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Hey Wordsmyths! This game looks like fun. laugh

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2 Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future

6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid..

7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido : All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
I've read several of these lists; they're always hilarious.
SANG-FROID (taken from Anu's list of words for the week.)

F > D

SANG-DROID (pronounced saang drwa) A cool droid that has already sung. smile
heh
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Which year is that list from? - 01/19/13 09:49 PM

My all-time favorite among these, for sheer economy of expression, is

IGNORANUS - a stupid asshole

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Which year is that list from? - 01/20/13 12:06 AM
I don't know, wolfman, the emailed copy wasn't dated. confused

Today's word: MELANCHOLY

minus L

MEANCHOLY: Mood sublimation for people too mean to cry. mad
Posted By: wofahulicodoc sad to say - 01/20/13 01:36 AM

MELANCHOLY

l-->V

MELANCHOVY -- cantaloupe with fish (pesca con melon)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc How old? - 01/20/13 01:43 AM

And in answer to my own question: It depends. Anywhere from 2008 to 2010, or maybe even 1998.
See for yourself.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: How old? - 01/20/13 02:04 AM
No matter.
In point we might have fun creating our own changed words list using Anu's weekly words; doncha think?

Well I will nonetheless. Here's another...

SEMINAL

L > T

SEMINAT : a short gnat. laugh
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: How old? - 01/20/13 02:20 AM

SEKINAL -- a sleeping pill for the orthograhically challenged, a.k.a. Red Devil
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: How old? - 01/22/13 04:46 AM
Monday's word: SILHOUETTE

add S

silhousette: A flat house without any rooms smile
Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: How old? - 01/22/13 01:47 PM
and I would add that it's a small house. ;¬ )
Posted By: jenny jenny How odd. - 01/23/13 02:52 AM
Today's word

CASANOVA

Change C to N

NASANOVA - the name of a nearby star in nova discovered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The X-rays produced by the star's exposion will reach Earth on 4-1-13 at 1:02 CDT and sterilize the Earth of all lifeforms bigger than a bug. Good-bye.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: How odd. - 01/23/13 03:05 AM

CASANORA -- Title of classic Ibsen play, when it opened in Madrid

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: How odd. - 01/23/13 03:44 PM
CATANOVA - exploding felines? or just a new cat?
Today's Word:

ZANTIPPE

Z > P

PAN-TIPPE: a vile, henpecking, dominating, high and mighty, loathsome, ugly, gasping, ill-tempered woman. In other words, an all-inclusive nag. grin

XANTHIPPY - Socrates' wife is getting a bit large in the beam, isn't she?

XANTHIPPO - an African herbivore that's large and yellow and lives mostly in the water
Posted By: jenny jenny The devilette within me made me do it. - 01/25/13 12:23 AM
Todays's word:

SHRAPNEL

add E

SHERAPNEL: a powder explosive without balls.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc This one's a toughie. - 01/25/13 02:18 AM

STRAPNEL - I heard that starting next week you won't be able to buy ladies' garments any more with anything to keep them on your shoulders...
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: This one's a toughie. - 01/25/13 03:49 AM
meaning they will be going topless??
Posted By: jenny jenny Tougher still... - 01/25/13 03:49 PM
Today's word:
DON JUAN

Add T

DON'T JUAN - a Don Juan who lacks romantic skills. eek
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tougher still... - 01/25/13 04:41 PM
add "U"

DONUT JUAN

a cop on break
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tougher still... - 01/25/13 11:31 PM

DON YUAN -- Head of the Chinese Mafia; specialty is money laundering

or even DON JOAN -- the Maid of Orleans gets no respect
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Tougher still... - 01/26/13 12:46 AM
laugh laugh You two guys are as smoothe as a baby's bottom and as tough as a two dollar steak. As for me I hope to do better next week. smile
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tougher still... - 01/26/13 04:25 PM
DONNA & WANDA

or

DONA & JUANA

combatants in arms in the New Military of the USA
Bill Mauldin style.
Maudlin?
Posted By: jenny jenny See you tomorrow or overmorrow - 01/28/13 06:33 AM
Anu's Word of the Day:
OVERMORROW: the day after tomorrow

> T

OVERTMORROW: a tomorrow that will answer it all
Posted By: hopefulfaces Re: See you tomorrow or overmorrow - 01/28/13 02:59 PM
Just a quick response to the Tsonga word Rhwe. I ran the word by a friend who is a Tsonga translator from South Africa (Tsonga is his native language). He told me he is unfamiliar with that word. So, Word.A.Day, you are correct.
AWAD 16 January: SALIVATE

>T

SALTIVATE: to go dormant while there are condiments on the table.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc pouring salt in the wound - 01/29/13 02:06 AM

SALIVOTE - How mucha you gimme to picka your candidate?

SALICATE - to coat with aspirin

SALIVASE - to put salt in the flower display container

SALIRATE - No, Mr Maglie, I know you're angry but please don't bean me with that baseball!

SALINATE - to spit salt water. No, wait a minute...

Posted By: jenny jenny Hanging by a Mil - 01/29/13 03:59 PM
Anu's Word of the Day:

FILIPENDULOUS

F > M

MILIPENDULOUS - the thinnest thread that one can hang onto, i.e. a mil.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Hanging by a Mil - 01/30/13 04:51 PM
Today's word: paresthesia or paraesthesia
PRONUNCIATION: (par-uhs-THEE-zhuh, -zhee-)
MEANING: noun: A sensation of pricking, tingling, burning, etc. on the skin.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek para- (at, beyond) + aisthesis (sensation or perception). Ultimately from the Indo-European root au- (to perceive)

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Presto-Change-o

A>S

PARAESTHESIS: - a thesis on intuitive perceptions
Posted By: wofahulicodoc esthetic reactions - 01/31/13 04:47 AM

PARENTHESIA - My Mom and Dad are so unfeeling...


BARASTHESIA - It's so cold in the bathroom I can't even feel the toilet when I sit down!


Incidentally, PARESTHESIS is actually a variant spelling for -ESIA. But I like your definition better!
Today's word: armscye or armseye
PRONUNCIATION:(AHRM-sy, -zy)
MEANING:noun: An opening in a garment for attaching a sleeve; an armhole.
ETYMOLOGY:From arm, from Old English earm + scye (armhole), from Scottish, reanalyzed as arm's eye.
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add F

FARMSEYE: an old decrepit dog who barks bloody murder when strangers come around. And to him anything that moves is a stranger. smile


ARTSEYE - Undergraduates' shorthand for one of the three major branches of learning, renamed to make it comparable to the other two. Thus we have Natural Sciences (NatSci), Social Sciences (SocSci), and Art Sciences, (formerly "Humanities," now ArtSeye).


{Speaking of Barasthesia - does it work any better if we call it the outhouse instead of the bathroom?) /guffaw
Today's word: onomastics
PRONUNCIATION:(on-uh-MAS-tiks)
MEANING: noun: The study of proper names or of terms used in a specialized field.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek onomastikos (of names), from onomazein (to name), from onoma (name). Earliest documented use: 1904.
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insert -> K

ONOMASTICKS- a stack of sticks named after themselves.
Or--

ohnomastic: the instant you realize you've bitten down on something you shouldn't have. Cousin to the ohnosecond.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc I don't know about this one... - 02/02/13 05:57 PM
OBOMASTICS -- definitely NOT a Teflon President !

(Feel free to attach whatever bias appeals to you. )
Posted By: jenny jenny He has so many this might be fun... - 02/02/13 08:26 PM
OBOMASTICS: Obama's tics. - Oddly Oboma doesn't twitch when a fly lands on his face, nor does he twitch when he is telling the truth. Oboma twitches a lot. smile
Posted By: jenny jenny Um?... Ah, what the hell! - 02/04/13 05:54 PM
Anu's Word of the Day: impetuous

PRONUNCIATION:
(im-PECH-oo-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Marked by impulsiveness or impatience.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin impetus (assault, impetus), from impetere (to attack), from in- (in) + petere (to go to). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly).
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umpetuous: combining form of "um"and "petuous" i,e. hesitant but overeager. smile

IMPETUONS - Sub-atomic particles that behave however they want to, without thinking of the consequences. These so-called "Devil particles" function as "God anti-particles:" when an Impetuon and a Higgs Boson collide, they vanish in mutual annihilation, releasing monstrous amounts of energy...
yuk, I like
Yes! That's it.
Who's side you on, Wolf, the devil's or the god who is anti-god? eek
Anu's Word of de Day: uxorious

PRONUNCIATION:
(uk-SOHR-ee-uhs)
MEANING:adjective: Excessively devoted or submissive toward one's wife.
ETYMOLOGY:From Latin uxor (wife). The feminine counterpart of this word is maritorious. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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Change O to B

UXORIBUS: Excessively devoted to one's mobile home.
etymologically speaking, that should be something like winnebagious..
Very funny, tsuwm. laugh

And furthermore, the word winnebagious though bogus wouldn't be ambiguous. smile
Tuxorious
dealers in clothing to men about to wed their uxor.
EXORIOUS: refuses to accept that the divorce actually went through
Posted By: wofahulicodoc add one letter, find the antonym? - 02/06/13 01:47 AM

UXORIBUSE - wife-beating
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: add one letter, find the antonym? - 02/06/13 03:46 AM
UXODIOUS: so repellant as to cause vomiting
...s t r e t c h. frown

Word of this day: implacable

PRONUNCIATION:
(im-PLAK-uh-buhl, -PLAY-kuh-)
MEANING: adjective: Impossible to pacify or appease.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin placare (to quiet or appease). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (to be flat), which is also the source of fluke, flake, flaw, plead, please, supple, supplicatory, and archipelago. Earliest documented use: 1522.
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C > Y

IMPLAYABLE: When International Business Machine's new 2013 CD player had no sales they dropped the B from their acronym because of lack of business.
Posted By: jenny jenny Anu's Word (distorted) - 02/07/13 03:05 PM
Word of the day: cantankerous
PRONUNCIATION:
(kan-TANG-kuhr-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Difficult to deal with: ill-tempered, quarrelsome.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English contak (contention). Earliest documented use: 1736.
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insert H

CANTHANKEROUS: easy to deal with: pleasingly-tempered, thankful.
Posted By: olly Re: Anu's Word (distorted) - 02/07/13 08:01 PM
Add an M = Mantankerous

We all know one of these...
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Word (distorted)(again) - 02/07/13 09:46 PM
FANTANKEROUS

- - Justin Bieberite
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Word (distorted)(again) - 02/07/13 11:26 PM

CANCANKEROUS -- The chorus line has venereal disease ?

CANCUNKEROUS

vacationers obsessed with the same Mexican vacation spot
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's Word softened. - 02/08/13 12:06 PM
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg impudent

PRONUNCIATION:
(IM-pyuh-duhnt)
MEANING:adjective: Marked by offensive boldness.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin im- (not) + pudere (to make or be ashamed) which also gave us pudibund (prudish), pudency (modesty), and pudeur (a sense of shame). Earliest documented use: 1386.
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add > W

WIMPUDENT: mealy-mouthed offensive boldness.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Word softened. - 02/09/13 02:45 PM

IMPUDON'T

forbidden peccadillos (loosely translated, "Get away from here, you young scamp!")
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Word softened. - 02/09/13 04:43 PM
LIMPUDONT

Wheelchair
Posted By: jenny jenny Anu's silent letter trick - 02/11/13 06:02 PM
Monday's word: pteridology

PRONUNCIATION:(ter-i-DOL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The study of ferns.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pterido (fern) + -logy (study). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1855.
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Insert E

PETERIDOLOGY: noun The study of Peter (singular).
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/11/13 06:34 PM
petrineodology, the scuttlebutt about who will be the next Pope,
called the throne of Peter the first pope.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/12/13 03:05 PM
Today's word: knacker
PRONUNCIATION:
(NAK-uhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. A person who buys old, sick, or worn-out animals for slaughter.
2. A person who buys old buildings, ships, etc. to break them up for scrap.
verb tr.: To tire out.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1574.
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Drop the useless K, add the curvy S.

SNACKER: a sneaky fat person
Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/12/13 03:08 PM
knackers is also Brit-slang for testicles.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/12/13 06:57 PM
Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu
knackers is also Brit-slang for testicles.


Thanks Buffalo.

A --> O

KNOCKERS: American slang: boobs, a pair of
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/12/13 11:15 PM
I suppose we can go next to

KNICKERS but not with my legs



https://www.google.com/search?q=knickerb...iw=1024&bih=653
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/14/13 06:08 AM
Today's word: gnathic
PRONUNCIATION:
(NATH-ik)
MEANING:
adjective: Of or relating to the jaw.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek gnathos (jaw). Ultimately from the Indo-European root genu- (jawbone, chin), which is also the source of chin, prognathous , and Sanskrit hanu (jaw). Hanuman (literally, having a large jaw) is the name of a monkey god in the Hindu
pantheon. Earliest documented use: 1882.
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insert C

GNATCHIC: a gnat who is gnattily dressed.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/14/13 10:33 AM
GNASHIC

Have the qualaity of being very annoying.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/14/13 02:28 PM
Originally Posted By: Rhubarb Commando
GNASHIC

Have the qualaity of being very annoying.


Inspirational, RC. Why couldn't I gnaw out a clever word like "gnashic"?
Oh well I am me and you are you...damnit. frown
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/14/13 11:30 PM
jj, I'm dead conventional - you're insperaitional: we make a great pair!
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/15/13 04:30 AM
What a nice thought. Oh heck, I forgot...it's Valentine's Day.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/15/13 11:08 PM
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg: chthonic
PRONUNCIATION:
(THON-ik)
MEANING:
adjective: Of or relating to the underworld.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek chthon (earth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also sprouted human, homicide, humble, homage, chameleon, chamomile, inhume, exhume, and Persian zamindar (landholder). Earliest documented use: 1882.
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Change C to E

EHTHONIC: an expression people use when told how to pronounce "chthonic". viz. Eh? thonic?

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/16/13 05:51 AM
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg wraith
PRONUNCIATION:
(rayth)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A ghost.
2. An apparition of a person supposed to appear just before that person's death.
3. An insubstantial copy of something: shadow.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Scottish. Earliest documented use: 1513.
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Remove R

WAITH : a patient ghost.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/16/13 10:22 PM
PRAITH - commendatiion from someone with a lisp.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/17/13 12:50 AM

Nary a BRAITHleft in him,so we must bury him.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's silent letter trick - 02/17/13 02:10 AM

WRADITH - a small, round, sharp-tasting garden root vegetable, about an inch in diameter, red on the outside and white in the thenter.
Posted By: jenny jenny Flipping Anu's word of the day - 02/18/13 06:21 PM
Anu's Word: spoonerism
PRONUNCIATION: (SPOO-nuh-riz-em)
MEANING: noun: The transposition of (usually) the initial sounds of words producing a humorous result. For example:
"It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride." (Spooner while officiating at a wedding)
"Is the bean dizzy?" (Spooner questioning the secretary of his dean)
ETYMOLOGY: After William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), clergyman and educator, who was prone to this. Earliest documented use: 1900.
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change N to K

SPOOKERISM: When a spooner-prone spook says "phoo" instead of "boo" and then wonders why no one is afraid.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Flipping Anu's word of the day - 02/18/13 06:41 PM
SLOOTHERISM: The work of Sherlock Holmes and Watson.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Flipping Anu's word of the day - 02/18/13 07:37 PM
SCHOONERISM - the tendency of some peopke to drink their sherry in overlarge glasses.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Suiting the action to the word... - 02/18/13 08:24 PM
...how could we pass up

SPOONERISM --> SNOOPERISM - surveillance gone wild !
Posted By: Tromboniator State of Mind - 02/19/13 08:27 AM
SOONERISM: Belief in the existence of Oklahoma
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: State of Mind - 02/19/13 03:25 PM
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg malapropism

PRONUNCIATION:(MAL-uh-prop-iz-ehm)
MEANING:
noun: The humorous misuse of a word by confusing it with a similar-sounding word.
For example, "pineapple of perfection" for "pinnacle of perfection".
ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan's play, The Rivals (1775), who confused words in this manner. Earliest documented use: 1830.
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R > T

MALAPTOPISM: a laptop manufactured by International Sewing Machine that belongs to your Ma.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: State of Crime - 02/19/13 04:07 PM
MALACOPISM
a cop on the 'take'.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: State of Crime - 02/20/13 07:21 AM
Freudian slip
PRONUNCIATION:(FROI-dee-uhn slip)
MEANING: noun: An error that reveals someone's subconscious mind.
For example, "I wish you were her" instead of "I wish you were here."
ETYMOLOGY: After Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, who proposed the idea that errors in speech, writing, etc. reveal what is in one's subconscious mind. Earliest use: 1959.
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DROP U

FREDIAN SLIP: a silk slip often worn between scenes by the actor who played "Freddy" in the play My Fair Lady.
Posted By: Capital Kiwi Re: State of Crime - 02/20/13 01:17 PM
FREDIAN SLIP: a silk slip often worn between scenes by the actor who played "Freddy" in the play My Fair Lady.

Fredian Lip - the way that Fred Flintstone's mouth is drawn in the cartoons.
Posted By: Tromboniator Revealing your unaware - 02/21/13 11:10 AM
FREUDIAN SLAP: Typical response to Freudian slip.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Revealing your unaware - 02/21/13 03:05 PM
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg :eggcorn
PRONUNCIATION: (EG-korn)
MEANING:
noun: An erroneous alteration of a word or phrase, by replacing an original word with a similar sounding word, such that the new word or phrase also makes a kind of sense.
For example: "ex-patriot" instead of "expatriate" and "mating name" instead of "maiden name".
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum (b. 1945) in 2003. From the substitution of the word acorn with eggcorn. Earliest documented use as a name for this phenomenon is from 2003, though the term eggcorn has been found going back as far as 1844, as "egg corn bread" for "acorn bread".
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G to A

e.g. acorn - a definition of eggcorn.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Revealing your unaware - 02/21/13 05:35 PM
eggdorn
Put large quantities of gold braid on your uniform.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Revealing your unaware - 02/22/13 01:06 AM
ergcorn: amount of work required to make one tortilla.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Revealing your unaware - 02/22/13 03:00 PM
mondegreen PRONUNCIATION: (MON-di-green)
MEANING: noun: A word or phrase resulting from mishearing a word or phrase, especially in song lyrics. For example:
"The girl with colitis goes by" for "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes" in the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds".
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by author Sylvia Wright when she misinterpreted the line "laid him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen" in the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray".
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N to L
MOLDEGREENS - collard greens past their prime.

Anyone remember Bob Cain and the Canebreakers greatest and onliest hit? No? Good, I'll sing it here to the tune of the hymn "Just a closer Walk with Thee".

Just a bowl of butterbeans,
Pass the cornbread if you please
I don't want no collard greens
All I want is a bowl of butterbeans






Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Revealing your unaware - 02/22/13 04:40 PM
MOLDEPREENSwhat birds do after a bath.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Revealing your unaware - 02/22/13 08:46 PM
PONDEGREEN - algae bloom
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Revealing your unaware - 02/22/13 09:11 PM
mondegree - diploma from la Sorbonne
Posted By: wofahulicodoc lots o' possibilities for this one - 02/23/13 02:37 AM
bondegreen - the rookie 007

hondegreen - Accord color "Verdant Forest" which Toyota has spent much time and money trying unsuccessfully to emuluate

wondegreen - the bread's gone moldy

yondegreen - where you'll find the flag is on the next Par Five hole, way over thar

Moodegreen - rejected title for early version of Mood Indigo

Montegreen - Montenegro in the Spring
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: lots o' possibilities for this one - 02/23/13 09:05 AM
mondegreed – global avarice.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: lots o' possibilities for this one - 02/23/13 09:10 AM
fondegreen – entrepreneurially motivated.
Minus M
ondegreen- good golf shot in Jamaica
(thanks wolf)

Mondagreen- when Saint Patrick's Day falls on a Monday . smile
Londogreen

London in spring.
Agu's Word of the Day: logophile

PRONUNCIATION: (LOG-uh-fyl)
MEANING: noun: One who loves words.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek logo- (word) + -phile (lover). Earliest documented use: 1728.
USAGE:
"I treasure my printed OED -- as a memento of my logophile grandfather."
Dictionaries: Finding Their Ideal Format?; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 22, 2012.
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L > P

POGOPHILE: one who loves Walt Kelly
Posted By: tsuwm Re: To clean this scene of all things obvious - 02/25/13 03:35 PM
pogophile redefined:

a pogophile is actually a beard lover, from Gk. pogos, beard + -phile

BOGOPHILE

One who studies preserved mummies in the peatbogs of Europe.
Posted By: jenny jenny Pogophile improved... - 02/25/13 05:44 PM
pogophile: people who love Walt Kelly's beard. laugh
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Pogophile improved... - 02/26/13 10:44 AM
LOGOPHITE someone who eats theit own words
Posted By: jenny jenny Todays word: homologous - 02/26/13 04:01 PM
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
homologous
PRONUNCIATION: (huh-MOL-uh-guhs, hoh-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Exhibiting a degree of correspondence or similarity.
2. Corresponding in structure and evolutionary origin, but not necessarily in function.
For example, human arm, dog foreleg, bird wing, and whale flipper are homologous.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek homo- (same) + logos (word, proportion, reason). Earliest documented use: 1660.
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L > B

HOMOBOGOUS - different day same swamp


Posted By: wofahulicodoc obscure ones... - 02/27/13 02:37 AM

HOROLOGOUS - like a clock

HOMOLOGONS - men signing into compter networks

HOMOZOGOUS - dwelling in the Emerald City, by the grace of Glinda

HUMOLOGOUS - funnily worded? or maybe, moistly worded?
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: obscure ones... - 02/27/13 03:05 PM
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hagiarchy

PRONUNCIATION: (HAG-ee-ar-kee, HAY-jee-)
MEANING:
noun: A government by holy persons. Also a place thus governed.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek hagi- (holy) + -archy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1826.
NOTES:
Two synonyms of this term are hagiocracy and hierocracy. Also, literally speaking, hierarchy is the rule of the high priest.
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HAGIARCH - a rain b o w
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: obscure ones... - 02/27/13 05:08 PM
hagiasophia

a once holy place now a museum
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: obscure ones... - 02/27/13 05:13 PM
fagiarchy - the committee of a gay club.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: obscure ones... - 02/27/13 05:38 PM
wagiarchy - 1. government has gone to the dogs. 2. government by a bunch of jokers.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: obscure ones... - 02/27/13 05:46 PM
Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
wagiarchy - 1. government has gone to the dogs. 2. government by a bunch of jokers.


I like this, Peter.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: obscure ones... - 02/27/13 08:41 PM
And so do I!

lagiarchy - government by a bunch of crooks.
(Now whch gov't could THAT be?)
Posted By: jenny jenny A tough one... - 02/28/13 03:17 PM
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archetype

PRONUNCIATION:(AHR-ki-typ)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The original pattern or model of something; prototype.
2. An ideal or typical example of something.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek arche- (first, original) + -type (model, mold). Earliest documented use: 1605.
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ARCHIETYPE - the original Archie in the Archie Boy Comics
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: A tough one... - 02/28/13 05:43 PM

ORCHETYPE -- what Nero Wolfe is obsessed by.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: A tough one... - 02/28/13 07:36 PM
archihype - over-fulsome praise of modern buildings.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: A tough one... - 02/28/13 10:36 PM
ARCHIEHYPE
Listening to the rants of Archie Bunker.
Posted By: jenny jenny Oh well... - 03/01/13 02:23 PM
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PRONUNCIATION:(dak-tuh-LOG-ruh-fee)
MEANING:
noun: The study of fingerprints as a means of identification.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek dactylo- (finger or toe) + -graphy (writing). Earliest documented use: 1884.
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DACTYLORAPHY - when a rapper does that crazy handjive
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Oh well... - 03/01/13 04:48 PM
AMBIDACTYLOGRAPHYleft-hand/right-handed search for clues
based on finger prints.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Oh well... - 03/01/13 08:04 PM
QUACTYLOGRAPHY - identifying water-fowl by the noise they make.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Oh well, it's Monday. Yippee! - 03/04/13 02:27 PM
Anu's happy word of today: gelasin laugh

PRONUNCIATION:(JEL-uh-sin)

MEANING:
noun: A dimple in the cheek that appears when someone smiles.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek gelaein (to laugh), which also gave us the words agelast (one who never laughs) and hypergelast (one who laughs too much). Earliest documented use: 1608.
USAGE:
"Gelasin is this pretty little dimple of which Martial says:
His is the face less gracious
Who has not the gelasin joyous."
Laurent Joubert; Treatise on Laughter; University of Alabama Press; 1980.
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AGELASIN: the inability to dimple frown
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Oh well, it's Monday. Yippee! - 03/04/13 04:52 PM

TELASIN

-what confession's for.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Oh well, it's Monday. Yippee! - 03/04/13 06:38 PM
"A" sin, Luke?
For me it takes hours. smile
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Oh well, it's Monday. Yippee! - 03/04/13 06:44 PM
Well, I guess it can be a process. You know the old proverb
something about a journey of a thousand miles begins with
a single step. Wonder how much the old confession is used
any more, the Roman Church seems to pretty much have thrown the
baby out with the bath water.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Oh no, it's Tuezzaday. - 03/05/13 07:30 PM
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sprezzatura

PRONUNCIATION: (spret-sah-TOOR-uh)
MEANING:
noun: Doing (or giving the appearance of doing) something effortlessly; effortless grace; nonchalance.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Italian. Earliest documented use: 1957.
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SPREEZATURA - a peccadillo indulged but with sang-froid
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Oh no, it's Tuezzaday. - 03/05/13 11:51 PM
esprezzatura - nonchantly drinkin very stron coffee.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Yea! It - 03/06/13 06:51 PM
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polylemma

PRONUNCIATION:(pol-ee-LEM-uh)
MEANING:
noun: A choice involving multiple undesirable options.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek poly- (many) + dilemma, from lemma (proposition). Earliest documented use: 1856. Also see trilemma, Hobson's choice, and Buridan's ass.
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POLYEMMA- Polylemma's decisive but simple-minded little sister Polyemma; not the happy one, that would be, Pollyanna.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc last one in is a rotten egg - 03/06/13 10:22 PM

POOLYLEMMA - the choice to go into the cold water one toe at a time or to jump in with a big splash and get it over with all at once...
Posted By: jenny jenny Today is hump day for a seven day week - 03/07/13 01:47 PM

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schadenfreude

PRONUNCIATION: (SHAAD-n-froi-duh)
MEANING: noun: Pleasure derived from another's misfortune.
ETYMOLOGY:
From German Schadenfreude, from Schaden (damage, harm) + Freude (joy). Earliest documented use: 1852.
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schadenfreud- to undergo psychoanalysis to sublimate one's schadenfreude

SHADE'N'FREUDE - joy at hearing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on the lawn at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the Berkshires on a balmy summer afternoon
Nicely done Wolf cool It'd take a high hatter in the Queen's box to top that. smile
Posted By: jenny jenny Thank Friars it's Friday - 03/08/13 07:50 AM
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palimpsest

PRONUNCIATION: (PAL-imp-sest)
MEANING: noun:
1. A writing surface such as a parchment that has been reused after partially or completely erasing the original text.
2. Something reused but still showing traces of its earlier form.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek palimpsestos, from palin (again) + psestos + (scraped). Earliest documented use: 1661 Also see pentimento.
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PALIMPEST - a friend who sometimes acts like a monkey
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Thank Friars it's Friday - 03/08/13 04:43 PM
PALIMSEXT A sex-text sent to one person that goes viral.
Posted By: jenny jenny Become the Tiger - 03/12/13 12:39 AM
nineteenth hole

PRONUNCIATION:(NYN-TEENTH hol)
MEANING:
noun: The clubhouse or another place, such as a bar or a restaurant, where golfers gather after playing a round.
ETYMOLOGY:
A standard round of golf has eighteen holes, so the next stop after the game, a bar or a restaurant, is called the nineteenth hole. A similar term is the fifth quarter in (American) football. Earliest documented use: 1901.
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NINETENTH HOLE- the walk to the tenth tee where it is considered cricket to slug whiskey as a brace for the second nine.
Posted By: olly Re: Become the Tiger - 03/12/13 01:43 AM
Wineteenth.
Same as the Nineteenth
Posted By: wofahulicodoc pole-ish joke - 03/12/13 01:48 AM

NINETEENTH POLE - the facetiously-named "pole" 1 3/16 mile from the finish line, thus 1/16 mile BEFORE the starting line of a 9-furlong race. Refers to the position of a horse considered - usually jeeringly - to be so slow that it can't even reach the gate before the race is over.
Posted By: Tromboniator Indentation - 03/12/13 07:02 AM
nineteeth hole: result of taking a little nip.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Indentation - 03/12/13 01:40 PM

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suffragist

PRONUNCIATION: (SUHF-ruh-jist)

MEANING: noun: An advocate of extending the right to vote, especially to women.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French from Latin suffragium (voting tablet, right to vote). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreg- (to break) that also gave us break, breach, fraction, fragile, fractal, infringe, irrefragable, and fractious. Suffrage? Remember, a broken piece of tile was used as a ballot in the past. Earliest documented use: 1822.
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stuffragist - a dealer in rags suitable for stuffing
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Become the Tiger - 03/12/13 02:33 PM
PINETEENTH HOLEAlong around the sixteenth hole
when it's a hot and sweaty day, one longs for the shade
and a cold drink and cannot wait for the nineteenth hole.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Indentation - 03/12/13 02:39 PM
SCUFFRAGIST A shoeshine boy.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Indentation - 03/12/13 07:16 PM
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
SCUFFRAGIST A shoeshine boy.

laugh Nice polish, Luke.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Indentation - 03/12/13 09:49 PM
thankee blush
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Ann or Andy? - 03/13/13 01:08 AM

STUFFRAGIST (that's with a hard "G") -- a full-time dollmaker
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Ann or Andy? - 03/13/13 10:25 AM
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bromide

PRONUNCIATION:(BRO-myd)

MEANING:noun:
1. A tired or meaningless remark.
2. A tiresome or boring person.

ETYMOLOGY:
From bromine, from Greek bromos (stench). Earliest documented use: 1836.
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E to D

bromind :
1. a tiresome or boring mind
2. a tired or meaningless remark from a tired or boring mind
Posted By: LukeJavan8 : Andy and Andy? - 03/13/13 02:27 PM
brobride

gay marriage
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: : Andy and Andy? - 03/13/13 04:10 PM
bromine - my Ma's other son.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Inheritance - 03/13/13 06:13 PM

Bromaide - Eragon, in his youth
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Inheritance - 03/13/13 08:12 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

Bromaide - Eragon, in his youth


Now I like that. I have about 100 pages in book 4 left.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Inheritance - 03/14/13 08:24 AM
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tinnient

PRONUNCIATION: (TIN-ee-uhnt)

MEANING:
adjective: Ringing or tinkling.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tinnire (to ring), of imitative origin, which also gave us tintinnabulation. Earliest documented use: 1668.
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thinnient - being chased by a bear
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Inheritance - 03/14/13 02:51 PM
tunnientfishermen with their minds on one thing.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Inheritance - 03/15/13 12:10 AM

TINNIMENT - a substandard multi-apartment building put up by a canny slumlord
Posted By: jenny jenny Nice, Wofadoc, now try this... - 03/15/13 08:29 AM
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extraterritoriality
PRONUNCIATION: (ek-struh-ter-i-tor-ee-AL-i-tee)
MEANING: noun:
1. Exemption from the jurisdiction of local law, for example, as for diplomats.
2. The applicability of a state's laws outside its territory.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin extra- (outside) + territorium (land around a town), from terra (land). Earliest documented use: 1836.
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rextraterritoriality - the right of a King to rule whatever land he can coerce or conquer
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 05:06 PM
All weak, but surprisingly many options:

-- HEXTRATERRITORALITY: an affiliation of Six Nations, like the Iroquois

-- EXTRACTERRITORIALITY: 1) Strip mining 2) debugging, in pretentious jargon

-- EXTRATERRITORIACITY: a vulgar claim to be a Stranger in a Strange Land

-- EXTRATERRITORIALIFY: to remove from any outside jurisdiction by converting to an independent political entity, like the Vatican City, or (discussed from time to time) Jerusalem

-- EXTRATERRITOCIALITY: an out-of-this-world experience while giving birth (compare "dystocia")

-- EXTRATERRITORIALITH: moon rock

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 05:29 PM
Damn wolfman...just damn. shocked smile
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 07:00 PM

In the old days we called it "looseness of association." It was not meant to be a compliment.

And don't forget I didn't come up with anything at all for sprezza-whatever, or palimpsest, or even gelasin. To name just a few recent ones.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 07:06 PM
SEXTRATERRITORIALITY -going to foreign countries to sate your off-beat sexual inclinations (e.g., Brits going to Thailand.)
VEXTRATERRITORIALITY - annoying the whole populations of other countires - like Britain wishing to opt out of large parts of the European Union Agrrements.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 07:37 PM
Damn...just damn.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 09:12 PM
hextraterritoriality

the curse put on you by a Leprachaun when you get too close
to his/her pot of gold.

word first used by Wofa,
but here it is a word that is spelled the same but has a
different meaning.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 09:20 PM

Like
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Don't encourage him! - 03/15/13 09:23 PM
blush
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/19/13 01:40 PM

J-J apparently being Away From Keyboard so far this week, I'll post today's WAD:

Contranyms:

PERUSE

PRONUNCIATION:
(puh-ROOZ)

MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To read or examine with great care.
2. To read or examine in a casual manner.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _


Let's try

PERTUSE -- to spread an illness by coughing ("Pertussis" is whooping cough)

P.S. Just thinking out loud:

-- "scan" is approximately the same thing !
-- PERFUSE is already a real word
-- so is PERUKE
-- PERUE is mixed up mixed up [PUREE]
:-)

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/19/13 02:44 PM
I hope these infections stay in your office
and that you are inoculated.


RERUSE

-to use the same trick twice or more.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/19/13 07:29 PM
PERUSS (puh-RUSH): to read with great care in Cyrillic, and rather quickly.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/19/13 07:41 PM
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
I hope these infections stay in your office
and that you are in
oculated.

You want me to get an infection in my eye?
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/19/13 07:46 PM
Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
PERUSS (peh-RUSH): to read with great care in Cyrillic, and rather quickly.

