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Smooterkin- sweet home Alabama kin

w00terkin- the 1337 property room

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Originally Posted By: May
Poppylock- a useless lock with little to no value

Poppymock- beau- ootiful soo- oop


Och = Dutch for Alas
Poppycock inspired Alice in Wonderland. I pass the following images daily at school. I take credit for none. Oh, I guess, we just finished soups, too.





Can anyone figure out the reflected quote?

Oliver Wendell Holmes...

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Brattle- My way or the highway

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BRABBLE

PRONUNCIATION: (BRAB-uhl)

MEANING: verb intr.: To argue over petty matters.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle Dutch brabbelen (to quarrel or jabber). Earliest documented use: 1500.
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BRIBBLE - a cloth tied loosely around Baby's neck to catch the drooling: a combination of "bib" and "dribble"

BRABIBLE - the Maidenform Handbook

BI-RABBLE - an undisciplined two-part group (like the US Congress)

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ANODYNE

PRONUNCIATION: (AN-uh-dyn)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Relieving pain; soothing.
2. Bland or insipid: not likely to provoke or offend.
noun:
1. Something that soothes or comforts.
2. A medicine that relieves pain.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin anodynos, from Greek anodynos, from a- (not) + odyne (pain). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite), which also gave us edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, postprandial, esurient, and edacity. Earliest documented use: 1543.
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ANUDYNE - a fragment of the force that keeps this Board going

ANODYE - what gives anodized metal its color

ANOMYNE -
1. (pronounced "ANN-o-mine") - the girl Raggedy Andy sings lovesongs to when he's a bit under the influence and feeling maudlin
2. (pronounced "a-NOM-in-ee") - a candidate for political office

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SALACIOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LAY-shuhs)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Obscene. 2. Lustful.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin salax (lustful, fond of leaping), from salire (to leap). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sel- (to jump), which also gave us salient, sally, sauté, assail, assault, exult, insult, result, somersault, resile, desultory, and saltant. Earliest documented use: 1661.
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SALACIONUS - the burden of being lecherous

SALARIOUS - a laughable stipend

FALACIOUS - singing euphemistic choruses

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Procity- for living in the city
Prodity- for doing it yourself, in regards to moving
Propity- for stone fruit
Propity- for the love of Mr. T, A Team

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PROBITY

PRONUNCIATION: (PRO-bi-tee)

MEANING: noun: Integrity and honesty.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin probus (upright, good). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (forward), which also gave us paramount, prime, proton, prow, German Frau (woman), and Hindi purana (old). Earliest documented use: 1425.

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PROBRITY - in favor of England

PROBITH - what one doth (or should) before one jumpith to conclusions

PYROBITY - burning small particles

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RECTITUDE

PRONUNCIATION: (REK-ti-tood, -tyood)

MEANING: noun:
1. Moral uprightness.
2. Correctness.
3. Straightness.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rectus (right, straight). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead or rule) that also gave us regime, direct, rectangle, erect, alert, source, surge, recto, abrogate, arrogate, incorrigible, interregnum, prorogue, regent, regnant, and supererogatory. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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REACTITUDE - a hair-trigger temper

RESTITUDE - just the opposite: slow to respond, verging on torpor

RECTITUNE - what the amateur band did to my song


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Rectimude- mood wrecker

(Profity, cent that is. Peace out word homies)

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