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BUNCHBACK What many people need to do with hair that is always falling
in their faces.
I like your kid in Brooklyn
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JAYHAWKER
PRONUNCIATION: (JAY-haw-kuhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. A robber. 2. A native or resident of Kansas.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally, a Jayhawker was a member of antislavery guerrillas in Kansas or Missouri during the US Civil War. It’s not clear why they were called Jayhawkers. Earliest documented use: 1860.
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JAYHAWKERY - the downfall of Panem and its Hunger Games; selling the Revolution to the outlying provinces
JOYHAWKER -
1. G-d Rest Ye Merry, Merchants, May you make the Yuletide pay (Tom Lehrer)
2. It's the old Dope Peddler, with his powdered happiness (also Tom Lehrer)
JAYHAWSER - (nautical) a rope one grade thicker than an I-hawser
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EXPERGEFACIENT
PRONUNCIATION: (eks-puhr-juh-FAY-shuhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Awakening or arousing.
noun: A drug or other agent that awakens or arouses.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin expergefacere (to awaken), from expergisci (to become awake) + facere (to make or do). Earliest documented use: 1821.
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EXPURGEFACIENT - laxative
EXPERGEFACIEST - the best pepper-upper in the whole wide world !
EXPERTEFACIENT - it'll teach you everything in just six quick lessons
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SEXPERGEFACIENT teen age hormones
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PATERNOSTER
PRONUNCIATION: (PAY-tuhr NOS-tuhr, PAH-, PAT-)
MEANING: noun
1. A sequence of words used as a formula, a charm, etc.
2. A continuously moving endless elevator that goes in a loop.
3. The Lord’s Prayer; one of the certain larger beads in a rosary on which the Lord’s Prayer is said.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pater noster (our father), opening words of the Lord’s Prayer in Latin. Earliest documented use: before 900.
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PASTERNOSTER - our local parish priest, who can't spell
PATTERN OSTER - how to assemble your new blender
PATEROOSTER - alpha male in the henhouse
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MITTIMUS
PRONUNCIATION: (MIT-uh-muhs)
MEANING: noun: An official order to commit someone to prison.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mittimus (we send), the first word of such an order, from mittere (to send). Earliest documented use: 1443.
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MUTTIMUS - Superdog
MITTIPUS - Supercat
MITTIMAUS - Mighty Mouse
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TITTIMUS – A cheery little bird that makes your heart go pittipat.
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TITTIMUS – A cheery little bird that makes your heart go pittipat. That's the tufted one, right?
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GAUDEAMUS
PRONUNCIATION: (gau-di-AHM-uhs)
MEANING: noun: A convivial gathering or merry-making of students at a college or university.
ETYMOLOGY: From the students’ song “De Brevitate Vitae” (On the Shortness of Life) whose first word is gaudeamus (let’s rejoice). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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GAUZEAMUS - let's wrap him up like a mummy
GAUDEAMOS - celebrate the famous cookie-maker
EAUDEAMUS - the new fragrance from Paris
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DEBENTURE
PRONUNCIATION: (di-BEN-chuhr)
MEANING: noun: A certificate acknowledging a debt.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin debentur (they are due/owing), the first word in early certificates of indebtedness. From Latin debere (to owe), ultimately from the Indo-European root ghabh- (to give or to receive), which is also the source of give, gift, able, habit, prohibit, due, duty, adhibit, and habile. Earliest documented use: 1455.
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DEBENTIRE - the Compleat Devorah
DEVENTURE - withdraw from a dubious enterprise
DECENTURE - Of course my clothes are on, some on in!
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