Not to be confused with its near-homonym PERUSH, (pee-rush), meaning "Ooh! Ooh! Teacher! I really have to go to the bathroom!"
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/19/13 08:28 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
I hope these infections stay in your office
and that you are in
oculated.

You want me to get an infection in my eye?



Sorry Doc, I don't speak MDese. I hope you have had what
ever shot you need so you don't get the disease you mentioned.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/19/13 08:30 PM
PEBRUSH

Toilet bowl cleaner.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Tuesday: PERUSE - 03/20/13 01:30 AM
r > n

penuse - the projected life of a Bic ballpoint pen less fifty percent.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc School of Useless Knowledge - 03/20/13 01:51 AM
"Ocular" means related to the eye, as in oculist who makes lenses, and binoculars (two lenses, one for each eye - and they also make monocles for one eye.)

Actually, "inoculate" really does mean "stick it in your eye." That's the way the first smallpox immunizations were administered. Serum was made from victims of vaccinia (a related viral disease, cowpox. As one might suspect, since ''vaca" is cow. Smallpox is "variola.") and it was instilled into the eye of the protectee after the doctor pulled the lower lid down to make a sac to drip a drop or two into. So it was literally an "in-ocul-ation," and then the word got generalized to mean any immunization against you-name-it disease, no matter where it was given.

And "pertussis" is whooping cough. ("Tussive" is coughing. RobiTussin is A H Robins' brand of cough syrup. Tussionex is somebody else's.) Pertussis is the P of the DPT shot your kids got when they were infants: Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus. Never heard of 'em? It's because the shots became almost universal, and the diseases almost unheard of. Except that whooping cough is coming back, because...but that's another story.


(Apologies for droning on. Occasionally this does somehow turn into a word Board, all our intentions to the contrary notwithstanding...)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Go Back Three Weeks - 03/20/13 02:00 AM

TACTYLOGRAPHY - handwriting in Braille
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second-guess

PRONUNCIATION:(SEK-uhnd GES)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To criticize an event with the benefit of hindsight.
2. To guess or predict.
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably a back-formation from second-guesser (in baseball, one who criticizes a play after the fact). Earliest documented use: 1941.
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S to R
recond-guess- a recond-ed guess. As in...
Do you recond? Well, shoot, I recond.

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: School of Useless Knowledge - 03/20/13 02:32 PM
I thought I was using 'inoculation' correctly, but only in
the sense you mention, generalization for any immunization
and I appreciate the comments. I had enough Latin to know
'oculis' is eye, but I was hoping you were protected from
all the other diseases you were specifying - and since
JJ is back I appreciate your taking up her mantle for the
time being.

SECOND-GUEST - v.i. - to wait in the car until you see someone else ring the doorbell ahead of you
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discursive

PRONUNCIATION:(dis-KUHR-siv)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Jumping from topic to topic; rambling.
2. Proceeding logically, using reason or argument rather than emotion.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin discurrere (to run about), from dis- (apart) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which is also the source of car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, succor, and caricature. Earliest documented use: 1599.
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discursitive- a meaning that can mean either extreme of diametrical opposite meanings. EX: discursive.

wishcursive when a teacher wishes handwriting were still
taught to today's button-pushing students.


miscursive what we will have when no one will be able
to sign their own names any longer: and then will have to
have barcodes on their wrists for identification purposes.

DISBURSITIVE - pertaining to the duties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Sounds like a word Pooh-Bah would have used, if it existed, dunnit?)

or

DISCUSSIVE -- the language of most rappers
pisscupsive
when you get shy bladder and the nurse/probation officer is
waiting.
Posted By: jenny jenny Friday's Word - 03/22/13 03:30 PM
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impregnable

PRONUNCIATION:(im-PREG-nuh-buhl)
MEANING:adjective:
1. Incapable of being taken by force; strong enough to withstand attack.
2. Capable of being impregnated.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Old French imprenable, from in- (not) + prenable (vulnerable to capture), from prendre (to take, seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize, take), which is also the source of pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, pregnant, osprey, prison, and get. Earliest documented use: 1430.
For 2: From Latin impraegnaere (to fertilize, impregnate). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gen- (to give birth), which also gave birth to words such as generate, engine, indigenous, and germ.
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impegnable - to be capable of being pegged or not.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Friday's Word - 03/22/13 03:57 PM
Impregnot - false positive
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday's Word - 03/25/13 06:13 PM
psychological moment
PRONUNCIATION:(sy-kuh-LOJ-i-kuhl MOH-muhnt)
MEANING:
noun: The most appropriate time for achieving a desired result; the critical moment.
ETYMOLOGY:
Loan translation of French moment psychologique (psychological moment), which itself is a mistaken loan translation of German das psychologische Moment (psychological element or factor) taken as der psychologische Moment (the psychological moment of time). The word came to French during the German Siege of Paris in 1870. Earliest documented use: 1871.
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O > E

psychological mement- a pop culture fad word that goes viral. EX: viral
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Monday's Word - 03/26/13 03:46 AM

psychological moment - an example of psychobabble: meaingless, overblown, self-consciously pompous and needlessly complex, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. Don't like the phrase to begin with. So there.

psychological foment - stir up trouble by pushing people's buttons...
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Monday's Word - 03/26/13 03:41 PM
Psychological cement

clueless
Posted By: jenny jenny Tuesday's foment. - 03/26/13 09:59 PM
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running dog

PRONUNCIATION: (RUN-ing dog)

MEANING:noun: A servile follower; lackey.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Chinese zougou, from zou (running) + gou (dog), apparently as an allusion to a dog running to follow his or her master's commands. This term was employed in Chinese Communist terminology to refer to someone who was considered subservient to counter-revolutionary interest. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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D > J
RUNNING JOG- a slow run, a fast jog.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc think "Loki" - 03/26/13 10:28 PM

RUINING DOG -- an evil dyslexic deity
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Tuesday's foment. - 03/26/13 10:30 PM
running tog: half a tracksuit.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tuesday's foment. - 03/27/13 12:01 AM
Running Agog

Not know where you are going.
Posted By: jenny jenny Wednesday's agog. - 03/27/13 02:14 PM
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potpourri
PRONUNCIATION: (poh-poo-REE, POH-poo-ree)
MEANING: noun
1. A mixture of dried flower petals, spices, herbs, etc., kept for fragrance.
2. A musical medley.
3. A mixture of incongruous things.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French pot pourri, literally rotten pot (loan translation of Spanish olla podrida), from pot (pot) + pourri (rotten), from pourrir (to rot). English has borrowed not only the loan translated term potpourri from French, but also the original Spanish olla podrida. It has borrowed from other languages a whole bunch of terms to describe hodgepodge or miscellany, such as, from Swedish smorgasbord, from French salmagundi, and from Hungarian goulash. Earliest documented use: 1611.
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P > R
ROTPOURRI - really rotten potpourri
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Wednesday's agog. - 03/27/13 03:07 PM
totpourri preschool
Posted By: jenny jenny Thursday's bleeding - 03/28/13 02:13 PM
blue blood PRONUNCIATION: (BLOO bluhd)
MEANING: noun:
1. An aristocratic or socially prominent lineage.
2. A member of such a family.
ETYMOLOGY:
Loan translation of Spanish sangre azul (blue blood). The term arose from the visible veins of light-skinned royalty. Earliest documented use: 1835.
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BLUE BLOO - the actual spelling and phonetic pronunciation of blue. As in Baby Boo Boo. frown
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Thursday's bleeding - 03/28/13 04:00 PM
glue blood
- -one of those acquaintances you wish to rid yourself of, but
cant'


blue rued
- -down in the mouth,sad,discouraged
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Thursday's bleeding - 03/28/13 08:32 PM
blur blood: mongrel.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Thursday's bleeding - 03/28/13 10:41 PM
Most excellent.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc I was sure I posted this this morning! - 03/29/13 01:13 AM

POTPOURROI -- a feast fit for a King
(or, maybe, a sachet fit for a King)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Blue Blond = [towhead de jour] is sad - 03/29/13 01:20 AM

blue brood - Smurfs
Posted By: jenny jenny deus ex machia de jour - 03/29/13 11:29 AM
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deus ex machina

PRONUNCIATION: (DAY-uhs eks MAH-kuh-nuh, -nah, MAK-uh-nuh)
MEANING:
noun: An unexpected or improbable person or event that saves a seemingly hopeless situation.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin deus ex machina, deus (god) + ex (from) + machina (machine), loan translation of Greek theos apo mekhanes. Earliest documented use: 1697.
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deus'sex machina - you wish smile
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: deus ex machia de jour - 03/29/13 03:13 PM

deus sex matchina

holy dating service
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: deus ex machina de jour - 03/30/13 02:53 AM
debs ex machina: Stepford Wives
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Happy Easter To You - 03/30/13 10:53 AM

Dems ex machina - any two Tammany politicians
(or Deux ex machina - Richard Daley and Richard Daley Jr, if you prefer Chicago politics)

Deus en machina - the cult of Jobs

Deus ex Bachina - the B-minor Mass, or any of several other out-of-this-world masterpieces

Deus ex mochina - choco-latte (Heavenly-flavored, of course)
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: Happy Easter To You - 03/31/13 02:45 PM
Pay-us ex machina - an ATM

Say-us ex machina - a "speak-your-weight" machine

Lay-us ex machina - let's not go there! wink

Ray-us ex machina - a sun bed

Way-us ex machina - a Sat-Nav

X-Ray-us ex machina - as used in Hospitals an Dental surgeries *at vast expense!)



Posted By: LukeJavan8 - - -ditto - 03/31/13 04:46 PM
play-us ex machina slot machine
Posted By: jenny jenny Anu's word for April Fool's Day - 04/01/13 02:40 PM
magnanimous

PRONUNCIATION: (mag-NAN-i-muhs)

MEANING: adjective: Generous or forgiving, especially towards a weak rival.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin magnanimus (great-souled), from magnus (great) + animus (soul, mind). Ultimately from the Indo-European root meg- (great), which also gave us magnificent, maharaja, master, mayor, maestro, magnate, magistrate, maximum, magnify, mahatma, magisterial, mickle, and hermetic. Earliest documented use: 1547.
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MAGNANIMOUSE- a mouse who forgives the cat's bad manners
Posted By: wofahulicodoc It's good enough for me! - 04/02/13 01:20 AM

MAÑANIMOUS - Inclined not to do today what can be put off to tomorrow...
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: It's good enough for me! - 04/02/13 01:33 AM

Manama-ese
people who live in Bahrain's capital
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: It's good enough for me! - 04/02/13 03:45 PM



Apr 2, 2013 A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

percipient

PRONUNCIATION:(per-SIP-ee-ant)

MEANING:
adjective: Having deep insight or understanding.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin percipere (to perceive), from per- (thoroughly) + capere (to seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kap- (to grasp), which also gave us captive, capsule, capable, capture, cable, chassis, occupy, deceive, gaff, caitiff, and captious. Earliest documented use: 1659.
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E > A

percipiant - E. O. Wilson
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: It's good enough for me! - 04/02/13 03:59 PM
persipiants

wine tasters
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: It's good enough for me! - 04/02/13 08:56 PM
pencipient: just beginning to be written.
Example: "Rutherford's pencipient novel, Backyard Phoenix, promises to be a blockbuster, although only the opening sentence has been written: 'By the time the barbecue was over, half the Cu 61 had decayed to Ni 61.'"
Posted By: wofahulicodoc one opus, - 04/03/13 12:52 AM

OPERCIPIENT - knowledgable about Verdi, Puccini. etc. (viz. Milton Cross)
AWAD without Anu Garg
sagacious

PRONUNCIATION:(suh-GAY-shuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Having keen judgment or wisdom.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sagire (to perceive keenly). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sag- (to seek out), which is also the source of seek, ransack, ramshackle, forsake, and hegemony. Earliest documented use: 1607.
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less the c

sagaious - a proneness to turn a mundane event into a saga.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: one opus, two opus, three opus, four. - 04/03/13 04:08 PM
staygacious stick-to-it-isnous

spraygacious like unto a skunk
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Word Salad - 04/04/13 01:40 AM

SAGARIOUS = amiable but given to telling long, convoluted stories. Think: Garrison Keillor

SALACIOUS = given to telling salty stories
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Word Salad - 04/04/13 03:35 PM
With thee two I am reminded of the
"now you know", that's the "rest of the story" guy.
Senior Moment.
A.Word.A.Day without Anu Garg
temerarious

PRONUNCIATION: (tem-uh-RAR-ee-uhs)

MEANING: adjective: Presumptuously or recklessly daring or bold.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin temere (rashly).
Earliest documented use: 1532.
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r > p
temparous(noun) - a really, really, temporary worker.
tetherous animals bound by 'leash laws'
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Word Salad - 04/05/13 01:36 AM

Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
With these two I am reminded of the
"now you know", that's the "rest of the story" guy.
Senior Moment.

(That'd be Paul Harvey, yes?)


TEMEROARIOUS - The players on my side had the audacity to be shouting loudly. (Also we don't spell so gude.)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Word Salad - 04/05/13 02:37 PM
A.Word.A.Day less Anu Garg
malapert
PRONUNCIATION:(MAL-uh-puhrt)
MEANING: adjective: Boldly disrespectful.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French mal- (bad, wrong) + apert (bold, insolent, clever), from Latin apertus (open). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to cover), which also gave us overt, cover, warranty, warren, garage, garret, garment, garrison, garnish, guarantee, and pert. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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change p to v

malavert verb - the act of avoiding that which is bad
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Word Salad - 04/05/13 03:42 PM
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
With these two I am reminded of the
"now you know", that's the "rest of the story" guy.
Senior Moment.

(That'd be Paul Harvey, yes?)



I used to listen daily, could see his face, and continued
to scratch my head. Finally gave up.
Paul Harvey: thanks.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Word Salad - 04/05/13 03:44 PM
malatort the act of avoiding litigation
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Word Salad - 04/05/13 08:03 PM

malaport - them French pirates are coming up on our left side...
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Word Salad - 04/05/13 08:11 PM

MALAPEST - an awkward poetic foot guaranteed to disrupt the scansion of any verse
Posted By: jenny jenny Word Salad: ANU's AWAD for Monday - 04/08/13 02:37 PM
lex loci

PRONUNCIATION:(leks LOH-sy, -kee, -ky)

MEANING:noun: The law of the place.

ETYMOLOGY:From Latin lex (law) + locus (place). Earliest documented use: 1832.

NOTES: Lex loci says that the law of that country or jurisdiction applies where the act was done.
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TEX LOCI (noun) - if you wanna play music in Texas you'd better have a fiddle in the band.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc no, not Lex Luthor - 04/08/13 09:09 PM

Rex Loci - the set of dinosaurs equidistant from a case in point

Lex Lock - tied up in legal red tape

Lex Loki - injustice in Asgard

Lex Loca - crazy immigration policy
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: no, not Lex Luthor-YES<YES - 04/08/13 09:49 PM
Lex pokey -Superman's nemesis in jail
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Anu's Lexicon - 04/09/13 01:46 AM

Lox Loci - delicatessens
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Anu's Lexicon - 04/09/13 08:35 AM
Ooo, wofa, that's brilliant.

lex lopi: Cops! Let's run!
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/10/13 12:04 PM
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

suborn

PRONUNCIATION:(suh-BORN)
MEANING: verb tr.: To induce another to perform an unlawful act or give false testimony.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin subornare, from sub- (secretly) + ornare (to equip). Other words that derive from ornare are adorn and ornate. Earliest documented use: 1534.
add n

SUNBORN- we are the stuff of stars

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/10/13 03:41 PM
That's a beautiful thought, JJ.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/10/13 03:49 PM

SUBARN - where Pedro keeps the livestock

SUBORB - a bathysphere

SUBORAN - recently-identified Algerian oil reserve, as yet untapped because it lies beneath a major metropolitan area
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/10/13 03:52 PM
stewbarn where food is prepared for the 'hoedown'
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/10/13 05:12 PM
nuborn: Greek infant.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/11/13 12:51 PM
Anu Garg's word

mens rea

PRONUNCIATION: (MENZ REE-uh)

MEANING: noun: Criminal intent.

ETYMOLOGY:From Latin mens rea (guilty mind). Earliest documented use: 1861.
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a -> p

mens rep - a vulgar mind
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/11/13 03:49 PM
mens rec poetic scratchings on restroom stall dividers.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/11/13 04:30 PM

mens rhea = male ostrich

mens read = Playboy Magazine

mens rear = don't even go there !

And if we bend the rules j-u-u-s-t a bit, salving our guilty conscience (a real "mens rea"?) by changing both words the same way -

amens area = evangelical meeting hall
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/11/13 04:36 PM
Are you sure you don't have too much time on your
hands?, he said tongue-in-cheek.




mens reap bordello
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/11/13 07:42 PM
mens tea: afternoon gathering in a pub.
A.Word.A.Day with Garg

attorn

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-TUHRN)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To turn over rent, goods, etc. to another.
verb intr.: To agree to be a tenant of a new landlord of the same property.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French atorner (to assign to), from a- (to) + torner (to turn). An attorney is the person one turns to to represent oneself. Earliest documented use: 1458.
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attorny : Attorney-at-law as described in a legal brief

athorn: 1. a sharp, woody spine on the branch of an oak. 2. practicing to play a brass instrument.

Posted By: jenny jenny Anu's Lexicon: Blue Monday Tax Monday - 04/15/13 12:18 PM
Anu's Word for Monday
peeping Tom

PRONUNCIATION:
(PEE-ping tom)

MEANING:
noun: Someone who gets sexual pleasure from secretly watching others; voyeur.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the legend of Lady Godiva who rode unclothed through the streets of Coventry, England to persuade her husband to lower taxes on the people. All the townfolk shuttered their windows, except for a tailor named Tom who couldn't resist and watched. Earliest documented use: 1769.
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P --> W

WEEPING TOM - Tom after the King raised axes instead of lowering taxes
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Anu's Lexicon: Animal Occupations - 04/15/13 07:36 PM
peeing tom: feline surveyor.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Lexicon: Animal Occupations - 04/15/13 10:24 PM
beeping Tom what the lady turkeys are having to put up with
at this time of the year.
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

nice nelly

PRONUNCIATION:(nys NEL-ee)
MEANING:
noun: A person excessively concerned with propriety, modesty, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: A specialized use of the name Nelly, a nickname for Helen or Eleanor. Earliest documented use: 1922.
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ICE NELLY - as in "Whoa Nelly!"

The night was dark the sky was blue
Down the alley the ice wagon flew
It hit a bump and somebody screamed
You shoulda heard just what I seen

___________________________________ Bo Diddley 1957


Nice Telly - Radiodiffusion Television Francaise with a Southern accent

RTF
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/17/13 01:59 PM
A.Word.A.Day

nosy parker or nosey parker

PRONUNCIATION: (NOH-zee PAHRK-uhr)
MEANING: noun: An overly inquisitive person.

ETYMOLOGY:
From nosy + the name Parker. It's not clear who this person was. Earliest documented use: 1890. Also see, quidnunc.
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n to c minus p

COSY ARKER Brit. - crowded but comfortable
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/17/13 04:05 PM
noisy barker neighbor's dog
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/18/13 01:57 AM

NOSY PORKER - truffle-farmer's greatest asset

NOSEY-PACKER - ENT specialist treating a child's bleeding schnozz

NOISY PARKER - gets his car to curbside from bumper to bumper; often seen in NYC
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Anu's Lexicon: Wednesday - 04/18/13 09:54 AM
nosh parker: organizer of food at a potluck.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/18/13 02:41 PM
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg's word
doubting Thomas

PRONUNCIATION:(DOU-ting TOM-uhs)

MEANING:noun: A person who is habitually doubtful or someone who refuses to believe something until given proof.

ETYMOLOGY: After Saint Thomas, apostle, who doubted Jesus Christ's resurrection according to the Bible. Earliest documented use: 1877.
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DOUBLING THOMAS - a gambling Thomas who believes in Christ's return
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/18/13 03:38 PM
NOSY PORKER - truffle-farmer's greatest asset

Great Wofa!
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Lexicon: Thursday - 04/18/13 09:46 PM

wink

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Doubting Themas - posted by Martin Luther in 1517 (All-Saints Church, Wittn burg, Germany)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's word for Friday - 04/19/13 12:23 PM

lazy Susan


MEANING:
noun: A revolving tray used for serving food, or a similar structure used to keep objects within easy reach.


ETYMOLOGY:
It's not clear who the eponymous Susan in this term was. Earliest documented use: 1917.
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l > h

HAZY SUSAN - Lazy Susan after a slap from Spinning Jenny
Posted By: BranShea Re: Anu's word for Friday - 04/20/13 07:42 PM
Have a nice weekend

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's word for Friday - 04/21/13 12:26 AM
crazy Susan lazy, hazy Susan retaliating in an angry
fashion to spinning Jenny.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's word for a new Monday - 04/22/13 04:18 PM
bombilate

PRONUNCIATION:
(BOM-bi-layt)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To make a humming or buzzing noise.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin bombilare to (hum, buzz). Earliest documented use: 1600s.
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minus B

OMBILATE - A Zen Monk seeking Nirvana
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's word for a new Monday - 04/22/13 04:32 PM
tombilate zombie
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Theme and Variations - 04/23/13 02:14 AM

BOBILATE - Mr. Ray Goulding apologizes to his associate Mr. Elliott for not being there at the start of the radio program

BAMBILATE - that silly Disney cartoon fawn can't get anywhere on time either

BOMBILATTE - Starbucks has a new high-potency coffee drink

BOMBPILATE - what Jesus might have done if he'd had modern tools and attitudes

BOMBILATEX- apply generously and watch the munitions just bounce off

BOMBULATE - to walk like a dumb blonde (see also BIMBILATE)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Theme and Variations - 04/23/13 03:24 AM
laugh laugh laugh laugh
laugh laugh laugh 1/2
laugh laugh laugh
laugh laugh laugh laugh
laugh
laugh
Posted By: Tromboniator T/V cont. - 04/23/13 07:05 AM
combilate: At this hour, can't do anything with my hair.

mombilate: Soccer practice was over two hours ago.

wombilate: time for a C-section.

trombilate: I've been babysitting my grandson all day and I just got here.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: T/V cont. - 04/23/13 12:38 PM
Well, when you got here you got here with a bang!
You and Wolf sure can twist. laugh
Posted By: jenny jenny A.Word.A.Day for Tuesday - 04/23/13 12:53 PM
fanfaron
PRONUNCIATION: (FAN-fuh-ron)
MEANING:
noun: A boaster or a braggart.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French fanfaron, from Spanish fanfarrón (braggart), perhaps from Arabic farfar (talkative), of expressive origin. The words fanfaronade and fanfare have the same origin. Earliest documented use: 1622.
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add Y

fanfarony - a habitual user of the words found in A.Word.A.Day
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: A.Word.A.Day for Wednesday - 04/24/13 05:53 PM
cachinnate

PRONUNCIATION: (KAK-i-nayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To laugh very loudly or immoderately.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin cachinnare (to guffaw), of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1824.
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CACHINNYATE - a socialnet acronym LMAO
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: A.Word.A.Day for Wednesday - 04/24/13 08:50 PM
catinnate alley cat screaming all night.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: A.Word.A.Day for Friday - 04/26/13 02:52 PM
brouhaha

PRONUNCIATION: (BROO-ha-ha, broo-ha-HA, broo-HA-ha)

MEANING:
noun: Noise, confusion, and excitement, especially over something insignificant.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, of imitative origin. It has been also suggested it's an alteration of the Hebrew term barukh habba (welcome, literally, "blessed be the one who comes"). It was also used in French drama for a devil's cry as: brou, ha, ha! Earliest documented use: 1890.
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add T

BROUHAHAT - a silk hat made from a sow's ear

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: A.Word.A.Day for Friday - 04/26/13 04:29 PM
brewhaha; shindig around the ole still Virginie style.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc same joke in German - 04/27/13 09:40 PM

In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus...

BRÄUHAHA - Happy Hour in Munich
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Monday's Word - 04/30/13 02:11 AM

MOJO

PRONUNCIATION:
(MO-jo)

MEANING:
noun: Magical power; charm.

ETYMOLOGY:
Apparently of W. African origin, akin to Gullah moco (witchcraft), Fula moco'o (medicine man). Fula is a language of West Africa. Earliest documented use: 1926.


MOJA - a Woman of Power

MOFO - (not even with a ten-foot pole, thanks)

MOXO - singular of Moxie
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Monday's Word - 04/30/13 02:06 PM
J -> O

MOOO - a happy or disgruntled cow
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Monday's Word - 04/30/13 03:53 PM
HoJo remember Howard Johnson's?
Posted By: A C Bowden Re: Monday's Word - 04/30/13 05:58 PM
MOJITO – powerful tipple

MOJONES – the result of drinking Mojito
boondocks

PRONUNCIATION: BOON-doks)
MEANING: noun: Rough country; backwoods.

ETYMOLOGY: From Tagalog bundok (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1944.
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BOONDOCS - country docs who still make housecalls
BOONDOCS! I love it!

LOONDOCKS - I wondered why my boat was covered with guano after I left it tied up overnight

BOONDUCKS - that lay golden eggs

BOOBDOCKS - no, not plastic surgeons, just brassieres

BLONDOCKS - my beast of burden has yellow hair!

BOONDECKS - stacked at the Casino to lure in the suckers (or to pay off the Contractors?)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 - - - -interbreeding. - 05/01/13 09:06 PM
loonduck naughty birdies, hybrid
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: - - - -interbreeding. - 05/01/13 09:07 PM
gom guano on wofa's boat
Posted By: wofahulicodoc ...which came from... - 05/02/13 02:12 AM
gam

PRONUNCIATION:
(gam)

MEANING:
noun: 1. A leg, especially a woman's attractive leg.
noun: 2. A school of whales. 3. A social visit, especially between whalers or ship crews.
verb tr., intr.: 4. To hold such a visit; to spend time talking.


XAM = a puzzling test, sometimes solved with "ees."

(regarding definition 2 - I thought if was called a "pod" of whales. Oh well. I suppose there's no rule that there can't be two words with the same meaning.)

Posted By: jenny jenny One does what one can... - 05/02/13 04:07 AM
add A

agam eg-am - future tense active of the word "again".
Posted By: wofahulicodoc pointed remarks - 05/02/13 02:56 PM

MAMMONISM

PRONUNCIATION:
(MAM-uh-niz-uhm)

MEANING:
noun: The greedy pursuit of riches.

ETYMOLOGY:
Via Latin and Greek, from Aramaic mamona (riches). Mammon was personified as a false god in the New Testament. Earliest documented use: 1843.


GAMMONISM - a religious search for the use of those three extra "Kinging men" that used to come with the fifteen-piece checker set. (Never did figger out how to play that game on the back side of the checkerboard either, didja... ?)
Posted By: jenny jenny Always. - 05/02/13 03:23 PM
M --> T

MAMMONIST - a communist leader after the revolution
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: One does what one can... - 05/02/13 03:34 PM


(regarding definition 2 - I thought if was called a "pod" of whales. Oh well. I suppose there's no rule that there can't be two words with the same meaning.)


So did I, but I've seen 'gam' with regard to whales:

and the American Heritage Dict. of the English language
indicates it also means a congregation of whalers especially
at sea. So they must get together and reminisce about Ahab
after the work is done.
Posted By: jenny jenny Things that make you go Mmmmm... - 05/02/13 10:53 PM
N -> M

MAMMOMISM - any nine letter word with five M's except Mmmmmmmmm.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Anu's Word for Thursday - 05/03/13 01:23 PM

MAAMONISM - excessive deference to women, especially as practiced in the Deep South
Posted By: jenny jenny Anu's Last Word ( for the week ) - 05/03/13 03:42 PM
leviathan

PRONUNCIATION: (li-VY-uh-thuhn)

MEANING:noun: Something large and powerful.

ETYMOLOGY:
Via Latin from Hebrew liwyathan (whale). Earliest documented use: 1382.
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add G

LEVIATHANG - calling Levi a "thing" in Alabama
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Last Word ( for the week ) - 05/03/13 04:30 PM
leviathong uhhhh
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Last Word ( for the week ) - 05/03/13 08:19 PM

LEVIATHON - Congressional tax-raising orgy, to be held next Labor Day Weekend (without Jerry Lewis)

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Last Word ( for the week ) - 05/03/13 08:23 PM
LEATHERATHON = S & M convention
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Last Word ( for the week ) - 05/04/13 04:24 PM

Did we overlook LEIATHON - watching too many consecutive Carrie Fisher movies?

(Doesn't quite work -- A-->O -- but I couldn't think of anything for "Leiathan."
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Last Word ( for the week ) - 05/05/13 03:29 PM
Han Solo would be pleased, I'm sure.
Posted By: jenny jenny Anu's Odd Word for Monday - 05/06/13 04:44 PM

May 6, 2013
This week's theme
Terms that appear offensive but aren't

This week's words: queer street

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A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

Language is meant to communicate and offending someone is also a way to communicate, though not a very nice one. There are plenty of offensive words in a language, any language, and this week's words may appear offensive, but aren't.
They may sound, look, or feel like they have something to do with well-known distasteful words, but they don't. This similarity may cause some to take offense if the words are used in conversation. So should they be?

A dictionary meaning of a word tells only so much. A word in a dictionary is inert. It comes alive only when we use it and give it real meaning. A word can take multiple meanings depending on the speaker, listener, tone, and the context.

Take an everyday word like boy, for example. An adult man wouldn't think twice about his mother calling him a boy. But chances are he'd resent a store clerk or his boss, even an older boss, calling him thus. And that may also explain to folks who wonder, for example, why blacks use the N-word amongst themselves, yet are offended if people outside their community say it.

One might say: Words don't offend people, people offend people.

So should you use this week's terms? Technically, these are perfectly agreeable words, but technically is not how life works. It all depends on the context. For example, I'd avoid using the term queer street if I knew the person I was speaking to was gay.

What do you think? I invite you to discuss this in our online forum Wordsmith Talk.


Even though words featured this week are not offensive, email filters are not smart enough to understand that. It's possible that the filter at your organization tries to protect you from looking at this week's emails. If you find any missing emails, you can view them online.

queer street

PRONUNCIATION:(kweer street)


MEANING:noun: A state of hardship, especially financial hardship.


ETYMOLOGY:
The origin of the term is not clear. Carey Street, site of the bankruptcy court in London, has been proposed, but the court came decades after the term. It's also been suggested that traders put a query mark against customers suspected of having financial difficulties. Earliest documented use: 1811.


USAGE:
"Mike Bessey said: You can't really make a case that UK farmers are on queer street as a whole -- on average they are surviving and starting modest investment."
Caroline Stocks; £25m Aid Won't Help Struggling UK Dairy Farmers; Farmers Weekly (UK); Jan 22, 2010.


A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
______________________________________Leo Tolstoy
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QUEER TREET (alt. sp.) queer treat, ex: bacon flavored ice cream
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Anu's Odd Word for Monday - 05/06/13 04:46 PM
QUEEN TREAT Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Odd Word for Monday - 05/06/13 07:24 PM

QUEER STREPT - This bug I isolated from my sore throat patient defies classification!

QUEEG STREET - runs off Caine Street, branches into Ball Street and Strawberry Ice Cream Lane. Noted for the homes of Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray, among others.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Anu's Odd Word for Monday - 05/07/13 09:38 PM
Two great ones, wolf.

But not me, brother.
I don't want to go down Queeg Street 'cause there ain't no comming back.
Damn drunk lawyer. . . frown
Posted By: jenny jenny Anu's Innocuous Word for Tuesday - 05/07/13 10:02 PM
niggler

PRONUNCIATION:
(NIG-luhr)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A person who pays excessive attention to petty details.
2. A person who criticizes constantly or repeatedly.

ETYMOLOGY:
Origin unknown, perhaps of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1781.

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n --> w

WIGGLER - a corrupt political upon whom blame no one can pin.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Anu's Innocuous Word for Tuesday - 05/07/13 10:46 PM

NOGGLER - a person who overdoes the Christmas quaffing

HIGGLER - one who proclaims the Coming of the God particle
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Wednesday's Child is Full of Dirt - 05/08/13 07:41 PM

tar baby

PRONUNCIATION: (TAHR bay-bee)

MEANING: noun: Something to be avoided: a sticky situation or problem from which it's almost impossible to get out.

ETYMOLOGY: After "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby",


How 'bout I do a different algorithm this time. Say, Spoonerize it:

BAR TABBY - keeps the mice out of the saloon

(Y'all all go right ahead and use the standard add-subtract-change routine if you like. Don't let me stop you.)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Wednesday's Child is Full of Dirt - 05/08/13 08:26 PM
Ok wolf, you got me. I left Slasher's Bar last night without paying the tabby but you doesn't have to post it here for the whole world to see. frown

add S
minus B

STAR ABY - the price one must pay for being a rich and famous and beautiful person.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Wednesday's Child is Full of Dirt - 05/08/13 08:37 PM
CAR GABBY - back seat driver
Good one, Luke.


cockshy

PRONUNCIATION: KOK-shy)

MEANING: noun:
1. The game of throwing missiles at a target; such a throw.
2. An object of criticism or ridicule.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English cocc (rooster) + shy (to throw), of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1836.
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Y --> E

COCKSHE - a freemartin
i.e. a non-fertile female calf (heifer) born as a twin with a male (bull} but with a bull's manner and mindset.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc It's Thor's day, he hanmered - 05/09/13 03:00 PM

BOCKSHY - an edible Chinese cabbage
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: It's Thor's day, he hanmered - 05/09/13 04:27 PM
Thanks JJ.


SOCK TIE a gimmick I discovered in college, in the
Laundry, after forever losing one sock.
Posted By: jenny jenny Friday's child is full of glee - 05/11/13 12:30 AM
niggard

PRONUNCIATION: (NIG-hurd)


MEANING: noun: A mean, stingy person.
adjective: Stingy.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English nigard, of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1384.
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N --> B

BIGGARD:
1. a kind, generous person
2. a bigot

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Friday's child is full of glee - 05/11/13 12:58 AM


PIGGARD - Captain of the Starship Penterprise


NITGARD - a sorry excuse for a bug repellant, offers lousy protection
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Friday's child is full of glee - 05/11/13 03:51 PM
RITGARD--competing, poor excuse for deodorant
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Monday's child is neatly secured... - 05/14/13 12:39 AM

...in a sconce, of course.


