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#214306 - 02/26/14 05:24 PM ...provided there's one at hand [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Carpal Tunnel
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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
#214311 - 02/26/14 10:35 PM Joined: May 2010
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#214312 - 02/27/14 01:53 AM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
Stop crying Hansel we've nothing to fear but fear itself
Button up your lip and keep your hands to yourself.
A moving moment.
#214317 - 02/27/14 02:01 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
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).
#214321 - 02/27/14 02:51 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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#214329 - 02/28/14 04:43 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
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.
#214330 - 02/28/14 07:53 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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PALOMER - a Spanish dove, in Boston
PALYMER - friendly plastic
PALMEX - mi amigo
#214364 - 03/03/14 12:42 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
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) .
#214365 - 03/03/14 02:13 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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GALLIVAUNT - pride in heroic French accomplishments (see also Charlemagne)
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