ANY WREN - a songbird in the bush
wofahulicodoc
11/08/2025 8:26 PM
ANYWHEN
PRONUNCIATION: (EN-ee-hwen)
MEANING: adverb: At any time.
ETYMOLOGY: From any + when, from Old English ǣnig + hwenne. Earliest documented use: 1834.
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MANYWHEN - Parallel Universe hypotheses
A NEW HEN - After the Little Red Hen ate the bread she had had to bakeall by herself, another fowl took over her role in the barnyard
AND WHEN - often associated with where
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AD NAUSEAM - sick of all this bad advertising
wofahulicodoc
11/07/2025 8:36 PM
AD NAUSEAM
PRONUNCIATION: (ad NAW-zee-uhm)
MEANING: adverb: To an excessive degree.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, from ad- (toward) + from nausea (sea-sickness), from naus (ship). Earliest documented use: 1565.
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BAD NAUSEAM - a really really awful case of seasickness
ADO NAUSEAM - all this fuss is giving me a tummy-ache
AD PAUSE A.M. - believe it or not they couldn't find any sponsors for the morning time-slot
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A.B. REST - a gap year after graduating from college
wofahulicodoc
11/07/2025 8:24 PM
ABREAST
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-BREST)
MEANING: adverb:
1. Side by side and facing the same direction.
2. Informed; up-to-date.
ETYMOLOGY: From a- (on, at) + breast, from Old English breost. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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A BEAST - a two-L llama (apologies to Ogden Nash)
LA BREAST - pertaining to the pit with the most tar
AIR EAST - a new airline headquartered in Shanghai
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POSTHASTE - rushing hedlessly
wofahulicodoc
11/07/2025 8:19 PM
POSTHASTE
PRONUNCIATION: (post-hayst)
MEANING: adverb: With great speed.
ETYMOLOGY: From the phrase “haste, post, haste” Earliest documented use: 1545.
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POST TASTE - the gustatory qualities of your breakfast cereal
POST CHAST - after you've lost your virginity
MOST HASTE - makes most waste
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ELSEWITHER - any point on a horse's back except the highest
wofahulicodoc
11/07/2025 8:13 PM
ELSEWHITHER
PRONUNCIATION: (ELS-with-uhr, els-WITH-)
MEANING: adverb: In a different direction.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English elleshwider, from elles (else) + hwider (whither). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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EASEWHITHER - to loosen the cinch on a saddle
ELSE HITHER - if yer not pleased by what's yon
ELSIE, WHITHER? - Where'ya goin', Elsie?
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Happy Halloween :-)
wofahulicodoc
10/31/2025 5:57 PM
OBLATION
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1. BOO-LATION - Season's Greetings !
2. BOOLA-TION - Season's Greetings from New Haven, CT !
or, just rearrange
3. BOO-LATIN - Season's Greetings from Ancient Rome !
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MYOPHILE - admirer of beefcake
wofahulicodoc
10/31/2025 5:38 PM
MYCOPHILE
PRONUNCIATION: (MY-ko-fyl)
MEANING: noun: A mushroom enthusiast.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek myco- (mushroom, fungus) + -phile (lover). Earliest documented use: 1885.
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MYCO-PROLE - a very ordinary and commonplace mushroom
MUCOPHILE - Have Cystic Fibrosis and Proud Of It !
MY COP HOLE - where the local policeman can get a few minutes without being disturbed
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Re: OPSOMANIA
A C Bowden
10/31/2025 2:21 AM
OPTOMANIA - the tendency of restaurants to offer an excessive range of choices
OSSOMANIA - the practice of some serial killers to remove and hoard the bones of their victims
OOPSOMANIA (or WHOOPSOMANIA) - a morbid desire to drop and break things
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Re: PARTOCRACY
A C Bowden
10/31/2025 2:08 AM
PANTOCRACY - everyone makes up their own laws
PARTOGRAPHY - the art of designing party political emblems
CARTOCRACY - colonial rule involving the arbitrary drawing of borders on maps
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ONCOPHAGY - a virus-like particle eating a cancer
wofahulicodoc
10/30/2025 11:41 PM
ONYCHOPHAGY
PRONUNCIATION: (ah-nuh-KAH-fuh-je)
MEANING: noun: The practice of biting one’s nails.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek onycho-, from onyx (nail) + -phagia (eating). Earliest documented use: 1898. Also known as onychophagia.
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O NYC - HO! pH AGO - an apostrophe, greeting New York City's previous acidity
ON CHO, PHAGE - instruction to an eater of carbohydrates
ONLY CHOMP HAGY - a zombie with a very limited taste
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OPTOMANIA - a fascination with eyes
wofahulicodoc
10/29/2025 5:47 PM
OPSOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (op-so-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An excessive longing for a particular food.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek opson (delicacies) + - mania (excessive enthusiasm). Earliest documented use: 1857.
