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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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