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BOYCOTT

PRONUNCIATION: (BOI-kot)

MEANING:
verb tr.: To protest by refusing to buy a product or to deal with a person, organization, nation, etc.
noun: The practice or an instance of this.

ETYMOLOGY: After Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), an English land agent in Ireland, who was ostracized for refusing to lower rents during a time of poor harvest. Earliest documented use: 1880.
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BOYNOTT - Bruce Jenner

BOBCOTT - a lynx with a Caribbean accent

BOSCOTT - what you get if you cross a Bosc pear with a Grampa Ott morning glory

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CHAUVINISM

PRONUNCIATION: (SHO-vuh-niz-uhm)

MEANING: noun: The belief in the superiority of one’s country, group, gender, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: After Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier in Napoleon’s army, noted for his fanatical patriotism. The figure of Nicolas Chauvin was popularized in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers. Earliest documented use: 1870
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ACHAUVINISM - belief in sneezing

COHAUVINISM - belief in doing things by halves, knowing that two halves makes a whole

CHAVINISM - belief in potato soup
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I sure hope Anu doesn't pick "Gerrymander" for tomorrow's word...

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Lovemace- Aurignacian stone tool used primarily in mating ceremonies, often accompanied by hair pulling into the cave

Lovemace #9- potion derived from the Aril of nutmeg

LoveMACE- the telescope will be the second-largest gamma ray telescope in the world and will help the scientific community enhance its understanding in the field of love

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Nice, May !
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LOVELACE

PRONUNCIATION: (LUV-lays)

MEANING: noun: A seducer; a licentious man.

ETYMOLOGY: After Robert Lovelace, a dissolute character in Samuel Richardson’s novel Clarissa (1748). Earliest documented use: 1751. Other eponyms with similar senses are Casanova, Don Juan, and Romeo.
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LOVELACK - a licentious literary character's underlying motivation, often

LOVERACE - a licentious piano player and showman from 1950s TV - "Where's my candelabra?"

LOVELUCE - a not-particularly-licentious TV sitcom from the same era

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The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth....my what big eyes you have. Lol

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North wind

Otchi Chyorna...red cape...France
https://youtu.be/JQFEPydwJ0s

Boycott Immorality-
https://youtu.be/U-tv250YkXE

Chinny-chin chin (wait for it)
https://youtu.be/yosQUBdfwzU

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...Wow!

That's a far cry from Liberace !

Wish my Russian was good enough to understand the writing in the bar.

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FRIBBLE

PRONUNCIATION: (FRIB-uhl)

MEANING:
verb intr.: To act in a wasteful or frivolous manner.
verb tr.: To fritter away.
noun: A wasteful or frivolous person or thing.

ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of frivol (to behave frivolously), from Latin frivolus (worthless). Earliest documented use: 1610.
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FRABBLE - a board game for wordlovers with a speech impediment

FIBBLE - a small falsehood

FRIBBLE® - trademarked name for a large, thick milkshake-like cold drink, sold by the Newport Creamery company (and for a while by the Friendly's chain: drink three, get a fourth one free!)

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

...Wow!

That's a far cry from Liberace !

Wish my Russian was good enough to understand the writing in the bar.


I don't know anything about any of you. It's difficult to know how to write with anything but imagination.

I took "tatting" and bumped into a big eye....that, combined with "wofa" inspired "the big, bad wolf." It seemed to have a "connection" to the "theme." Anyway....little boat from tatting.

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....they can give you brain freeze?

Bepie- to do the impossible
Telie- tasseography gone wrong
Belit- turned up and popping

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