, and then demand new bills.
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#98553
03/13/2003 2:36 PM
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encolpolated? I can guess from your usage, but it's not a word I recognize.
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#98554
03/13/2003 2:41 PM
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Dear tsuwm: these were females who were not supposed to have money, lest they buy drugs.
So they peddled their.....posterior....for cash, which they hid in the place that had earned the
money. Capeesh?
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#98555
03/13/2003 2:49 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Perhaps 'enculpolated'? Tho' I can't find that anywhere either.
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03/13/2003 2:52 PM
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03/13/2003 3:00 PM
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my question was in regards to the word's genealogy. it now seems to belong to the PIDOMA class.
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03/13/2003 3:01 PM
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It's not as straight forward as it might seem. The en- and the -col- seem obvious enough, but the -polate has more in its history than meets the eye. It would seem to be derived from extra- or interpolate and, indeed, the root for this -polate goes back to the IE root pel- meaning to thrust, strike, drive. Unfortunately, by the time this root got to interpolate it had come to mean fulled (of cloth). Interpolate came from the Latin interpolis or interpolus, refurbished.
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#98559
03/13/2003 3:39 PM
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>It's not as straight forward as it might seem. indeed. http://snurl.com/ya3there was just something about this word that puzzled me, and now I'm beginning to see why. one of the roots seems to be the Greek kolpos, womb. but it also somehow relates to bosom, as in the word bathycolpian. all related to motherly concepts, I suppose.
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03/13/2003 4:37 PM
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I used to be a staff psychiatrist in a VA Hospital. I had
amonth other duties a couple wards of female veterans. Some of them had problems with recreational drugs. They were not allowed to take enough money to buy drugs when they went on pass. So they "meretrixed" it And hid bills left over
"tucked out of sight". How'd you like to get one of those
bills for your collection?
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#98561
03/13/2003 4:47 PM
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Greek kolpos, womb
Aha! Not the col- I was thinking of.
That would also mean th p goes with the col not with the olate. In fact, it would now seem, so does the o. And the -late could be from the Latin to bear, carry, fero ferre tuli latum (talk about your irregular verb!).
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#98562
03/14/2003 6:44 AM
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A fascinating thread! I learned two words.....encopolated and meretrixed.
Regarding the word encolpolated..... like tsuwm, I figured it out from the usage, but was still curious about the word. Three dictionary searches yielded naught. But what a concept....that the practice of concealing one's money in this manner is well known enough that there is a word for it! Who'da guessed?!
And I am amazed that I never heard the word meretrix in regards to a prositute. Suppose this is where the term "turning tricks" comes from?
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03/14/2003 11:37 AM
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Meretrix is straight Latin for prostitute. It derives from the verb merere, to be worthy, to earn.
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#98564
03/14/2003 7:18 PM
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I always supposed that "turning tricks" was more a reference to the "tricks" in a card game, where the one who "takes the trick" wins the advantage.
Am I correct? Or does it follow from meretrix or something else?
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03/14/2003 7:42 PM
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I'd doubt it comes from meretrix.
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03/14/2003 7:58 PM
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meretricious
One of those words I've learned forty times and forgotten forty-one.
From onelook.com:
Quick definitions:
meretricious:
adjective: (archaic) like or relating to a prostitute (Example: "Meretricious relationships")
adjective: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing (Example: "Meretricious praise")
adjective: tastelessly showy (Example: "A meretricious yet stylish book")
Maybe, finally having something bawdy to hook the meaning to, I can retain it this time. Let it never be said that I don't make a good straight man.
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03/14/2003 8:06 PM
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there's some evidence that "turning a trick" originally applied to a successful theft.
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