ENSCONCE

PRONUNCIATION:
(en-SKONS)

MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To settle firmly and comfortably.
2. To hide securely.



ENSCONE - to wrap a filing in a small sourdough wafer for serving at tea-time; cf. cannoli
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Monday's child is neatly secured... - 05/14/13 02:31 AM
ENSCONCE
add D

ENDSCONCE - to come out from hiding in a...
add P

DENSCONCE - a small hiding sconce


equivocate

PRONUNCIATION:
(i-KWIV-uh-kayt)

MEANING:
verb intr.: To be vague or ambiguous, especially in order to mislead.


EQUUVOCATE - script for Mr Ed's next speech
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Monday's child is neatly secured... - 05/15/13 03:16 AM
eguivocate
C to G

EQUIVOGATE- to mumble lies to blame other people for your own wrongdoings, such as, beating down a Bush.
Posted By: jenny jenny Lo! Wednesday looms apparent - 05/15/13 01:01 PM
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

petrify

PRONUNCIATION:(PE-tri-fy)
MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To turn into stone.
2. To harden or deaden.
3. To stun or paralyze with fear.

verb intr.:
To become stony or callous.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin petra (rock), from Greek petra (cliff, rock). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over), which also gave us support, comport, petroleum, sport, passport, petrichor (the pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain), colporteur (a peddler of religious books), Swedish fartlek (a training technique), Norwegian fjord (bay), and Sanskrit parvat (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1425.
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add I
petri-FYI (see ETYMOLOGY above)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Monday's child is neatly secured... - 05/15/13 04:10 PM
EQUUROCATE Running a horse in a circular pen for hours
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Lo! Wednesday looms apparent - 05/15/13 04:14 PM

PESTRIFY - to bring ants and termites, rats and mice, and other annoyances, into a hitherto pristine neighborhood. Cf. "gentrify"
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Lo! Wednesday looms apparent - 05/15/13 04:45 PM
pectrify - lots of upper body work
Posted By: jenny jenny Thursday's Word is impute - 05/16/13 11:29 PM
impute

PRONUNCIATION:(im-PYOOT)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To attribute, ascribe, or credit, often unfairly.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French imputer, from Latin imputare, from in- (in) + putare (to assess, reckon). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pau- (to cut, stroke, or stamp), which is also the source of amputate, compute, dispute, count, pavid, puerile, and catchpole. Earliest documented use: 1480.
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add R

IMPUTER - a smartass computer that thinks that it invented itself.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Thursday's Word is impute - 05/17/13 03:20 AM

IMCUTE - a cheap imitation fuzzy Nerml doll (see Garfield comic strip)
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Thursday's Word is impute - 05/17/13 03:26 AM
impate: to do or to get a hair transplant.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Thursday's Word is impute - 05/17/13 03:56 AM
drop e

IMPUT - see imput.
see largely as an imp, nee Obama
Posted By: BranShea Re: Thursday's Word is impute - 05/17/13 08:43 AM
Are you going to make sense one of these days, Jenny Jenny?
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Thursday's Word is impute - 05/17/13 04:10 PM
IMPUTER - a smartass computer that thinks that it invented itself.JJ quote


Like Al Gore? Didn't he invent the Internet?


JIMPUTER - if Capt. Kirk could run the thing without Spock.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Thursday's Word is impute - 05/17/13 04:11 PM
Originally Posted By: jenny jenny
drop e

IMPUT - see imput.
see largely as an imp, nee Obama


Hee,hee,hee
Posted By: jenny jenny Late Friday's word - 05/18/13 12:39 AM
exscind

PRONUNCIATION: (ek-SIND)

MEANING:
verb tr.: To cut out or off.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin exscindere, from ex- (out) + scindere (to cut). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us excise, schism, ski, shin, scienter, and adscititious. Earliest documented use: 1662.
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i --> e

EXSCEND - a volcanic upsurge solidified after cooling.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Late Friday's word - 05/18/13 03:54 PM
TEXSEND-- a "bon voyage" of ginormous, humongous proportion
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Late Friday's word - 05/18/13 07:57 PM

EXSPEND - all you can do after a really painful divorce decree
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday Monday, word of the day - 05/20/13 07:55 PM

vesuvian

PRONUNCIATION:(vi-SOO-vee-uhn)

MEANING: adjective: Marked by sudden explosive outbursts.

ETYMOLOGY: After Mount Vesuvius, a volcano that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum when it erupted in 79 CE. Earliest documented use: 1673.
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V ---> X


EXSUVIAN - what SUV owners became after gas went up to four bucks a gallon.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Monday Monday, word of the day - 05/20/13 09:00 PM

VEAUVIAN' - veal chops, served in a French restaurant after a bit too much vin
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Do dirty limericks count? - 05/22/13 01:09 AM

PARNASSIAN

PRONUNCIATION: (pahr-NAS-ee-uhn)

MEANING: adjective: Of or relating to poetry.

ETYMOLOGY: After Mount Parnassus, a mountain in Greece, considered sacred to Apollo, the Greek god of music and poetry, and the Muses. Earliest documented use: 1565.


PORNASSIAN -- Not a leg man, or even a breast man
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Do dirty limericks count? - 05/22/13 01:15 AM
CORNASSIAN Cousins to the Kardassians, these live
in Iowa, the Corn State.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Do dirty limericks count? - 05/22/13 01:48 AM

JARNASSIAN - an ode to a jar


I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
________________________________ Wallace Stevens
Posted By: teepee Re: Monday Monday, word of the day - 05/22/13 04:42 AM
Chuckle- chortle - guffaw. This made me laugh!
Posted By: teepee Re: Do dirty limericks count? - 05/22/13 09:58 AM
PARNASSIAN

PRONUNCIATION: (pahr-NAS-ee-uhn)

MEANING: adjective: Of or relating to poetry.

Alternative PARNASISIAN: a nasally speaking Parisian (succumbed to winter ills ?)
Posted By: jenny jenny Wednest Word of a Day - 05/22/13 05:38 PM
chevy

PRONUNCIATION: (CHEV-ee)

MEANING:
verb tr.: To chase or annoy.
noun: A chase, hunt, or a hunting cry.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Cheviot Hills bordering England and Scotland. A battle between English and Scottish forces over a hunting expedition is described in a 15th-century ballad (The Ballad of Chevy Chase). A chase is a tract of land reserved for hunting. The name of the city Chevy Chase in Maryland has the same origin. Earliest documented use: before 1825.
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add A

CHEAVY - a portly fellows fox hunt
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Wednest Word of a Day - 05/22/13 08:40 PM
CHIVVY An actual word, for a change.
1
: to tease or annoy with persistent petty attacks
2
: to move or obtain by small maneuvers

Variants of CHIVY

chivy or chiv·vy
Posted By: jenny jenny Thursday's AWAD - 05/23/13 07:18 AM
chartreuse PRONUNCIATION:(shahr-TROOZ, -TROOS)

MEANING: noun: 1. A light, yellowish green. 2. An aromatic, usually yellow or green liqueur, originally made by Carthusian monks in Grenoble, France.
adjective: Having a light, yellowish green color.

ETYMOLOGY: From mountain to monastery to drink to color -- that's the circuitous route for this word's origin. La Grande Chartreuse, a monastery got its name after the Chartreuse Mountains. The liqueur got its name because it was first made by the monks in the monastery. Finally, the color got its name from the liqueur. Earliest documented use: 1806.
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add d

CHARTREUSED - screwed, blued, and sans chartreused

(what the Carthusian monks were when the French government threw them out of France in 1903)
Posted By: teepee Re: Thursday's AWAD - 05/23/13 10:03 AM
chartreuse PRONUNCIATION:(shahr-TROOZ, -TROOS)

MEANING: noun: 1. A light, yellowish green. 2. An aromatic, usually yellow or green liqueur, originally made by Carthusian monks in Grenoble, France
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delete e
Chartruse: A flawed satellite navigation system- featuring obsolete roading
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Thursday's AWAD - 05/24/13 01:00 AM

CHARTRUSSE - a French map of the former Soviet Union
Posted By: teepee Re: Friday's AWAD HIMALAYAN - 05/24/13 10:14 PM
Himalayan

PRONUNCIATION:
(him-uh-LAY-uhn, hi-MAHL-yuhn)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Enormously large.
2. Relating to the Himalayas.

HIMALAYIN' : The incredulous expression uttered upon seeing an incorrectly-sexed rooster produce an egg
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Friday's AWAD HIMALAYAN - 05/25/13 12:59 AM
L -> M

HIMAMAYAN - him not Aztec
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Friday's AWAD HIMALAYAN - 05/25/13 03:48 PM
HYMNAMAYAN non-Aztec war chants
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Friday's AWAD HIMALAYAN - 05/25/13 04:26 PM

HIYALAYAN - pertaining to frontón games

HIMALATAN - simplified version of an ancient language, contains nouns of only the masculine gender
Posted By: jenny jenny Memorial Day USA, Monday elsewhere. - 05/27/13 08:30 PM
palatine

PRONUNCIATION:(PAL-uh-tyn, -teen)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Of or relating to a palace.
2. Of or relating to a palate.

ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: After Palatine, from Latin Palatium, the name of the centermost of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built. Roman emperors built their palaces on this hill. The word palace also derives from the same source. Earliest documented use: 1436.
For 2: From French palatin, from Latin palatum palate (roof of the mouth). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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e -> y
palatiny:

1. of or relating to a modest palace
2. of or relating to snacks at a wine tasting promotion.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Memorial Day USA, Monday elsewhere. - 05/27/13 08:32 PM
malateen- a kid up to no good.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Memorial Day USA, Monday elsewhere. - 05/27/13 08:32 PM
palateen one's BFF
Posted By: wofahulicodoc high pressure center, et al - 05/27/13 10:38 PM

XALATINE - pertaining to your glaucoma medicine

PALATINY - used by dwarfs to paint miniature art works

PALAMINE - a soothing lotion for when your BFF has an itchy rash

PALATINO - I'm sure you know the type !
Posted By: teepee Re: high pressure center, et al - 05/28/13 12:13 AM
Happy Memorial Day USA, Monday elsewhere, BUT Tuesday for us kiwis!(I had to check what day it was!). You guys are "so yesterday!"
PALIMONEY: offloading assets to close friend to avoid ex taking the lot
Posted By: jenny jenny Tuesday's black yet golden word - 05/28/13 02:00 PM
collier

PRONUNCIATION:(KOL-yuhr)

MEANING:noun:
1. A coal miner.
2. A coal liner.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English col (coal). Earliest documented use: 1594, 1661.
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COLLIER
-r

collie- a silky-coated sheep dog most of 'em named Lassie
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tuesday's black yet golden word - 05/28/13 03:40 PM
cullier-one who weeds out the unwanted in any area
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tuesday's black yet golden word - 05/29/13 12:54 AM

COKLIER -- the inner ear of a Bostonian who kan't spell tu gud


Posted By: wofahulicodoc This may be a tough one... - 05/29/13 08:45 PM

LARES AND PENATES

PRONUNCIATION: (LAR-eez and puh-NAY-teez)


MEANING:
noun:
1. Household gods (the benevolent gods in an ancient Roman household).
2. Household goods (a family's treasured possessions).



Hmm.
Desperate times demand desperate measures:

LATES AND PILATES - Work-out first, unwind at Starbucks afterwards ?
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: This may be a tough one... - 05/29/13 08:52 PM
FLARES & PENNANTS: signals from a ship
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: This may be a tough one... - 05/30/13 01:47 PM
hyperbolic

PRONUNCIATION: (hy-puhr-BOL-ik)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to hyperbole.
2. Of or pertaining to hyperbola.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hyperbole (excess), from hyperballein (to exceed), from hyper- + ballein (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1646, 1676.
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h -> t

TYPERBOLIC
1. expected excessive language
2. same old hyperbola dress
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: This may be a tough one... - 05/30/13 03:46 PM
hypercholic - one really sick baby
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: This may be a tough one... - 05/31/13 02:07 AM

HYPERBILIC -- the gall bladder is working overtime

HYPERBONIC - the ultimate in bacteriologic warfare; one step more virulent than Bubonic

HYPEROBOLIC - too expensive for the agora

HYPERGOLIC - no, wait, that's already a word, blast it !
Posted By: wofahulicodoc it's worse than debite - 05/31/13 04:46 PM

debark

PRONUNCIATION:
(dee-BARK)


MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To remove the bark from a dog.
2. To remove the bark from a log.
verb tr., intr.:
3. To disembark.


DEBORK - to reject an undesired Supreme Court nominee

REBARK - to bake casual comments when you have a stuffed nose

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: it's worse than debite - 05/31/13 04:53 PM
DEPORK- to cut out the "other white meat" from the diet
Posted By: Tromboniator On Shaky ground - 06/01/13 11:59 AM
debard: to remove all reference to the alleged author of Hamlet, Macbeth, etc.
Posted By: jenny jenny What floats is boat. - 06/01/13 02:27 PM
d -> r
rebark - a remark in dog talk
Posted By: LukeJavan8 daily word - 06/01/13 03:58 PM
DEBEARD a man's daily chore
Posted By: jenny jenny Word for Monday plural. - 06/03/13 12:54 PM
calyculus or caliculus

PRONUNCIATION:
(kuh-LIK-yuh-luhs)

MEANING:
noun: A cup-shaped structure.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek kalyx (cup, covering).
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CalicuRus - a big box store for cups
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Word for Monday plural. - 06/03/13 08:58 PM

CALOCULUS - The 200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar
Posted By: garygnu Re: Word for Monday plural. - 06/04/13 11:41 AM
CATULLUST- A forlorn man

*(by way of "how now brown cow")
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Tuesday's Word - 06/04/13 12:52 PM

SWOOPSTAKE

PRONUNCIATION:
(SWOOP-stayk)

MEANING:
adverb: In an indiscriminate manner.


SCOOPSTAKE - a utensil used to keep the ice-cream dispenser from being misplaced

(SNOOPSTAKE - kills gossiping vampires ?)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Word for Monday plural. - 06/04/13 03:25 PM

CATTLELUST- bull when cows are in heat
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Tuesday's Word - 06/04/13 05:34 PM

SWOOPSFAKE - a phoney indiscrminate manner
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tuesday's Word - 06/05/13 07:14 PM
THEOCRASY

PRONUNCIATION:
(thee-AWK-ruh-see)


MEANING:
noun: A mixture of deities or religious forms.


ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek theo- (god)- + -krasia (blending). Earliest documented use: 1816.



THEOCREASY - a wrinkled old LARE or PENATE

THEOCRAZY - any religious zealot
Posted By: wofahulicodoc next ! - 06/06/13 02:45 PM

AGREMENT

PRONUNCIATION:
(ah-GRAY-mahnt, -mahn*)
[the final syllable is nasal]


MEANING:
noun:
1. Formal approval, especially one given by a country to the proposed diplomat from another country.
2. Grace notes: notes applied as an embellishment on a piece of music.


ETYMOLOGY:
From French agrément (approval, agreement, pleasure), from Latin ad- (to) + gratus (pleasing). Earliest documented use: 1711.



AGREPENT -- the Attorney General regrets his previous malfeasances and wished to atone for them
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: next ! - 06/06/13 05:06 PM
AGREMENT

a > o

ogrement- an agreement gone so sour that -ment is not mumbled as a french nasal but phonetically pronounced MENT with the harshness that the English ment was meant to be.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: next ! - 06/07/13 05:17 PM
JARGOON

PRONUNCIATION: (jahr-GOON)

MEANING: noun: A colorless, pale yellow, or smoky variety of zircon.

ETYMOLOGY: From French jargon, from Italian giargone, from Persian zargun (golden). Earliest documented use: 1769.


OARGOON: a state in the US Pacific Northwest, just south of Washingtoon.

CAR-GO-ON: marketer's name for the Auto-train - ship the family Buick to Florida and ride the train down with it
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: next ! - 06/07/13 05:21 PM
JarJarGoon - the clan to which Jar Jar Binks belonged.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: next ! - 06/07/13 06:37 PM
JARGOON
o > e
JARGONE - the jargon used by a gang of thieves to indicate that someone has stolen their money jar
Posted By: jenny jenny monday Monday MONDAY - 06/10/13 05:26 PM
canorous

PRONUNCIATION:
(kuh-NOR-uhs, KAN-uhr-uhs)

MEANING:
adjective: Melodious; musical.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin canere (to sing). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kan- (to sing) which also gave us hen, canto, cantor, recant, accent, chant, enchant, and incentive. Earliest documented use: 1646.

USAGE:
"The canorous sounds ... provided a cheery moment."
Corrie Perkin; Off to an Opening in Earnest; The Australian (Sydney); Oct 13, 2008.
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CANOROUS
add e

canoerous - the melodic sound made by a babbling brook just before a hundred foot waterfall
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: monday Monday MONDAY - 06/10/13 09:58 PM

CANOMOUS - a new brand of tinned cat food

CANTOROUS - inclined to sing Klezmer music

MANOROUS - polite

CANOROLUS - a mixed-up Beethoven overture

CANOVOUS - a precarious tryst in a small unstable watercraft (See also "canoerous," above)


[P.S. Does "precarious" mean "eating too much sugar candy"? Only your dentist knows for sure...]
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: monday Monday MONDAY - 06/11/13 12:44 AM
CANNIBUSBOUS - lover of marijuana
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Tiwa's Day - 06/11/13 09:02 PM
PROSAIC

PRONUNCIATION: (pro-ZAY-ik)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Dull; unimaginative.
2. Everyday; straightforward; ordinary.
3. Having the character of prose as compared to the feeling of poetry.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin prosa (prose), from prosa oratio (straightforward speech), from provertere (to turn forward). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to turn or bend), also the source of wring, weird, writhe, revert, universe, wroth, verso, conversazione, versicolor, and animadvert. Earliest documented use: 1589.


PYROSAIC - full of inflammatory language
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tiwa's Day - 06/11/13 10:51 PM
PROMOSAIC =agents who have many actors and singers
to get the fans to notice.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tiwa's Day - 06/12/13 01:56 AM

Before we get too far afield - recall the original challenge:

"...take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition..."

Now I grant you that Roolz are meant to be broken, but not wildly, and preferably not all the time...
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tiwa's Day - 06/12/13 02:41 AM
Are we speaking of the Anagrams or Anu's Word of the Day?
I don't recall the 'roolz' for the latter, but will adhere
to it, if that be so. I understand the anagrams has those
'roolz', and that does not imply two words nor hyphens.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc In the Beginning - 06/12/13 10:58 AM

Take a look at the first post in this thread , [if I did that right].

We modify them as we like when it suits our purpose, of course, but this was our starting point.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: In the Beginning was the roolz - 06/12/13 12:42 PM
PROSAIC
c>d
PROSAID - the act of agreeing with a stinkin' roolz put before the board.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: In the Beginning was the roolz - 06/12/13 03:53 PM
I think I'll bow out from this thread at this point. I can't remember that far back. I'll check it
periodically, and if something clicks with just one letter
I may post it. Don't want to mess it up for you all.
Posted By: garygnu Re: Word for Monday plural. - 06/12/13 08:33 PM
Sorry for dem rulz...my eyes were playing tricks on me.
Damn that Catullus and his invectives.

Talyculus- a bookies little black book.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Wotan's Day - 06/13/13 12:10 AM

EXPANSIVE

PRONUNCIATION: (ik-SPAN-siv)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Having a wide range; comprehensive.
2. Friendly, open, communicative.
3. Having a tendency or capacity to expand.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin expandere (to spread out), from ex- (out) + pandere (to spread). Earliest documented use: 1651.



EXPENSIVE - a former spouse, when thinking very hard about filing for more child support
EXPANSIVE
add T
EXPANTSIVE - a pyschobabblelogical term for a recurring dream of attending a black-tie social affair while being naked below the waist.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Days and days and daze - 06/13/13 11:09 AM
Re: Just who was Woten and why did he have a day?

This astrology site says,

"...there are seven days of the week and seven planets and each planet rules or is lord of one day: Sunday, the Sun; Monday, the Moon; Tuesday, Mars; Wednesday, Mercury; Thursday, Jupiter; Friday, Venus; and Saturday, Saturn...

The origin of the names of the days are explicitly planetary in medieval Latin: dies dominici (Sunday, the lord's day), die Lune, die Martis, die Mercuri, die Jovis, die Veneris, die Saturni.

In English the Teutonic equivalents of the Greek and Latin gods have been used for some of the names of the days, i.e. Tuesday is Tiw's day, the Teutonic god of war; Wednesday is Wotan's day; Thursday is Thor's day; Friday is Frigg's day..."

Not everybody likes this system, of course. Your mileage may vary.


Now if he wuz a dog instead, it would be much easier to undertand: Every dog has his day.
Posted By: jenny jenny Are all days dog's days even Thor's day? - 06/13/13 05:31 PM
animadversion

PRONUNCIATION:(an-i-mad-VUHR-zhuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. The act of criticizing.
2. An unfavorable comment.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin animadvertere (to turn the mind to), from animus (mind) + advertere (to turn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to turn or bend), also the source of wring, weird, writhe, revert, universe, wroth, , conversazione, versicolor, and prosaic . Earliest documented use: 1535.
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DROP
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ANIMAVERSION- reality; the mind's version
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Seven Deadly Days - 06/14/13 01:49 AM


ANIMADVERSIN -- Madison Avenue puts Greed and Pride and Sloth and Envy and (I forget the other three) into a Mickey Mouse cartoon
Posted By: wofahulicodoc mostly used En Masse. these days - 06/14/13 05:29 PM

SEMPITERNAL

PRONUNCIATION: (sem-pi-TUHR-nuhl)

MEANING: adjective: Everlasting.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin semper (always) + aeternus (eternal). Earliest documented use: before 1475.

USAGE: "The US Postal Service might embrace sempiternal status, too, in the form of a stamp that would enable the bearer to infinitely freeze the price of first-class postage with a 'forever' stamp."
-- Kathy Stevens; Post Office Hopes 'Forever' Stamp Will Deliver; The York Dispatch (Pennsylvania); Feb 27, 2007.

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SEMITERNAL -- lasting only half a bird
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: mostly used En Masse. these days - 06/16/13 03:30 PM
Add E

SEMPIETERNAL - any word with two meanings that mean the same thing e.g. hippity-hop (hop hop) or sempiternal (always eternal}
Posted By: jenny jenny AWAKE! Monday brings us... - 06/17/13 03:35 PM
rhizophagous

PRONUNCIATION:
(ry-ZOPH-uh-guhs)

MEANING:
adjective: Feeding on roots.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek rhizo- (root) + -phagous (feeding on). Earliest documented use: 1832.
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r > w

WHIZPHAGOUS- a budding young nerd who eats only Cheese Whiz crackers and has no social life outside of interacting with his computer.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: AWAKE! Monday brings us... - 06/18/13 01:40 AM

RHINOPHAGOUS - nose-eating

RHINOPHAGOUS - drinks only German-river water passed by the Lorelei
Posted By: jenny jenny ZYMURGY: The Last Word - 06/18/13 04:17 PM
zymurgy

PRONUNCIATION:
(ZY-muhr-jee)

MEANING:
noun: The branch of chemistry dealing with fermentation, as brewing.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek zym- (ferment) + -urgy (work). Earliest documented use: 1868.
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ZYMURKY - when the zym needs more urgy
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: ZYMURGY: The Last Word - 06/18/13 11:01 PM

RYMURGY - for no particular reazon
logomania

PRONUNCIATION: (lo-go-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Obsessive interest in words.
2. Excessive and often incoherent talking.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek logo- (word) + -mani (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1882.
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logomana - (NZ) words used by the powerful, by high authority; usually spoken with supernatural effect

ex: ---> BOO!
Isn't that eliminating 2 letters?
Just asking.
Who me? Not me Luke, I am as good as my word, most times.
I looked again and found myself innocent. confused
Posted By: wofahulicodoc ...but that's SO 1960s ! - 06/19/13 08:15 PM
POGOMANIA - That possum with the beard should run for office! POGO FOR PRESIDENT ! POGO FOR PRESIDENT !! POGO FOR PRESIDENT !!

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: ...but that's SO 1960s ! - 06/19/13 10:20 PM
Quite rightly!
And I wanna dance!

What I said goes baby
I want you to hold just what you got
I want you to wind up your yo-yo
When I say pogo
I mean let that yo-yo go
I mean let the string out baby
Now go
Look at Annie yo-yo
Round 'n and round 'n round
Pogo pogo we gonna yo-yo
Round 'n round 'n round
Posted By: wofahulicodoc ...but that's SO 1930s ! - 06/20/13 02:14 PM

PLUTOLATRY

PRONUNCIATION: (ploo-TOL-uh-tree)

MEANING: Excessive devotion to wealth.


ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek pluto- (wealth) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1891. Pluto was the god of riches

[I thought Pluto was the god of the Underground. Or else Walt Disney's dog. Live and learn.]


FLUTOLATRY - James Galway is my idol
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: ...but that's SO 1930s ! - 06/20/13 11:20 PM
u -> o

PLOTOLATRY - a morality play where burning a rich man at the stake is the dénouement of the plot
Posted By: wofahulicodoc the nose knows... - 06/21/13 01:48 PM

OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY

MEANING: noun: The branch of medicine dealing with the ear, nose, and throat. Also known as otolaryngology.

ETYMOLOGY: The word is coined so that one is forced to use all three -- ear, nose, and throat -- to be able to pronounce it. Either that, or it's from Greek oto- (ear) + rhino- (nose) + laryngo- (larynx) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1900. Also, see rhinorrhea.

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OTORHINOLARYNGEOLOGY - In the shale I found the fossilized remains of a great lumbering beast with tiny little ears and a big horn on its nose

alternatively:
ONORHINOLARYNGOLOGY - my doctor says my tonsils hve to come out

OTO-HINO-LARYNGOLOGY - an ear, rear, and throat specialist who flunked "nose" in school and had to pick "rear" instead.

FISHWIFE

PRONUNCIATION: (FISH-wyf)

MEANING: noun
1. A coarse, vulgar-tongued woman.
2. A woman who sells fish.


FISHWIRE a metal thread for making deep-sea seines. (banned soon after its invention)
Posted By: jenny jenny MONDAYSWORD is best left unspoken - 06/24/13 10:04 PM

WISHWIFE - all wish no work
SKUNKY

PRONUNCIATION:(SKUNG-kee)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Mean or contemptible.
2. Having an unpleasant odor.
3. Of or relating to a skunk.
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Phew!
exchange p for k

SPUNKY - what you are and what you gotta be after you confront a skunk

SKUNGY

PRONUNCIATION: SKUN-jee
MEANING: Offensive to eyes, nose, even skin. Not just ugly but stinky grime and slime.
Synonym (understated): Unprepossessing
[ gossamer ]

PRONUNCIATION: GOS-uh-muhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. Something light, thin, or insubstantial.
2. A soft sheer gauzy fabric, used for veils, etc.
3. A fine, filmy cobweb or its thread seen floating in the air in calm weather.
adjective:
Thin, light, or delicate.

ETYMOLOGY:
From goose + summer. The term is believed to have originated as a name for late autumn when geese are in season and then transferred to cobwebs seen around that time of the year. Earliest documented use: 1325.
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g --> b
BOSSAMER - to dance the bossa nova but just for the summer

GOSSAMEN - what everybody does when the prayer is finished

GOSSAMOR - what you do after you go, and then you keep going

(I tried to make up something involving Henry Bessemer, but it just got too complicated)
Posted By: jenny jenny Thursday's word is BIRDLIME - 06/27/13 05:26 PM
birdlime

PRONUNCIATION: (BUHRD-lym)

MEANING: verb tr.: To ensnare.
noun: Something that ensnares.

ETYMOLOGY:From birdlime (a sticky substance made from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, and smeared on branches and twigs to catch small birds), from bird + lime, from Latin limus (slime). Earliest documented use: 1440.
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add d
BIRDLIMED - a knock-off verson of Lullaby of Birdland from a bird's point of view (a sad lament).

BIRDLIE - [golf]: a tee-shot on a par-3 hole that lands on the green a makeable distance from the pin
chameleonic

PRONUNCIATION:
(kuh-mee-lee-ON-ik)

MEANING:
adjective: Given to quick or frequent change.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin chamaeleon, from Greek khamaileon, from khamai (on the ground) + leon (lion). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also sprouted human, homicide, humble, homage, chamomile, chthonic, disinter, inhume, exhume, and Persian zamindar (landholder). Earliest documented use: 1821.
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CAMELEONIC - an unlikely breeding of a camel and a lion but then so is the strange etymology of the word "chameleonic".

SHAMELEONIC - that rare occasion when the King of Beasts is abashed
laugh That's it, you win...this week anyway. "shameleonic" indeed. shocked

But I must admit, Wofa, I will use your term "birdlie" on the links tomorrow, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

And...if I make a par three green on one. blush
mumpsimus
PRONUNCIATION:
(MUMP-suh-muhs)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A view stubbornly held in spite of clear evidence that it's wrong.
2. A person who holds such a view.

ETYMOLOGY:
According to an old story, a priest used the nonsense word mumpsimus (instead of Latin sumpsimus) in the Mass. Even when told it was incorrect, he insisted that he had been saying it for 40 years and wouldn't change it. The expression is "quod in ore sumpsimus" ('which we have taken into the mouth'). Earliest documented use: 1530.
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UMPSIMUS - a short-sighted baseball umpire who calls the winning homerun "foul" and then calls the game "over" amidst the ensuing uproar.

MUMPSIMUSH - the only food a patient with bilateral swollen parotid glands can tolerate
DUMPSIMUS - the act of firing a foul-mouth early morning radio personality who won't stay fired. (CBS circa 2003)
fustilarian

PRONUNCIATION: (fuhs-tuh-LAR-ee-uhn)


MEANING: noun: A fat and slovenly person.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English fusty (smelly, moldy). Earliest documented use: 1600.
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add a to elevate the disscusion

FAUSTILARIAN - a Ray Bradbury character who made a pact with himself to live forever but died the day Ray died - June 5 2012.

FUSTAMARIAN - the mostest eagerest gal, on Sadie Hawkins Day
hobbledehoy

PRONUNCIATION: (HOB-uhl-dee-hoy)

MEANING: noun: An awkward young fellow.

ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1540.

USAGE:
"Burleigh's breathless accounts of the many figures of the British peerage in the story read as though written by some overawed hobbledehoy, someone who fingers the noblemen's lamé draperies in envious amazement and wonders how much they would go for at Wal-Mart."
Simon Winchester; 'The Nation's Attic'; The Boston Globe; Jan 11, 2004.
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HOBBLDEJOY - the sheer joy of pulling down the nobleman's lamé draperies and burning them on his front lawn in celebration of the Fourth of July.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc the long words are tougher - 07/03/13 10:47 AM

HOBBLEDAHOY -- Ahab's greeting to another ship from the prow of the Pequod
makebate

PRONUNCIATION: (MAYK-bayt)

MEANING: noun: One who incites quarrels.

ETYMOLOGY:
From make, from Old English macian (to make) + bate (contention), from Latin battuere (to beat) which also gave us abate, debate, and rebate. Earliest documented use: 1529.

USAGE:
"'You leave my ma out of this, you makebate! She always said you'd end on the gallows, and she was right.'"
Barbara Metzger; Christmas Wishes; Signet; 2010.
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m -> f

FAKEBATE - American professional wrestling and the Sonny Liston /Cassius Clay Heavyweight 1962 Championship fight.

MADEBATE -- 1) tied fishing lures; 2) forced your pinochle opponent to fall short of the bid; 3) an argument discussion with your mother
Posted By: jenny jenny Friday: A bellygod, bellygood day - 07/05/13 05:38 AM
bellygod

PRONUNCIATION: (BEL-ee god)
MEANING: noun: One who takes great pleasure in eating; a glutton.

ETYMOLOGY: A bellygod is one who makes a god of his belly, i.e. a glutton. From Old English belig (bag) + god. Earliest documented use: 1540.

USAGE: "Hudibras becomes the puritan bellygod par excellence:
Our knight did bear no less a pack
Of his own buttocks on his back."
Kristen Poole; Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton; Cambridge University Press; 2000.
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b -> h

HELLYGOD - a fat mephistopheles who ate all errant souls in deepest hell.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc You're up early this morning! - 07/05/13 10:54 AM
(A variation on HELLYGOD is BELLAGOD - Venus)


BELLYPOD - the new tiny music player from Apple; fits into your navel
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: You're up early this morning! - 07/05/13 03:39 PM
The early worm morpheses first. smile

bellygood - a SE Asian enunciation of "very good" often phrased "belly belly good" for emphasis.
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday...wanna bet?. - 07/08/13 05:07 AM
poker-faced
PRONUNCIATION: (PO-kuhr fayst)

MEANING: adjective: Having an expressionless face, giving no hints of one's thoughts and feelings.

ETYMOLOGY:
From the necessity of not showing emotions in a game of poker to avoid giving other players an indication of the strength of one's hand. The origin of the term poker is uncertain. It may be from French poque (a similar card game that involves bluffing), from German pochen (to knock, brag). Earliest documented use: 1915 (for the word poker: 1832).]
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PORKER-ACED - to be bluffed by a low-life pig whose high card is a nine.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc two for one - 07/09/13 12:24 AM

POWER-FAKED - feeling crushed by the surge of false hope engendered by the faint flicker of light bulbs returning after they go out during a storm...but the electricity doesn't stay on more than a few seconds
Posted By: jenny jenny Two for one Tuesday - 07/09/13 04:38 PM
four-flush

PRONUNCIATION: (FOHR-flush)

MEANING:
verb intr.: To bluff or act in a fraudulent manner.

ETYMOLOGY:
In a game of poker, a full flush is five cards of the same suit. A four-flush, only four cards of the same suit, is almost worthless. A player pretending to have a full flush while holding only a four-flush, is said to be four-flushing. Earliest documented use: 1896.
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YOUR-FLUSH - your four-flush hands that never, never, ever, become a full five.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Quick, call a plumber! - 07/10/13 01:35 AM

FOUL-FLUSH -- My toilet just backed up and overflowed...

also consider
FOUR-FLASH - either H or EEEE, depending on how long you waited between flashes
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Quick, call a plumber! - 07/10/13 11:09 AM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc


FOUR-FLASH - either H or EEEE, depending on how long you waited between flashes

??
Posted By: jenny jenny Wednesday's Word and Wofa's flashes. - 07/10/13 01:50 PM
Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc


FOUR-FLASH - either H or EEEE, depending on how long you waited between flashes

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penny-ante
PRONUNCIATION: (PEN-ee AN-tee)
MEANING:
adjective: Trivial.
noun: A transaction involving very small sums.

