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pococurante
SYLLABICATION: po·co·cu·ran·te
PRONUNCIATION: pk-k-rnt, -ränt
ADJECTIVE: Indifferent; apathetic.
NOUN: One who does not care.
ETYMOLOGY: Italian : poco, little; see poco + curante, present participle of curare, to care for (from Latin crre, from cra, care).
OTHER FORMS: poco·cu·rantism
Obviously the young man is not poscocurante about spelling.
I think it hopeless to try to observe thread etiquette in
AWADtalk. The pace is so fast, by the time you submit a post
a couple others have been added.
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I have to admit five words on FF's list are new to me.
And, for crying out loud, let's skip the bitching about thread etiquette.
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Mississippi's record of not winning ever is safe for another year.
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" five words "
Geez, Bill, you wordcrazy man. All but three were completely new to me. Pococurante I'd heard before, but didn't know what it meant. Salubrious and sanguine I use a coupla times a year maybe. I'd never used inSalubrious, but I'd know what it meant if I saw it. The rest were completely new to me.
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today's popular expiscatory word is: pococurante
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"...surely the child learned English in India before moving here."
Perhaps, but, living in Texas, he would have been exposed to whatever language it is that they speak in the Lone Star Republic. One can imagine his mother, coming into the dining room from the kitchen carrying a steaming bowl, and asking "Dhal, y'all?"
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"Vegetarian Food is quite common in India & usually comprises Rice, Bread, Dhal (Pulses), Vegetables, Curd, Pickle & other add ons. So many times it also include some sweets."
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5ME pous < OFr < L pulsus (venarum), beating (of the veins) < pulsus, pp. of pellere, to beat: see FELT16
1 the regular beating in the arteries, caused by the contractions of the heart
2 any beat, signal, vibration, etc. that is regular or rhythmical
3 the perceptible underlying feelings of the public or of a particular group
4 a variation, characterized by a rise, limited duration, and decline, of a quantity whose value normally is constant; specif., a) Elec. a brief surge of voltage or current b) Radio a very short burst of electromagnetic waves
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pulsed, puls4ing to pulsate; throb
vt.
1 to cause to pulsate
2 to drive (an engine, etc.) by pulses
3 Elec. to apply pulses to
4 Radio to modify (an electromagnetic wave) by means of pulses
puls$er
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5ME pous < OFr pouls < L puls (gen. pultis), a pottage made of meal or pulse, prob. < Gr poltos < IE base *pel3, dust, meal > L pollen, pulvis6
1 the edible seeds of peas, beans, lentils, and similar plants having pods
2 any leguminous plant
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thread etiquette (six posts above) "threadiquette" ? (Or maybe "threatiquette," if you should want to mean "You better be polite, or else..."  )
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Rools Fush in where otherts fear to thread.
Or get there lastest with the leastest.
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expiscatory, adj. [chiefly Scot] tending to expiscate or fish out: searching.
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