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supage- the action or process of eating, something, sometime.

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GRATULATE

PRONUNCIATION: (GRACH-uh-layt)

MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To congratulate.
2. To express joy at the sight of something or someone.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin gratulari (to congratulate), from con- (with) + gratulari (to show joy), from gratus (pleasing). Earliest documented use: 1567.
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GYRATULATE - composed of many small particles going around in circles

GRATUIATE - tipsy

GRABULATE - Personal Foul, loss of 15 yards from the point of the infraction, automatic First Down

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Granulate- subatomic fairy dust your gran uses during the winter solstice

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BOUILLABAISSE

PRONUNCIATION: (boo-yuh-BAYS, BOO-yuh-bays, BOOL-yuh-bays, bool-yuh-BAYS)

MEANING: noun: 1. A rich and spicy fish stew or soup. 2. A mixture of incongruous things.

ETYMOLOGY: From French bouillabaisse, from Provençal bouiabaisso, from Latin bullire (to boil) + bassus (low). Earliest documented use: 1855.
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BOOILLABAISSE - a special soup served at a Halloween party

BOUILLABAISTE - or use it to moisten your turkey as it roasts

BOULLABAISSE - first or second or third sack at a Yale baseball game

BROUILLABAISSE - the ultimate in before-dinner beers, rich and spicy

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Behry-Pick- paint your clafoutis

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CHERRY-PICK

PRONUNCIATION: (CHER-ee-pik)

MEANING: verb tr.: To pick in a highly selective manner. Example, to cherry-pick data to suit a hypothesis.

ETYMOLOGY: From the idea of picking the best cherries from a tree. Earliest documented use: 1966.
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CHEERY-PICK - an upbeat banjo or guitar riff (like this one)

CHERRY-PUCK - a bizarre award given to the Boston Bruins coach in 1979 after a particularly egregious hockey maneuver backfired

SHERRY-PICK - "I'll have the Bristol Cream, please"

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RECHAUFFE

PRONUNCIATION: (ray-sho-FAY)

MEANING: noun: 1. Warmed leftover food. 2. Rehash: old reworked material.

ETYMOLOGY: From French réchauffé (reheated, rehashed), from chauffer (to warm), from Latin calefacere (to make warm), from calere (to be hot) + facere (to make). Other (some hot, some not) words derived from the Latin root calere are chafe, nonchalant, calefacient, and chauffeur (literally, a stoker, who warmed up the engine in early steam-driven cars). Earliest documented use: 1778.
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PRECHAUFFE - eaten unwarmed, like biftek tartare or cold pizza

RECHUFFE - Angry again?

RICHAUFFE - having a lot of French loud iron

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Rechauffed- afternoon tea and biscuits

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SACCHARINE

PRONUNCIATION: (SAK-uh-rin, -REEN, -ruhn, -ryn)

MEANING: adjective: Excessively sweet, sentimental, or ingratiating.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin saccharum (sugar), from Greek sakkharon, from Sanskrit sarkara (gravel, sugar). Earliest documented use: 1674.

NOTES: The name of the synthetic sweetening compound, saccharin, is derived from the same Latin word as today’s term. The compound was first produced in 1879, but the usage of the word saccharine goes much earlier. For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1841:
“One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.”

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BACCHARINE - orgiastic

SACCHORINE - fire the singer!

SACCHARMINE- a bag of soft toilet paper

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