ETYMOLOGY:
In poker, penny ante is a game in which the bet is one cent (or other small amount). The term is coined from penny (the smallest denomination of currency) + ante (stake, share, cost), from the stake put up by a player in poker before receiving one's cards, from Latin ante- (before). Earliest documented use: 1855.
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P --> J

JENNY-ANTE (reversed pronunciation) ont'tee gin'ee - as I'm called by my nephews and nieces
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

FOUR-FLASH - either H or EEEE, depending on how long you waited between flashes

It's Morse Code - "dot dot dot dot".


PEONY-ANTE - the florists' poker game
PENNE-ANTE - the pasta-lover's poker game
PENNSY-ANTE - the rail commuter's p.g.
You get the idea.

Or, on a different tack altogether:
PENNY-ANE - an old Beatles Christmas song (no L)
Posted By: jenny jenny Thursday...already.. - 07/11/13 11:30 AM
standpat

PRONUNCIATION:
(STAND-pat)

MEANING:
adjective: Refusing to consider change in one's beliefs and opinions, especially in politics.
noun: One who refuses to consider change.

ETYMOLOGY:
In a game of poker, to stand pat is to play one's hand as dealt, without drawing other cards. From pat (apt). Earliest documented use: 1910.
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plus h

STANDPHAT - a once phat rapper whose jive is so yesterday but refuses to change because so is she.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Thursday...already.. - 07/11/13 02:03 PM

STANDPA - what my father's mother has to say to my father's father because he's too deaf to hear them strike up the Star Spangled Banner

STANDPOT - the Port-a-Potty under the bleacher seats
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Thursday...already.. - 07/11/13 02:45 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

STANDPA - what my father's mother has to say to my father's father because he's too deaf to hear them strike up the Star Spangled Banner

STANDPOT - the Port-a-Potty under the bleacher seats

laugh laugh
Add i

SIT-AND-PAT - what Wofaholicdoc's father's father does while the band plays the Star Spangled Banner until Wofahulicdoc's father's mother gets back from the standpot under the stands.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc "Sit-and-pat' - 07/12/13 02:35 AM

wink

I fold !
(It is a poker-themed week, isn't it?!)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: "Sit-and-pat' - 07/12/13 03:23 AM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

wink

I fold !
(It is a poker-themed week, isn't it?!)


Maybeso, codo, but tomorrow is Friday.
Friday is the day that your silly card is the card that becomes an unlikely leader of an inside straight. smile
Posted By: wofahulicodoc And the band begins to play - 07/12/13 11:21 AM

BLUE CHIP

PRONUNCIATION:
(BLOO chip)

MEANING:
adjective: Having high value and reliability.
noun: A reliable and highly valuable asset, such as a stock, a company, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:
In poker (and other gambling games), a blue chip typically represents high value. Earliest documented use: 1873.

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BLUE SHIP - I'm sorry, I know you reserved the Yellow Submarine, but unfortunately it's in drydock this week so we've given you a free upgrade

(Well, it's better than
BLUE CHAP - Commander Peary left his Long Johns home...)
BLUE SLIP - downsizing cooperations no longer give PINK SLIPS to discharged employees instead they give BLUE SLIPS to those they keep.

Reason: ---> saves paper <---

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Is that sexism or what? - 07/12/13 07:31 PM

I thought it was the gals got pink slips and the guys got blue slips. No?

MENSAL

PRONUNCIATION:
(MEN-suhl)


MEANING:
adjective:
1. Monthly.
2. Relating to the table.


ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin mensis (month). Earliest documented use: 1475.
For 2: From Latin mensa (table). Earliest documented use: 1440.

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MESSAL

1: In need of guidance; disorganized
2: A small meal; also, the room in which it is consumed (cf. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
MENSALE- men's ale set on a mensal at the mensal Mensa meeting for drinking by male Mensa members only. Female members were once allowed a small thimbleful but they all turned giddy and misbehaved.

MERSAL -

1. pertaining to an antibiotic-resisant bacterial pathogen...
2. a sweet fortified Italian wine, after the third glass

Hey! Didn't we do today's word already, almost?! Like on May 13 or so?!
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

Like on May 13 or so?!


Close. Or enclose.
sconce
PRONUNCIATION: (skons)
MEANING: noun:
1. An ornamental bracket for holding candles or lights.
2. The head or skull.
3. Sense or wit.
4. A small fort or defensive earthwork to defend a bridge, castle-gate, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin abscondere (to conceal). Earliest documented use: 1392.
For 2, 3: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1567.
For 4: From Dutch schans (entrenchment). Earliest documented use: 1587. ______________________________________

add D
SCONCED - a sense of wit once heard best forgotten.
SCONCEL A bit of advice once heard, best forgotten.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc I don't give a fig for Sir Isaac - 07/16/13 09:20 PM

SCOINCE -- pronounced SOY-ince -- a Cockney's explanation of what goes on at the Royal Society in London
Posted By: jenny jenny Wednesday's Word is full of woe - 07/17/13 04:12 PM
mortify
PRONUNCIATION: (MOR-tuh-fy)
MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To humiliate, shame, or embarrass.
2. To discipline (one's body) by self-denial, self-inflicted suffering, etc.
verb intr.:
1. To endure self-denial, self-inflicted pain, etc.
2. To become gangrened or necrosed.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin mortificare (to kill). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mer- (to rub away or to harm) that is also the source of morse, premorse, mordant, morbid, mortal, mortgage, nightmare, amaranth, and ambrosia. Earliest documented use: 1382.
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MOOTIFY - to use the Media to establish a public pretrial mindset to get damning evidence declared moot.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Wednesday's Word is full of woe - 07/17/13 04:22 PM
fortify- who? what? a real word?
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Wednesday's Word is full of woe - 07/18/13 01:04 AM

MOSTIFY - the superlative form of the comparative MORTIFY
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Wednesday's Word is full of woe - 07/18/13 01:26 AM
add L

MORTIFLY - to fly equally in fear of the jihadists and
the brown shirt goons of the NSA
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Wednesday's Word is full of woe - 07/18/13 10:50 AM

Wasn't Mortifly one of the characters in "Back to the Future"?
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Moving right along... - 07/18/13 11:00 AM

cloaca
CLOACA

PRONUNCIATION:
(klo-AY-kuh)
plural cloacae (klo-AY-se, -kee)

MEANING:
noun:
1. An outhouse.
2. A sewer.
3. The common duct into which intestinal, urinary, and genital tracts open in birds, reptiles, most fishes, and some mammals.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin cloaca (sewer, canal), from cluere (to cleanse). Earliest documented use: 1656.



CLOAKA - the device that renders undetectable the ships of Italian Klingons
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Moving right along... - 07/18/13 11:55 AM
A->D
CLODCA Russian slang - a backwoods clod stomp dancing even before the vodka
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Moving right along, the old way - 07/18/13 04:00 PM

CLODCA - laugh

CLOACH - an ancient Mass Transit vehicle; holds fifty Romans
confabulate

PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-FAB-yuh-layt)

MEANING: verb intr.:
1. To talk informally.
2. To replace fact with fantasy to fill in gaps in memory.

ETYMOLOGY:
From confabulari (to talk together), from con- (with) + fabulari (to talk), from fabula (tale). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bha- (to speak) that is also the source of fable, phone, fame, boon, and infant. Earliest documented use: 1604.
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B to D
confadulate - the use of street jive to fill in for information gaps.

MONFABULATE - to tell stories with a Caribbean accent

CONTABULATE - to count the "no" votes

CONFIBULATE - what you have to do when you can't remember a word, but it's just on the tibia tongue...
Posted By: jenny jenny Today's word...olid. Words in transition - 07/22/13 06:13 PM
olid

PRONUNCIATION: (O-lid)
MEANING: adjective: Foul-smelling.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin olere (to smell) which also gave us an opposite of today's word: redolent. Earliest documented use: 1680.
USAGE:
"Ducks' blood smells no less olid than pig's blood."
Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson; A Sow of Violence; The Massachusetts Review (Amherst); Autumn 2004.
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add S

SOLID -
1) old ma: without pretence, as in "a solid beating"
2) hippie son: as in "solid jackson" meaning right-on

OVID - a Roman writer, noted for his poetry about eggs
SOOK

PRONUNCIATION:
(rhymes with book)

MEANING:
noun: A timid or coward person; a crybaby.

ETYMOLOGY:
Probably from English dialect suck. Earliest documented use: 1933.


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SOONK - how the shlightly inebriated barfly described the fate of the Titanic

O -> C

SOCK

1) old ma: as in "dern it, I gotta darn some damn socks"
2) hippie son : as in "sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, let the good times roll"
soop The sound one makes when eating soup.
ZYMIC
PRONUNCIATION:
(ZAI-mik)

MEANING:
adjective: Relating to fermentation.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek zym- (ferment). Earliest documented use: 1817.

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ZYMIX - an olio of yeasts
z -> g

GYMIC
1) old ma: the smell of gym clothes that need to be washed
2)hippie son: someone who goes to the gym just to pick up chicks
meed
PRONUNCIATION: (meed)
MEANING:
noun: Reward; recompense; wage.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English med. Earliest documented use: before 900.
m --> w
WEED
1) old ma: something to rid
2) hippie son: something to get
peed(oops)

MEEDE - a Generel in the Civil War
pica

PRONUNCIATION:(PY-kuh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A tendency or craving for eating substances other than normal food (such as clay, chalk, and dirt), common during childhood or pregnancy.
2. In printing, a unit of type size, equal to about 1/6 of an inch.
3. A type size for typewriters, having ten characters to the inch.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin pica (magpie, craving), from a magpie's indiscriminate feeding. Earliest documented use: 1563.
For 2, 3: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a book or church rules. Earliest documented use: 1588.
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PIC
1) old ma: a tool for digging dirt to eat
2) hippie son: a nice photo to look at while he eats

POKA - a gambling game with cards and chips, in Boston

SPICA - the grim look on the orthopedic surgeon as he puts you in a cast from the hips down...

APICA - infant's word for a small orange-ish stoned fruit with fuzzy skin
Posted By: jenny jenny MONDAY ASPICES - 07/30/13 02:38 AM
auspices
PRONUNCIATION: (AW-spi-seez)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Patronage, support, or sponsorship.
2. A favorable sign.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of auspice, from Latin auspicium (divination from flight of birds), from auspex (bird watcher), from avis (bird) + specere (to look at). Ultimately from the Indo-European root awi- (bird), which is also the source of avian, ostrich, osprey, oval, ovum, ovary, egg, and caviar. Earliest documented use: 1611.
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E -- K
AUSPICKS - divinations by patterns of bird flights as to predicting the winners of horse races.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Monday, Monday... - 07/30/13 02:45 AM

AUSPICES
auspices

PRONUNCIATION:
(AW-spi-seez)

MEANING:
noun:
1. Patronage, support, or sponsorship.
2. A favorable sign.



SUSPICES - What the McCormick salesman with a stutter sells. (See related
ANU-SPICES - tasteful condiments occasionally served up on this Board...)

AUSPISCES - a little-known Zodiacal constellation in the skies of the Southern hemisphere

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Monday, Monday... - 07/30/13 11:18 AM

PAPARAZZI

PRONUNCIATION:
(pah-puh-RAT-see)

MEANING:
noun: Photographers who follow famous people to take their pictures for publication.

ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of paparazzo, from the name of a photographer in Federico Fellini's 1959 film La Dolce Vita. Fellini got the name via scriptwriter Ennio Flaiano who picked it from the 1901 travel book By the Ionian Sea. The book mentions a hotel owner named Coriolano Paparazzo. Fellini claimed at another time that the name Paparazzo suggested to him "a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging". Earliest documented use: 1961.




PAMPARAZZI - mounted photographers of the Argentine plains

PAUPARAZZI - very poor photographers


PAPARJAZZI - out-of-work hip musicians who chase photographers
hoping to get their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc hipstones - 07/30/13 04:01 PM

laugh

Just guessing what might be coming later in the week: Scissors? Spaghetti? Trousers/Pants/Knickers/Shorts? even Bloomers? Random thought: Is the noun "underwear" singular or plural?
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: hipstones - 07/31/13 03:51 AM
Good questions but taboo.

How many panties is/are a pair of panties, one, two, or four?

Meanwhile a slip is just a slip. smile
cognoscenti

PRONUNCIATION: (kon-yuh-SHEN-tee, kog-nuh-)
MEANING:
noun: Those with informed appreciation of a particular topic, such as fine arts or literature.

ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of obsolete Italian cognoscente, from conoscere (to know). Modern Italian form of the word, conoscente, means acquaintance -- you want to use the word intenditore or conoscitore if you mean cognoscente. Earliest documented use: 1777.
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add c

COGNOSCENTIC noun - a intenditore: a singular of cogonoscenti
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Amaizing ! - 07/31/13 11:06 AM

CORNOSCENTI - the aroma of Italian popcorn
Posted By: wofahulicodoc swansong - NOT - 07/31/13 02:28 PM
How about

CYGNOSCENTI = the smell of a newly hatched swan


( Afterthought: What's the singular of hoi polloi ? )
Posted By: wofahulicodoc tempura - 08/01/13 02:02 PM

MORES

PRONUNCIATION:
(MOHR-ayz)


MEANING:
noun: Customs and conventions of a social group.


ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of Latin mos (custom). Earliest documented use: 1898.



MOREST - superlative form of "some"
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: tempura - 08/01/13 02:58 PM
laugh

'ORES noun : Customs and conventions of a social group
Posted By: jenny jenny Happy Friday is antipodal to Blue Monday - 08/02/13 04:40 PM
antipodes

PRONUNCIATION:
(an-TIP-uh-deez)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Two places situated on the diametrically opposite sides of the earth.
2. The exact opposite of someone or something.
3. Australia and New Zealand.

ETYMOLOGY:
Via Latin from Greek antipodes (literally, those having the feet opposite, i.e. having feet on opposite sides of the earth), plural of antipous, from anti- (opposite) + pous (foot). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ped- (foot) which gave us peccadillo (alluding to a stumble or fall), pedal, impeccable, podium, octopus, and impeach. Earliest documented use: 1398.
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less P
ANTIODES - a jar ode written by Wallace Stevens and a urn ode written by Keats.


XANTIPODES - Socrates' wife has large feet.


What intrigues me is the pluralization rule that makes -pous into -podes. Know any other examples that crept into English? Anybody?

Edit: (My feet of clay are showing. I didn't know what you meant by jar/stevens and urn/keats, so I looked them up. Now I do. Nice!)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc I never thought of that ! - 08/03/13 02:02 PM

...the pluralization rule that makes -pous into -podes. Know any other examples that crept into English?


Answer (found by Onelooking "*podes") : Octopus --> octopodes. Also Platypus.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: I never thought of that ! - 08/05/13 02:03 PM
Ponzi scheme

PRONUNCIATION: (PON-zee skeem)
MEANING: noun: An investment swindle in which high profits are promised from fictitious sources and early investors are paid off with funds raised from later ones.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Charles Ponzi (1882-1949), a speculator who organized such a scheme during 1919-1920. He was neither the first nor the last person to float this or a similar scheme, just someone who did it on a massive scale. See the list of Ponzi schemes in history. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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P -> F

FONZI SCHEME- in Episode XXV the Fonz charges $50 to set-up a date to the Prom with Betty the head cheerleader.
On Prom night 50 hot-blooded boys show up at Betty's house.
Those were not Happy Days.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: I never thought of that ! - 08/05/13 03:29 PM
FUNZI - birthday party at Chucky Cheese's
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: I never thought of that ! - 08/05/13 08:50 PM

PONTI SCHEME - We'll all get shares of this Italian movie producer's empire, see, and a piece of Sophia Loren besides, and resell some more shares to eager buyers, and...

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Guesses before the fact - 08/06/13 01:58 AM

Who will it be ?

... a cheater, a traitor, a killer, a faker, and an infector.

...start with the US, then Norway, Scotland, Ukraine, and then back to the US.


Any ideas?

U S cheater = Ponzi of the Ponzi scheme
Norway traitor = QUISLING ?
Scotland killer = ?
Ukraine faker = ?
U S infector = TYPHOID MARY ?
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Guesses before the fact - 08/06/13 08:17 PM
Scotland: Black Bart?
Ukraine: Rasputin?
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Guesses before the fact - 08/06/13 09:39 PM

We'll see!

QUISLING

PRONUNCIATION: (KWIZ-ling)

MEANING:
noun: A traitor, especially one who aids an invading enemy.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Major Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), a Norwegian army officer who collaborated (1940-1945) with the German occupying forces during World War II and ruled Norway as head of the puppet government. He was shot for treason after the German defeat. Besides a noun, his name has become a verb as well. Earliest documented use: 1940.

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QUILLING - What Barquis is, according to David Copperfield
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Guesses before the fact - 08/06/13 10:31 PM

Was Jack the Ripper Scottish?
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Guesses before the fact - 08/07/13 12:30 AM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

Was Jack the Ripper Scottish?

Which one? Surely one of the many Jack-the-Rippers was Scottish.
But just as surely Anu would not stoop to such a streach.

No --and you may call me surely --Black Bart was the murdering Scot.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Guesses before the fact - 08/07/13 02:31 AM
ADD T

QUITSLING brit. slang : to stop slinging about fighting words and begin the traditional bitchslap.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Shakespeare wins again... - 08/07/13 11:12 AM

...more things on heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our phiosophies, and all that.

BURKE

PRONUNCIATION:
(buhrk)

MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To murder by suffocation.
2. To silence or suppress.
3. To avoid or bypass.

ETYMOLOGY:
After William Burke (1792-1829), who killed people to sell their bodies for dissection. His preferred method was smothering so as to leave the body unmarked and suitable for dissection. He was captured, hanged, and on the judge's orders, his body was publicly dissected. Earliest documented use: 1829.

USAGE:
"When Logeto came in, the killer burked him. Logeto never made a sound."
William Diehl; Hooligans; Villard Books; 1984.

(Who'd'a thunk it !)


BUBKE - a rich yeast bread made with raisins and cinnamon; mostly afflicts Ashkenaze Jews, and others of eastern and middle European extraction

Posted By: jenny jenny Will wins again... - 08/07/13 01:44 PM
B cut to L
LURKE - what Burke did while shopping for parts.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Will wins again... - 08/09/13 12:42 AM

POTEMKIN VILLAGE

PRONUNCIATION:
(po-TEM-kin VIL-ij)

MEANING:
noun: An impressive showy facade designed to mask undesirable facts.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Prince Grigory Potemkin, who erected cardboard villages to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Ukraine and Crimea in 1787. Earliest documented use: 1904.


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POTEMKIN PILLAGE - what happens before the creation of the false front

POSTEMKIN VILLAGE - after the truth comes out
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Will wins again... - 08/09/13 05:20 AM

POKEMIN VILLAGE - a village where the pokemen are those who are poked.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Will wins again... - 08/09/13 03:15 PM
Typhoid Mary
PRONUNCIATION:
(TY-foid MAIR-ee)
MEANING:
noun: A person from whom a disease or something undesirable spreads.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Mary Mallon (1869-1938), a cook in New York, who was a healthy carrier (contagious but showing no symptoms) of typhoid. She died of pneumonia. Read/watch more about her on PBS Nova. Earliest documented use: 1909.
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minus H

TYPOID MARY - a secretary in New York who Had an id-seated mental disorder that proHibited Her from typing the letter H.

[Her fatHer's name was Hank and Her motHer's name was Hazel ]


Posted By: wofahulicodoc not just for the rich and overweight - 08/10/13 01:51 AM

TOPHOID MARY - she had such bad tophi that just looking at the disfiguring lesions on her hands would give you your own case of gout !

(I won't post any pictures, but if you google "tophaceous gout" you'll see more ugly pictures than you ever wanted...)
Posted By: jenny jenny Making Up Words for Made Up Words - 08/12/13 06:38 PM
snowbroth

PRONUNCIATION:
(SNO-broth)

MEANING:
noun: Melted snow.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English snaw (snow) + broth (broth). Earliest documented use: 1600.

USAGE:
"Snowballs and snowmen and snowbroth boiled on our tinny fires on the beach."
Christopher Rush; On the Beach
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SNOWTROTH -a solemn Winter promice of fidelity that evaporates with the coming of Spring

'SNEWBROTH? - two dudes greeting in the Hood

SLOWBROTH - soup made in a crock-pot

SNOWBRITH- ritual circumcision at the North Pole
(Come to think of it, how do you count eight days when the Sun never sets?!)

SNOWBOTH - a mutual deception society

SNOTBROTH - I don't want even to think about that one!
Posted By: wofahulicodoc a day at the Sorbonne - 08/13/13 11:23 AM

ANATOPISM

PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-NAT-uh-piz-ehm)

MEANING:
noun: The error of placing something out of its proper place; also something placed erroneously.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek ana- (against) + topos (place). Anatopism is to place what anachronism is to time. Earliest documented use: 1812.

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ANATOLISM - Francophilia
Posted By: jenny jenny It ain't easy - 08/13/13 09:18 PM
ANATOPRISM - an inability to look through the top of optical prism and see the bent light
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: It ain't easy - 08/14/13 12:44 PM
quaternary

PRONUNCIATION:
(KWOT-uhr-ner-ee, kwuh-TUHR-nuh-ree)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Of the fourth order.
2. Consisting of or arranged in fours.
noun:
1. A group of four.
2. The number four.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin quattuor (four). Earliest documented use: 1450.
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QUAETENARY (noun) southern us

PRONUCIATION: qwart TER nare EE
MEANING: a ner-do-well who has never had nare a quarter.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: It ain't easy - 08/15/13 01:16 AM

QUITERNARY - Never say die !

EQUATERNARY - I'll say it again, the Earth is FLAT !!
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: It ain't easy - 08/15/13 10:57 AM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

QUITERNARY - Never say die !

EQUATERNARY - I'll say it again, the Earth is FLAT !!

__________________ laugh laugh __________ funny X two, Wolf
Posted By: jenny jenny ELFLOCK - 08/15/13 03:51 PM
elflock
PRONUNCIATION: (ELF-lok)
MEANING:
noun: A tangled lock of hair.
ETYMOLOGY:
An elflock is a mass of hair supposedly tangled by elves, as a mother might explain to her daughter while untangling her snarled locks after a slumber. From Old English aelf. Ultimately from the Indo-European root albho- (white), which is also the source of oaf, albino, album, albumen, and albedo. Earliest documented use: 1596.
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SELFLOCK - dreadlocks self-imposed
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: ELFLOCK - 08/15/13 10:41 PM


EFFLOCK - can't find my @#$%^! keys !!

ELFLICK - counterpart of a chickflick, in Madrid

ELMLOCK - an unfortunate hybrid tree, hardly seen any more: afflicted by both Woolly Adelgid and Dutch Elm Disease
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: ELFLOCK - 08/16/13 03:20 PM
allochthonous

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-LOK-thuh-nuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Originating in a region other than where it is found.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek from allos (other) + chthon (earth, land). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also sprouted human, homicide, humble, homage, chamomile, exhume, inhume, chthonic, disinter, chameleonic, and Persian zamindar (landholder). Earliest documented use: 1888.
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CALLOCHTHONOUS - of a mean and callous land

USAGE: A good nation may cause evil to other nations not only by its actions but by its inaction, and in either case it is justly accountable to the callochthonous nation for the injury.
___________________________________ Not John Stuart Mill

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Psalm say... - 08/16/13 06:50 PM

ALTOCHTHONOUS -- The Voice of the Turtle, heard in our Land, is female and low-pitched.

A Solomonic declaration, indeed.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Psalm say... - 08/16/13 09:54 PM
Surprised no one took

ELFLUCK

the old pot'o gold at the end of the rainbow.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Don't it make my brown beard... - 08/19/13 09:10 PM
...blue!

BLUEBEARD

PRONUNCIATION: (BLOO-beerd)


MEANING: n, A man who marries and kills one wife after another.

ETYMOLOGY: After Bluebeard, nickname of Raoul, the blue-bearded main character in a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (1628-1703). In the story, Bluebeard's wife finds the bodies of his previous wives in a room she was forbidden to enter. The feminine equivalent of the word could be black widow. Earliest documented use: 1795.

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BLURBEARD - Five-o'clock shadow
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Don't it make my brown beard... - 08/19/13 10:26 PM

-minus D -

BLUEBEAR - in winter what fuzzy-wuzzy was 'cause he wasn't fuzzy.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Don't it make my brown beard... - 08/19/13 10:45 PM

laugh

(although "BEAR" would probably have gotten the point across too)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Don't it make my brown beard... - 08/20/13 02:51 AM
A few weeks ago we saw baddies from the real world, and now it's time to visit the rogues' gallery from fiction. This week we'll see
a killer, BLUEBEARD
a maimer, ?
a seducer, Don Juan
a petrifier, ?
an evil scientist. Frankenstein

Fill it out, Wolf! smile
a killer, BLUEBEARD - sure

a maimer,-- Oedipus ? {"Pluck out his eyes! Apologiize!") Did someone torture people on the rack and tear their limbs out ?? a Knight of Ni ??? I give up !

a seducer, Don Juan - sure

a petrifier, ? - the Gorgon MEDUSA

an evil scientist. Frankenstein - sure
Posted By: jenny jenny Bad People - 08/20/13 09:25 PM
Procrustes

PRONUNCIATION: (pro-KRUS-teez)

MEANING:
noun: A person imposing conformity without concern for individuality.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Procrustes, a giant in Greek mythology, who stretched or cut his victims to make them fit his bed. He was killed by Theseus. From Greek Procroustes (stretcher). The word is more often used in its adjective form procrustean. Earliest documented use: 1581.
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ROCRUSTES - small iron rocks
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Bad People - 08/20/13 10:47 PM

PROCRUSHES - generic wrestling hold
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Mind-Reading game - 08/21/13 11:03 AM

a seducer, DON JUAN

I suppose it could be CASANOVA, too.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Mind-Reading game - 08/21/13 02:28 PM

In that case, Wolf, Guru Anu is more devious than we suspect.

It so happens that I knew Casanova (not in the biblical sense) and believe me, Casanova was not fictional, although some of his exploits certainly were. smile
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Thrust home! - 08/21/13 04:24 PM

Ah. I forgot this was Fiction week !


SIREN

PRONUNCIATION: (SY-ruhn)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A beautiful and seductive woman, especially one leading others into disaster.
2. Something attractive that is potentially disastrous.
3. A device that makes loud sounds, used for warning signals.
[What a great spot this would have been to introduce the word "ululating" !]

ETYMOLOGY:
After Siren, one of a group of sea nymphs, whose enchanting singing lured sailors to shipwreck on the rocks around their island. Also see femme fatale. Earliest documented use: 1340.

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SIRENO - the male counterpart, though inclined to be nosy. A great sword-fighter, too. See Roxanne for references.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Thrust home! - 08/21/13 04:36 PM
Hoist by my own petard, again! According to Wikip.,
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it.

Cyrano was as real - and as fictionalized - as was Casanova !
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Thrust home! - 08/21/13 05:23 PM
Eek, eek!
My brain reels. Reality melts away.
You and Anu conspire to keep me wrong.
Please excuse me while I go plot. eek
Posted By: wofahulicodoc (as I end the refrain) - 08/21/13 05:45 PM

You're not wrong; you were right. I was the one wrong.
Twice, even!
Posted By: jenny jenny SIREN - 08/21/13 08:43 PM
siren
PRONUNCIATION: (SY-ruhn)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A beautiful and seductive woman, especially one leading others into disaster.
2. Something attractive that is potentially disastrous.
3. A device that makes loud sounds, used for warning signals.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Siren, one of a group of sea nymphs, whose enchanting singing lured sailors to shipwreck on the rocks around their island. Also see femme fatale. Earliest documented use: 1340.
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add t

SIRENT:

1. a silent siren
2. a siren for rent
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: SIREN - 08/22/13 12:13 AM
biren

A person who attracts people of either gender with seductive poetry.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: SIREN - 08/22/13 10:51 AM

Mmm. That's elegant !
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: SIREN - 08/22/13 11:04 AM
Thank you.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc cross-wording to Tuesday - 08/22/13 04:11 PM

GORGON

PRONUNCIATION: (GOR-guhn)

MEANING: noun: An ugly, repulsive, or terrifying woman.

ETYMOLOGY: After Gorgon, any of the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair. They turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes. From Greek gorgos (dreadful). Earliest documented use: 1398.

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GOREGON -- Freddy Kreuger went to Portland (or Edward Scissorhands, or whoever)
Posted By: jenny jenny Tomorrow has better be Frankenstein - 08/22/13 05:48 PM
>O to E <

GORGEN
1. a small gorge
2. a big feast

Getting ready to attack the day: (see how much confidence I have in you?!)

DRANKENSTEIN - what they did in the Hofbräuhaus when all the glasses were dirty

Runner-up:
FRANKENSTAIN - mustard
Dr. Strangelove

PRONUNCIATION: (DOK-tuhr STRAYNJ-luv)
MEANING:
noun: Someone who is reckless about the use of weapons such as nuclear bombs.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Dr. Strangelove, title character of the 1963 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Strangelove, a former Nazi, is a nuclear expert and adviser to the president. Earliest documented use: 1968.
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>remove the e <

Dr. Stranglove - the Boston Strangler whose lost glove proved he was also Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

DR ESTRANGELOVE - Who ya gonna call to cure your stalker of that irrational fixation?

(Personally. I liked "mustard" better)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc No sweat ! - 08/26/13 11:00 AM

APHERESIS

PRONUNCIATION:
(for 1: uh-FER-i-sis, for 2: af-uh-REE-sis)

MEANING:
noun:
1. The loss of one or more sounds or letters from the beginning of a word. For example, the change in pronunciation of knife from (k-nyf) to (nyf) or the formation of till from until.
2. A method in which blood is drawn from a donor, one or more blood components (such as plasma, platelets, or white blood cells) are removed, and the rest is returned to the donor by transfusion.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin aphaeresis, from Greek aphairesis (taking away), from aphairein (to take away), from apo- (away) + hairein (to take). Earliest documented use: 1550.


[My favorite example of this is "eleëmosynary" --> --> alms]
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APTERESIS - The process of being turned into a wingless bird with hairy feathers, and then returned to the zoo (or at least to the B.C. comic strip)

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(too obvious? )
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: No sweat ! - 08/26/13 04:45 PM

>add T <

APHERESIST - pronounced: hee ree sizt/ hrr ree sizt (the AP is silent )

1. he resist
2. her resist
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: No sweat ! - 08/27/13 02:37 PM
syncope

PRONUNCIATION: (SING-kuh-pee)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The shortening of a word by omission of sounds or letters from its middle. For example, did not to didn't or Worcester to Wooster.
2. Fainting caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin syncope, from Greek synkope (contraction, cutting off), from syn- (together) + koptein (to cut). Earliest documented use: c. 1400.
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syncoped - past tense of syncope e.g. affecting a British accent the good doctor bought a plane tickect and arrived in Wooster England instead of Worcester Mass. He syncoped.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Naughty monkey ! - 08/28/13 02:28 AM

SYNCOPY - Naughty monkey see, naughty monkey do.

And I see that eleëmosynary was syncope, not apheresis. My, my. Who'da thunk it.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Naughty monkey ! - 08/28/13 08:14 PM

ASPIRATE

PRONUNCIATION: (verb: AS-puh-rayt, noun: AS-puhr-it)

MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To pronounce a sound with an exhalation of breath.
2. To pronounce the h sound at the beginning of a word as (hwich) for which.
3. To inhale something (such as a fluid) into the lungs, as after throwing up.
4. To draw a fluid from a body cavity by suction.
(Don't you 5. aspirate a hot rod engine, too? Or at least a carburetor?)
noun:
1. The sound represented by h.
2. A speech sound followed by an audible puff of breath.
3. The matter removed from a body cavity by suction.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin aspirare (to breathe, blow). Earliest documented use: 1669.

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AMPIRATE
1. I'm an electric current and I'm angry !
2. Aargh, Matey, my name is Blackbeard, and you'd better believe it!
Posted By: jenny jenny Naughty monkey ! - 08/29/13 03:28 AM

HASPIRATE : pronounced "whosh" ass per ate - a silent puff of air preceding the word "aspirate" so as to make the word "aspirate" onomatopoetic.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc and I'm losing my patience ! - 08/29/13 04:52 PM

XASPIRATE - I can never get that souffle to come out right...
Posted By: wofahulicodoc 4sight - 08/29/13 04:55 PM
PROLEPSIS

PRONUNCIATION: (pro-LEP-sis)

MEANING:
noun:
1. The use of a descriptive word in anticipation of the result. Example: The word hot in hot water heater.
2. The anticipation and answering of an objection or argument before it's raised. Also known as prebuttal.
3. The representation of an event before it actually happened. Example: He lost the game even before the match began.
4. The anachronistic representation of an event before its actual time. Also known as prochronism. Example: A depiction of people talking wirelessly over long distances in 18th century.
5. A literary technique in which the author drops hints of things to come. Also known as foreshadowing.
6. The return of a paroxysm of a periodic disease before its usual time or at progressively shorter intervals.

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PYROLEPSIS -- pre-ignition

PUROLEPSIS -- Whaddya mean you changed my oil at just 750 miles ??!!
Posted By: jenny jenny extreme 4sight - 08/30/13 12:56 AM

>add A <

PAROLEPSIS- to request a release from jail before the crime is committed.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Great plans! - 08/30/13 01:45 AM

PROLEPSIS - ambitious amateur
Posted By: wofahulicodoc time for one more? - 08/30/13 11:13 AM

PROLAPSIS - "How many pregnancies have you had? Your innards are going to drop out!"
Posted By: jenny jenny FRIDAY'S WORD IS AGG et cetera - 08/31/13 12:06 AM
agglutinate

PRONUNCIATION:
(verb: uh-GLOOT-n-ayt, adjective: uh-GLOOT-n-it, -ayt)

MEANING:
verb tr., intr.:
1. To form words by combining words or word elements.
2. To join or become joined as if by glue.
3. To clump or cause to clump, as red blood cells.

adjective:
1. Joined or tending to join.
2. Relating to a language that makes complex words by joining words or word elements extensively. For example as in Turkish.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin gluten (glue). Earliest documented use: 1541.
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> N>M <

AGGLUTIMATE - an inseparable mating
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: FRIDAY'S WORD IS AGG et cetera - 08/31/13 02:04 AM

WAGGLUTINATE - Twerking gone wild.

