WERENESS - turning into an animal in a full moon
wofahulicodoc
03/28/25 02:31 PM
WHERENESS
PRONUNCIATION: (HWAIR-nis)
MEANING: noun: The condition or essence of being situated or existing in a specific place or location.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hwǣr. Earliest documented use: 1674.
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WHERELESS - not a citizen of any country
WERENESS - having a past life
WHEZENESS - asthma
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UNIQUIFY - to make different from everything else
wofahulicodoc
03/28/25 02:18 PM
UNIQUITY
PRONUNCIATION: (yoo-NIK-wuh-tee)
MEANING: noun: The quality of being the only one of its kind.
ETYMOLOGY: From French unique, from Latin unus (one). Earliest documented use: 1789.
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UNEQUITY - when you have to pay someone to buy your house from you
UNQUITY - not likely to give up and stop trying
UNITUITY - the essence of one-ness, like the set consisting of the Null-set
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PERJORISM - lying under oath
wofahulicodoc
03/26/25 06:35 PM
PEJORISM
PRONUNCIATION: (PEJ-uh-riz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: The belief that the world is becoming worse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin peior (worse). Earliest documented use: 1879. One holding such a belief is a pejorist.
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MEJORISM - the chief official of Mexico City is a confirmed optimist, and believes that things will inevitably get better
PERORISM - a habit of saving the most telling arguments to the end of your presentation
"P.E.-OR"-ISM - an approach to High School gym class that lets the student substitute an equivalent activity
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FLESHMEN - drunk boys at their first College party
wofahulicodoc
03/26/25 06:14 PM
FLESHMENT
PRONUNCIATION: (FLESH-muhnt)
MEANING: noun: Excitement resulting from a first success at something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English flǣsc (flesh). Earliest documented use: 1616.
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FLASHMENT - the seal around the chimney so the roof doesn't leak at the joint
FLEISHMENT - the clandestine substitution of margarine for butter in a recipe
FLESHMEN - obligate carnivores
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Re: WHATNESS
A C Bowden
03/25/25 02:31 PM
WHITNESS – minuteness of a part in relation to the whole
WHATLESS – null, void, incoherent
THATNESS – the quality of an out-of-body experience (illeity)
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WHETNESS - the ability to sharpen knives
wofahulicodoc
03/25/25 02:04 AM
WHATNESS
PRONUNCIATION: (WAT-nis)
MEANING: noun: That which constitutes the fundamental nature of a thing: the essence or inherent quality.
ETYMOLOGY: From what, from Old English hwæt (what). Earliest documented use: 1611. See also, quiddity.
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WHAMNESS - the knockout potential of a boxer's plunch
CHATNESS - an artificial assessment of intelligence
WHATNESS - capacity for playing second base (with a tip o' the hat to Abbott and Costello)
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TIFFY - tending to have a lot of petty arguments
wofahulicodoc
03/24/25 02:59 AM
TAFFY
PRONUNCIATION: (TAF-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A soft, chewy candy made by boiling sugar, butter, and other ingredients, then repeatedly pulling the mixture to incorporate air, resulting in a light, fluffy texture.
2. Insincere flattery.
ETYMOLOGY: An earlier form of the word toffee, ultimately of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1817.
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STAFFY - having too many people on the payroll
TAN-FY - nickname of the old Woolworth's 5-and-10-cent stores
TAFTY - tending to approve of the policies of the 27th POTUS (1909-1913)
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BARNY - a purple and green cartoon dinosaur
wofahulicodoc
03/24/25 02:49 AM
BARMY
PRONUNCIATION: (BAR-mee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Full of froth.
2. Exciting or excited.
3. Crazy; foolish; eccentric.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1 & 2: From barm (froth on malt liquors), from Old English beorma.
For 3: An alteration of balmy.
Earliest documented use: 1535.
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BERMY - covered with rows of piled-up dirt or snow
BARE MY... - what my swimsuit is designed to do
BAMMY - archrival of Auburn
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DRIPE - a Cockney curtain
wofahulicodoc
03/24/25 02:39 AM
TRIPE
PRONUNCIATION: (tryp)
MEANING: noun
1. The lining from the stomach of a ruminant animal, especially cattle and sheep, used as food.
2. Worthless or rubbish (often used to describe written or spoken material).
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French tripe/trippe (entrails). The metaphorical sense emerged from tripe’s historical reputation as inexpensive, less desirable food. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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TRI-PED - once had three feet (past tense of TRIPOD)
TRAIPE - singular of TRAIPSE; one step in a long trek
TRIOE - three female musicians playing together
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JAMMY - nightclothes, especially for a child
wofahulicodoc
03/24/25 02:30 AM
JAMMY
PRONUNCIATION: (JAM-ee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Covered with, made with, or like jam; sticky or sweet in texture or appearance.
2. Easy, pleasant, desirable, or profitable, often referring to a situation or opportunity.
3. Lucky, implying an unearned or undeserved advantage.
ETYMOLOGY: From jam (fruit preserve made by boiling fruits with sugar), metaphorically extended to denote something desirable or fortunate. Earliest documented use: 1853.
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JAMBY - like a doorsill
JA, EMMY - Indeed, you did get an award for excellence in a TV production
YAMMY - a bit too reminiscent of sweet potato
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FARCEL -a package coming from a great distance
wofahulicodoc
03/24/25 02:13 AM
FARCE
PRONUNCIATION: (fars)
MEANING: noun: 1. A light play, film, or literary work involving absurd, exaggerated, or improbable situations.
2. Humor of this type.
3. An absurd or ridiculous situation; mockery.
4. A mix of finely chopped ingredients used as stuffing.
verb tr.: 1. To pad a speech or written work with jokes or witty remarks.
2. To stuff or fill with culinary mixture.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French farce (stuffing, interlude), from Latin farsa, feminine of Latin farsus, from farcire (to stuff). Earliest documented use: 1390.
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FEARCE - having great strength and vigor
FARCEE - the official language of western Eeran
FARTE - flatulence, in the 1500s
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Spitting/splitting image
A C Bowden
03/17/25 12:31 AM
I had thought that 'splitting' was the earlier form, in the sense of something splitting into two identical copies. This was the form my parents used, long before the satirical British TV show Spitting Image, which I thought was an altered spelling. It seems, however, that 'spitting image' is older than 'splitting image', and comes from an even earlier form 'spit and image'. Maybe 'splitting image' was influenced by the idea of a 'split image' in a camera.
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CAP I.D. - shows a baseball fan's preferred team
wofahulicodoc
03/16/25 11:30 PM
SAPID
PRONUNCIATION: (SAP-id)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Having a pleasant taste or flavor.
2. Pleasant; engaging; stimulating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sapidus (tasty), from sapere (to taste). Earliest documented use: 1634.
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STAPID - like the innermost bone of the middle ear
USA PID - pelvic inflammatory disease in the United States
SAPIN - a fastener used in the southern part of the Western Hemisphere to affix a hat to a woman's hair
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UGLEED - removed the prettiness from
wofahulicodoc
03/16/25 11:07 PM
GLEED
PRONUNCIATION: (gleed)
MEANING: noun: A glowing coal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English gled. Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which also gave us yellow, gold, glimmer, gloaming, gloze, glimpse, and glass. Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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FLEED - incorrect past tense of flee, often used instead of FLEW
GLEND - nickname of the Good Witch of the South
GLEYED - spoiled, the way some of the the best-laid plans o' mice and men gang aft
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