AIR-RUPT - to burst by overinflating
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10/19/2026 1:24 AM
IRRUPT
PRONUNCIATION: (i-RUHPT) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: verb intr.:
1. To burst or break in.
2. (Of a population) To increase suddenly in number.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin irrumpere, from in- (into) + rumpere (to break). Earliest documented use: 1855.
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IRR, UPS - a package with a minor or superficial defect not affecting its declared function, delivered by a brown truck
I.R. SUPT - the superintendent radiates warmth
IRRUST - I oxidize in Edinburgh if you leave me out in the rrain
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EXURE - to remove an experience (antonym of INURE)
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10/19/2026 1:03 AM
EXUTE
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-ZOOT/ZYOOT) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: verb tr.: To strip or deprive of something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exuere (to remove, strip off, or divest). Earliest documented use: 1535.
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EX-UTE - formerly a native of the North American southwest
E-MUTE - 1. to riot; 2. you, after your parents say "OK, That's it, you're off all social media for a week"
EXPUTE - to assert that a quality or motive is lacking in a person, cause, or object (cf. IMPUTE)
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AW,HEAL - Doggone it, get better already!
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10/19/2026 12:40 AM
WHEAL
PRONUNCIATION: (hweel, weel) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A small swelling on the skin, as from an insect bite, an allergic reaction, or a blow.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps an alteration of wale, from Old English walu (ridge). Earliest documented use: before 1390.
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WHEAZL - an animal that goes "Pop!" when you chase it all around the mulberry bush
WHE-ALL - first person plural subjective case pronoun in Biloxi
RHEAL - like a small three-toed ostrich-like bird that can't fly
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CO-LENDER - each of two people who give you money, for a while
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10/19/2026 12:21 AM
CALENDER
PRONUNCIATION: (KAL-uhn-duhr) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A machine that presses paper, cloth, or other materials between rollers to smooth, glaze, or thin them.
verb tr.: To process material in such a machine.
ETYMOLOGY: From French calandre (calender) and calandrer (to calender), ultimately from Latin cylindrus (roller), from Greek kulindros (roller, cylinder), from kulindein (to roll). Earliest documented use: 1513.
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Ca-ENDER - the big earthquake that splits the San Andreas fault so far that the West Coast ends up 5 miles offshore
CALL-ENDER - "So long" - "Love ya" - "Me, too" - "Bye"
CAR-ENDER - the rear bumper
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GENU ST. - Knee Avenue in Rome
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10/13/2026 8:54 PM
VENUST
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-NUHST) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: adjective: Beautiful, graceful, elegant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin venustus (charming, beautiful), related to venus (love, charm) and to Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Earliest documented use: 1513.
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VENUE SET - we decided where we're perfoming
OVENUST - most roaster-like
RENU ST - where things are validated again
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VOTACITY - municipal election
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10/13/2026 8:42 PM
VORACITY
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh/vo-RAS-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: An excessive desire to eat or consume something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vorare (to devour). Earliest documented use: 1526.
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IVORACITY - a modren urban landscape carved from an elephant tusk
HORA CITY - the venue for the Israeli Dance festival
OVORACITY - egggishness
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VIROUS - manly
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10/13/2026 8:32 PM
VINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (VY-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to, resembling, or containing wine.
2. Having the color of red wine.
3. Given to drinking wine excessively or showing the effects of doing so.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vinum (wine), which also gave us vintage and vignette. Earliest documented use: 15th c.
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VINCUS - a periwinkle plant
VINOUT - no more French wine!
VI NOUS - we six Parisians
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CUL, QUÉ? - Catalan for "It's a blind alley, right?"
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10/12/2026 3:22 PM
CALQUE
PRONUNCIATION: (kalk) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A word or expression formed by translating the components of a term from another language; a loan translation.
ETYMOLOGY: From French calque (copy), from calquer (to trace or copy), from Italian calcare (to press or tread), from Latin calcare (to tread on), from calx (heel). Earliest documented use: 1926.
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BALQUE - a relatively esoteric baseball term referring to a disallowed movement on the part of the pitcher permitting any baserunner to advance gratuitously
CALOQUE - vernacular for "in the vernacular"
CASQUE - flowery term for a barrel, though less precisely defined
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BANDROGENOUS - giving rise to small musical combos
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10/12/2026 3:00 PM
ANDROGENOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (an-DROJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Producing only or predominantly male offspring.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek andro- (male) + -genous (producing). Earliest documented use: 1750s.
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ANDIROGENOUS - giving rise to fireplace instruments
ANEROGENOUS - without any component of sexual stimulation
ANDROGEN-OPUS - the synthesis of masculinizing hormone was a major accomplishment
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DEOCRACY - government from Olympus
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10/12/2026 2:41 PM
IDEOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (eye/i-dee-AH-kruh-see)
MEANING: noun:
1. Government according to the principles of a particular ideology.
2. A state or society governed in this way.
ETYMOLOGY: From ideo- (idea) + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1813.
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ADEOCRACY - government from Madison Avenue
IDOCRACY - government by primal desire
ILEOCRACY - government by gut reaction
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OVER A CITY - how airplanes approach many urban airports
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10/03/2026 2:38 AM
VERACITY
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-RAS-i-tee)
MEANING: noun:
1. Truthfulness or accuracy.
2. Something true; a truth.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin verax (truthful), from verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1614.