A couple who lived in New Delhi
Had to walk around belly to belly

...Because, in their haste,
...They reached for the paste
Instead of the vaginal jelly!
Posted By: jenny jenny Wolahulicdoc twerks gone wild, but funny - 08/31/13 02:38 AM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

WAGGLUTINATE - Twerking gone wild.

A couple who lived in New Delhi
Had to walk around belly to belly

...Because, in their haste,
...They reached for the paste
Instead of the vaginal jelly!



Wofahulicodoc at his vulgarist and funniest. laugh
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Give me that song and dance! - 09/02/13 04:54 PM
KABUKI

PRONUNCIATION: (kah-BOO-kee, KAH-boo-kee)

MEANING:
1. A form of Japanese drama that includes highly stylized movements, dances, singing, and miming, and all parts are played by males.
2. Done for the show only; make-believe.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Japanese kabuki, from ka (song) + bu (dance) + ki (skill). Apparently this is a reinterpreted form of the verb kabuku (to lean, deviate, or act dissolutely). Kabuki is the popular form of the older Noh, the classical drama of Japan. Earliest documented use: 1899.

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(In the words of Jack Benny, "I'm Thinking!")

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Give me that song and dance! - 09/02/13 05:25 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
KABUKII

PRONUNCIATION: (kah-BOO-kee, KAH-boo-kee)

MEANING:
1. A form of Japanese drama that includes highly stylized movements, dances, singing, and miming, and all parts are played by males.
2. Done for the show only; make-believe.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Japanese kabuki, from ka (song) + bu (dance) + ki (skill). Apparently this is a reinterpreted form of the verb kabuku (to lean, deviate, or act dissolutely). Kabuki is the popular form of the older Noh, the classical drama of Japan. Earliest documented use: 1899.

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(In the words of Jack Benny, "I'm Thinking1")


Hit the road, Jack, I beat ya.

>K > Y <

YABOKII- as in shake your bootie
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Give me that song and dance! - 09/02/13 06:52 PM

KABUKU - A traditional dance with nine people moving on a square stage, but with no two of them ever in the same row or column
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Give me that song and dance! - 09/02/13 11:10 PM
!
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Give me that song and dance! - 09/03/13 01:17 AM

wink
Posted By: jenny jenny Honcho Tuesday - 09/03/13 02:56 PM
honcho

PRONUNCIATION: (HAWN-choh)
MEANING:
noun: One who is in charge of a situation; leader; boss.
verb tr.: To organize, manage, or lead a project, event, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Japanese hancho, from han (squad) + cho (chief). Earliest documented use: 1947.
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] O > U [

HUNCHO - a community organizer who thinks with his hunches and all his hunches are bad.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Honcho Tuesday - 09/03/13 03:19 PM
LUNCHO A community organizer who thinks with his
hunches but makes sure they are always
at a diner/eatery at Lunch Time.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Honcho Tuesday - 09/03/13 04:29 PM
Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
LUNCHO A community organizer who thinks with his
hunches but makes sure they are always
at a diner/eatery at Lunch Time.


laugh Good thinking, Luke. With wit comes truth. laugh
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Honcho Tuesday - 09/03/13 06:39 PM
blush
Posted By: wofahulicodoc multicultural - 09/04/13 11:07 AM

HONCHOO

1. The Boss's sneeze, and the Cockney's response, as in "Honchoo gunna say "Gesundheit, Boss?"
3. A poor transliteration of the name of the largest island of Japan
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: multicultural - 09/04/13 10:00 PM

SKOSH

PRONUNCIATION: (skoash)

MEANING: noun: A small amount; a little bit.

ETYMOLOGY: From Japanese sukoshi (a little). Earliest documented use: 1955.

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ASKOSH, pronounced ASS-cosh --
what I call my cravat after a few too many SKOSCHes
Posted By: jenny jenny Multicultural Acronyms - 09/04/13 11:59 PM
add A

SKOSHA - South Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency
________ i.e. ten thousand American men and missiles on duty watch at ____________ the North Korean border
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/06/13 01:47 AM

KAMIKAZE

PRONUNCIATION:
(kah-mi-KAH-zee)

MEANING:
noun: Someone who behaves in a reckless, self-destructive manner.
adjective: Extremely reckless, potentially self-destructive.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Japanese kamikaze (divine wind), from kami (god, divinity) + kaze (wind). Earliest documented use: 1896.

NOTES:
In Japanese folklore, kamikaze was the divine wind that destroyed a Mongol invasion fleet under Kublai Khan. In World War II, the kamikaze were suicidal attacks by Japanese pilots who crashed their planes on an enemy target such as a ship.

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KAMRIKAZE - what we used to use to protect our Kodak Kameras against dropping, raining, and other hazards
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/06/13 03:52 AM
z>t

KAMIKATE- a famous female WWII Japanese pilot who crashed her airplanes into American aircraft carriers.*


* Correction: our records now show that there was only one plane, one carrier, and one Kate
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/06/13 06:46 PM

TYCOON

PRONUNCIATION: (ty-KOON)

MEANING: noun: A wealthy and powerful person, especially in business or politics.

ETYMOLOGY: From Japanese taikun (great lord or prince), from Chinese ta (great) + kiun (prince). Earliest documented use: 1857.

NOTES: The word was used as a title for the shogun of Japan. Abraham Lincoln's aides used the word as an affectionate nickname for him. Later the word came to be applied to powerful people in business.

USAGE: "Believe it or not, you can buy a $6,000 shower curtain for your home. But why would you? Former Tyco International tycoon Dennis Kozlowski did. He also spent $2,200 on a wastebasket, nearly $3,000 on coat hangers and nearly $6,000 on sheets. ... 'The prices are not out of line, but they're off the scale when it comes to priorities,' says Bilhuber, whose client list includes ex-AOL Time Warner honcho Robert Pittman, Michael Douglas, David Bowie and his model wife, Iman, and designer Hubert Givenchy."
-- Maria Puente;s Tchotchkes of the Rich and Infamous; USA Today; Sep 27, 2002.

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TOYCOON -- an animated Davey Crockett hat from the 1950s

TRYCOON -- hopeful owner of a new startup company, with visions of being the next Steve Jobs
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/07/13 03:29 AM
IIIdrop O III

TYCON - as in Bernard Madoff
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/07/13 05:08 AM
TYFOON – a rich, powerful, ridiculous blowhard
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/07/13 03:17 PM
Let me guess...Oh my, there are so many and I know so few.
Uh...
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/10/13 12:21 AM
FACTOTUM

PRONUNCIATION:
(fak-TOH-tuhm)

MEANING:
noun: A servant or a low-level employee tasked with many things.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin factotum, from facere (to do) + totus (all). Earliest documented use: 1573.

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FACT-TOTUM
1. a know-it-all
2. one who carries all the answers around
3. a Lorite (after Neal Stephenson)

Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Multicultural Acronyms - 09/10/13 01:33 AM
SACTOTUM

A low-level executive tasked with delivering termination notices in a corporate downsizing.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Multicultural - 09/10/13 11:36 AM
minus F

ACTOTUM - a low level employee or servant who acts like he does all the work but does none.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Multicultural - 09/10/13 03:27 PM
FACTATUM Fan Club for either Tatum ONeal, or Tatum Channing
Posted By: wofahulicodoc a little bird told me - 09/10/13 09:48 PM

INTERLOCUTOR

PRONUNCIATION: in-tuhr-LOK-yuh-tuhr, -yoo

MEANING: noun: One who takes part in a conversation or dialogue, especially as a representative of an organization.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin inter- (between) + loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1518.

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INTERNLOCUTOR - representative to the Student AMA

INTERLOCUTORY - Speaker in Parliament of a British political party

ENTERLOCUTOR - Hamlet comes on stage (maybe that should be "Picard-of-Borg" comes on stage?)

And - for real - wasn't Mr. Interlocutor the man in the middle of the Minstrel Show line, the one who did all the talking?
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: a little bird told me wrong - 09/10/13 11:41 PM
move L

INTEROCULTOR - a raspy voice inside all of us that whispers to us;
Not to worry the Devil is dead.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: a little bird told me wrong - 09/11/13 03:37 PM
INFERLOCUTOR News commentator giving their own opinion.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: a little bird told me wrong - 09/12/13 01:36 AM

CONFRERE

PRONUNCIATION: (KON-frayr)

MEANING: noun: Colleague; a fellow member of a profession, fraternity, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin con- (with) + frater (brother). Other cousins of this word, derived from the same Indo-European root bhrater- (brother), are brother, pal, fraternal, and bully. Earliest documented use: 1425.

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CONFREE - Parole board
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: a little bird told me wrong - 09/12/13 02:36 AM
add i

CONIFRERE - a pine tree hugger
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: a little bird told me wrong - 09/12/13 03:13 PM
TONFRERE - fat monk.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: a little bird told me wrong - 09/12/13 07:26 PM

PROTEGE

PRONUNCIATION: (PRO-tuh-zhay, pro-tuh-ZHAY)

MEANING: noun: One who is protected, guided, and supported by somebody older and more experienced.

ETYMOLOGY: From French protégé, past participle of protéger (to protect), from Latin protegere, from pro- + tegere (cover). Ultimately from Indo-European root (s)teg- (to cover), which is the ancestor of other words such as tile, thatch, protect, detect, and toga. Earliest documented use: 1786.

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PROTOGE - the primordial dust cloud that coalesced into the Earth
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: a little bird told me wrong - 09/12/13 11:06 PM
add y

PYROTEGE - any initiate who survives the test of fire
Posted By: jenny jenny Fun with Fugleman - 09/13/13 04:43 PM
fugleman
PRONUNCIATION:
(FYOO-guhl-muhn)
MEANING:
noun: One who leads a group, company, or party
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A to E

FUGLEMEN -what Johnny Manziel will see tomorrow i.e.
a ///Crimson\\\ blurr converging from both flanks forcing him to run inside where 300lb linebackers wait who have been told that Johnny Football said something bad about their mothers.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc the Andrews Sisters strike again - 09/13/13 09:23 PM

BUGLEMAN - Boogie-Woogie in Company B
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Joseph had a goat of many colors, yes? - 09/17/13 02:22 AM

TRAGUS

PRONUNCIATION: (TRAY-guhs)

MEANING:
noun: The small fleshy projection at the front of the external ear, slightly extending over the opening of the ear.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek tragos (goat; hairy part of the ear), from the supposed resemblance of the tuft of hair at the opening of the ear to a goat's beard. The word is sometimes also applied to this hair growing in the ear. Earliest documented use: 1684.

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TARAGUS - a spiky vegetable raised on Scarlett O'Hara's farm, considered a a great delicacy if shielded from the sun so it won't turn green as it grows.
Posted By: jenny jenny Joseph had a goat of many butts - 09/17/13 04:16 AM
G > N

TRANUS - euphemism for the planet Uranus
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Joseph had a goat of many butts - 09/17/13 03:20 PM
TRALUS a small fence for vines to grow upon.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc (No, Joseph's goat didn't smoke) - 09/18/13 01:52 AM

CHIMERA

PRONUNCIATION: (ki-MEER-uh, ky-)

MEANING: noun:
1. A fanciful fabrication; illusion.
2. An organism having genetically different tissues.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Chimera, a fire-breathing female monster in Greek mythology who had a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. From Greek khimaira (she-goat), ultimately from the Indo-European root ghei- (winter), which is the ancestor of words such as chimera (literally a female animal that is one winter, or one year old), hibernate, and the Himalayas, from Sanskrit him (snow) + alaya (abode). Earliest documented use: 1382.

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CHIMPERA - the Ape Age

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: (No, Joseph's goat didn't smoke) - 09/18/13 02:44 AM
laugh laugh Nice, wolf.

CHIMER - He who is in step with everyone else
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Marines, sometimes - 09/19/13 01:45 AM

AEGIS

PRONUNCIATION:
(EE-jis)

MEANING:
noun: Protection, support, guidance, or sponsorship of a particular person or organization.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin aegis, from Greek aigis (goatskin), from aix (goat). Aigis was the name of the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena in Greek mythology. It was made of goatskin. Earliest documented use: 1704.

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ACEGIS - Fantastic Footsoldiers

ALEGIS - drunk footsldiers

AREGIS - the King is gone, and there is no successor to the throne
aegis

PRONUNCIATION:(EE-jis)
MEANING:
noun: Protection, support, guidance, or sponsorship of a particular person or organization.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin aegis, from Greek aigis (goatskin), from aix (goat). Aigis was the name of the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena in Greek mythology. It was made of goatskin. Earliest documented use: 1704.
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i > g
AEGGS - "a" single egg with plural yolks "s"
Posted By: wofahulicodoc might as well be EXXON-MOBIL - 09/19/13 11:18 AM

CHEVRON

PRONUNCIATION:
(SHEV-ruhn, -ron)

MEANING:
noun: A pattern in the shape of a V or an inverted V.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French chevron (rafter, from the resemblance of the pattern to the shape of two rafters on a roof), from Latin caper (goat). The goat connection is not clear. Earliest documented use: 1395.

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CLEVRON - the fundamental, irreducible unit of cleverness
Posted By: jenny jenny What the Chevy once was... - 09/19/13 02:14 PM

CHEVROD - the slowest rod on the drag strip
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: What the Chevy once was... - 09/19/13 02:24 PM

Mmm. Clever, that one ! wink
Posted By: Tromboniator Doggedly - 09/19/13 03:26 PM
CHEVROD – 2. A 1,049-mile auto race from Anchorage to Nome.

CHEVLON – A company that produces tools and supplies for auto body work.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Doggedly - 09/20/13 01:34 PM
Quote:


CHEVROD – 2. A 1,049-mile auto race from Anchorage to Nome.



I'd bet on the dogs but find it amazing that a race a thousand miles long could begin and end in the same State. Wow!
Posted By: jenny jenny FRIDAY'S FINAL WORD - 09/20/13 05:00 PM

chagal
PRONUNCIATION: (CHAH-guhl)
MEANING:
noun: A bag, usually made of canvas or leather, used for carrying water.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Hindi chhagal, from Sanskrit chhagala (of a goat). Earliest documented use: 1909.
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add N
CHANGAL - the Sanskirted girl who gave you change when you bought your goatskin of water.

... why have you never seen a "goator"?

CHAGALE - half a dance, done in a windstorm
Posted By: wofahulicodoc This is a Test. This is only a Test. - 09/23/13 08:58 PM

SHIBBOLETH

PRONUNCIATION: (SHIB-uh-lith, -leth)

MEANING: noun:
1. The use of a word or pronunciation that distinguishes a group of people.
2. A slogan, belief, or custom that's now considered outmoded.

ETYMOLOGY: According to the Book of Judges in the Bible, the Gileadites used the Hebrew word shibboleth (ear of corn; stream) to identify the fleeing Ephraimites who couldn't pronounce the sh sound. 42,000 Ephraimites were slaughtered. Earliest documented use: 1382.


SHIBBOLESH - A failed Field Sobriety tesht -- oops, "test"
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: This is a Test. This is only a Test. - 09/25/13 12:16 AM
laugh Sober up, Ephraimite.
Ephraimites taste best if sober before slaughtered.

O to Q

SHIBBQLETH

HYPOCORISM

PRONUNCIATION:
(hy-POK-uh-riz-uhm, hi-)

MEANING:
noun
1. A pet name.
2. The practice of using pet names.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek hypokorisma (pet name), from hypo- (under) + kor- (child). Ultimately from Indo-European root ker- (to grow), which is also the source of other words such as increase, recruit, crew, crescent, cereal, concrete, crescendo, sincere, and Spanish crecer (to grow). Earliest documented use: 1850.

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HYPNOCORISM - externally-induced belief that you're all heart

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: This is a Test. This is only a Test. - 09/25/13 02:43 AM

HYPOCOWISM - a male or female milkmaid

Etymology: [from Greek] hypo (under) cow (cow) ism (that which isem)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: This is a Test. This is only a Test. - 09/25/13 03:26 PM
polysemous

PRONUNCIATION: (POL-ee-see-muhs)

MEANING: adjective: Having multiple meanings.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin polysemus, from Greek polysemos, from poly- (many) + sema (sign). Earliest documented use: 1884.
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POLYSERMOUS :
1) a religious sermon with a self-contradicting message about heaven
2) a religious sermon with a self-contridicting message about hell
3) a religious sermon that does not pertain to religion
4) a long rambling non-religious sermon covering everything from aardvark to zymurgy



Posted By: wofahulicodoc that's "Cyclops" in Greek - 09/25/13 10:14 PM

POLYFEMUS - son of Poseidon and Thoosa. Had only one eye but saw many bones.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: that's "Cyclops" in Greek - 09/26/13 03:55 AM
That's just a leg-end.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc slip of the tongue, actually... - 09/27/13 12:38 AM

LAPSUS LINGUAE

PRONUNCIATION:
(LAP-suhs LING-gwee, LAHP-soos LING-gwy)

MEANING:
noun: A slip of the tongue.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lapsus linguae (slip of the tongue). Earliest documented use: 1668.

NOTES: Malapropisms and spoonerisms are two examples of lapsus linguae.

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LIPSUS LINGUAE - a fancy kiss
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: slip of the tongue, actually... - 09/27/13 03:50 AM
RAPSUS LINGUAE - Snoop Dog's explanation to the FCC as to why he rapped the word motherfucker on National TV (slip of the tongue).
Posted By: wofahulicodoc wordy words - 09/27/13 01:38 PM

PAREGMENON

PRONUNCIATION:
(puh-REG-muh-non)

MEANING: noun: The juxtaposition of words that have the same roots. Examples: sense and sensibility, a manly man, the texture of textile.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek paregmenon, from paragein (to bring side by side). Earliest documented use: 1577.

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PAREGGMENON --

Depending on how you parse it.
1. two guys fomenting a riot (pair-egg-men-on)
Less commonly:
2. Hey, you two guys, get off my back! (pair-egg-me-non)

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BTW - AFK for most of the weekend.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: wordy words - 09/27/13 11:05 PM
PAREGMEANON noun: The juxtaposition of two mean words that have the same mean roots. Example: mean and meaner, etc.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc caution - grossness alert, sort of - 09/30/13 10:59 AM

PETARD

PRONUNCIATION:
(pe-TAHRD, pi-)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A small bomb used to blast down a gate or wall.
2. A loud firecracker.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French péter (to break wind), from Latin peditum (a breaking wind), from pedere (to break wind). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pezd- (to break wind) which also gave us feisty, fart, and French pet (fart). Earliest documented use: 1566.

NOTES:
A petard was a bell-shaped bomb used to breach a door or a wall. Now that we have advanced to ICBMs, this low-tech word survives in the phrase "to hoist by one's own petard" meaning "to have one's scheme backfire". The idiom was popularized by Shakespeare in his play Hamlet. Hamlet, having turned the tables on those tasked with killing him, says:
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard

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PETYARD = a Chinese abbatoir
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: caution - grossness alert, sort of - 09/30/13 03:58 PM
SETYARD = a sunny half acre filled with rocking chairs
for residents to 'set a spell' and reminisce.
Posted By: jenny jenny Sometimes things too cute are gross - 10/01/13 01:13 AM
add C

PETCARD - a cardboard cutout getwell card of a cute fluffy dog who looks like your own dog when he was just a little puppy given to you as you lie on a less-than-hospitable bed in pain amongst an over-abundance of incompetent doctoring.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Sometimes things too cute are gross - 10/01/13 02:23 PM
I like your definition.
Posted By: jenny jenny Li'l Abner in London - 10/02/13 12:18 AM
druthers

PRONUNCIATION:(DRUTH-uhrz)
MEANING:
noun: One's own way; preference.
ETYMOLOGY:
Plural of druther, contraction of ’d rather, as in "I/he/etc. would rather ..." Earliest documented use: 1895.
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U to A
DRATHERS - spoken/sung lyrics of Rex Harrison's opening song in the 1959 English version of the Broadway play "Li'l Abner".

If I had my drathers,
I'd drather have my drathers
Than work any wheres at all
It ain't that I hates it,
I often contemplates it
while watchin' the rain drops fall
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Hi ! - 10/03/13 02:28 AM

DUDGEON

PRONUNCIATION:
(DUHJ-uhn)

MEANING:
noun: A feeling of anger, resentment, indignation, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:
Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1380.

NOTES:
This word is often used in the term "in high dudgeon" as in "He went off in high dudgeon" meaning "He left in great anger and indignation."

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DRUDGEON - a worker in a dull, boring, and repetitive job
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Hi ! Re: Lo! - 10/03/13 01:54 PM
D > F
FUDGEON - a curmudgeon who fudges. Often preceded by the companion word "nut" as in "nutfudgeon".
Posted By: wofahulicodoc No, not "canoodle" - 10/04/13 12:37 AM

CABOODLE

PRONUNCIATION:
(kuh-BOOD-uhl)

MEANING:
noun: The lot, collection, or crowd.

NOTES:
The word is mostly seen in the expression "kit and caboodle" meaning "the whole lot".

ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps from boodle (money, goods, people), from Dutch boedel (property). Earliest documented use: 1848.


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CABYODLE - how the Geneva Hilton Hotel doorman summons a taxi
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: No, not "canoodle" - 10/04/13 01:46 AM
Can it, Wolfa, you ruined my best def. smile
add > D
CABDOODLE - doodles you draw while waiting for a cab summoned forth by a Geneva Hotel doorman's yodel.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc coming up short - 10/05/13 02:02 AM

SHRIFT

PRONUNCIATION:
(shrift)

MEANING:
noun: Confession to a priest. Also, penance and absolution that follow confession.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English scrift (confession, penance), from scrifan (to shrive: to impose penance). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skribh- (to cut, separate, or sift) that has resulted in other terms, such as manuscript, scribe, subscribe, scripture, scribble, and describe. Earliest documented use: 897.

NOTES:
The term nowadays is mostly seen in the form "to get short shrift" meaning to receive little consideration or a curt treatment. Originally, short shrift was what condemned criminals received: brief time granted to them for confession and absolution before execution.

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SHRIF - charged with upholding the law in very small, laconic towns. USAGE: "The shrif cot thm tu catl rsslrs, dinnee?"
add an A
ASHRIFT geology :
A volcanic rift at the point of separation between two diverging continents i.e. volcanic ash fell back into the rift and filled it.
(see: Great Rift of Africa).
SHWIFT: A really shwell shatirisht and priesht.
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday's Word: Fur - 10/07/13 03:18 PM
furfuraceous

PRONUNCIATION:
(fuhr-fyuh-RAY-shus)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Covered with dandruff.
2. Flaky.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin furfur (bran, flake). Earliest documented use: 1650.
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F > N
FURFUNACEOUS - being flaky but for fun. example:
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
______________________________Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Monday's Word: Fur - 10/07/13 04:43 PM

PURFURACEOUS - My cat says happily that she's going to make a lot of holes in that

Aha! Took a while to percolate to the surface. Did you know there is a benign skin lesion called "tinea versicolor" caused by the organism "Malassezia furfur"? Doesn't do much but make the skin give off little flakes. (Also absorbs ultraviolet light, so the affected part of the skin doesn't tan like the rest of it...)
Posted By: Tromboniator - 10/07/13 11:14 PM
furfurageous: wa-a-a-ay too much mink.
pediculous

PRONUNCIATION:
(pe-DIK-yuh-luhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Infested with lice: lousy; contemptible.
ETYMOLOGY:
From pedis (louse). Earliest documented use: 1540.
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add E
PEDICULOUSE - a word with the same word meaning at both ends.

PEDICULOTUS - a flower that stands on its own little feet
Posted By: jenny jenny Wendsday's Child is Full of Woe - 10/09/13 02:41 PM
xanthodontous

PRONUNCIATION:(zan-tho-DON-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Having yellow teeth.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek xanthos (yellow) + -odon (toothed). Earliest documented use: 1862. Also see Xanthippe.
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XANTHODONETOUS- literally : yellow-done-to-us, denoting a once free people afraid of their own government


AN ALTERNATE THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Imagine there's no countries, / It isn't hard to do,
/ Nothing to kill or die for, / No religion too,
/Imagine all the people / living life like trees.


-------------------------------- John Lennon, (1940-1980)

Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Wendsday's Child is Full of Woe - 10/09/13 03:39 PM
I like it.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc put the E at the beginning instead - 10/09/13 06:59 PM

EXANTHODONTOUS - his teeth used to look like flowers (Greek, from anthos, flower)

(Maybe that should be "...flowers used to look like teeth." Like the DANDELION = Lions' Teeth)
Posted By: jenny jenny Thursday's Rude Word - 10/10/13 04:08 PM
pilgarlic

PRONUNCIATION:
(pil-GAHR-lik)
MEANING:
noun: A bald-headed person.
ETYMOLOGY:
Literally peeled garlic, from pill (to peel) + garlic. Earliest documented use: 1529.
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add K

PILGARLICK (Freudian psychology) - an irresistible urge to lick a bald man's head.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Thursday's Rude Word - 10/11/13 02:04 AM

PILLGARLIC - "A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down" as modified for a diabetic
Posted By: jenny jenny The Last Rude Word - 10/11/13 02:33 PM
fustilugs

PRONUNCIATION:
(FUS-ti-lugs)
MEANING:
noun: A fat and slovenly person.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English fusty (smelly, moldy) + lug (to carry something heavy). Earliest documented use: 1607.
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F > L
LUSTILUGS - the four foot bearers of a reclining, bare or scantily-clad, Cleopatra in search of Mark Antony.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: The Last Rude Word - 10/11/13 03:03 PM
Cleo and Mark: one of your better ones. Got a good chuckle
out of it.
And Wofa, your Julie Andrews' song made me smile.

FUSTILAGS - we make the convicts bathe every June whether they need it or not

(BTW, Luke, with some medicines applesauce works better wink )
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

FUSTILAGS - we make the convicts bathe every June whether they need it or not

(BTW, Luke, with some medicines applesauce works better wink )


My mother, back in the day, would have said that would dilute
the medicine. But I like the idea better than sugar. Just
stay away from cinnamon. I hear it's become the "high" of
choice for some kids.
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday's word and it ain't nice. - 10/14/13 05:08 AM
measly

PRONUNCIATION:(MEE-zlee, MEEZ-lee)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Ridiculously small or bad.
2. Infected with measles.
ETYMOLOGY:
Initially, the word measly was used to describe a pig infected with measles, which is probably derived from Middle Dutch masel (blemish) and its spelling influenced by Middle English mesel (leprous, leprosy). Earliest documented use: 1598.
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m > i
EASILY - answer to the question "Can good men be fooled?" Example:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Eisenhower

See? Eisenhower was a nice man but without guns to fight bad men we all would be unclothed and cold and hungry.

Posted By: BranShea Re: Monday's word and it ain't nice. - 10/14/13 03:26 PM
Sneak in your opinions and get away with it.

WEASILY Weasily
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Monday's word and it ain't nice. - 10/14/13 04:01 PM
PEASLY

Pease Porridge hot, Pease Porridge cold,Pease Porridge in the Pot Nine Days old,Spell me that in four Letters? I will, THAT.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Monday's word and it ain't nice. - 10/14/13 07:17 PM

MEWSLY -

1) an organic cereal, unique in that it can by itself support the growth of newborn kittens
2) extremely clever little felines
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Monday's word and it ain't nice. - 10/15/13 03:01 AM
Now BranShea, be nice (maybe you are but I couldn't open your nice video) because I wern't being "weasily".

You see, BranShe, in these United States of Mississippi it is permissible to disagree with your betters even if your betters are by some strange quirk better than you.

Anu, as you saw, slipped in his Eisenhower quote and understandably only a weasily Mississippian complained. laugh

And yet Anu, for the most part, is a good man.
Posted By: BranShea Re: Monday's word and it ain't nice. - 10/15/13 12:18 PM
You missed a cute little video. (link is in good order) So as I see you favor guns to keep off the bad man ( whoever they are) and to bring to everyone the wonderful permission to disagree with their betters ( whoever they may be)

Then you wern't being weasly but understandably only a weasly Missisippian. I really tried to understand. I don't mind being the dummy here. smile
Posted By: wofahulicodoc moving right along - 10/16/13 12:59 AM

ANEMIC

PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-NEEM-ik)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Lacking vitality, strength, or colorfulness.
2. Suffering from anemia.

ETYMOLOGY:
From anemia (a condition in which one has a reduced number of red blood cells or hemoglobin), from Greek an- (without) + haima (blood). Earliest documented use: 1839. The word anemious is entirely different.

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AMEMIC - I can't think of anything
pronunciation:. "uh-MEEM-ick
origin: from "a-" (without), and "meme" (a unit of memory, a concept that sticks in your head)
Posted By: jenny jenny The second banana follows the top - 10/16/13 02:57 AM
Good one, Wolf! You are a tough act to follow.

PANENIC - an anthropologist who goes native.

Etymology: pan (all) -enic (one who studies a culture from the perspective of the culture he is studying).
Posted By: wofahulicodoc yesterday's word - 10/17/13 01:20 PM

SCLEROTIC

PRONUNCIATION:
(skluh-ROT-ik)


MEANING:
adjective:
1. Hard, rigid, slow to adapt or respond.
2. Relating to or affected with sclerosis, an abnormal hardening of a tissue or part.
3. Of or relating to the sclera, the white fibrous outer layer of the eyeball.


ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek skleros (hard). Earliest documented use: 1543.

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SCLEROTICA - X-rated pictures of eyeballs (some people's eyes can be pretty sexy...)
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: yesterday's word - 10/17/13 05:34 PM
Well Wolf,
your definition proves that you are slicker than me. I couldn't think of a faux word to post that combined hard and erotic without being raunchy. You did, and somehow did it with "eyes".
Good man. smile
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: yesterday's word - 10/17/13 05:50 PM
There's a way you can post what you want,
even raunchy, JJ, and no one can see it,
without pushing 'open'. I, however, don't
know how to do it. You should look into
it. I'd open it, I often need a good laugh.
Posted By: jenny jenny word up, thanks Luke. - 10/17/13 06:00 PM
cancerous

PRONUNCIATION:
(KAN-suh-ruhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Having a harmful, uncontrolled growth.
2. Of or relating to cancer: a malignant growth or tumor.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin cancer (crab, tumor, cancer). Canker/cankerous are from the same root. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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c > d
DANCEROUS - one who thinks he can dance but can't.
Posted By: Tromboniator Bounding badness - 10/18/13 12:41 AM
cangerous - malignant marsupials
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Bounding badness - 10/18/13 02:14 AM

cangerous - malignant marsupials -- [like!]


CHANCEROUS - Big Box store for compulsive gamblers; pronounced "Chance-Я-Us"


Luke - and by extension J^2 - I think you mean the "Spoiler" button, the 11th on the Reply box row that starts with the smiley and ends with the little-and-then-big T for changing font size. Like this:
Click to reveal..
It's the letter S with a slash / through it. (Not the S with the _ through it; that's "strikethrough".
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Bounding badness - 10/18/13 03:07 PM
Love your Chance R Us.

{Don't know lots about computers: like turning R backwards}


Click to reveal..
But now I see how to hide a comment. Thanks a bunch.
Hope JJ sees it too.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Bounding badness - 10/18/13 04:35 PM
pestilent
PRONUNCIATION: (PES-tl-uhnt)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Deadly.
2. Infectious.
3. Harming peace, morals, etc.
4. Annoying.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin pestis (plague). Earliest documented use: 1613.
NOTES::
Here's a word that has a full range of meanings from merely annoying to deadly. But that's usually not a problem. In language, context is king.
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e > u
PUSTILENT -
Click to reveal..
(1) PUSS-ee-luhnt a male who is controlled by females genitals
(2) PUS tl uhnt the condition of a liquid flow from a point of body inflammation. smile

[NOTE: King Context and enunciation will determine which.]
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Bounding badness - 10/18/13 04:43 PM
Terrific !
I see you learned the procedure for hiding too.
Thanks to wofa, I've got it too. Now I need
to think of something raunchy.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc GBS strikes again - 10/19/13 01:30 AM

PESTILENS - "Eliza...Where the Devil are my glasses?" (after Prof. H. Higgins) (pron. "glosses")

(Psst...Luke...I didn't know how either. But it's amazing what you can find by Googling. "Write a backwards R" and viola!)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: GBS strikes again - 10/19/13 03:19 PM
You are sooooooooooo right about that. It is amazing what
you can find by just googling it. I sure wish it had been
around when I was growing up.

But I typed the bit about the reverse/backwards R and
about a hundred items came up which I could never absorb.

I know there is a way (which was discussed a lot of months ago)
about accessing the symbols on the numbers keypad of the
computer typeboard. But I did not save it and totally
cannot figure it out. How does it work, do you know?
tumid

PRONUNCIATION: (TOO-mid, TYOO-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Swollen.
2. Bulging.
3. Pompous, bombastic.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tumere (to swell). Earliest documented use: 1541.
USAGE:
"Her tumid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry."
Joseph Heller; Catch-22.
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t > h
HUMID - damp

USAGE: "Her humid eyes filled with tears and she began to cry."
- Joseph Heller before rewrite


'TUPID Speech impediment for 'stupid'.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Curiouser and curiouser - 10/22/13 01:29 AM

TUMOID - the curiously strong antacid, something between a TUMS and an ALTOID
Posted By: Tromboniator Sparing no expanse - 10/22/13 01:36 AM
tumie - beer belly.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Curiouser and curiouserless - 10/22/13 01:46 AM
U > I

TIMID - what we who write here are assuredly not.
Posted By: jenny jenny Prime Genitals - 10/22/13 10:58 PM
primogeniture

PRONUNCIATION:
(pry-muh-JEN-i-chuhr, pree-, -choor)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The state of being the firstborn or eldest child in a family.
2. The right of succession and inheritance belonging to the firstborn child.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin primus (first) + gignere (to beget). Not to be confused with primogenitor. Earliest documented use: 1500.
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Add L

PRIMOGENITLURE - and the second lure is money.

