RAKE'S PROGRESS - the leaves are finally cleared from the la
wofahulicodoc
05/17/2026 1:16 AM
RAKE'S PROGRESS
PRONUNCIATION: (rakes PROG-res)
MEANING: noun: A steady decline, especially one brought on by dissipation, folly, or vice.
ETYMOLOGY: After A Rake’s Progress, a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth, depicting the decline of a spendthrift. Earliest documented use: 1833.
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HAKE'S PROGRESS - slow but steady despite all obstacles, like the eventual arrival of the fish upstream at the spawning grounds where it was hatched
DRAKE'S PROGRESS - the father duck needs a little more time to get all the ducklings across thte street
LUKE'S PROGRESS - Master Sywalker has a lot yet to learn, but he's getting there
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PATRIARCHS AGO - in generations past
wofahulicodoc
05/17/2026 1:06 AM
PATRIARCH'S AGE
PRONUNCIATION: (PAY-tree-arks ayj)
MEANING: noun:
1. A very long time.
2. A very advanced age.
ETYMOLOGY: From patriarch, from Greek patriarches (father or chief of a family), from patria (lineage) + -arche (ruler), + age. Earliest documented use: 1693.
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PATRIARCH SAGE - an herb purported to confer fertility, long life and wisdom
PA TRI-ARCH STAGE - the father of all three-part performance venues, each covered by a curved canopy
PATRIARCH'S ACE - when you get venerable enough, a high card concealed up your sleeve is not only condoned, it's expected
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SCAT'S MEOW - hepcat's jazz magnum opus
wofahulicodoc
05/17/2026 12:56 AM
CAT'S MEOW
PRONUNCIATION: (CATS mee-OW)
MEANING: noun: Something or someone excellent.
ETYMOLOGY: From cat, from Old English catt + meow (the cry of a cat), of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1921.
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CAT'S YEOW - what you hear when you accidentally step on its tail
CATS MOW - what the cats do when there's so much grass that they couldn't possibly eat it all, no matter how bad the hairball problem is
CHAT'S MEOW - a masterful reply generated by your Artificial Intelllgence LLM
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LUMBERGROUND - a forest
wofahulicodoc
05/16/2026 10:55 PM
CUMBERGROUND
PRONUNCIATION: (KUHM-buhr-graund)
MEANING: noun: A useless person.
ETYMOLOGY: From cumber (to hinder or encumber), from Anglo-French acumbrer (encumbrer) + ground. Earliest documented use: 1657.
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CUM BERG ROTUND - with a big round iceberg
LIMBERGEROUND - a large wheel of stinky cheese
COMBERGROUND - the place at the edge of the ocean where the waves break and the scavengers look for cast-up valuables or souvenirs
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CANISCENT - becoming more doglike
wofahulicodoc
05/16/2026 10:41 PM
CANESCENT
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-NES-uhnt)
MEANING: adjective:
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin canescere (to grow gray or white), from canus (white, hoary). Earliest documented use: 1775. A synonym is hoary.
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ZANESCENT - turning grey or white; becoming hoary.
CAKE SCENT - the enticing aroma of a bakery
"I-CAN"-ESCENT - becoming more confident over time
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TOMBASTER - Lara Croft
wofahulicodoc
05/16/2026 10:27 PM
BOMBASTER
PRONUNCIATION: (bom-BAS-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: One given to bluster and pretentiousness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French bombace (cotton padding), from Latin bombax (cotton), from Greek bombux (silk, silkworm). Earliest documented use: 1611.
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BOMB-EASTER - a clandestine plan to blow up all those big mysterious statues of buried heads
MOM, BASTER - acknowledging that Ma does the first coarse sewing on all the household sewing jobs
BOZ-BLASTER - someone with a dislike for the early works of Charles Dickens (and doesn't hesitate to say so!)
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CUERIMONIOUS - excellent at the billiards table
wofahulicodoc
05/16/2026 10:06 PM
QUERIMONIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (kwer-uh-MOH-nee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Habitually complaining; querulous; full of grievances.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin querimonia (complaint), from queri (to complain). Earliest documented use: 1604.
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GUERIMONIOUS - contentious, warlike
CUERIMONIOUS - tending to feed people their next lines onstage, as needed
PUERIMONIOUS - getting along well with little Roman boys
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BADGY - sporting an impressive array of medals
wofahulicodoc
05/10/2026 12:46 AM
CADGY
PRONUNCIATION: (KAJ-ee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Wanton; lustful.
2. Cheerful.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1724.
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CABG-Y - obsessed by the fact of just having had bypass graft surgeru
SCADGY - beset by a whole lot of small but unpleasant nuisances
SAD-GY - the man with the woeful look to him
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AQUA, RE: THE CIRCLE - Blue, about that round thing...
wofahulicodoc
05/10/2026 12:33 AM
SQUARE THE CIRCLE
PRONUNCIATION: (skwair thuh SUHR-kuhl)
MEANING: idiom: To accomplish what appears to be impossible, especially in satisfying conflicting requirements.
ETYMOLOGY: From the classical geometric problem of constructing, using only a compass and straightedge, a square equal in area to a given circle. Earliest documented use: 1624.
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SQUIRE, THE CIRCLE - the knight's attendant alerts his Master about a feature of the approaching formation
SQUARETTE CIRCLE - lots of four-equal-sided almost-right-angled figures arranged equidistant from a central point
SQUARE THEIR CLE - slogan supporting a proposal to redo the layout of Cleveland International Airport
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SIR CUM LOCUTION - a noble and gifted orator
wofahulicodoc
05/10/2026 12:15 AM
CIRCUMLOCUTION
PRONUNCIATION: (suhr-kuhm-loh-KYOO-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The use of roundabout language, especially to avoid giving a direct answer.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin circum- (around) + locution (talk), from loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1518.
