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LONGHAR - very, very funny.

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Naughty me.


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BLACKLEG

PRONUNCIATION: (BLAK-leg)

MEANING: noun:
1. One who works while other workers are on strike.
2. A swindler, especially in games such as gambling.
3. One of various diseases of plants or cattle.

ETYMOLOGY: It’s unclear how the term came to be employed for a strikebreaker. Earliest documented use: 1722.
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CLACKLEG - playing the spoons on your prosthesis; sounds like castinets

BLANKLEG - a clean cast for your friends to sign

BACKLEG - what a dog marks his territory by raising

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DOUBLE-DOME

PRONUNCIATION: (DUHB-uhl-dohm)

MEANING: noun: An intellectual.

ETYMOLOGY: From double + dome (slang for head). Earliest documented use: 1938.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Choose only one master -- Nature. -Rembrandt, painter and etcher (15 Jul 1606-1669)
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DOUBLED 'OME - scored from second base (Cockney pronunciation)

DOUBLEDOM - twinship

DOUBLE-DORE - Hogwarts Headmaster with a cold (British spelling, again)

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Double-lome- hummus for two.

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WHITE-LIVERED

PRONUNCIATION: (hwyt-LIV-uhrd)

MEANING:adjective: Cowardly.

ETYMOLOGY: From the former belief that a lack of vigor or courage was from a deficiency of bile which showed in a light-colored liver. Earliest documented use: 1546. Also known as lily-livered.
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WHITE-LIKE-RED - famed cardiologist enjoys wine with his meat

WHITE-LOVE-RED - same as above, only much more so

WHITE-LI-VERSED - ready with a small untruth

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DITTOHEAD

PRONUNCIATION: (DIT-oh-head)

MEANING: noun: One who mindlessly agrees with an idea or opinion.

ETYMOLOGY: After callers on the talk radio program Rush Limbaugh Show who often unquestioningly agree with the radio host. The word began as a term to describe listeners to the show who would agree with the previous caller’s effusive praise of Limbaugh with the word “ditto”. From ditto (same, likewise), from Italian (Tuscan dialect ditto) detto (said, above-mentioned), from Latin dictus (said), from dicere (to say). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deik- (to show, to pronounce solemnly), which also gave us judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, paradigm, diktat, fatidic, hoosegow, interdict, retrodiction. Earliest documented use: 1989.

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DITTOHEAR - an "earworm;" a song you can't get out of your mind

DITTYHEAD - writer of advertising jingles

DICTOHEAD - CEO of Dragon Incorporated


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Dittocred-Yeah, what he said.

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Dittofed- the ditto enforcement

Dittobled- I shot the sheriff

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