PRIMOGENISURE - It's a wise first child who knows its own father (sometimes PRIMOGENISIRE)

PROMOGENITURE - an ad campaign for www.Ancestry.com
Not to worry, Wolfman. Einstein was oft times late for a party.
But when he arrived everyone stopped and listened. smile
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Prime Genitals - 10/23/13 03:41 PM
And there are plenty of sites on line to find whichever
primogenitlure is your fancy.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc but not until November this year - 10/23/13 04:08 PM

RECIDIVISM

PRONUNCIATION: (ri-SID-uh-viz-ehm)


MEANING: noun: Relapsing (into smoking, crime, etc.), especially repeatedly.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin re- (again) + cadere (to fall). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kad- (to fall), which is also the source of cadence, cascade, casualty, cadaver, chance, chute, accident, occident, decay, and casuistry . Earliest documented use: 1884.

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We don't need to change anything for this one!

RECIDIVISM - Falling Back again (changing from Daylight Savings to Standard Time)

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OK, OK, if you insist...

REBIDIVISM - irresistable over-optimism in a Bridge-player

add E

ERECIDIVISM - united we stand IIII divided we fall //// mad
Posted By: Tromboniator All in vein - 10/24/13 03:05 AM
decidivism – the firmly-held belief that the catheter will fall out of the arm.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc chow - 10/24/13 12:19 PM

MIEN

PRONUNCIATION: (meen)

MEANING: noun: Appearance, bearing, or demeanor.

ETYMOLOGY:
Probably a shortened form of demean (to conduct oneself in a specified manner), influenced by French mine (appearance). Earliest documented use: 1522.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: chow - 10/24/13 03:56 PM
add A

AMIEN - the close of a self-centered man's prayer
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: chow - 10/24/13 03:56 PM
RIEN "Nothing", en francais.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc I didn't really mien it - 10/24/13 11:14 PM

Now I know how you feel, J-J ! Luke, you took the words out of my mouth! I would have tried to be cutesier, a la
RIEN - "Don't be fooled by that fancy claim, in Paris it means nothing..."


Here's Plan B:
MICEN, pronounced meissen
1) German pottery
2) Steinbeck story about two men, one mentally challenged, exploring the theme Are You a Man or a Mouse? ["Of Micen Men"]

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: I didn't really mien it - 10/25/13 03:30 AM
Yes you did Wofahaulic, you did, you did mien it and you miended it well.

Of "of micen men" : Only a mien man would punctuate Steinbeck's great novella.
frown
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Oh boy, this one's a toughie! - 10/25/13 06:59 PM

AUTOCHTHONOUS

PRONUNCIATION:
(o-TOK-thuh-nuhs)


MEANING:
adjective:
1. Aboriginal; indigenous.
2. Formed or originating in the place where found.


ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek autochthon (of the land itself), from auto- (self) + chthon (earth, land). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also sprouted human, homicide, humble, homage, chamomile, exhume, inhume, chthonic, disinter, chameleonic, and Persian zamindar (landholder). Earliest documented use: 1804. The opposite of this term is allochthonous.

(Why does it look so familiar, even in this context?)

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Oh boy, this one's a toughie! - 10/25/13 07:17 PM

(Because of the Word for August 16, just nine weeks ago, that's why.)


AUTOCATHONOUS ("auto-cath-in-us") - technical name for when the car mechanic puts that little tube in your tailpipe to measure emissions, so you can get your inspection sticker
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Oh boy, this one's a toughie! - 10/25/13 11:55 PM
When the going gets tough...dazzle with bullspit and lie.
n > m
AUTOCATHOMOUS - The autothomus C. A. Thomous who was widely unknown for being the second man to invent the American automobile.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Oh boy, this one's a toughie! - 10/28/13 04:38 PM
pecksniffian

PRONUNCIATION:(pek-SNIF-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Pretending to have high moral principles; sanctimonious, hypocritical.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Earliest documented use: 1844
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sniff a S
SPECKSNIFFIAN - a mother-in-law on her first visit to her daughter-in-law's house.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Oh boy, this one's a toughie! - 10/28/13 05:08 PM
wonderful! may be a touphie, but you did it.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Oh boy, this one's a toughie! - 10/28/13 05:10 PM
techsniffian computer geek fixing errors
Posted By: Tromboniator I know it stinks. - 10/28/13 08:13 PM
necksniffian – highly effective perfume.

PEEKSNIFFIAN - that'd be your K-9 Corps bomb-searching squad in action, dog and man together...
Posted By: wofahulicodoc PIGSNIFFIAN !! - 10/30/13 12:24 AM

SMELLFUNGUS

PRONUNCIATION:
(smel-FUNG-uhs)

MEANING:
noun: A habitual faultfinder or complainer.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Smelfungus, a hypercritical character in Laurence Sterne's 1768 novel, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Earliest documented use: 1807.

NOTES:
Novelist Laurence Sterne modeled his character Smelfungus after traveler and author Tobias Smollett who complained about almost everything in his 1766 travel book Travels through France and Italy. Here's how Sterne describes Smelfungus:
"The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome, and so on; but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings."

USAGE:
"And a couple of smellfungus from the Official Paper ... carped that Issel chose to jump when the schedule reached its toughest stretch."
Woody Paige; Issel is the Wrong Scapegoat in Nuggets' Mess; Denver Post; Feb 13, 1995.

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SWELLFUNGUS - growing bigger truffles

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: PIGSNIFFIAN !! - 10/30/13 11:10 AM

FALSTAFFIAN

PRONUNCIATION:
(fal-STAF-ee-uhn)

MEANING:
adjective: Fat, jolly, and convivial.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Sir John Falstaff, a character in Shakespeare's plays Henry IV (parts 1 & 2) and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Earliest documented use: 1809.

USAGE:
"His hair was long and scruffy, his ties ludicrous and his manner jovial bordering on Falstaffian; a board meeting, for him, was a debate, punctuated by gales of his maniacal laughter."
John Harvey-Jones; The Economist (London, UK); Jan 17, 2008.


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FALLSTAFFIAN

happily hiring extra help to rake up the leaves

(don't you just pine for a backyard full of evergreens)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: PIGSNIFFIAN !! - 10/30/13 03:23 PM
HALSTAFFIAN high school hall monitors with machine guns.
Posted By: jenny jenny FALSTAFFIAN - 10/30/13 03:48 PM

[ L -> U ]

FAUSTAFFIAN - a friend of a friend of the devil.

...That'd be "a friend of a friend of a fiend"?
So right you always are, Doc.
Now please (if you will) place in proper order these three folks ...

Mephistopheles
Wolfahullic
The Devil

into this sentence...

...a fiend________ who is a friend___________ of a fiend_________.

Thanks Wolf! smile
milquetoast

PRONUNCIATION: (MILK-tohst)
MEANING:
noun: A timid, unassertive person.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Caspar Milquetoast, a comic strip character by H.T. Webster (1885-1952). A synonym of the word is milksop. Earliest documented use: 1932
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MILQUEBOAST - I am a human being too.

MINQUETOAST - Here's to your new fur coat !
bumbledom

PRONUNCIATION:(BUHM-buhl-duhm)
MEANING:
noun: Behavior characteristic of a pompous and self-important petty official.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Mr. Bumble in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist. Bumble was a fussy, self-important beadle (a minor parish officer) of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was born.
USAGE:
"We regret to record the death of Albury-Wodonga with a hyphen. ... Bumbledom in the two councils has decreed the hyphen must go from stationery and signs."
-Howard Jones; Political Doublespeak is Sad Legacy for Border Folk; (Wodonga, Australia 2007).

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HUMBLEDOM - as in
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."
-Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Well, he is Headmaster, isn't he? - 11/01/13 08:20 PM

DUMBLEDOM --> what Albus Percival Wilfric Brian wears his Wizard's Hat on
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Well, he is Headmaster, isn't he? - 11/02/13 01:07 AM
Well gang, I guess once again that wofah get's the last laugh.
Darn.
Posted By: jenny jenny Today's Word - Bupkis - 11/04/13 05:32 AM
bupkis
PRONUNCIATION: BUHP-kis)
MEANING:
noun: Absolutely nothing; worthless.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish, short for kozebubkes (goat droppings), from bub/bob (bean). Earliest documented use: 1937.
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- minus b-

UPKIS - a kiss on the upper lips

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Today's Word - Bupkis - 11/05/13 04:05 AM

BUPKID - Halloweed treat (sorry, by dose is stuffed)

(My first thought was PUPKIS - "My doggie licked my face !" but you beat me to it)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Today's Word - Bupkis - 11/05/13 01:32 PM

SCHNOZZLE

PRONUNCIATION: (SHNOZ-ul)

MEANING: noun: A nose, especially a large one.

ETYMOLOGY From Yiddish shnoytsl, diminutive of shnoyts (snout), from German Schnauze (snout), which also gave us the name of the dog breed schnauzer. Earliest documented use: 1930.

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SCHNOTZLE - a vole cutlet

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Today's Word - Schnozzle - 11/05/13 04:06 PM
L to I

SCHNOZZIE - a too small nose on a real big man.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Blow, Gabriel, blow! - 11/06/13 01:19 PM

SCHMO or schmoe or shmo
PRONUNCIATION: (shmo)
MEANING: noun: A stupid, boring, or obnoxious person.

ETYMOLOGY: A truncated form of schmuck (an idiot), from Yiddish schmok (pen is). Earliest documented use: 1948.

NOTES: The word is also used in the phrase Joe Schmo, as a more colorful synonym for John Doe.

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[or Tom, Dick, or Harry, for that matter]



SACHMO - a more colorful trumpet player of yore. Definitely not your average stupid, boring, or obnoxious person. Loud, maybe.
Posted By: jenny jenny So Spake Lil Abner... - 11/07/13 03:25 AM

SCHMOO- a lovable mythical animal that when fried tastes like chicken when roasted tastes like pig and when barbequed tastes like prime beef.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc here's what they look like - 11/07/13 04:36 AM

(The whiskers make great toothpicks, too)

See The Life and Times of the Shmoo)
(published in paperback around 1949)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: here's what they look like - 11/07/13 05:50 PM
I guess I never got the humor. I thought they were
abominable.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: here's what they look like - 11/07/13 06:39 PM

Abominable?
Shoot, Luke! Try boiling them in muscadine wine and you will find them absoLukely wonderful. Besides, there is something very noble in bowling-pin shapped animals whose only desire is to feed mankind. smile
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: here's what they look like - 11/07/13 07:37 PM
Reeks of cannibalism to me.
pogrom

PRONUNCIATION:(puh-GROM, POH-gruhm)
MEANING:
noun: An organized massacre, officially tolerated or encouraged, against a particular group.
TYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish pogrom, from Russian pogrom (destruction). Earliest documented use: 1891.
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POGRAM - an [OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT NOTICE] to old folks ordering their extermination so that thier benefits can be given to the po'.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc speaking of art... - 11/08/13 03:00 AM

POGOROM - Walt Kelly's opossum's computer Read-Only Memory chip set
Posted By: jenny jenny Speaking of Talking Trash.... - 11/08/13 10:28 PM
dreck or drek

PRONUNCIATION: (drek)
MEANING:
noun: Rubbish; trash.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish drek (filth, dirt, dung). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (excrement) that is also the source of scoria and scatology. Earliest documented use: 1922.
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add I add T add c

DIRECKTOR DRECK - Famous Rap Singer

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Speaking of Talking Trash.... - 11/09/13 02:04 PM

DRUCK - inebriated with a stuffed nose

Interesting that the week began with Bupkes and ended with Dreck, the one being minor version of the other

Kinda gives new meaning to the old drinking song:

Ach, du lieber Augustin, Augustin, Augustin, *
Ach, du lieber Augustin, alles is hin.

. Gelt ist weg, Gut ist weg,
. Augustin liegt in Dreck,
Ach, du lieber Augustin, alles is hin.

which translates loosely as

Oh, my dear Augustine, Augustine, Augustine,
Oh, my dear Augustine, everything is gone.
. Money is gone, Everything good is gone,
. Augustine is lying in the gutter. **
Oh, my dear Augustine, everything is gone.

* Because Augustine is feeling a bit green around the gills by now...
** (All right, if you insist, it means "Augustine is lying in shit." Why do you think they invented gutters in the first place?!)
Posted By: jenny jenny There once was an Irishman named Josh... - 11/11/13 04:55 PM
josh
PRONUNCIATION:(josh)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To make fun of or tease in a good-natured way.
noun: A teasing or joking remark.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1845.
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--> J TO P

POSH - a polite word for phoney

JOBSH - The inventor of the Apple computer was often given to hyperbolic statements.

(Here's more than you wanted to know about this branch of mathematics. Its nomenclature has a bunch of instances of taking famililar things and adding an -h to their name.)
Posted By: jenny jenny Bo Diddly bought a Bear Cat... - 11/12/13 03:13 PM
biddy

PRONUNCIATION:(BID-ee)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A young chicken.
2. A woman, especially an elderly one, who is talkative, interfering, or annoying.
3. A cleaning woman.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1616.
For 2, 3: Short for the name Bridget. Sense 3 is from Irish maid-servants in the US. Earliest documented use: 1785.
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B -> D
DIDDY - the low rent section of a place in Mississippi named after the Choctaw word for love viz. "diddy-wah-diddy"

It ain't no town, it ain't no city,
But oh how they love in diddy wah diddy




BIDDAY (bid-DAY) - a bathroom fixture for cleansing your nether parts. Found more often in Europe than in USA.
Thank you, Wofa-etcetera, for explaining BIDDAY to us the unwashed. Now would you please explain to us what you mean by "cleansing our nether parts"?

GIDDY - a silly person who giggles at euphemisms like "nether parts". smile
Posted By: jenny jenny Harry yes, but please don't tarry... - 11/13/13 05:57 AM
harry

PRONUNCIATION:(HAR-ee)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.:
1. To harass, attack, or annoy, especially repeatedly.
2. To raid or pillage.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English hergian. Ultimately from the Indo-European root koro- (war, host, army) which also gave us harbor, harbinger, herald, harness, hurry, and harangue. Earliest documented use: 1330.
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TARRY - to be slow when you harras, attack, annoy, raid, rape, and pillage repeatively.

Originally Posted By: jenny jenny
... what you mean by "cleansing our nether parts"?

...Anything you want. It's a projective test.

HARLY - how motorcycle owners laugh
Posted By: jenny jenny Now it is too late to tarry... - 11/13/13 07:16 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

HARLY - how motorcycle owners laugh

laugh laugh laugh laugh (good one, Doc)

Remember:
Everytime your bulky Harley burns up the road belching smoke and noxious CO2 gas
a flower smiles.

HARDY - What Harley Davidson drivers need to be to upright and kickstart a Hog.
mulligan

PRONUNCIATION: MUHL-i-guhn)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A second chance, especially in golf where a player is sometimes given another shot to make up for a poor shot which is not counted.
2. A stew made from odds and ends, using whatever is available.
ETYMOLOGY:
Both senses of the word are from the name Mulligan. It's not certain who these two Mulligans were -- maybe a golf player and a chef. Earliest documented use: 1936.
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add I
MULLIGAIN - the duffer rule that states that if your mulligan is shorter than your first drive you are then allowed to play the best ball.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Gettin' nowhere fast - 11/15/13 02:38 AM

NULLIGAN - took another swing, thank you, and missed the ball completely this time too.
Posted By: jenny jenny While they mull call the police - 11/16/13 03:25 AM
ADD G

MULLIGANG - an Irish street gang notorious for meeting at a local pub and mulling over plans to blow up parliament. At closing time they all go home to sober up to drink and mull and plot again tomorrow.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Last but not least - 11/16/13 03:55 AM

RUBE

PRONUNCIATION: (roob)

MEANING: noun: An unsophisticated person from a rural area.

ETYMOLOGY: Shortened form of name Reuben. Earliest documented use: 1891. Also see "hey rube."


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RUHE - original name of "All's Quiet on the Western Front" (prior to translation)

(Actually, the name was "Im Westen Nichts Neues." Nice try, doc, but not even close)
Posted By: Pfred Re: Last but not least - 11/16/13 05:40 AM
RUWE. A brand of pencil. Made by Ruwe pencil co., past CEO named Ruwe Halsey, who was grandson of Admiral Halsey of US Pacific fleet in WW II.
Posted By: jenny jenny Least but hopefully not last - 11/16/13 02:43 PM

RUNE - a letter of the mystical German alphabet used in Scandinavia until the Middle Ages. As in:

Keeping time, time, time
In a sort of Runic rhyme
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells
__________________________________ Poe
Posted By: jenny jenny The early bird has more options - 11/18/13 06:36 AM
lotus-eater

PRONUNCIATION:(LO-tuhs-ee-tuhr)
MEANING:
noun: A person who indulges in idle daydreaming or leads a life of luxurious ease, instead of dealing with practical matters.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the lotus-eaters, people in Homer's Odyssey, who ate the lotus fruit that supposedly induced a dreamy forgetfulness. Earliest documented use: 1832.
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LOCUS-EATERS - are hungry and avid readers of R A Lafferty's eclectic writings that Locus SF Magazine (the copyright owners of all of Lafferty's many books) has greedily witheld publication for three years in order to assuage an already eager market.
Since R A Lafferty was and is the most important writer of the 20th Century this is a most reprehensible act.
A spokeman for Locus has said that they will begin releasing Lafferty's short stories this month.

We shall see. mad


Posted By: wofahulicodoc East is East and West is West - 11/19/13 02:40 AM

LOTUS-HATER -- if I have to go to one more Yoga class I'm going to SCREAM !!!
(contrast LOTUS-SEATER)
Posted By: jenny jenny Life's a holiday - 11/20/13 02:51 AM
primrose path

PRONUNCIATION:(PRIM-rohz PATH)
MEANING:
noun:
1. An easy life, especially devoted to sensual pleasure.
2. A path of least resistance, especially one that ends in disaster.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin prima rosa (first rose). Earliest documented use: 1604.
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PRIMROSE MATH- the new math which is easier than the old math because the correct answer is the average of all the students answers.
Posted By: jenny jenny Life's a holiday. Have a drink. - 11/20/13 04:56 PM
lily-livered

PRONUNCIATION:(LIL-ee-LIV-uhrd)
MEANING:
adjective: Cowardly or timid. ETYMOLOGY:
In earlier times, the liver was considered to be the seat of courage. Hence, lacking blood, a white liver, indicated lack of courage. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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LILY-SLIVERED - a chief ingredient of the Choctaw Black Drink usually given as; a sliver of a lily freshly cut, the left eye of the false slink, the venom of three mudsnakes extracted when angry, a pinch of the poison nightshade plant finely powered.
To drink the Black Drink was said to restore courage.
sub rosa

PRONUNCIATION:(sub RO-zuh)
MEANING:
adverb: Secretly, privately, or confidentially.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sub (under) rosa (rose). Earliest documented use: 1654. The English term "under the rose" is also used to refer to something in secret.
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SUB PROSA - obtuse legalese used by lawyers to befuddle thier clients into believing that they know mumbo jumbo words that are magic.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc making up for lost time - 11/21/13 04:08 PM

PRIAMROSE PATH - The King of Troy lived in a fine palace before the War

LILY-LOVERED - Bunthorne; see Patience, Act I
usage:
...Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,
...An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
...Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,
... If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.
(See p. 16, here.)

SUBAROSA - a Japanese car, artfully colored pink so nobody will notice it
Posted By: jenny jenny The moving finger haven writ moves on... - 11/22/13 02:07 PM
amaranthine
PRONUNCIATION:(am-uh-RAN-thin, -thyn)
MEANING:
adjective
1. Unfading; everlasting.
2. Of deep purple-red color.
3. Of or related to the amaranth.
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AMERANTHINE - literally America is thine

1.What Columbus told Isabella
2.What the American indians told their children
Posted By: wofahulicodoc purple-red prose - 11/22/13 04:41 PM

AMARANTOINE - to know Tony is to love him forever
Posted By: wofahulicodoc the Punch-line - 11/25/13 06:30 PM

CUTRATE'S EGG

PRONUNCIATION: (KYOOR-itz eg)

MEANING: noun: Something having both good and bad parts.

ETYMOLOGY:
From a cartoon in Punch magazine (London, UK) in which a timid curate (a junior clergy member), when served a stale egg at a bishop's table, tries to assure his host that parts of the egg are edible. Earliest documented use: 1905.

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CUTRATE'S EGG - it has more bad parts than good parts, but at least it's inexpensive
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: the Punch-line - 11/26/13 05:13 AM

laugh Ha! I can't top that, Wofa.

CURATE'S LEGG - The legacy of a far-seeing man. As in Andrew Carnegie who through his Foundation built free libraries throughout America.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
-- Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919)
gerrymander
PRONUNCIATION:
(JER-i-MAN-duhr)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To repartition an area in order to create electoral districts that give an unfair advantage to a political party.
noun: 1. An instance of gerrymandering. 2. One or more electoral districts, widely differing in size or population, created as a result of gerrymandering.
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JERRYMANDER - The Germans WWII attempt to redistrict the World into the shape of a globe.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc linguistic German, not geographic - 11/26/13 06:20 PM

GERHYMANDER
(pronounced ge-RIM-an-ter)

adj. a German verb ("rhymen") made into a present participle (ge-) made into a noun (-and) made into an adjective (-er); refers to poetry whose rhyme-scheme is aBaBcDcD.

Example:

Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium!
Wir betreten feuertrunken, himmlische, Dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt,
Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo Dein sanfter Flügel weilt.
usw.

-Schiller, An der Freude ("Ode to Joy")
Posted By: wofahulicodoc go see Woddy Allen's "The Blackllilst" - 11/27/13 06:19 PM

McCARTHYISM

PRONUNCIATION: (muh-KAHR-thee-iz-uhm)

MEANING: noun: The practice of making unfounded accusations against someone.

ETYMOLOGY: After US senator Joseph McCarthy (1909-1957) known for making unsubstantiated claims accusing people of being Communists, spies, and disloyal. Earliest documented use: in 1950 in a cartoon by Herbert Block.

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McCARTHYRISM - the orthographically-challenged strategy of returning to the region from which one was forced to withdraw temporarily (after General Douglas MacArthur, who uttered "I shall return!" when he had to leave the Philippines early in World War II. And indeed, he did.)
Posted By: jenny jenny It takes one to know one - 11/27/13 07:41 PM

McCARTHYIST- a communist front man for Edgar Bergen who is famous for saying "Those who call someone a 'McCarthyite' by definition becomes one themselves."
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: It takes one to know one - 11/27/13 09:35 PM
McCARTHYISE - the 'red scare' of the era, to see
'commies' behind every tree.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: It takes one to know one - 11/28/13 03:18 AM
laugh Now Luke, don't paint a generation with a paranoid brush least Charlie McCarthy accuse you of being a name-calling McCarthyite. smile

MCEARTHISM- an ad campaign so successful that all people on Earth stop cooking and begin eating every meal at McDonalds...mostly Happy Meals.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: It takes one to know one - 11/28/13 04:20 PM
Talk about labels.....McDonalds?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: It takes one to know one - 11/29/13 12:02 AM

RUBEGOLDBERG

PRONUNCIATION: (roob GOLD-buhrg)

MEANING: adjective: Absurdly complex or impractical.

ETYMOLOGY:
After cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) who was known for his intricate drawings showing fantastically impractical contraptions to accomplish simple jobs. Earliest documented use: 1928.

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RUBYGOLDBERG - a broken-off chunk of glacier floating on the ocean that looks red or yellow depending on your angle of view
Posted By: jenny jenny It takes one to visualixe* one - 11/29/13 01:39 AM

CUBE COLDBERG- an iceberg concocted by Dali

* Grrr this stupid laptop refuses to concoct a _ebra or a damn question mark. mad
blimp

PRONUNCIATION: (blimp)
MEANING:
noun: A pompous reactionary with out-of-date views.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Colonel Blimp, a cartoon character created by David Low (1891-1963). Blimp was a satirical look at the self-important and ultra-nationalistic attitudes of officials in the British army and government. Earliest documented use: 1934.
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LLIMP - a llama with a llimp.


GLIMP - One quick sneak peek. If you look more than once, you use the plural, "glimps," for the brief image you see.

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And...and...but...I thought the word Blimp preceded the cartoon character, that indeed the character's name was a back-derivation from the name of that other, literal, gasbag. Military barrage balloons, with no internal structure and hence "limps," came in two shapes: the round ones - A-limps - and the cigar-shaped ones we see more often - "B-limps," quickly shortened to Blimps. Is this story totally apocryphal?
felicitous

PRONUNCIATION: (fi-LIS-i-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Well suited. 2. Pleasing.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin felix (happy). Earliest documented use: 1641.
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FELICITOUT - to proclaim endlessly your state of intense happiness to a person who is sad.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Caution: YUK Alert - 12/03/13 02:01 AM

FELICIOUS - or, as they say in Pyongyang, "This stewed cat is yummy!"
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Caution: Putdown Alert - 12/03/13 09:47 PM

DISPRIZE

PRONUNCIATION: (dis-PRYZ)

MEANING: verb tr.: To disdain or scorn.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French desprisier (dispraise), from Latin pretium (price, worth, or reward). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to traffic in, to sell) which also gave us praise, price, precious, appreciate, appraise, and interpret. Earliest documented use: 1480.

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DISPRIDE - that warm feeling you get after delivering an absolutely crushing insult


Posted By: jenny jenny Caution: PC Alert - 12/04/13 02:47 AM

DISPRIZED - what you will become if you dis Jeopardy game show hostess Vanna White by saying "baby got back".
ineluctable

PRONUNCIATION:
(in-i-LUHK-tuh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Impossible to avoid: inescapable.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (not) + eluctari (to struggle out of), from ex- (out) + luctari (to struggle). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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Add R

INRELUCTABLE - not afraid of being afraid

Posted By: wofahulicodoc another projective test - 12/05/13 02:40 AM

INELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and ______________ in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: another projective test - 12/05/13 04:04 PM
MALINGER

PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr)

MEANING: verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.

ETYMOLOGY: From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.

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MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation

Runner-up: MAILINGER - Dead-Letter Office
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: another projective test - 12/05/13 04:12 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

UNELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and THAT WOMAN in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)




Mmmm? On second thought I'd rather have a dark horse than That Woman.
Posted By: jenny jenny Another projective Gesture - 12/05/13 05:57 PM
malinger

PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.
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+ f

MAL-FINGER - the bad middle finger

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Another projective Gesture - 12/06/13 02:12 AM

MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation
Posted By: jenny jenny _______________ GOTCHA WOFA! ____ - 12/06/13 05:20 AM

SALINGER - a writer who was a malinger. smile
Posted By: Tromboniator Getting' hammered - 12/06/13 09:03 AM
MAFINGER – an exclamation of surprise commonly used when attempting to drive a nail.
Posted By: jenny jenny : Getting' hammered but liking it... - 12/06/13 04:38 PM
nimiety

PRONUNCIATION: (ni-MY-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: Excess or redundancy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nimius (too much). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ne (not), which also gave us nil, null, not, never, nothing, nihilism, annihilate, and naughty. Earliest documented use: 1542.
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NIMPIETY - the act of having too much piety; so much that you change the World. (See... Nelson Mandela}
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: : Getting' hammered but liking it... - 12/06/13 04:39 PM
Thanks, nice thought.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc The Fantastic Four Meet Godzilla - 12/07/13 02:18 AM

ANIMIETY - worrying about life as depicted in a Japanese graphic novel

TIMIETY - if you're scared; say scared.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc High Society - 12/08/13 05:30 PM

NIXIETY - the fraternity that is our current House of Representatives ? [/rant]
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: High Society - 12/09/13 12:18 PM

INOCULATE

PRONUNCIATION: (i-NOK-yuh-layt)

MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To treat with a vaccine to induce immunity against a disease.
2. To introduce an idea into someone's mind.
3. To safeguard or protect.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (in) + oculus (eye; bud, referring to grafting of a bud into a plant of a different type). Earliest documented use: 1420.

[Also, referring to the first smallpox vaccine, which was administered by instilling a drop of vaccine into the eye sac - wofa]

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(I wanted to make INOCULATTE - "to get coffee in our eye because it's WAY too early" - but that's one of the original ones !)

INOMULATE - to miss your train because you meditated too long
+ t

INOCULTATE - a western member of an eastern cult who meditates while drinking latte and misses his train.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Well hello, Dali ! - 12/10/13 12:38 PM

PALPABLE

PRONUNCIATION:
(PAL-puh-buhl)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Easily perceived; obvious.
2. Capable of being touched or felt; tangible.
3. Capable of being discerned by touching (as an illness or a disease).

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin palapare (to touch, caress), from palpus (palm, stroke, caress). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pal- (to touch, feel, or shake), which also gave us palpate, palpitate, feel, and sprachgefuhl. Earliest documented use: 1395.

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PAPABLE - Pope material ?

PALIPABLE - Ah, yer father's moustache !
Posted By: Tromboniator - 12/10/13 05:08 PM
PAMPABLE– male Argentinian livestock
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Well hello, Dali ! - 12/11/13 02:14 AM
PALPFABLE - a romantic fable that touches the heart.
Posted By: jenny jenny Cullet is the Word - 12/11/13 08:37 PM
CULLET
PRONUNCIATION:(KUHL-it)
MEANING:
noun: Scrap glass suitable for remelting.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French collet, diminutive of col (neck), from Latin collum (neck), apparently referring to a bottle's neck. Earliest documented use: 1817.
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PULLET - A Christmas Story: My Gramdma Grider loved her chickens. She would sing to them everyday and when feeding them she would call each by name and they would come. One Saturday me and my cousin heard her calling to the chickens so we looked out the back window to watch. Grandma had two pullets by the neck, one in each hand.
Deftly, almost inperceptually, she gave her hands a slight twist and the chickens were dead.
The next day when Grandma called us to Sunday dinner we came imediatelly wearing our best manners. We wondered what were the names of the chickens we were eating but were too afraid to ask.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc wringing wet after that tale ! - 12/12/13 02:41 AM

Wow, J^2, with that story you could have used CALLET, or BULLET, CILLIT, or maybe even CUTLET, with equal aplomb...

I'll have to go with

CULLEX = a genus of mossquito, known to transmit various diseases such as Wesst Nille Encephallitis and a few otherss
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Adam and Eve on a raft, thank you - 12/12/13 02:24 PM
SKINT

PRONUNCIATION: (skint)

MEANING: adjective: Having no money; broke; poor.

ETYMOLOGY: A variant spelling of the word skinned, as in, so broke that even one's skin is shaved off. Earliest documented use: 1925.

NOTES: Most of the time we make past participle of a word by adding -ed to it (walk/walked), but sometimes we use the phonetic spelling as in today's word. Some other examples are burnt, learnt, spilt, and spoilt. By the way, the word 'past' itself is a phonetic spelling of 'passed'. The -t spellings are more common in British English.

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SKILT -- a small frying pan for a short-order cook in a fast-food joint
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Adam and Eve on a raft, thank you - 12/12/13 03:09 PM
SKINZ one half a boys PhysEd class basketball team.
If your skin has been
SKINT because your money has been poorly
SPINT then for help go ask your

KINT - a kint is anyone who is by kin your kint
Posted By: jenny jenny Vying for the best PRATFALL - 12/13/13 05:53 AM
pratfall

PRONUNCIATION:
(PRAT-fawl)
MEANING:
noun: A humiliating failure, blunder, or defeat.
ETYMOLOGY:
A pratfall is literally a fall on the buttocks. The word is figuratively used to describe embarrassing errors or failures. From prat (buttocks, fool) + fall. Earliest documented use: 1939.
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PRATBALL - like football but you don't tackle the guy with the ball you pat him on the butt and he is ruled down.
(like touch football except you pat instead of touch.)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Vying for the best PRATFALL - 12/13/13 04:33 PM
Oh, Lordy, JJ, the images that connotes.


BRATFALL -when a bully gets his/her comeuppance.

So many possibilities...

PRAYFALL - what Lucifer said on his way down

SPRATFALL - that's the reason Ol' Jack has been avioding grease (and fat) for so long

PRATFILL - euphemism for "constipation." See also PRATFAIL
Posted By: jenny jenny The Fall of Joan Sprat of Long Ago - 12/14/13 02:27 AM
SPRATFALL - (see below)

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so betwixt the two of them
They licked the platter clean
Jack ate all the lean,
Joan ate all the fat.
The bone they picked it clean,
Then gave it to the cat
Jack Sprat was wheeling,
His wife by the ditch.
The barrow turned over,
And in she did pitch.

Says Jack, "She'll be drowned!"
But Joan did reply,
"I don't think I shall,
For the ditch is quite dry.".


Written by: Unknown Published: 1639


descant
PRONUNCIATION:
(verb: des-KANT, dis-, noun: DES-kant)
MEANING:
verb intr.: 1. To talk tediously. 2. To sing or play a descant.
noun: 1. A comment on a subject. 2. An ornamental melody sung or played above a basic melody.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin discantus (refrain), from dis- (apart, away) + cantus (song), from canere (to sing). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kan- (sing), which also gave us hen, chant, accent, enchant, incentive, recant, cantor, and charm.
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DESCART(es) - I think therefore I am. I think therefore I am.
I think, well am I not?

DECANT - The Power of Positive Thinking.: to remove the negative from your vocabulary.
Nice one,wofa.
Posted By: jenny jenny When is a rant not a rant but a lesson? - 12/17/13 04:47 AM

DESRANT - when an ignorant man meets a wise man how does he know it?

hebetate

PRONUNCIATION: (HEB-i-tayt)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To make dull or obtuse.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin hebetare (to make blunt), from hebes (blunt). Earliest documented use: 1574.
USAGE:
"Habit then while it hebetates our sentiments, improves our judgments of things."
Gordon M. Burghardt; The Genesis of Animal Play; MIT Press; 2005.
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HABETATE- to build a habitat for humanity rather than a house for a man.


Why change it at all? "He who hebetates is lost!"

1) HEBERATE - to scold, loudly and publicly. Usage: "When my stupidity lost us the Foofnik contract, my Boss HEBERATE me in front of everybody for the rest of the day!"

