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#210711 - 05/02/13 02:56 PM pointed remarks [Re: jenny jenny]
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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... ?)
#210713 - 05/02/13 03:23 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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MAMMONIST - a communist leader after the revolution
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(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.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#210721 - 05/02/13 10:53 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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MAMMOMISM - any nine letter word with five M's except Mmmmmmmmm.
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MAAMONISM - excessive deference to women, especially as practiced in the Deep South
#210726 - 05/03/13 03:42 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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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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LEVIATHANG - calling Levi a "thing" in Alabama
#210728 - 05/03/13 04:30 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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LEVIATHON - Congressional tax-raising orgy, to be held next Labor Day Weekend (without Jerry Lewis)
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----please, draw me a sheep----
#210742 - 05/04/13 04:24 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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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."
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