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#211292 - 06/04/13 11:41 AM Re: Word for Monday plural. [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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*(by way of "how now brown cow")
#211293 - 06/04/13 12:52 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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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 ?)
#211295 - 06/04/13 03:25 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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Land of the Flat Water
CATTLELUST- bull when cows are in heat
----please, draw me a sheep----
#211296 - 06/04/13 05:34 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
SWOOPSFAKE - a phoney indiscrminate manner
#211306 - 06/05/13 07:14 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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Worcester, MA
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
#211311 - 06/06/13 02:45 PM Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 7,547 wofahulicodoc
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Worcester, MA
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
#211316 - 06/06/13 05:06 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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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.
#211320 - 06/07/13 05:17 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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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
#211321 - 06/07/13 05:21 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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Land of the Flat Water
----please, draw me a sheep----
#211322 - 06/07/13 06:37 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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o > e
JARGONE - the jargon used by a gang of thieves to indicate that someone has stolen their money jar
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