-or-

2) REBETATE - to croak like a frog


BLANDISH

PRONUNCIATION: (BLAN-dish)

MEANING: verb intr.: To coax with flattery.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin blandiri (to flatter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us bland, melt, smelt, malt, mild, mulch, mollify, mollusk, emollient, enamel, smalto, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1305.

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CLANDISH - see HAGGIS



O'Landish - an Irishman whose smiling eyes and flattering words are but blarney stone lies he wears to cage a drink.

IMPORTUNE

PRONUNCIATION: (im-pawr-TOON, im-pawr-TYOON, im-PAWR-chuhn)

MEANING:
1. What the Beatles did
2. To ask someone, repeatedly or annoyingly, to do something.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin importunus, from in- (not) + portus (port, refuge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over), which also gave us support, comport, petroleum, sport, passport, petrify, colporteur (a peddler of religious books), Swedish fartlek (a training technique), Norwegian fjord (bay), and Sanskrit parvat (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1530.

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IMPOORTUNE - "All That Gold," from Amahl and the Night Visitors ( this is as close as I could get to the song, on short notice)



PIMPORTUNE - a pimp whose incessant insisiting has forced you upstairs to meet sweet Lotta Lola in room 333.
colligate

PRONUNCIATION: KOL-i-gayt)
MEANING:
verb tr. To bind or group together.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin colligare, from com- (together) + ligare (bind). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leig (to bind), which is also the source of oblige, alloy, ally, rely, lien, league, liable, ligature, and furl. Earliest documented use: 1545.
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COLDIGATE - a conspiracy by science and politicians to suppress the fact that Earth stopped warming 17 years ago.

DOLLIGATE - how you enter that big mansion in Brentwood, Tennessee
COLLIFATE - in Spring 1928 the entire sitting math class at Dublin University was composed entirely of students (both male and female) whose first names were claimed to be "Colleen".
This incongruity (or congruity) caused the math teacher (whose name was not "Colleen"} to exclaim...

"Well, mathematically a colligate such as this is sooner or later destined to occur. But non-mathematically speaking, the odds are dead even that these names will re-occur in this same class next year".
Posted By: wofahulicodoc All realities are equally odd - 12/22/13 05:47 PM

COLLIGAZE - Lassie looks intently off into the distance, as though hearing the cry of a child fallen into a well and trapped...
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: All realities are equally odd - 12/22/13 09:08 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

COLLIGAZE - Lassie looks intently off into the distance,
as though hearing the cry of a child fallen into a well and trapped...


****** Great! Best of the Season. I didn't cry but if I hadn't laughed I would have. Thanks Doc.





Posted By: jenny jenny Please Doc, don't use the "D" word. - 12/23/13 05:38 AM
lickspittle

PRONUNCIATION:(LIK-spit-l)
MEANING:
noun: A servile flatterer. ETYMOLOGY:
From lick, from Old English liccian + spittle, from old English spittan. A term with a similar idea is brown-noser. Earliest documented use: 1825.
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D ...no!
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LICKSPLITTLE - to hurry forward a little lickety-split.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc in one end and out the other - 12/24/13 03:11 AM

LACKSPITTLE -- one with no spirit or backbone; a pissant

Posted By: jenny jenny A TOSSPOT to a VOLTAIRE - 12/24/13 09:25 PM
tosspot
PRONUNCIATION: (TOS-pot)
MEANING: noun: 1. A drunkard. 2. An idiot.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the phrase to toss off (to drink rapidly). Earliest documented use: 1568.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." -Voltaire
"Is it you that you revere, Voltaire?" - answered a drunk
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TOSSBOT- a practice baseball pitching machine that only throws balls wildly as if it were drunk.

Posted By: LukeJavan8 - - -employers only loo - 12/25/13 04:36 PM
BOSSPOT Executive Lounge
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: - - -employers only loo - 12/25/13 04:47 PM
BOSSPOT - Nice one Luke.
TOPSPOT works there, too!

TOSSPORT - finicky kind of TOSSPOT, will only imbibe one specific beverage

TOSSPOST - there's that Dead Letter Office again (see MAILINGER above, 12/5/13)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: - - -employers only loo - 12/25/13 05:15 PM
thanks blush
Posted By: wofahulicodoc SNAFU - 12/25/13 09:21 PM

MILKSOP

PRONUNCIATION: (MILK-sop)

MEANING: noun: One who is timid or indecisive.

ETYMOLOGY: A milksop is, literally, a piece of bread soaked in milk, a diet considered suitable for babies and the sick. A synonym of this term is milquetoast. Earliest documented use: 1390.

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MILLSOP - Standard Operating Procedure in the factory

runnerup:
MILKSOZ - what that fake Wizard does in the Emerald City


Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: SNAFU - 12/25/13 09:25 PM
BILKSOP Victim of a ponzi-like scheme.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: SNAFU - 12/26/13 12:16 AM

ILKSOP- a set of human beings who follow standard operating procedures of being alive and never ask why.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: SNAFU - 12/26/13 06:28 AM
hayseed

PRONUNCIATION: (HAY-seed)
MEANING:
noun: An unsophisticated person who comes from a rural area.
ETYMOLOGY:
Alluding to a person with straw in his clothes or smelling of hayseed and regarded as a country bumpkin. Earliest documented use: 1577.
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HAY-SPEED- in circa 1967 a one hit wonder named Mister Earl whom they often called "Speedo" was on the skids. His friends "The Drifters" wrote a question/response stage song with the refrain "Hey speed" to facilitate the re-invigoration of Speedo's fame.
The song is a wonderful hoot. I'll edit in a Youtube rendition if one exists.


Posted By: wofahulicodoc rube - 12/26/13 12:10 PM

HAYSEND

verb: moved quickly
gadabout

PRONUNCIATION: (GAD-uh-bout)
MEANING:
noun: One who roams around in search of amusement.
ETYMOLOGY:
From gad (to go around from one place to another aimlessly). Earliest documented use: 1817
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GAGABOUT - a fight between Mister Gaga and Lady Gaga for dominance.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc How about that ! - 12/27/13 06:01 PM

GIGABOUT: 2^30, which is 1,073,741,824, or about one billion

(the way a Meg is 2^20, which is 1,048,576, or about a million,
and a K is 2^10, which is 1,024, or about a thousand)


Edit: Oops, that's two changes. One too many. Let's try this one:

GADABOOT: to kick your prodigal son out of the house once and for all
Posted By: wofahulicodoc (expletive deleted) - 12/30/13 12:02 PM

BLEB

PRONUNCIATION: (bleb)

MEANING: noun: 1. A small blister or swelling. 2. A bubble.

ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps alteration of blob. Earliest documented use: 1607.

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BLEEB - censorship on the British Broadcasting Corporation
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: (expletive completed) - 12/30/13 03:46 PM
BLUB - Moby Dick's bubba who was much too fat to excape the harpoons of Ahab but yet in death he contributed tons of enlightment to mankind. Hense the term "light Blub".
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: (expletive completed) - 12/31/13 11:48 AM
jilt

PRONUNCIATION:

JILT

MEANING:
verb tr.: To end a relationship suddenly or callously.
noun: A person, especially a woman, who discards a lover.

ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, perhaps from the name Gillian (or Jillian/Jill). Earliest documented use: 1660.


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JULT - 14-year-old sweetheart of Romo, whose family was having a feud with hers
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: (expletive sublimated) - 12/31/13 03:01 PM


TILT - Wilt Chamberlan's younger bro. He was a better shooter than Wilt but his left foot was shorter than his right foot so he couldn't run, instead he skipped.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: (expletive sublimated) - 01/01/14 04:46 PM

pi

PRONUNCIATION:
(py)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A confused mixture, originally a jumble of printing types. Also spelled as pie.
2. The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet.
3. A mathematical constant (approximately 3.14159), representing the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1659.
For 2, 3: From Greek pi/pei, of Semitic origin. Earliest documented use: 1425.

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PU - half a platter of American Chinese appetizers
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: (expletive sublimated) - 01/01/14 06:40 PM
PIUwhat I think when cleaning shoes after walk in barnyard.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: (expletive eliminated) - 01/01/14 10:40 PM

-PID - a suffix added to indicate that someone is more than just plain stu.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc YARE (No, not Tasha) - 01/02/14 02:59 PM

YARE

PRONUNCIATION: (yahr or yayr)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Easily maneuverable; nimble. 2. Ready; prepared.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English gearo/gearu (ready). Earliest documented use: 888.

USAGE: "I do desire to learn, sir; and, I hope, if you have occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find me yare."
William Shakespeare; Measure For Measure; 1604.

"She was a 'bonnie lass' in the words of her chief engineer; she was faithful, she was yare -- an unlikely compliment for a vessel without sails."
D.C. Riechel; German Departures; iUniverse; 2009.


A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

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NARE : lumbering; unprepared; obstinate; unresponsive; in short, the opposite of YARE
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Good Ol' Ben - 01/02/14 03:01 PM

"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin

I like that.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Good Ol' Ben - 01/02/14 04:31 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin

I like that.


I like it too, Fahulicodo, very much. Strange. I wonder why Franklin is just now saying it?

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Y'ARE - "Y'think therefore Y'are". A phrase often used by Descarte when addressing a group.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Minds out of the gutter, y'all all... - 01/03/14 02:54 PM

Y'ARE.

Good thinnking, JJ!
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RUCK

PRONUNCIATION: (ruk)

MEANING: noun: 1. A large mass, especially of ordinary people or things. 2. A crease or wrinkle.
verb tr., intr.: To make a crease or to become creased.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse hrukka (wrinkle, fold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to turn or bend), which is also the source of ranch, rank, shrink, circle, circa, crisp, corolla, search, ring, curb, ridge, curve, corolla, and coronary. Earliest documented use: 1225.


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UNCK
what Piglet called his mother's brother
Reason for edit: two changes; disqualified

O'RUCK
1. what your Japanese friend wishes you rots of when she's feeling sardonic
2. an Irish brand of vacuem cleaner
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Good Ol' Ben - 01/03/14 03:03 PM
Quote:
"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin

Let's take it one step further:

Never confuse motion with action, or action with progress. **

("The trouble with Internet quotations is that you can't always depend on their accuracy." -- Abraham Lincoln)

**Edit: A brief Googlesearch says I could/should have attributed this to "Benjamin Hemingway"...
Posted By: jenny jenny And now back to Rucking... - 01/04/14 02:12 PM

F*CK - a written euphemism for the F-word.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc She said "firetruck" ! Scandalous ! - 01/04/14 06:33 PM

...and this from the young lady who chided me for using the euphemism "nether parts"... wink
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: She said "firetruck" ! Scandalous ! - 01/04/14 08:50 PM
Ha!
Better half-said than left unsaid whereas the f-word might snigger forever in schoolboys raunchy little minds.
Don't push me. I'll say the p-word, the c-word, and words that have never been said if properly challenged.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Good Ol' Ben - 01/06/14 08:52 PM

REPLETION

PRONUNCIATION: (ri-PLEE-shuhn)

MEANING: noun: The condition of being completely filled or satisfied.

ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin replere, from re- (back, again) + plere (to fill), from plenus (full). Earliest documented use: 1398.

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PREPLETION -- what a good waiter does by pouring more into your glass just before you ask for it
Posted By: jenny jenny ORDER or DiSoRDeR? - 01/07/14 06:00 AM
DEPLETION - the drain of spirit which occurs when a Culture choses excessive order over reason. Example: Nazi Germany.
REPLETION - the renewal of the human spirit after all Communist pinkos have been thrown out and freedom once again becomes enow.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc heavy the head that bears the crown - 01/07/14 08:07 PM

PONDEROUS

PRONUNCIATION: (PON-duhr-uhs)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Having great weight.
2. Awkward or unwieldy.
3. Dull or laborious.

ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin ponderare (to ponder, weigh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which is also the source of pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, depend, spontaneous, perpend, vilipend, filipendulous, and equipoise. Earliest documented use: 1400.

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PANDEROUS - a quality universally possessed by politicians

PONDERONUS - weighty obligations

PONDEROPUS - I wonder what that penguin meant?
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: heavy the head that wears a frown - 01/07/14 09:06 PM


PonderR'us - a gym chain for heavyweight lifters
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Once upon a time... - 01/08/14 12:30 PM

QUONDAM

PRONUNCIATION: (KWON-duhm)

MEANING: adjective: Former; onetime.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quondam (formerly). Earliest documented use: 1535.

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QUONDAY - in old calendars, an unidentified day near the beginning of the week

(not to be ocnfused with
QUONDAE - the ice cream treat I just finished eating)
Posted By: jenny jenny Once upon an unhappy time... - 01/08/14 03:20 PM

QUONDAMN adj - belonging to bad times long past ex: a quondamn lover.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Once upon a time... - 01/08/14 04:24 PM
QUONSAM A itty- bitty quonset.
Posted By: Tromboniator - 01/08/14 08:45 PM
QUONDIM – fading of old memories.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc nobody laughs when I tell a joke - 01/09/14 04:41 PM

INIMICAL

PRONUNCIATION: (i-NIM-i-kuhl)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Harmful. 2. Unfriendly.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + amicus (friend). A few other words that share the same root are: amigo, amity, enemy, amicable, and amicus curiae. Earliest documented use: 1645.

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MINIMICAL - not very funny...
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: nobody laughs when I tell a joke - 01/09/14 06:21 PM
That is because you are an intellectual giant and to average folks your jokes are

INTIMICAL - a smug manner that is intimidating to others so much as to their not wanting to engage you in casual conversation.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re de thought for de day - 01/10/14 04:46 AM
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -Robert A. Heinlein, off-the-wall science-fiction author (1907-1988)

Anti-thought for Today
Hallelujah! The good people of America have not legislated our religious creeds into law. Instead we have enabled people of strange and odd conceptualizations to live amongst us. Yes, we are the best of a motley bunch.
ignominy

PRONUNCIATION: (IG-nuh-min-ee, ig-NOM-uh-nee)
MEANING:
noun: 1. Public disgrace. 2. Disgraceful quality or conduct.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin ignominia. Ultimately from the Indo-European root no-men- (name) which also gave us name, anonymous, noun, synonym, eponym, renown, nominate, misnomer, and moniker. Earliest documented use: 1540.
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GNOMINY noun

1. a growth condition particular to workers who dig dig dig under the Earth looking for treasure, ex: big head, short statue.
2. the ability to sing pithy, witty and wise sayings while digging, ex: Hi Ho!

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Only in NYC - 01/10/14 09:00 PM

IGNORINY - what taxi drivers in Times Square do
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday's word in brief : VOLUBLE - 01/13/14 05:26 PM
"Here's a fun exercise for you: find at least one person epitomizing the day's word, every day this week. With some seven billion of us around there can't be any excuse for insufficient data." -- A.G.

voluble
PRONUNCIATION:
(VOL-yuh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Speaking incessantly or fluently.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin volvere (to roll). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wel- (to turn or roll), which also gave us waltz, revolve, valley, walk, vault, volume, wallet, and helix. Earliest documented use: 1575.
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EVOLUBLE - a quality assigned to any pre-adapted animal that can effect strings of articulated speech. So far homo sapiens sapiens is the only known species to evolve a proper language. These loquacious creatures began talking 75,000 years ago and haven't stopped since.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Monday's word in brief : VOLUBLE - 01/13/14 09:36 PM

VOLUBE (pronounced "V.O. Lube") - to break down social inhibitions with Seagrams
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Tuesday's word - 01/14/14 04:41 PM

INTRANSIGENT

PRONUNCIATION: (in-TRAN-si-jent)

MEANING:
adjective: Unwilling to compromise, especially from an extreme position.
noun: One who refuses to compromise.


(if you like, TRANGENTSI; read "In 'TRANSI', 'GENT'")

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INTRANSIENT - a one-night stand (maybe that should be SINTRANSIGENT?)

or, maybe

PINTRANSIGENT - (bowling): that last 7-pin that won't go down in the 10th frame, spoiling a 300-game
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tuesday's word - 01/14/14 05:00 PM
GINTRANSIGENTrefusing to budge from one's accustomed
drink no matter what is being served by the host.

KINTRANSIGENT Your friends you can choose but your
relatives.....

perhaps


SINTRANSIGENT Refusing to 'give up that sin' and 'sin no more"....
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Monday's word in brief : VOLUBLE - 01/14/14 05:07 PM
Tom Chamblee.
Tom Chamblee could talk the ears off a cornfield. His third grade teacher, Miss Hattie Grimes, tied him to a desk with a jump rope and taped his mouth shut with duct tape for the entire year back in 1958. Poor Hattie, She forgot to plug his ears so Tom listened real good and left the third grade thinking he was the smartest kid in Pickins County. Maybe he was. Tom grew up to become a street preacher and the town drunk. It is said that Tom can switch from preaching to cussing in a single breath without anyone knowing which is which.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Tuesday's word INTRANSIGENT - 01/14/14 09:40 PM



INTRANSIBENT -- red-eye flight from Seattle to Atlanta seated middle isle, middle seat, between a middle lineman with the Seahawks and Oprah Winfrey.
"Both remain intransigent in their respective positions without any real effort to negotiate in a democratic spirit."
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Tuesday's word INTRANSIGENT - 01/15/14 07:14 AM
DINTRANSIGENT – refuses to turn down the stereo despite all pleas and threats.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Tuesday's word INTRANSIGENT - 01/15/14 07:25 AM
INTRANSITENT – A Tolkien creature on his way from Fangorn to Isengard.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Tuesday's word INTRANSIGENT - 01/15/14 05:11 PM
grin
Posted By: jenny jenny Wed Word : potentate - 01/15/14 10:18 PM
potentate

PRONUNCIATION: (POH-ten-tayt)
MEANING:
noun: One having great power, especially an autocratic person.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin posse (to be able). Ultimately from the Indo-European root poti- (powerful, lord), which is also the source of power, potent, possess, pasha, compossible, impuissance, and puissant. Earliest documented use: 1475.
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POTENTGATE - any scandal involving a powerful leader,
such as the scandal that gave us the euphemism "a monica lewinski".

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Wed Word : potentate - 01/16/14 04:07 AM

PODENTATE - to have no money left after the Dentist finishes with you (but at
least you still have your teeth!)

Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Wed Word : potentate - 01/16/14 12:45 PM
POTENTAGE – long ago, alas.
POTENTALE – favorite quaff down at Alice's Champagne Palace.
POTENTAT – to make very strong lace.
sophist
(SOF-ist)
MEANING:
noun: One who makes clever, but unsound arguments.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sophista, from Greek sophistes (sage), from sophos (clever). Earliest documented use: 1542. In ancient Greece, Sophists were philosophers and teachers known for their subtle, but fallacious reasoning.
USAGE:
"But this day Mansoor had turned five, and Ma used a sophist's argument to call for a celebration."
M.G. Vassanji; The Assassin's Song; Doubleday; 2007.

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SOPHISTA- a sophist with latinate pretensions.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc History lesson - 01/16/14 03:43 PM

SOPHIET - with "Former..." and "...Union", a rough coalition of Communist countries, from the early to the late 20th Century.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: History lesson - 01/17/14 03:33 AM
"Sophiet" Brilliant! The best of novian words needed to succinctly describe a particuliar geo-situation in time.
solicitous

PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LIS-i-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Full of concern.
2. Eager.
3. Meticulous.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sollus (whole). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which brought us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, salutary, and salubrious. Earliest documented use: 1563.
USAGE:
"The staff is solicitous of its core customer; efficient with others."
Alexandra Jacobs; Dennis Basso's New Shop; The New York Times; Dec 12, 2013.
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s>p

POLICITOUS - what a polictian is really being when he is being salicitous to us.


SOLICITOYS - turn them on and they ask you for money (compare SOLICITOTS - nursery school kids sent out to raise money from the neighbors)

On an analogous vein: SOPLICITOUS - fawning behavior, except they're is lying to you
Posted By: jenny jenny Quotes: Thought and Counterthoughts - 01/18/14 02:53 AM

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

A COUNTER THOUGHT TO CONSIDER:
Ah so true, Benji. But I bet the Infinite Father wouldn't mind if we felt solace after our prayers to Him, and, if in our praise of Him, we, by emulation, become better people, then I'll bet He will be pleased if we do over-populate this- and His- beautiful blue and green Earth. (2014-etc)

Posted By: jenny jenny Blue Monday in Stellenbosh - 01/20/14 02:09 PM
stellenbosch

PRONUNCIATION: (STE-len-bosh)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To relegate someone incompetent to a position of minimal responsibility.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Stellenbosch, a town in South Africa. Earliest documented use: 1900.
NOTES:
Stellenbosch, near Cape Town, was a British military base during the Second Boer War. Officers who had not proven themselves were sent to Stellenbosch, to take care of something relatively insignificant, such as to look after horses. Even if they kept their rank, this assignment was considered a demotion. Eventually the term came to be applied when someone was reassigned to a position where he could do little harm.
Also see Peter Principle.
A similar term is coventry.
Another word derived from the name of a South African town is maffick.
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STEALLENBOSCH- a village in South Africa where people who steal are sent because in Steallenbosch there is nothing to steal.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Blue Monday in Stellenbosh - 01/20/14 03:04 PM

STELLENBOTCH - a failure of astronomical proportions, such as will get you exiled to You-Know-Where
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Blue Monday in Stellenbosh - 01/20/14 06:25 PM
ST. ELLEN BOTCH- a botch so bad that only the Sainted Ellen knows the whereabouts of where she is at.
Posted By: jenny jenny Doo-dah Day: Campanology - 01/21/14 02:39 PM
campanology

PRONUNCIATION: (kam-puh-NOL-uh-jee)
MEANING:
noun: The art or study of bell-ringing or making bells.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin campana (bell). From the Campania region in Italy, known for the bronze that was used to cast bells. Earliest documented use: 1847.
NOTES:
The term bell-ringing is preferred over campanology by people involved in it. In general, those in the know go with simpler terms. For example, caving over spelunking, coding over developing software, and so on. At any rate, here's an introductory video on campanology/bell-ringing that has managed to stuff as many puns as are legally permitted in a five-minute video. Did they miss any? Chime in.
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CAMPANOOGY (kam-puh-noo-gee ) - a place on the Tennessee River where they later built the City of Chattanooga.


Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Doo-dah Day: Campanology - 01/21/14 09:30 PM

CAMPANALOGY: Not only are the rich richer than the poor they are also cheap. Brookie snobs in Mountain Brook consort at Mountain Brook Country Club in yesterday's styles and consider themselves very "camp chic".
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Doo-dah Day: Campanology - 01/21/14 10:30 PM

CAMPANOOGY (kam-puh-noo-gee ) - a place on the Tennessee River where they later built the City of Chattanooga.


(Shouldn't CAMPANOOGY be what Boy Scouts on Jamboree do when they're acting like the Three Stooges?)

COMPANOLOGY - knowing one's business

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Hennsylvania? - 01/22/14 06:48 PM

PERSE

PRONUNCIATION: (puhrs)

MEANING: adjective: Of a grayish blue or purple color.

ETYMOLOGY: From persus (dark blue), from Latin Persicus (Persian), from Persia, former name of Iran. Why this color is associated with Persia is not entirely clear. Earliest documented use: 1387.

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PERSHE - a chocolate bar to be divided among the women present
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Hennsylvania? - 01/23/14 04:31 AM
P > V

VERSE - you write a line that almost rhymes but is much too terse and somewhat adverse so you curse, your face turns perse, and you almost die. Then you call a nurse who calls a hearse thinking you already dead. But worse, you write...

"PERSHE - a chocolate bar to be divided among the women present" smile [SMILE] smile
Posted By: jenny jenny My tit for your tat. - 01/23/14 05:12 AM

Anu's Quote of the Day
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with." -Harry Crews, novelist and playwright (1935-2012)

Maybeso, Harry Crews
"Yet the scars encoded within our brain often remain hidden." (2014-201?)

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: My tit for your tat. - 01/23/14 04:57 PM

ILIAD

PRONUNCIATION: (IL-ee-uhd)

MEANING: noun:
1. A long narrative, especially an epic poem describing martial exploits.
2. A long series of miseries or disasters.

ETYMOLOGY: After Iliad, a Greek epic poem traditionally attributed to Homer. From Ilion, ancient Greek name of the city of Troy, an area now in modern Turkey. Earliest documented use: 1579.

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PILIAD - after pilus, ancient Latin name for a hair-like appendage.

1. a hair-raising tale;
2. a marketing message that makes you want to tear your hair out
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: My tit for your tat. - 01/23/14 09:43 PM
ILIAR – A long narrative, especially an epic poem describing events that I've totally fabricated.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: My tit for your tat. - 01/24/14 06:25 PM

GILIAD- an epic series of events surrounding a stranded salior who is further surrounded by Mary Ann and a movie star and other zany people. He is continually perplexed.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Not to be confused with Goddessy - 01/24/14 09:23 PM
You forgot to mention that there is a palm in Giliad!

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DAMASK

PRONUNCIATION: (DAM-uhsk)

MEANING:
noun: 1. A reversible fabric with a pattern woven into it, used for table linen, upholstery, etc.
2. Short for damask rose.
3. The color of damask rose: grayish red or pink.
4. Short for damask steel.
5. Wavy markings on such steel.
adjective: 1. Made of or resembling damask.
2. Having the color of damask rose.
verb tr.: 1. To decorate or weave with richly-figured designs.
2. To inlay a metal object with gold or silver patterns; to gild.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Damascus, where this fabric was first produced. Earliest documented use: 1325.

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(Is he being syrious?)

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DAMARK - 1. Fabric with a stain on both sides that no one can touch, giving rise to the phrase "being wide of Damark"
2. Copenhagen and environs, when the sun is shining
Posted By: Tromboniator Huh? - 01/25/14 12:05 AM
DUMASK, verb: to pose a thoughtless or stupid question.
also: DIMASK

noun: One who poses such a question.
Posted By: jenny jenny What's ya hand doing in my pocket? - 01/25/14 03:46 PM
DAMARK asked, the pickpocket answered...

"Listen, Dumask, I da pickpocket, you damark."

(futher proof there ain't no balm in Damask)
bloviate

PRONUNCIATION: (BLO-vee-ayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To speak pompously.
ETYMOLOGY:
Pseudo-Latin alteration of blow (to boast). Earliest documented use: 1845.
USAGE:
"All you cinephiles who like to find grand statements and social criticism in horror movies, prepare to bloviate. It's midnight at the Tribeca Film Festival."
Neil Genzlinger; Scare Me, Sure, But Also Make A Statement; The New York Times; Apr 18, 2013.
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BLOGIATE - to swagger on the net without the world knowing that you swag without wearing any underwear.

BOVIATE

PRONUNCIATION: (BO-vee-ayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To speak like a cow, often crudely, sometimes with unpleasant gases issuing from the rear. Often hard to distinguish from BLOVIATE, where the gas issues from the front.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin bos, genitive bovis, = ox, cow
skulduggery

PRONUNCIATION: (skuhl-DUHG-uh-ree)
MEANING:
noun: Underhand dealing: trickery, bribery, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
An American coinage, apparently from the alteration of Scots sculduddery (fornication, obscenity). Earliest documented use: 1867.
USAGE:
"In the 1980s [the Vatican Bank] was accused of involvement in financial skulduggery and responsibility for the still-mysterious death of a prominent Italian banker, Roberto Calvi."
God's Bankers; The Economist (London, UK); Jul 7, 2012.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. -José Martí, revolutionary and poet (1853-1895)
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SKILDUGGERY - high order duggery. ex: the duggery at the Vatican.

Comment on the THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
It seems the media has seasoned the 21st Century with a hatred for all things American; football, motherhood, and apple pie. - Rice Miller, bluesman and poet (1898-1963)

SKULDRUGGERY - "This is your brain on dope"
Posted By: jenny jenny I don't dip but others do. I sniff. - 01/29/14 04:20 AM


SKOLDUGGERY - dipping snuff surreptitiously.
Posted By: jenny jenny Your Cash Ain't Nothin' but Trash. - 01/29/14 07:06 PM
honeyfuggle

PRONUNCIATION: (HUN-ee-fuh-guhl)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To deceive or swindle, especially by flattery.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps from honey + fugle (to cheat). Earliest documented use: 1829. Also spelled as honeyfugle.
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MONEYFUGGLE - to flatter vain men for their money. Ex:

The minute you walked in the joint
I could tell you were a man of distinction; a real big spender.
Hey Big Spender! Spend...a little time with me.


Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Your Cash Ain't Nothin' but Trash. - 01/29/14 07:23 PM

[You can have the fun with HONKYFUGGLE...]

HONEYFUDGLE - cute marketing name for a new candy bar
Posted By: jenny jenny You can have the fun with HONKYFUGLE. - 01/30/14 04:34 AM

HONKYFUGGLE - to be fleeced at a white honky tonk rather than at a black juke joint back in the thirties when both joints offered a white or black version of sweet Southern culture blues.
Posted By: jenny jenny You too can have fun with ANU. - 01/30/14 11:41 PM
lallygag or lollygag

PRONUNCIATION: (LAL-ee-gag, LOL-ee-gag)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To fool around, waste time, or spend time lazily.
2. To neck.
ETYMOLOGY:
Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1862.
USAGE:
"I lallygagged around and when it was evident that they were not coming home to take me, I had to start off."
Margaret Mason; A Memory at Large; RoseDog Books; 2011.
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LALLYGAGA - the real Lady Ga-Ga who is lazy but not a lady.

LOLLYGARG - the Yang and Yin within Anu.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Brought to you by Ipana toothpaste - 01/31/14 04:43 AM

...a good fifty years ago.

OLLYGAG - a corny joke played on Kukla and Fran
(or on Beulah Witch, or Colonel Cracky, or maybe Fletcher Rabbit)
Posted By: jenny jenny I've been BUMFUZZLED all my days. - 01/31/14 04:07 PM
bumfuzzle
PRONUNCIATION: (bum-FUZ-uhl)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To confuse.
ETYMOLOGY:
From bum-, probably from bamboozle (to deceive) + fuzzle (to confuse). Earliest documented use: 1900.
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BUMGUZZLE:
1. to empty a pint of Mellow Corn whiskey with a single swallow.
2. to pour yourself an eight-ounce tumbler of your brother-in-law's pretentious eighty-nine dollars-a-bottle 1997 imported wine.
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A COMMENT ON:
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil. -Norman Mailer, author (1923-2007)

Any man who could sit with Norman Mailer for ten minutes and limit himself to only eighteen shouts of "evil" is a man not well read.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: I've been BUMFUZZLED all my days. - 01/31/14 04:32 PM

BUMFUZZIE -

That vagrant\
( Pick one )... ought to shave more often
.... That ass./
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: I've been BUMFUZZLED all my days. - 01/31/14 04:42 PM
Good one, wofa.
I think of that frequently watching TV shows,
and certain folks in our Hollywood Royal Family.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: I've been BUMFUZZLED all my days. - 02/04/14 03:36 AM

SCUD


PRONUNCIATION:
(skud)

MEANING:
verb intr.: 1. To run or move swiftly.
2. In nautical parlance, to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
noun: 1. The act of scudding.
2. Clouds, rain, mist, etc. driven by the wind.
3. Low clouds beneath another cloud layer.

ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, possibly from Middle Low German schudden (to shake). Earliest documented use: 1609.

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SQUD
pronounced "skwud"

verb: Past tense of "squid"
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: I've been BUMFUZZLED all my days. - 02/04/14 10:01 PM

RESPLENDENT

PRONUNCIATION: (ri-SPLEN-dent)

MEANING: adjective: Shining; brilliant; radiant; splendid.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin resplendere (to shine brightly), from re- (intensive prefix) + splendere (to shine). Earliest documented use: 1440.

USAGE: "Gilderoy Lockhart was walking onto the stage, resplendent in robes of deep plum."
J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Bloomsbury; 1998.

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RESPLENDANT - taste modified with another packet of artificial sweetener (made with New Technology)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: I've been BUMFUZZLED all my days. - 02/05/14 02:56 PM

SLIPSTREAM

PRONUNCIATION: (SLIP-streem)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A stream of air (or another fluid) forced backwards by a propeller.
2. The area of reduced pressure behind a fast-moving object.
verb tr., intr.:
3. To follow behind a vehicle to take advantage of decreased wind resistance.

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SLIPSDREAM - I've fallen in the lingerie department and I can't get up...
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Always Say Never - 02/06/14 05:02 PM

HEINOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (HAY-nuhs)

MEANING: adjective: Extremely wicked.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French haine (hatred), from hair (to hate). Earliest documented use: 1394.

USAGE: "You have been brought here before the Council of Magical Law ... so that we may pass judgment on you, for a crime so heinous."
J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Bloomsbury; 2000.

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NEINOUS - rhymes with "minus" - like a German obstructionist

also

HEIROUS - next in line to inherit
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Always Say Never - 02/07/14 12:30 AM
HEINUS – Grooks of seventeen syllables.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Always Say Never - 02/07/14 02:27 PM

SEPULCHRAL

PRONUNCIATION: (suh-PUHL-kruhl)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a grave or a burial.
2. Gloomy, serious, or sad.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sepulcrum (grave, tomb), from sepelire (to bury). Earliest documented use: 1615.

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SHE-PULCHRAL - pertaining to feminine beauty
etym. from Latin pulchritudo beauty; excellence, attractiveness
Posted By: wofahulicodoc re; Heinku - 02/07/14 02:34 PM

Quote:
HEINUS - Groooks of seventeen syllalbles


Ooh, nice one. I'd forgotten about those ! Seventeen syllables divided into three lines of 5-7-5 syllables, of course.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: re; Heinku - 02/08/14 05:27 AM
It was exposure to Piet Hein that made me realize that excellence in one field does not preclude excellence in others. Obvious in, say, Leonardo, but Hein was still very alive when I discovered him in my preteens. Made all the difference.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Always Say Never - 02/08/14 05:39 AM
SHE-PULCHRAL - yes!


SEPULCORAL – Burial at sea.

SEPULCHORAL – Requiem
Posted By: jenny jenny HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY - 02/09/14 01:14 AM


WIGGLEDY JIGGLEDY:
what I was when I'd walk on stage at Wesley's Boobie Trap and Bait Shop back when I was a pole dancer.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc But, but... - 02/09/14 01:54 AM
...but it's Saturday! I don't recall seeing an AWAD entry on the weekend in a dog's age, if ever. I guess the fact of seven HP books was stronger than the practice of five-days-makes-a-week.

