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AFFLUENZA

PRONUNCIATION: (af-loo-EN-zuh)

MEANING: noun: A feeling of malaise accompanied by lack of motivation, dissatisfaction, feelings of guilt, especially among wealthy young people.

ETYMOLOGY: A blend of affluence + influenza. Both words are from Latin fluere (to flow). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhleu- (to swell or overflow), from which flow words such as influence, fluctuate, fluent, fluid, fluoride, flush, flux, reflux, superfluous, fluvial, and profluent. Earliest documented use: 1973.

USAGE: “When Ethan Couch was 16, he was spared prison after killing four people in a drink-driving accident because a judge found that he suffered from affluenza ...
“Couch’s blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit and there were traces of Valium and marijuana in his system when he took seven friends for a high-speed ride in his pick-up truck on June 15, 2013. He ploughed into a broken-down car at over 70 mph, killing four people who were working on it. Two of his friends were critically injured and one was left paralysed. ...
“Couch’s defence hinged on a psychologist’s evidence that the boy could not understand the consequences of his actions because he had been raised by ‘profoundly dysfunctional’ millionaire parents who encouraged his bad behaviour. ‘Instead of the golden rule, which was -- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you -- he was taught ‘We have the gold, we make the rules,’ Dick Miller [a psychologist hired by the defense] testified.”
Ben Hoyle; Boy Who was Too Rich for Jail Goes on the Run; The Times (London, UK); Dec 18, 2015.

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ARFLUENZA - my dog is sick, I can tell just from hearing him bark

WAFFLUENZA - a pathological inability to make up one's mind

AFFLUENNA - the chaperone is very well-heeled...

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BAFFLUENZA- -totally clueless all the time.


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AFFLUENDA - terminus of a chimney, eh?

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PEEPS

PRONUNCIATION: (peeps)

MEANING: noun: People, especially when referring to one’s friends or associates.

ETYMOLOGY: Shortened form of people. Earliest documented use: 1847.

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PEPS - Shortened form of a popular soda

OPEEPS - Whose sheep did you say these are?

PEEPHS - measures of urinary acidity

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ONEROUS

PRONUNCIATION: (ON-uh-ruhs, OH-nuhr-)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Oppressively burdensome.
2. Having obligations or responsibilities that outweigh the benefits.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French onereus, from Latin onerosus, from onus (burden). Earliest documented use: 1395.

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GONEROUS - 1. like Lear's eldest daughter; 2. like a venereal disease (OK, if you insist, an STD)

ONE-R OPUS - a specific lipogram, wherein every word has one and exactly one R

ÂNEROUS - like an ass (how's your French?); not unlike "asinine"


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ODEROUS-badly in need of a tic-tac


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Onedrous- David Bowie, "a divinely inspired and purposefully lived life"




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TORPOR

PRONUNCIATION: (TOR-puhr)

MEANING: noun: A state marked by apathy, lethargy, and inactivity.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin torpere (to be stiff or numb). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ster- (stiff), which also gave us starch, stare, stork, starve, cholesterol, torpedo, and torpid. Earliest documented use: 1607.
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TORMOR - rent into smaller pieces

TORPORK - spareribs, eaten without benefit of cutlery

TORROR - mortal fear of getting a run in one's stockings

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TORTOR -raw steak


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