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MOIL
PRONUNCIATION: (moyl)
MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To work hard; to toil. 2. To churn. verb tr.: To make wet or muddy. noun: 1. Hard work. 2. Confusion or turmoil.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French moillier (to moisten), from Latin mollis (soft). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us malt, melt, mollify, smelt, enamel, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1611.
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MNIL - I remember nothing
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Mail- letters and packages conveyed by the postal system
Toil- to work extremely hard or incessantly
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GUFF
PRONUNCIATION: (guf)
MEANING: noun: 1. Nonsense. 2. Insolent talk.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps imitative. Earliest documented use: 1825. _____________________________
GUEFF - Thomaf Jefferfon takef a wild ftab at the anfwer
QUFF - "Have a drink? No way!" (Or, if you insist, "No A!"}
GUFOF - someone who wastes time when he should be working
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WEFT
PRONUNCIATION: (weft)
MEANING: noun: The threads that run across the width of a woven fabric and are interlaced through the warp (threads that run lengthwise).
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English wefta (weft). Ultimately from the Indo-European root webh- (to weave; to move quickly), which also gave us weave, webster, waffle, wave, waver, and wobble. Earliest documented use: 725. _________________________
WEET - what bred is made from
WET - what it used to be made from
WEPT - what they did to the crumbs on the floor after the bred was all et
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QUAFF
PRONUNCIATION: (kwof)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To drink deeply. noun: An alcoholic drink; also the act of drinking.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin, probably imitative. Earliest documented use: 1521 ______________________________
QUARF - a pier that can't make up its mind whether it's French (quai) or English (wharf)
QUAFFL - a libation served in a hollowed-out quiddich ball, enjoyed after a major victory
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QUARF - a pier that can't make up its mind whether it's French (quai) or English (wharf)
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GANNET
PRONUNCIATION: (GAN-it)
MEANING: noun: 1. A large seabird known for catching fish by diving from a height. 2. A greedy person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English ganot. Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghans- (goose), which also gave us goose, gosling, gander, and gunsel. Earliest documented use: before 1000. Gannets’ reputation for being greedy isn’t deserved though. ________________________
GARNET - a bird that swears mildly when it misses the fish it's diving for
GRANNET - a hard stone composed of little grains
RANNET - 1. sent up the flagpole (but no one saluted); 2. a small frog
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