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IPSOMANIA - delight in selfness
HOP-TO-MANIA - can't stand not being busy all the time
OSOMANIA - I love all the bears in the Madrid Zoo! And also Papa and Mama and Baby, and Pooh, and Paddington, and Berensteins', and...
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APARTOCRACY - government committed to division rather than unity
wofahulicodoc
10/28/2025 4:52 PM
PARTOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (par-TOK-ruh-see)
MEANING: noun: Government or rule by a single political party.
ETYMOLOGY: From party, from Old French partie, from Latin partire (to divide, share) + Greek -cracy (rule). Probably modeled after Russian partokratija. Earliest documented use: 1966.
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PORTOCRACY - a kind of government that can be easily relocated to someplace else
PASTOCRACY - government blindly subservient to historical precedent
BARTOCRACY - government by a mischievous, rebellious, misunderstood, disruptive and "potentially dangerous" perennial 10-year-old
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NOMOPHOBIA - I'm not afraid at all any more!
wofahulicodoc
10/28/2025 4:33 PM
NOMOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (no-muh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun:
1. The fear or dislike of laws or rules.
2. The fear of not having access to or being unable to use one’s mobile phone.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1: From Greek nomo- (custom, law) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1803.
For 2: From no + mobile + phobia. Earliest documented use: 2008.
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NOMORPHOBIA - fear of narcotic withdrawal symptoms
NAMOPHOBIA - fear of being in Saigon with the Army
NOMOPHIBIA - I'm missing a bone in my lower leg, but I'm not sure which one!
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HOM-I-LETIC - my house is for rent
wofahulicodoc
10/26/2025 1:14 PM
HOMILETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (hom-uh-LET-ik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a homily.
2. Relating to homiletics (the art of preaching).
3. Preachy.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek homiletikos (affable), from homilein (to talk with), from homilos (crowd), from homou (together). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sem- (one), which also gave us simultaneous, assemble, simple, Sanskrit sandhi (union), Russian samovar (a metal urn, literally, self-boiler), and Greek hamadryad (a wood nymph, who lives in a tree and dies when the tree dies), dissimulate, and simulacrum. Earliest documented use: 1644.
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WHOMILETIC - I'm very objective about the people I rent to. Just in case.
HEMILETIC - The place is for rent only half the time.
HOMILECTIC - After thinking about the candidates, I've chosen to move my family here.
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Re: MILLSTONE
A C Bowden
10/25/2025 12:37 AM
MILKSTONE - small pellet of frozen milk for sprinkling on desserts
MAILSTONE - large paperweight formerly used in open mail trains in windy conditions
MEALSTONE - coin-shaped disk issued by a feudal lord to his serfs, which could be used at an inn instead of cash
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WRECKFUL - like the Sargasso Sea
wofahulicodoc
10/24/2025 7:01 PM
WRACKFUL
PRONUNCIATION: (RAK-ful)
MEANING: adjective: Ruinous.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from Middle Dutch wrak (wreck), influenced by Old English wraec (misery). Earliest documented use: 1558.
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WRACK FUEL - what the display shelves are powered by
WRANKFUL - overloaded with titles and medals; conceited
WACKFUL - replete with craziness
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WRECTIC - destructive
wofahulicodoc
10/24/2025 6:51 PM
ORECTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (o-REK-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to appetite or desire.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin orecticus (stimulating appetite), from Greek orektikos, from oregein (to desire). Earliest documented use: 1671.
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O'LECTIC - comes from a family that for generatinons has been reading stories written in Gaelic
ORESTIC - pertaining the old Greek myth about betrayal, revenge, and justice (See also Electric, which is the same story except told from the viewpoint of his sister)
ORCTIC - like a Middle Earthian villain/warrior
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POEMICAL - full of imagery, but versic and rhymey and al stick
wofahulicodoc
10/24/2025 6:22 PM
POLEMICAL
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-LEM-uh-kuhl)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to or involving strong, critical, or controversial writing or speech.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek polemikos, from polemos (war). A related word is polemology (the science and study of human conflict and war). Earliest documented use: 1615.
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"POLE" MICAH - the minor Biblical prophet and early critic of social injustice was skinny as a rail
PTOLEMICAL - an Egyptian dynasty, initiated by founder of the theory that the Earth is the center of the Universe (and possibly father of Alexander the Great)
PRO-LEMICAL - in favor of jumping off a cliff as part of an unthinking mob
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ACE BIC - a crackerjack ball point pen
wofahulicodoc
10/24/2025 5:53 PM
ACERBIC
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SUHR-bik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Having a sour or bitter taste.
2. Harsh, biting, critical.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin acerbus (sour, bitter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, mediocre, acerbate, acerate, paragon, acuity, and acidic. Earliest documented use: 1853.
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A.C. VERBIC - like an action word that runs on alternating current
"ACE" RUBIC - nickname of the Cube puzzle inventor
ACER BIN - where to throw your maple wood scraps
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