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CIRCUS-LOCUTION - the Ringmaster's spiel
CIRCUMLOCATION - to drive 'round and 'round and still be unable to find where you're going
C-IN-C-UMLOCUTION - a speech by the hHigh Commander of the Armed Forces
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SQUARE-TOLD - informed by a not-very-"with-it" person
wofahulicodoc
05/09/2026 10:58 PM
SQUARE-TOED
PRONUNCIATION: (skwair-tohd)
MEANING: adjective: Old-fashioned or conservative.
ETYMOLOGY: From square, from Latin exquadrare (to square) + toe, from Old English ta (toe). Earliest documented use: 1785.
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'S "QUARTET" - O.E.D. - according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it's a diminutive quart
STUART-TOED - feet pointing inward, a little-known hereditary deformity affecting members of the royal Stuart family
SQUAB RE-TOED - sewed the digits back on the feet of a young pigeon
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CIC LETHE WAGONS - 199 sleeping cars
wofahulicodoc
05/09/2026 10:40 PM
CIRCLE THE WAGONS
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHR-kuhl thuh WAG-uhnz)
MEANING: idiom: To gather a group together to assume a defensive stance.
ETYMOLOGY: From circle, from Latin circulus (circle) + wagon, from Dutch wagen. Earliest documented use: mid-1800s.
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CIRCLET: HEW AGONY - a small piece of jewelry that can reduce acute pain
"CIRCLE THE BAG," ON "S" - quarterback in the huddle calling a football play
C-IN-C LET THE WAGONS - supreme army commander rented the carrier vehicles
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Strange ritual
A C Bowden
04/29/2026 8:45 PM
I saw some robed men near a mill
Who were rolling large stones down a hill.
They quickly dispersed
When the mill owner cursed:
"**** off, or I'll call the Old Bill!"
NEARBY – NERVOUS
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STUARTHEAD - It all began with James I.
wofahulicodoc
04/27/2026 10:56 PM
SQUAREHEAD
PRONUNCIATION: (SKWAIR-hed)
MEANING: noun:
1. An honest person; a non-criminal.
2. A stupid person.
ETYMOLOGY. From square, from Latin exquadrare (to square) + head, from Old English heafod (top of the body). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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SQUIREHEAD - the chamber wherein the noble attendant to a knight performs his evacuations and ablutions
'SQUAKEHEAD - it's the epicenter of a modest tremblor
SQUAREHEAP - derogatory description of a Egptian pyramid
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VERBUROUS - overloaded with action words
wofahulicodoc
04/27/2026 12:36 AM
VERDUROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (VUHR-juh-ruhs)
MEANING: adjective: Abounding in green vegetation; verdant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French verd (green), from Latin viridis (green). Earliest documented use: 1604.
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VERDIROUS - extravagantly dramatic and showy, with lavish orchestration
OVER-DUROUS - simply too hard
VERTUROUS - only the finest-quality art of any form
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ADAMANT ONE - stubborn, resistant to any suggestion of change
wofahulicodoc
04/27/2026 12:01 AM
ADAMANTINE
PRONUNCIATION: (ad-uh-MAN-teen/tin)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Unyielding; inflexibly firm.
2. Resembling adamant or diamond in hardness or luster.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin adamant (hard metal, steel, diamond, etc.), from Greek adamas (adamant), from a- (not) + daman (to conquer). Earliest documented use: around 1225.
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MADAM ANTINE - owner of Antine's Escort Services, LLC
ADAMANT MINE - where very hard minerals are extracted
A DAMN TINE - I've been impaled on one of the points of a pitchfork
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VI AND X - sixteen
wofahulicodoc
04/26/2026 11:50 PM
VIAND
PRONUNCIATION: (VY-uhnd)
MEANING: noun: 1. An item of food, especially a tasty dish.
2. (In plural) Provisions.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French viande, ultimately from Latin vivere (to live). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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EVIAND - rinsed with bottled water
IAND - with THOU, title of a book by Martin Buber about making Kilodollars
VAND - a stick with magical properties in the lower east side of New York City
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ISWOUND - Parameter giving the status of the variable ISCLOCK"
wofahulicodoc
04/26/2026 11:38 PM
SWOUND
PRONUNCIATION: (swound or swoond)
MEANING: noun: A swoon; a fainting fit.
verb intr.: To swoon; to faint.
ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of Middle English swoun(e), from swounen (to swoon). Earliest documented use: 1440.
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SW HOUND - when you have a dog every 45º it's the one in the lower left-hand corner
SHOUND - the waters between Long Isand and Connecticut, when drunk
TWO UND - the successor to the successor of a number, in Hochschule
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SWAZE - what a flagpole does in the wind
wofahulicodoc
04/26/2026 11:07 PM
SWALE
PRONUNCIATION: (swayl)
MEANING: noun: A low tract of land, especially one that is moist or marshy; also, a shallow channel or depression.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1584.
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S'KWALE - what you go hunting for with retriever dogs, (along with pheasant)
U.S. WALE - an Ahab-class cruiser, now obsolete
SW AXLE - what the southwest wheels turn on
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Sound advice
A C Bowden
04/26/2026 3:06 PM
DRAINPIPE – DREAM
A patient claimed "I had a dream
Where my drainpipe emitted red steam".
The psychiatrist said:
"Just go back to bed,
And if it recurs, give a scream".
ROBED – ROLLING
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Keeping his cool
A C Bowden
04/22/2026 2:40 PM
When faced with a salvo of jeers,
Of partisan catcalls and sneers,
A sagacious PM
Will reply, with great phlegm:
"Well, nobody's perfect, my dears".
DRAINPIPE – DREAM
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