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a subscriber writes:
"I have a word for which I have never been able to find a definition: "prastuphulic." It's used in the book "Egg Dancing" by Liz Jensen, which was published in 1996 by Overlook Press (according to Amazon.com). I don't have the book with me now so I cannot give you a page reference, but I remember the sentence is something like, "My mother always thought I'd turn into a raggedy, prastuphulic woman, with a severe drinking problem.""
other than guessing from context, I am metagrobolized and bereft of clues.
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It looks like Greek, but the closest roots are pras- 'leek' + tuphl- 'blind': make of that what you will.
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prastuphulic If the prophecy turned out correct, then in all probability it must be a synonym for matricidal
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I don't know what the penalty for wrong and unscientific guesses here should be, but I guess that this is actually a nonsense word, because neither root nor ending is recognizable.
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another subscriber responded "I believe it's of Welsh origin & means heavyset... with a hint of slatternly. I have a small Collins Welsh dictionary & there're some near cognates in it..."
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...sounds as though it should have been -philic" and perhaps a few other typos here and there as well.
One could also decide that this is all just washing a hog in public...
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