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Brasst Hat- an eye popping headache causing ones head to explode.

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BRASS HAT

PRONUNCIATION: (bras hat)

MEANING: noun: A high-ranking official, especially from the military or police.

ETYMOLOGY: From the gilt insignia worn on the cap. Also see brass ring, brass collar, brassy. Earliest documented use: 1887.

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BRASSCAT Out, you impudent metal statue of a feline!

BASS HAT - for discriminating fishermen

BRA'S SHOT - need a new Maidenform

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SACKCLOTH

PRONUNCIATION: (SAK-kloth)

MEANING: noun:
1. A coarse cloth of jute, flax, etc., used for making sacks.
2. A garment made of this cloth, worn to express remorse, humility, grief, etc.
3. An expression of penitence, mourning, humility, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Bible in which wearing of sackcloth and sprinkling of ashes is indicated as a sign of repentance, mourning, humility, etc. Earliest documented use: before 1400.

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Is "epithet" when one word is almost always associated with another, like "rosy-fingered / dawn" in Homer? I've never heard of "Sackcloth" when it wasn't followed by "and ashes"...
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SACKCLOTH - 1. Hoity-toity name for sheeets

and in the same vein (so to speak)
SACKCLOTS - pulmonary thromboemboli from too much bed rest
and
SACKSLOTH - major-league couch potato

BACKCLOTH - what the shirt is made of that I'd give you off mine


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STRAIGHTLACED
or STRAITLACED

PRONUNCIATION: (STRAYT-layst)

MEANING: adjective: Excessively strict, rigid, old-fashioned, or prudish.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English streit (narrow), from Old French estreit, from Latin strictus, past particle of stringere (to bind, draw tight) + laqueus (noose). Earliest documented use: 1630.
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STRAINLACED - wearing an EXTREMELY tight corset

STRAIGHTLACKED - poker player went bust

STRAIGHTLAXED - booked non-stop to Los Angeles

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straight-maced - living without bear hugs

straight-paced - living


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“The Revenant”: An Interview With Costume Designer Jacqueline West
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sandsculotte- bathing suit made of sand; circa 2016


Bathing is a sport
Enjoyed by great and small
In suits of any sort
Though better none at all.
[Anonymous, 19th-century poem]
history of bating suits

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After perusing your site, I agree with ' none at all '.


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SANSCULOTTE
or SANS-CULOTTE

PRONUNCIATION: (sanz-kyoo-LOT)

MEANING: noun:
1. An extreme radical republican during the French Revolution.
2. A radical or revolutionary.

ETYMOLOGY: From French, literally, without knee breeches. In the French Revolution, this was the aristocrats’ term of contempt for the ill-clad volunteers of the Revolutionary army who rejected knee breeches as a symbol of the upper class and adopted pantaloons. As often happens with such epithets, the revolutionaries themselves adopted it as a term of pride. Earliest documented use: 1790.
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SASS-CULOTTE - hot pants

SAN OSCULOTTE - Valentine, the Kissing Saint

SANS-CURLOTTE - just donated all her ringlets to Locks of Love

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Sootleg- firefighter of the Moab Desert Peoples

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