(And welcome back, Jen, we've missed you.)
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HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY

PRONUNCIATION: (HIG-uhl-dee PIG-uhl-dee)

MEANING: adverb: In a disordered or random manner.
adjective: Confused; jumbled.

ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin, perhaps referring to the herding of pigs. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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[contrast "Jiggery-Pokery," noun, underhanded sabotage or mischief]

[Also the paradigm for a double-dactyl, a form of doggerel poetry with particular structural rules, and beyond the scope of this post]
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WHIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY - a form of political satire, used by the Tories to cast their opponents in an unflattering light
Posted By: wofahulicodoc right on schedule - 02/09/14 09:05 PM

CANKER

PRONUNCIATION: (KANG-kuhr)

MEANING:
noun: 1. A source of corruption or decay.
2. Ulcerous sores in the mouth; also any of various diseases affecting animals and plants.
verb tr., intr.: 1. To corrupt or to become corrupted.
2. To infect with or be infected with canker.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English cancer (crab, tumor). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kar-/ker- (hard), which also gave us standard, cancer, and hard. Earliest documented use: 1384.

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CANYER - an Australian request, as in "Canyer bring me a beer ?

Posted By: jenny jenny Re: right on schedule - 02/09/14 09:53 PM
YANKER
(1)the guy who pulls the pitcher when the pitcher can't pitch.
(2) a Yanker Diddlely Dandy.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc a blast from the past - 02/09/14 10:10 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
... I don't recall seeing an AWAD entry on the weekend in a dog's age, if ever...

(...or at least not since the second week in October, 2000. YCLIU.)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 - - - - - 02/09/14 10:35 PM


Click to reveal..
wanker




Brit slang
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: - - - - - 02/10/14 02:17 PM
GROK

PRONUNCIATION: (grok)

MEANING: verb tr.: To understand deeply and intuitively.

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Earliest documented use: 1961.

NOTES: In Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein describes grok as a Martian word meaning "to drink". That's the literal meaning, however, figuratively it means to understand something in a profound way. To grok something is to be one with it in a way that the observer and the observed become merged.
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GWOK - to dwink in, to understand deeply and intuitively, provided you are Martian with a lisp
Posted By: jenny jenny THE PEOPLE AT MICROSOLF ARE NOT PEOPLE - 02/10/14 06:57 PM
GROKE (grok-ee ) - one who groks his in-group's self-serving mantra and so loses all connection with objective reality.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Where's Waldo ? - 02/11/14 09:21 PM

WALDO

PRONUNCIATION: (WAL-doh)

MEANING: noun: A device for manipulating objects by remote control, for example, a remotely-operated arm.

ETYMOLOGY: After Waldo F. Jones, an inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein. Earliest documented use: 1942.

NOTES: Modern applications of waldo as a remote manipulator are in surgery, space, and in working in hazardous conditions, such as those involving radiation.

(That's two-for-two for Heinlein...)

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WARDO - unconscionable profits made by the munitions industry during a conflict
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Just a guess - 02/11/14 11:55 PM

I wonder if he'll invoke ROBOT - from Karel Capek's play (in Checkoslovakian) R.U.R, which stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots." It's where Isaac Asimov got the word. Certainly it fits the description!

from TheFreeDictionary.com: robot itself comes from Czech robota,..."servitude, forced labor," from rab, "slave..."
Posted By: jenny jenny Go see a WALDO in Walmart - 02/12/14 11:46 PM

WALDOC - a non-intrusive examination robot to be set up in all Walmart stores designed to compete with the Doc-in-a-Box market with the base rate set at $9.98 per visit. Organ transplants are slightly higher.
Posted By: jenny jenny My cubicle is my TARDIS - 02/13/14 03:20 AM
tardis
PRONUNCIATION: (TAR-dis)
MEANING:
1. A time machine.
2. Something that is much bigger than it appears from the outside.
ETYMOLOGY:
From TARDIS, a time machine in the British science-fiction TV series, Doctor Who. Earliest documented use: 1969.
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TZARDIS - even if the Czar is small best not dis him... he is BIG.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc ...and sometimes in New Orleans, too - 02/13/14 03:58 AM

MARDIS - Tuesdays in Paris
Posted By: jenny jenny Today's SiFi Word TRIFFID - 02/13/14 03:08 PM
TRIFIID(tri-fi-id)- since it is semantically impossible for anyone to have three ids this word is true as well as self-explanatory in that
It clearly indicates that it is fiction.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Today's SiFi Word TRIFFID - 02/13/14 09:14 PM

TRAFF-ID - Gimmicky name for the little black box they'll put into your car some day, giving your location, and speed, and condition of brakes and accelerator and steering, ostensibly to help time traffic lights but eventually used to generate ticket revenue. ( They could already do this with turnpike E-Z Pass gadgets, but they don't... )
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Alas, no robots today - 02/14/14 04:59 PM

FRANKENSTEIN

PRONUNCIATION: (FRANG-kuhn-styn)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A creation that gets out of control and brings harm to its creator.
2. One who creates something that brings ruin to himself.
3. A monster having human appearance.

ETYMOLOGY: After Victor Frankenstein, who creates a monster from parts of corpses in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein. Earliest documented use: 1827.

NOTES: In the story, Frankenstein was the creator, not the monster. We should be calling the creation "Frankenstein's monster", but it's out of the control of the novelist now, and the monster itself is called Frankenstein. The prefix franken- has been coined as an uncomplimentary moniker for artificially created things. For example, genetically-modified foods are often called frankenfoods (see frankenfish).

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FRANK 'N STEIN - name for a hot-dog-and-beer joint. They do a monstrous business.

(Not very subtle, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised to find there actually is one. Or several, for that matter.)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 - - -everyone has/had one - 02/14/14 05:05 PM
CRANKENSTEIN

a miserable, bitter next door neighbor who feels the
universe revolves around him/her.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Alas, no robots today - 02/14/14 05:48 PM

FRANK 'N STEIN...
(Not very subtle, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised to find there actually is one. Or several, for that matter.)


Mebbe FLANKENSTEIN, a steak-and-beer joint?
or FRACKENSTEIN, a modern-day oil wildcatters' bar, because the techique of hydraulic fracking breaks up underground stone to get at the oil ?
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Alas, no robots today - 02/14/14 07:55 PM
[FRANK EINSTEIN - the monster's smart uncle who invented the atomic bomb.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Alas, no robots today - 02/14/14 10:10 PM
FRANKENSTHIN – A diet regimen from Minnesota.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Alas, no robots today - 02/15/14 08:59 PM
FRANKENSTERN - what he becomes when he growls at his friend the blind man because blind men can talk and monsters can't.
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday's Word ESCUTCHEON - 02/18/14 12:49 AM
EXSCUTCHEON = without a shield. (See Paths of Glory poem and film).
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Monday's Word ESCUTCHEON - 02/18/14 02:28 AM

ESCUTCHEON

PRONUNCIATION:(i-SKUCH-uhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. An ornamental or protective plate surrounding a keyhole, light switch, door handle, etc.
2. Used in the phrase: blot on one's escutcheon (a stain on one's reputation).
3. A shield or shield-shaped surface bearing a coat of arms.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin scutum (shield). Earliest documented use: 1480.

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ESCUTCHEWON - Province of Canada, third from the left; capital: Regina; major city: Saskatoon
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Monday's Word ESCUTCHEON - 02/18/14 09:45 AM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

major city: Saskatoon


Escutchoon, I'd have thought.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tuesday's Word CRURAL - 02/18/14 11:48 AM
Quote:
Quote:
major city: Saskatoon

Escutchoon, I'd have thought.

Good thought!

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CRURAL

PRONUNCIATION: (KROOR-uhl)

MEANING: adjective: Relating to the leg.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin crus (leg). Earliest documented use: 1599.

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CURAL - a panacea
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Tuesday's Word CRURAL - 02/18/14 05:06 PM
CRURAT – A small rodent that lives under the coxwain's seat or, some may say, on it.
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Tuesday's Word CRURAL - 02/18/14 05:18 PM
CRUALL (kru all)- the word construct of Souteastern US rurals when referring to more than one leg.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Wednesday's Word ACEDIA - 02/19/14 07:05 PM
ACEDIA

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SEE-dee-uh)

MEANING: noun: Apathy; boredom; sloth.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin acedia, from Greek akedia, from a- (not) + kedos (care). Earliest documented use: 1607.

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ACEDINA - city in California, just north of Los Angeles, home of the Ose Bowl

ACENIA - I observed you in Brooklyn

ACNEDIA - a skin eruption confined to the patella; goes away after 24 hours
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Wednesday's Word ACEDIA - 02/20/14 03:20 AM
APEDIA – A massive online resource containing no information.

APEDIA is already upon us:

A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less until at last he knows absolutely everything there is to know about nothing at all.

("I'm not making this up, you know." -- Anna Russell)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Wednesday's Word ACEDIA - 02/20/14 05:11 PM
Good one Peter, I run into that frequently.
(My quote button is not working today)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Thursday's Word DECANT - 02/20/14 05:26 PM

DECANT

PRONUNCIATION: (di-KANT)

MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To pour, especially in a manner that the sediment is left behind.
2. To rehouse people while their buildings are being rebuilt or refurbished.

ETYMOLOGY: From French décanter (to settle or to clarify), from Latin decanthare, from de- (from) + canthus (spout, rim). Earliest documented use: 1633.

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DEKANT - to engage in Revisionism by systematically eliminating all mention of the Categorical Imperative and Dialectical Materialism from textbooks of Philosophy
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Thursday's Word DECANT - 02/20/14 05:28 PM
Would have made studying one semester of
Philosophy a lot easier: great idea.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Friday's Word QUINARY - 02/21/14 04:30 PM
QUINARY

PRONUNCIATION: (KWY-nuh-ree)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to five.
2. Fifth in a series.
3. Having five things or arranged in five.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quinarius (containing five), from quini (five each), from quinque (five). Earliest documented use: 1598. If you have ever wondered what comes after primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary, here's your answer.

[Compare binary, ternary, quaternary]

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QINARY

PRONUNCIATION: KEE-nuh-ree (rhymes with GREENERY)

MEANING: adjective:
1. embodying the ancient Chinese natural energy flow
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Friday's Word DECANT - 02/21/14 05:16 PM
QUINARE -opposite of quinain't
Posted By: Tromboniator Spare a five? - 02/22/14 04:48 AM
QUINDARY – A predicament with five equally unacceptable ways out.
Posted By: jenny jenny Life Ain't Fair - 02/22/14 09:52 PM
QUONARY - a quid with no quo.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Quipary - 02/22/14 09:57 PM

...[like] all three of 'em !

laugh
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday's AWAD ----MANUMIT - 02/24/14 08:31 PM
manumit

PRONUNCIATION: (man-yuh-MIT)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To free from slavery.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin manus (hand) + mittere (to let go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root man- (hand), which also gave us manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command, manure, manque, legerdemain, and mortmain. Earliest documented use: 1455.
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MANUNIT - to manumit a man from slavery then put him in a totalitarian state is to turn a slave with hope into to a hopeless manunit.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Monday's handiwork - 02/24/14 08:40 PM
MANUMIT

PRONUNCIATION: (man-yuh-MIT)

MEANING: verb tr.: To free from slavery.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin manus (hand) + mittere (to let go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root man- (hand), which also gave us manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command, manure, manque, legerdemain, and mortmain. Earliest documented use: 1455.

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MRNUMIT - the painless pediatric dentist's Novocaine

(pronouced "Mister-Numb-it")

Posted By: jenny jenny Tuesday word is somewhat CHIRAL - 02/25/14 01:58 PM
chiral

PRONUNCIATION: (KY-ruhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Not superimposable on its mirror image.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek cheir (hand). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghes- (hand), which also gave us cheiromancy/chiromancy (palmistry), surgeon (literally, one who works with hands), and enchiridion (handbook). Earliest documented use: 1894.
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CHAIRAL - to sit on your hands

USAGE: Damnit Doc, don't sit your butt on your hands. You will be late with your posts and you will never be fit, and you will forever be, as I said, late and chairal.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Tuesday word is somewhat CHIRAL - 02/25/14 02:52 PM

CO-HIRAL - job-sharing
Posted By: wofahulicodoc ...provided there's one at hand - 02/26/14 05:24 PM

HANDSEL or HANSEL

PRONUNCIATION: (HAN-sel)

MEANING: noun:
1. A gift for good luck given at the beginning of the new year or a new venture.
2. A first payment or installment.
verb tr.:
1. To give a handsel to.
2. To inaugurate or to do something for the first time.

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HANDGEL - the slimy stuff in a dispenser that you use to get the germs off your hands (It's gotta be more than 61% alcohol or it doesn't work)
.. or
HANGEL - a British Cupid


Posted By: Tromboniator Re: ...provided there's one at hand - 02/26/14 10:35 PM
HANDBEL – A digital, prehensile process on the lips of some very greedy catfish.
HANDSELF - a term derived from the musical HANSEL AND GRETAL where, lost in the dark forest, a frightened Hansel tries to take his big sister's hand for comfort. Gretal sings...

Stop crying Hansel we've nothing to fear but fear itself
Button up your lip and keep your hands to yourself.


A moving moment.




Posted By: jenny jenny Heavy Thursday: mano a mano face to face - 02/27/14 02:01 PM
mano a mano

PRONUNCIATION: (MA-no a MA-no)
MEANING:
adverb: In direct competition; head-to-head.
adjective: One-on-one; face-to-face.
noun: 1. A bullfight where two matadors compete in turn, fighting several bulls.
2. A direct or face-to-face confrontation.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish mano a mano (hand to hand). Earliest documented use: 1950.
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DANO A MANGO - give Dano a mango
(from Hawaii Five O. 1976).


MANOMANO - a beloved Muppets song (1969 !)

MANY A MANO - a big round of applause!
Posted By: jenny jenny Balm on Friday: PALMER - 02/28/14 04:43 PM
palmer

PRONUNCIATION: (PAH-muhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. A pilgrim.
2. An itinerant monk.
3. One who conceals a card or another object in a magic trick or in cheating in a game.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin palma (palm tree, palm of the hand). The name of the palm tree derives from the resemblance of the shape of its frond to the palm of a hand. In Medieval Europe, a pilgrim brought back a palm branch as a token of his pilgrimage. Earliest documented use: 1300. Also see palmy & palmary.
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PSALMER - a singer who sits beneath palm trees who gives balm and brings calm to the unease of all pilgrams who have ears to listen.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Balm on Friday: PALMER - 02/28/14 07:53 PM

PALOMER - a Spanish dove, in Boston

PALYMER - friendly plastic

PALMEX - mi amigo
Posted By: jenny jenny Get up! Now is Monday. Go and GALLIVANT. - 03/03/14 12:42 PM
gallivant or galavant

PRONUNCIATION: (GAL-uh-vant)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To roam about in search of pleasure.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps alteration of gallant, from Old French galer (to rejoice). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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GALLIRANT - a wandering rant. (ranting is more fun than gallivanting) .

GALLIVAUNT - pride in heroic French accomplishments (see also Charlemagne)
[b]DALLIVANT[/b – to roam among the singles bars.
Arrrg. Can't edit.
Posted By: jenny jenny If all fails...VITUPERATE! - 03/04/14 03:07 PM
vituperate

PRONUNCIATION: (vy-TOO-puh-rayt, -TYOO-, vi-)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To use harsh or abusive language.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin vituperare (to blame), from vitium (fault) + parare (to make or prepare). Earliest documented use: 1542.
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BITUPERATE - to loudly curse someone in two languages.
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The THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: If all fails...VITUPERATE! - 03/04/14 04:49 PM

VICTUPERATE - to dis someone you have just defeated
Posted By: jenny jenny You Snooze You Lose: SCRUTATE - 03/05/14 04:08 PM
scrutate

PRONUNCIATION: (SKRU-tayt)

MEANING: verb tr.: To investigate.

ETYMOLOGY:
rom Latin scrutari (to examine). Earliest documented use: 1882.
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SCRULATE - To investigate after the fact.

Example: Late Christmas morning a farm boy jumped from his bed and ran to see what good Santa had brought. He finds that his Christmas stocking is filled with horse dung.
"I told you to get up early," his father said,"Santa brought you a nice pony but it ran away".
Posted By: wofahulicodoc today's word is far from inscrutable - 03/05/14 07:50 PM

SCRUBATE - the motion used to put the worm on the hook.

alternative:

SERUTATE - like the advertised cure for constipation

SCRUMATE - the mate with whom your arm is hooked when you scrum.
distend

PRONUNCIATION: (di-STEND)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To swell, inflate, or extend.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin dis- (away, apart) + tendere (to stretch). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which is also the source of tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, tenable, tenuous, extenuate, countenance, pertinacious, and detente. Earliest documented use: 1400
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LISTEND - List, ending
Posted By: wofahulicodoc I can see clearly now - 03/06/14 02:13 PM

MISTEND - when the sun breaks through
(compare DUSTEND - when it finally rains)

Posted By: jenny jenny Here comes the Sun - 03/06/14 07:16 PM
Awake, Great Star! What would thy Glory be if you had not those upon whom you shine?

DISTREND - to detach one's belief system from trendy thoughts.

For example: The last sixteen years of Global Warming hasn't warmed the World to my satisfaction.
Posted By: jenny jenny O' Happy Day (O' happy day) - 03/07/14 12:44 PM
manducate

PRONUNCIATION: (MAN-joo-kayt)


MEANING:
verb tr.: To chew or eat.


ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin mandere (to chew). Ultimately from the Indo-European root menth- (to chew), which also gave us masticate, mandible, and manger. Earliest documented use: 1623.
USAGE:
"Flem literally manducates, chewing over his surroundings."
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MANDULATE - the ability to pick and strum a mandolin while keeping time time time chewing Juicy Fruit Chewing Gum.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: O' Happy Day (O' happy day) - 03/07/14 09:26 PM
WANDUCATE – To teach at Hogwarts.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc a stately pleasure-dome - 03/08/14 04:14 AM

XANDUCATE -Kubla Khan's school, located on the banks of the Alph River
Posted By: jenny jenny A Cave of Nice - 03/08/14 04:38 AM

MA-EDUCATE- home schooling
Posted By: wofahulicodoc ...lucky it doesn't bite you back ! - 03/08/14 10:54 PM

MANDULATTE - coffee so thick and strong that you have to chew it

LANDUCATE - to chew up lands in the name of restoring a state of eco-stasis.
Example: the re-introduction of warthogs to Yellowstone National Park because they were snorting around during the Pleistocene.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc TwentyLettersExactly - 03/10/14 06:12 PM

POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE

PRONUNCIATION: (pol-ee-fi-luh-pro-JEN-uh-tiv)

MEANING: adjective: Extremely prolific.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (many) + philo- (loving) + Latin progenitive (producing offspring), from pro- (toward) + past participle of gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1919, in a poem by T.S. Eliot.

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POLYP-HILL-PROGENITIVE - making lots of coral reefs

Posted By: Tromboniator Re: TwentyLettersExactly - 03/10/14 10:19 PM
Wow, wofa. Wow.

POLYPHILOPROGERITIVE – The life-extending quality of having many lovers after retirement.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc {Fap!} - 03/10/14 11:01 PM

Very clever indeed! Although possibly open to misinterpretation - I would have guessed it meant aging very fast, and prematurely ("progeria"). I offer as evidence a very old joke:

...Young cub reporter on her first Human Interest assignment goes to a Nursing Home to interview the oldest resident she can see.

"What do you owe your age to?" she ventures.

"Three things," he says. "I smoke a carton of cigarettes every day. I drink a quart of bourbon daily. I never sleep with the same woman twice...and I never go to bed alone!" comes the reply.

"Oh, my goodness," says the sweet young thing. "And just how old are you?

"Twenty-three," he says...

POLYPHILOPREGENITIVE - first you love mankind...then you have kids.








Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: {Fap!} - 03/11/14 03:44 PM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

Very clever indeed! Although possibly open to misinterpretation - I would have guessed it meant aging very fast, and prematurely ("progeria"). I offer as evidence a very old joke:

...Young cub reporter on her first Human Interest assignment goes to a Nursing Home to interview the oldest resident she can see.

"What do you owe your age to?" she ventures.

"Three things," he says. "I smoke a carton of cigarettes every day. I drink a quart of bourbon daily. I never sleep with the same woman twice...and I never go to bed alone!" comes the reply.

"Oh, my goodness," says the sweet young thing. "And just how old are you?

"Twenty-three," he says...



Love it, wofa!
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Speak softly and carry a big stick - 03/11/14 08:59 PM

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY

PRONUNCIATION: (lit-l lord FONT-luh-roi)

MEANING: noun: An innocent child; also a very polite and well-dressed child.

ETYMOLOGY: From Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885). Earliest documented use: 1942.

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LITTLE LORD FLAUNT LEROY - The short Earl likes to boast about his "in" with King Louis XIV
Posted By: jenny jenny Close...but probably no T-shirt - 03/11/14 09:04 PM

LITTLE LORD FLAUNTLEROY- Leroy flaunts new knickers

(I count about 20 letters in the above definition) smile

ANTHROPOMORPHIZATION

PRONUNCIATION: (an-thruh-puh-mor-fy-ZAY-shuhn)

MEANING: noun: Attribution of human qualities to things not human.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek anthropo- (human) + morph (form). Earliest documented use: 1880.

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ANTHROPOMORPHINATION - a man turning into an opium den


ARTHROPOMORPHIZATION - a Kafka-esque literary device, to be used sparingly as it's full of bugs :
(as in, "Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams and found himself transformed into a gigantic insect...")
Posted By: jenny jenny Metro man in 21 letters - 03/12/14 11:40 PM
PANTHROPOMORPHIZATION - to morph all hes into shes.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: Metro man in 21 letters - 03/13/14 04:23 AM
BANTHROPOMORPHIZATION – Illegalization of turning aliens into humans.

TANTHROPOMORPHIZATION – Attribution of human qualities to everything under the sun.
Posted By: jenny jenny SILK-STOCKING DISTRICT - 03/14/14 12:14 AM

SILK-SMOCKING DISTRICT- Harlem after work at nite.
(20 letters)

Usage:
I said Baby where you going
She said Honey I wouldn't be knowing
She had on a long smocking frock
She stopped in the street and did the Castle Rock

- Jimmy Reed 1956

SALK-STOCKING DISTRICT - where the polio-vaccine warehouses are

SILK-SHOCKING DISTRICT - the place to see a demonstration of static electricity
Posted By: wofahulicodoc That's gonna be another tough one - 03/14/14 04:57 PM

SECRET DE POLICHINELLE

PRONUNCIATION: (SEE-krit uv po-LISH-i-nel)

MEANING: noun: A supposed secret that's widely known: an open secret.

ETYMOLOGY: From French secret de Polichinelle. Polichinelle (English Punch or Punchinello) was a stock character in Italian puppetry. Earliest documented use: 1828.

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SECRET DE POLICE IN ELLE - She knows all the dirt about those Paris cops
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: That's gonna be another tough one - 03/14/14 08:08 PM
Goodie, Wolfman.

DECRET DE POLICHNELLE - a decree given by a puppet
Posted By: jenny jenny Monday's comment of ACUITY. ...Oh my! - 03/18/14 12:57 AM
acuity

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-KYOO-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: Sharpness; keenness.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French from Latin acuere (to sharpen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, mediocre, paragon, and acescent. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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ACULTY - to act as a cult. Ex: self-serving scientists who believe that the oceans will rise almost six inches in this Century and the sky is falling oh my!
Posted By: wofahulicodoc "I see your point," Tom said sharply - 03/18/14 01:13 AM


ACUITY

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-KYOO-i-tee)

MEANING: noun: Sharpness; keenness.

ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin acuere (to sharpen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, mediocre, paragon, and acescent. Earliest documented use: 1400.

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AQUITY - watered stock
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: "I see your point," Tom said sharply - 03/18/14 03:38 PM
AKUITY=High faluttin' cat.
desuetude

PRONUNCIATION:(DES-wi-tood, -tyood)
MEANING:
noun: A state of disuse.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin de- (away from) + suescere (to become accustomed). Earliest documented use: 1623.
USAGE:
"Far from being a high-tech wonder, the Earth Station had a sad, neglected air about it, a feeling of desuetude and abandonment."
Douglas Preston; Impact; Forge Books; 2010.
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DE-SUET-DUDE - de dude who makes de soap.


A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
Yeah. That's what I thought about Rabbit Redux. laugh

DE SUE-TUBE - used by unscrupulous lawyers to record and share videos of their court cases
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Rubens would be so proud - 03/19/14 04:39 PM

TURGID

PRONUNCIATION: (TUR-jid)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Swollen; congested.
2. Pompous; high-flown.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin turgere (to swell). Earliest documented use: 1620.

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STURGID - the fish that gives you black caviar when you have a stuffed nose

SURGID - nametag worn by the doctor who's about to take out your appendix

THURGID - what his friends called the lawyer who Marshalled his arguments to present Brown v. Board of Education to the Supreme Court, years before he was appointed to the bench himself
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Rubens would be so proud - 03/19/14 05:41 PM


TURGRID - the congested morning traffic found in every city where the streets form a grid

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It's best to give while your hand is still warm. -Philip Roth, novelist (b. 1933)

That's easy for you to say, Phillip Roth. blush
Posted By: jenny jenny The pretentious use of the word SCIOLISM - 03/20/14 01:15 PM
sciolism

PRONUNCIATION: (SY-uh-liz-uhm)
MEANING:
noun: Pretentious display of superficial knowledge.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Late Latin sciolus (smatterer), diminutive of Latin scius (knowing), from scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, nice, scienter, nescient, exscind, and adscititious. Earliest documented use: 1810.
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SCIOLIST - he who understands that all knowledge is superficial ()
Posted By: wofahulicodoc nolidj is power - 03/20/14 01:53 PM

SCOOLISM - Education, for everybody! (especially spelling)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc nolidj is power - Mark II - 03/20/14 09:33 PM
How about

SCIOLIS - a little-known Italian pastry dessert
Posted By: jenny jenny That ain't scrolling. That's fingering, - 03/21/14 02:36 AM

SCROLISM - the silly flip of a finger that spins a tiny display screen past where you want to stop in poor imitation of real scrolling by a trustworthy desk-top mouse. mad
edacity

PRONUNCIATION: (i-DAS-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: Greediness; good appetite.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, and postprandial. Earliest documented use: 1626.
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PEDACITY - the cheek of public teachers in forbidding little school kids to eat the food in their lunch pail dutifully prepared by their own mommies.
KEDACITY the yearning for those great Keds we wore
everywhere as kids.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc City Edition - 03/21/14 04:51 PM
EJACITY - don't even go there...

EXACITY -

1) the attitude people get when they move to the suburbs
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: City Edition - 03/21/14 08:06 PM

EPACITY - a city built by the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY that bans all humans and buildings regardless of race or creed or country of origin.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: City Edition - 03/21/14 10:33 PM

Well, they are protecting the environment, aren't they? wink
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: City Edition - 03/21/14 10:56 PM
I dunno, Wolfdoc. Ain't we environment too? confused
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: City Edition - 03/23/14 06:16 PM
EDAMITY– Utter cheesiness.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: City Edition - 03/23/14 08:13 PM
EXACITY -

2) Hiroshima, August 7, 1945
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: City Edition - 03/23/14 08:52 PM
Not to picknick, Trombone, but would not "utter cheesiness" be better worded as "EDATITY"?

And Wofahaulic, what about poor Nagasaki? They were city too. frown

Posted By: wofahulicodoc All wars are tragedies - 03/23/14 10:24 PM
Originally Posted By: jenny jenny
...what about poor Nagasaki? They were city too. frown


Yes, but only until August 10.

(And yes, I know my dates are the day after their tragedies...Necessary? maybe. But still tragedies.)
Posted By: wofahulicodoc It's all in how you look at it - 03/24/14 01:15 PM
EUCHRED

PRONUNCIATION: (YOO-kuhr)

MEANING:
verb tr.: To cheat, trick, or outwit.
noun: A card game for two to four players usually played with the 32 highest cards in the pack.

ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Alsatian game of Juckerspiel as the two top trumps are Jucker (jack). The verb sense of the word arises from the fact that the failure to win three tricks is known as being euchred and results in the opponent scoring two points. Earliest documented use: 1846.

USAGE: "You got euchred. The company lied to you about its status and you foolishly bought its lie." -- Colin Barrett; A Harsh Lesson on Due Diligence; Journal of Commerce (New York); May 23, 2013.

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ESCHRED - Drawn as a caricature with confusing perspective (see here and here and here)


EUCHBRED - born to be outwitted crazy
Posted By: LukeJavan8 - - to blush - 03/24/14 03:46 PM
EACHRED different shades of blushing.
vole

PRONUNCIATION:(vohl)
MEANING:
noun: 1. Any of various rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera.
2. The winning of all the tricks in some card games.
verb intr.: 3. To risk everything in the hope of great rewards. Typically used in the phrase "go the vole".
4. To try every possibility.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: Short for volemouse, from Norwegian vollmus, from voll (field) + mus (mouse). Earliest documented use: 1805.
For 2-4: From French voler (to fly), from Latin volare (to fly), which also gave us volatile and volley. 1680.
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VOLED - to have tried all posibilities and yet remain envolved.

VOLET An apprentice valet.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc How do you spell "Peenemunde"? - 03/25/14 04:43 PM


VONE - an early German WWII bombardment rocket

VOBLE - nonsense speech without consonants; a portmanteau word made from "vowel" and "babble"
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: How do you spell "Peenemunde"? - 03/25/14 05:51 PM
VIOLE almost a full blooming violet
Posted By: jenny jenny The flimsy structure that is government - 03/26/14 06:42 PM

Mar 26, 2014
This week's theme
Words derived from card games

This week's words
euchre
vole
house of cards

PRONUNCIATION (hous uv kardz)

MEANING:
noun: Something insecure or insubstantial that is subject to imminent collapse.
ETYMOLOGY:
Alluding to a flimsy structure made with playing cards. Earliest documented use: 1645.
USAGE:
"'We have to find a new balance,' the pope said. 'Otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards.'"
Michael Gerson; Francis the Troublemaker; The Washington Post; Sep 24, 2013.
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HOUSE OF HARDS- section of prison where dangerous hardcore criminals are housed i.e. those who spoke out against the stupidity of their government.
HOUSE OF CADS - A men's club.
A cads club?

That too, tromboner. But the real reason I'm not on the PGA Tour is because of their rule of...

NOUSE OF CARTS - And don't quibble. Three words,ergo, three letter changes are permitted.
You can look it up.
cool
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Do not eat here if you take warfarin - 03/27/14 01:33 AM

HOUSE OF CHARDS - trendy new salad bar

JJ, you win this one hands down !
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Do not eat here if you take warfarin - 03/27/14 03:03 AM
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

HOUSE OF CHARDS - trendy new salad bar

JJ, you win this one hands down !


Thanks Wofa. I am tired of being the MOUSE OF PARDS.

And especially of being the LOUSE ON BARDS of this board. laugh
Posted By: jenny jenny Thursday's SPOOF - 03/27/14 03:42 PM
spoof

PRONUNCIATION: (spoof)
MEANING:
noun: 1. A light, good-humored imitation; parody.
2. A hoax or a prank.
verb tr.: 1. To satirize gently.
2. To fool using a hoax or a prank.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Spoof, a card game invented by the comedian Arthur Roberts (1852-1933). Earliest documented use: 1884.
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SPOOR - the scent of a woman or the scent trail of a wild animal*.

*[ [please excuse the repetition] ]
Posted By: wofahulicodoc No, thanks, but perhaps gin? - 03/27/14 10:07 PM

SPOTOF - any of several self-consciously upscale British beverages

usage: "Wouldn't you enjoy a Spotof tea about now?"
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: No, thanks, but perhaps gin? - 03/27/14 10:38 PM
I am a little confused....can I ask why?
I thought we could only change one letter.
Am I misinformed, or did I misunderstand.
Or did we change the 'roolz'?
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: No, thanks, but perhaps gin? - 03/28/14 01:06 AM
Change one or add one.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Oops translated - 03/28/14 01:23 AM

Are you thinking of the other thread, maybe?
-- In the Anagrams thread we change the most recent word by the "one letter add/subtract/change" Rool.
-- This "Mensopause" thread has us altering Anu's Word of the Day in that way, so your result and my result may end up different, but they start from the same raw material. Today's is "SPOOF". One change made SPOOF into SPOOR. A different change made SPOOF into SPOTOF.

And then occasionally we make a mistake, or flout the Roolz deliberately if it's too tempting to resist, or if we're desperate...Usually the outcome is an indulgent noticing, accompanied by a silent Ah, that's against the Roolz, and doing nothing, unless we're feeling Ho-ish like Winnie-the-Pooh (which is not uncommon), in which case we raise an objection.

Happens to the best of us, some more than others.

( s/ a not-so-infrequent offender, in both directions)


RULE #87 - spoon, don't spook. laugh
Posted By: jenny jenny Friday's TRUMP CARD - 03/28/14 02:55 PM
trump card

PRONUNCIATION: (trump kard)
MEANING:
noun: 1. In card games, a suit chosen to rank above the others.
2. Something that gives an overriding, decisive advantage.

ETYMOLOGY:
An alteration of the word triumph, which was the name of an old card game. Earliest documented use: 1823.
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RUMP CARD - the card in the hole when playing Five Card Stud. An alteration of the alteration of the word "triumph".


A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The mind is the effect, not the cause. -Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher (b. 1942)

ANOTHER THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The gun is the effect, not the cause. - J.J. sophist (b.19 something)
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: Oops translated - 03/28/14 03:27 PM
Thanks to you and Peter.
Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: Friday's TRUMP CARD - 03/28/14 07:44 PM

TRUMP CARED - No he didn't. Just ask Ivana.

STRUMP CARD - good for one free visit to the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Posted By: jenny jenny Re: Friday's TRUMP CARD - 03/29/14 03:46 AM

THUMP CARS - electric bumper cars that we drive around as greenies today like those we drove as kids simply to go "bump".

[Say WDOC, this thread is at 100 pages, do ya think we oughta start it anew for expediency? Maybeso we could also re-explain the roolz for the literal minded amongst us. ] smile


Done, and done.

(Continued HERE)
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