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#216666 - 05/12/14 01:19 PM Monday's Word [Re: jenny jenny]
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PLAZARETTO - a very small public gathering place, the center of a tiny village
LAMARETTO - a sweet almond-flavored cordial preferred by Buddhist monks
#216680 - 05/13/14 05:08 PM Hey bumptiouses! Today's Word is BUMPTIOUS [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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PRONUNCIATION: (BUHMP-shuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Self-assertive in an obnoxious way.
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably a blend of bump + fractious or a blend of bump + presumptuous. Earliest documented use: 1803.
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BUMTIOUS - the attribute of having a shapely bum.
As in the song:
I can't dance
I can't talk
The only thing about me
Is the way I walk
#216684 - 05/14/14 12:36 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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UMPTIOUS - making wild and arbitrary calls at the plate, throwing people out of the game for no reason - in short, acting like a spoiled and overindulged baseball referee. A combination of "RAMBUNCTIOUS" and ... oh, you get the point.
#216686 - 05/14/14 04:37 AM Joined: Jun 2010
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PRONUNCIATION: (SLIM-zee)
MEANING:
adjective: Flimsy; frail.
ETYMOLOGY:
A blend of slim + flimsy. Earliest documented use: 1845.
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SLIMEY -
1) worse than slimsy
2) like a snake
3) like slime
4) like a politician
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SHIMSY - borogoves that twerk
(a combination of shimmy and mimsy, as in "Mimsy were the borogoves." I know it's true, because I read it in Jabbewocky.)
And then there's SLIMSTY, a resort for pigs on a diet
PS: Has anyone proposed that "twerk" is a combination of "Twist" and "Jerk"?
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#216704 - 05/15/14 01:28 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Me and Slimsy were climbing atop a waterfall in Mississippi.
Suddenly Slimsy slipsy and then slidsy and slamsy into the slime pool below. Slimsy can't swimsy but that didn't matter. The highest waterfall in flat Mississippi is measured in inches.
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STICTION
PRONUNCIATION: (STIK-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The frictional force that must be overcome to set one object in motion when it is in contact with another.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of static + friction. Earliest documented use: 1946.
[Lectors note: I would propose it's rather "sticky + friction.")
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STICKION - a microscopic subatomic Post-It note for labelling atoms
#216707 - 05/15/14 03:11 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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PRONUNCIATION: (STIK-shuhn)
MEANING:
noun: The frictional force that must be overcome to set one object in motion when it is in contact with another.
ETYMOLOGY:
A blend of static + friction. Earliest documented use: 1946.
USAGE:
"Thom watched the nurse's backside as she left the low gravity and the stiction in her shoes made her suggestive."
R.E. Wilder; Captain Thom and Orions Thunder; Dog Ear Publishing; 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before. -Clifton Fadiman, editor and critic (1904-1999)
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TICTION (TICK-shuhn ) - The frictional force that must be overcome to set one object in motion when it is in contact with another.
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Also -
TICTION - why it's so hard to get that blasted bloated blood-sucking insect off. Today, a biting tick; tomorrow, Lyme disease !!
#216720 - 05/16/14 06:04 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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MUZZY
PRONUNCIATION:
(MUHZ-ee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Mentally confused.
2. Blurred; indistinct.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps a blend of muddled + fuzzy. Earliest documented use: 1728.
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MR UZZY - the guy who invented that popular semi-automatic machine pistol
MUZZA - a less popular Greek fast food; found on the menu four lines above PIZZA
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