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GAULEITER

PRONUNCIATION: (GOU-ly-tuhr)

MEANING: noun: An overbearing petty official.

ETYMOLOGY: From German Gauleiter (a district leader in Nazi Germany), from Gau (district) + Leiter (leader). Earliest documented use: 1936.
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GASLEITER - turned on the streetlights in late-19th-century Berlin

EAU-LEITER - 1,000 cc of water from the Seine

GAUL EIDER - a French duck

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CLERISY

PRONUNCIATION: (KLER-i-see)

MEANING: noun: The well-educated class; the literati; the intelligentsia.

ETYMOLOGY: From German Klerisei (clergy), from Latin clericus (cleric), from Greek klerikos (belonging to the clergy), from Greek kleros (inheritance). Earliest documented use: 1834. The clerisy, the clergy, and clerks are all cousins, etymologically speaking.
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CELERISY - the fast-moving

SCLERISY - looking at the whites of your eyes

CLERITY - plain speaking, in Brooklyn

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CLERICY The Vatican


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HENCHMAN

PRONUNCIATION: (HENCH-muhn)

MEANING: noun: A supporter or subordinate, especially one who engages in illegal activities for a powerful boss or criminal.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hengest (a male horse) + man. Earlier a henchman was an attendant who walked or rode beside a prince. Earliest documented use: 1360.
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BENCHMAN - Jacoby Brisett, before this week and after next week. A player whose role is mostly to warm the bench.

HUNCHMAN - 1. Quasimodo; 2. the psychic who discredited himself by cancelling an appearance due to unforeseen circumstances

HENCEMAN - a student of Socrates, as presented by Plato

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noodle-faker - spiralized summer squash

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POODLEFAKER

PRONUNCIATION: (POOD-l fay-kuhr)

MEANING: noun: A man who seeks out the company of upper-status women, especially for advancing himself.

ETYMOLOGY: The term poodle-faker was British slang for a newly commissioned officer who cultivates female company, especially for social or professional advancement. From poodle (a breed developed to retrieve game from the water), from German Pudel (poodle), from Low German pudeln (to splash about), from pudel (puddle). Earliest documented use: 1902.

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POODLEWAKER - canine alarm clock

POODLEFAKIR - the Dog Swami

DOODLEFAKER - the artist behind counterfeit Google splashscreen cartoons (Didja see today's? Google is 18 years old today! Have they registered to vote, do you think?)

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DOODLEFAKERME, in high schools boring classes.


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HARE-BRAINED

PRONUNCIATION: (HAYR-braynd)

adjective: Foolish; reckless; ridiculous.

From the allusion that a harebrained person has the brain as small as a hare’s. From Old English hara (hare) + braegen (brain). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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HARE-TRAINED - well-schooled in the Krishna movement, a branch of Hinduism, formally known as Gaudiya Vaishnavism

HATE-BRAINED - skin-headed

SHARE-BRAINED - forwarding email and internet messages without any consideration of their appropriateness or even truth


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DUCK SOUP

PRONUNCIATION: (DUHK soop)

MEANING: noun: Something that is very easy to do.

ETYMOLOGY: Is duck soup very easy to make? How the term duck soup came to be known for an easily accomplished task is unclear. Earliest documented use: 1912
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DUSK SOUP - a light meal at sunset...

DUNK SOUP - ...suitable for moistening your dry doughnut

DUCK SOUR - Donald, why the fowl disposition today?

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