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CROTCHET - Tiny Tim's family name
wofahulicodoc
08/03/2026 5:57 PM
CROTCHET
PRONUNCIATION: (KRAH-chit)
MEANING: noun:
1. An eccentric opinion, preference, or habit.
2. In music, a quarter note.
3. A small hook or hooklike device or structure.
ETYMOLOGY: From Anglo-French crochet (small hook), diminutive of croc (hook), from Old Norse krókr (hook). Earliest documented use: c. 1427.
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CROTCHEST - 1. having the most bifurcations; 2. in which a black bird keeps its trinkets
CROAT, CHET - Frank and Joe Hardy answer their friend's question about Slavic nationality
SCROTCHET - what you do to an itch
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Re: Common long words
wofahulicodoc
07/26/2026 8:16 PM
And then there are Stanley Kunitz' self-reported "favorite" words:
"eleëmosynary" and
"phantasmagorical"
A friend of his made a documentary movie about him - I don't know whether it was ever released to the general public - and posed the question to him. They sound different as he uttered them.
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Feeling the heat
A C Bowden
07/12/2026 4:33 AM
Industrial carbon emissions
Cause torrid climatic conditions.
The roadways and tracks
Develop large cracks,
And everyone blames politicians.
IMP – IMPETUOUS
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