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#209977 - 03/11/13 09:43 PM Re: Become the Tiger [Re: jenny jenny]
old hand
Registered: 12/18/06
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Same as the Nineteenth
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#209978 - 03/11/13 09:48 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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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.
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#209981 - 03/12/13 03:02 AM
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#209986 - 03/12/13 09:40 AM Re: Indentation [Re: Tromboniator]
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Mar 12, 201 A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
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
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#209987 - 03/12/13 10:33 AM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8429
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
when it's a hot and sweaty day, one longs for the shade
and a cold drink and cannot wait for the nineteenth hole.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (03/12/13 10:34 AM)_________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
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#209988 - 03/12/13 10:39 AM
Carpal Tunnel
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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#209990 - 03/12/13 03:16 PM
veteran
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Posts: 1554
Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
Nice polish, Luke.
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#209991 - 03/12/13 05:49 PM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 8429
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
----please, draw me a sheep----
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#209996 - 03/12/13 09:08 PM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/06/01
Posts: 6786
Loc: Worcester, MA
STUFFRAGIST (that's with a hard "G") -- a full-time dollmaker
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#210002 - 03/13/13 06:25 AM
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Posts: 1554
Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
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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bromind :
1. a tiresome or boring mind
2. a tired or meaningless remark from a tired or boring mind
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