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TERACITY - the number of trilions comprising something
FERACITY - wildness (a multilayered portmanteau of feral and voracity and ferocity)
VERACIFY - to investigate something and establish that it is true and accurate
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VENOMUS - full of poison
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10/03/2026 2:17 AM
VENOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (VEE-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to veins.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vena (vein). Earliest documented use: 1626.
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AVENOUS - broad roads, usually perpendicular to Streets
GENOUS - very smart, except not so good at spelling
KENOUS - like a gambling game, similar to a punch-card or Lotto game
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CASHUE - a fancy crescent-shaped nut
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10/01/2026 1:05 AM
CASQUE
PRONUNCIATION: (kask)
MEANING: noun: A helmet or a helmet-like structure.
ETYMOLOGY: From French casque (helmet), from Spanish casco (helmet, skull). Earliest documented use: before 1586.
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CASQUET - formal word for "coffin"
CASK ¿QUE? - That barrel has what in it ?!
CASHUE - Excuse me, I sneezed
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AND ROPY, NOUS - we French are like cables of hemp
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10/01/2026 12:54 AM
ANDROGYNOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (an-DROJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Having both masculine and feminine characteristics, or being neither distinctly masculine nor feminine.
2. Biology: Having both male and female sex characteristics.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin androgynus, from Greek androgynos, from andro- (man) + -gune (woman). Earliest documented use: 1628.
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ANDROGYN OPUS - the Bloom County penguin is a closet hermaphrodite!
ANDROGENOUS - like testosterone. hormonally speaking
ANDY O'GYNUS - young Andrew is in the House of Gynus
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B.I.D.-IOCRACY - government twice a day
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10/01/2026 12:41 AM
IDIOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (i-dee-AH-kruh-see)
MEANING: noun:
1. Government by idiots.
2. A society governed or populated by idiots.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of idiot and -ocracy (rule or government). Earliest documented use in this sense: 1967.
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IDIOM RACY - blue language, rated PG at best
IDIO CRACK - one-of-a-kind cocaine
IDIOCRACY - government twice yearly by joyful Islamic festival, with minor lesser governing on a weekly basis
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OBI-USE - what you need to do with an untied kimono
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09/27/2026 10:14 PM
OBTUSE
PRONUNCIATION: (uhb-TOOS/TYOOS)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Slow or unwilling to understand.
2. Dull or indistinct, as a sound, pain, or sensation.
3. Blunt; not sharp or pointed.
4. Of an angle: measuring more than 90° and less than 180°.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin obtundere (to beat against), from ob- (against) + tundere (to beat), which also gave us pierce, contuse, and obtund. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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MOBTUSE - rioters, thinking mindlessly
OBTASE - the enzyme that helps digest OBT
OBIT-USE - transmission of coded messages via death notices
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KIXOLOGY - breakfast-cereal science dealing with corn puffs
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09/24/2026 8:05 PM
KIDOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (kid-AHL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The art or practice of bluffing or deceiving.
ETYMOLOGY: From kid (to deceive or tease) + -ology (a field of study). The verb kid is probably from the notion of treating someone like a child. Earliest documented use: 1964.
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FIDOLOGY - canine studies
SKIDOLOGY - the science of free-siding tires (and vehicles) on an icy road
CIDOLOGY - specialized knowledge about the British Criminal Investigation Division
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TIMBROUS - wooden; not showing any response
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09/24/2026 7:51 PM
TIMOROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (TIM-uhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Full of fear; timid.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin timor (fear), from timere (to fear). Earliest documented use: c. 1450.
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TIMOR HOUS - an e-less Indonesian dwelling
TIMER-OUS - mechanical, bound by unnecessary temporal constraints
STIMOROUS - persistently provocative
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AMIS GIVING - a donation from author Kingsley
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09/24/2026 7:41 PM
MISGIVING
PRONUNCIATION: (mis-GIV-ing)
MEANING: noun: A feeling of doubt or apprehension.
ETYMOLOGY: From misgive (to cause doubt or apprehension), from mis- (badly or wrongly) + give (in its former sense: to suggest). Earliest documented use: 1582.
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MISS GIVING - how I feel when my philanthropic impulses cannot be acted upon
MING IV -ING - acting the great-grandson of Flash Gordon's favorite opponent - Merciless!
MIS-LIVING - the pursuit of evilness
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SONORIFEROUS - Stentorian
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09/24/2026 7:27 PM
SOPORIFEROUS
PRONUNCIATION. (sop-uh-RIF-uhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Inducing sleep.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sopor (deep sleep) + -fer (bearing). Earliest documented use: 1583.
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SPORIFEROUS - reproducing by spores
SOPORIFERROUS - sleeping like a pig-iron ingot
SO-POORIFE-ROUS - there are so many financially-challenged families everywhere
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Re: Clerihews
wofahulicodoc
09/24/2026 2:32 AM
Dolly Parton
Had an appearance and a talent startin'
With a personality and a manner so endearing
That whenever and wherever she was on stage her audience began cheering
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DECODENT - decrypted
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09/24/2026 2:20 AM
DECEDENT
PRONUNCIATION: (di-SEE-duhnt)
MEANING: noun: A person who has died.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin decedens (departing), from decedere (to depart, to die), from de- (away) + cedere (to go, yield). Earliest documented use: 1599.
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DEC. EDENTI - my teeth were pulled in Rome on the first day of winter
DECKED E.N.T. - oto-rhino-laryngologist was knocked out in a fight
D.E.C. EVENT - With much fanfare, Digital Equipment Company announced their new PDP-11 mini-computers in 1969.
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