LICE IN WONDERLAND - improbable nits
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06/07/2026 2:09 PM
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
PRONUNCIATION: (AL-is in WUHN-duhr-land)
MEANING: noun: An absurd, illogical, or fantastical situation.
adjective: Absurd, dreamlike, fantastical, or illogical.
ETYMOLOGY: After Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), a children’s novel by Lewis Carroll. Earliest documented use: 1874.
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MALICE IN WONDERLAND - wondrous, but insensitive and cruel
ALICE IN "WON'T!"ERLAND - a fanciful name for child development's Terrible Twos
A LICK IN WONDERLAND - the most exquisite ice cream you've never tasted
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HAD l BRAS TIC - owned a shiny metal small insect
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06/07/2026 1:59 PM
HUDIBRASTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (hyoo-duh-BRAS-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Mock-heroic; playfully burlesque or satirical.
noun: A piece of verse or writing in this style.
ETYMOLOGY: After Hudibras (published in three parts in 1663, 1664, and 1678), a mock-heroic satirical poem by Samuel Butler. Earliest documented use: 1712.
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HUDIBRASTIC - Hard-drinking, arrogant, womanizing, living a self-centered, indolent life, like Hud Bannon as personified by Paul Newman in the 1963 movie Hud
MUDIBRASTIC - shiny metal, splattered with wet earth
HAD l BRA STIC - possessed only one stiffener for my brassiere
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LORD OF THE FOLLIES - Flo Ziegfield
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06/07/2026 1:21 AM
LORD OF THE FLIES
PRONUNCIATION: (lord uv thuh FLAIZ)
MEANING: adjective: Marked by a breakdown of order into cruelty, chaos, and savagery.
ETYMOLOGY: After Lord of the Flies (1954), a novel by William Golding. Earliest documented use: 1969.
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LORD OF THE FLIERS - Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, a.k.a the Red Baron
LORD OF THE FLIES - Carl Furillo, right fielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers
LORD OF THE LIES - (insert your favorite prevaricator HERE)
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DEI-PRO-SOPHIST - a wise man is beloved by God
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06/07/2026 1:00 AM
DEIPNOSOPHIST
PRONUNCIATION: (daip-NOS-uh-fist)
MEANING: noun: One skilled at dinner-table conversation.
ETYMOLOGY: After Deipnosophistae (The Deipnosophists), a work from around 200 CE by the Greek writer Athenaeus. From Greek deipnon (meal, dinner) + sophistes (wise man, sophist). Earliest documented use: 1581.
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DIP NO SOPHIST - Scholars shall not be subject to Trial by Drowning to test if they are witchs (or warlocks)
DE I.P. NO SOPH IS - you can't make a second-year student out of Intellectual Property
DEIGN, O SOPHIST - OK, wise guy, let's see how condescending you are now!
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BRAVE NEW WORLD - a stalwart neologism
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06/07/2026 12:44 AM
BRAVE NEW WORLD
PRONUNCIATION: (brayv noo/nyoo WUHRLD)
MEANING: noun: A radically transformed world, situation, or era, especially one with both promise and peril.
ETYMOLOGY: After Brave New World (1932), a novel by Aldous Huxley. Earliest documented use: 1933.
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BRAVE PEW WORLD - the Protestant Revolution
BRAVE NET WORLD - the Atlanta baseball organization is setting up a Tennis league
BREVE NEW WORLD - Dvořák's Ninth Symphony (in E minor) played in Cut Time (2/2)
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