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AILUROPHOBIA

PRONUNCIATION: (ai-loor-uh-FOH-bee-uh, ay-)

MEANING: noun: A fear of cats.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ailuro- (cat) + phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1905.
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MAILUROPHOBIA - fear of getting prostate cancer

AXILUROPHOBIA - fear of armpits

ALLUROPHOBIA - fear of being attractive

ABLUROPHOBIA - My eyes! I can't see!

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PYROMANIA

PRONUNCIATION: (py-roh-MAY-nee-uh, -MAYN-yuh)

MEANING: noun: An obsessive impulse to start fires.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pyro- (fire) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1840.
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PROMANIA - I'm just wild about professionals...

PYGOMANIA - ...and fascinated by backsides

PO ROMANIA - the river and the European country it doesn't flow through

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CLAUSTROPHOBIA

PRONUNCIATION: (klo-struh-FO-bee-uh)

MEANING: noun: A fear of being in a confined place or a restrictive situation.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin claustrum (lock, bolt, confined place) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1879. The opposite is agoraphobia.
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CLASSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the best of one's kind

CLUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being part of a bunch

CLAUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the World's Best Santa

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Pyromanina- hot little hands

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Pyromaniña - señorita with a hot temper ?

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Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants...

Claustrophibia- Musculskeletal stress. (When the tibia is broken it may cause edema. In some cases claustrophibia occurs.)


I came across Che Gelida Manina recently during a project on The Three Tenors. Timing.

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SILLAGE

PRONUNCIATION: (see-AHZH)

MEANING: noun: The trail of scent that lingers behind from a perfume; also, the degree to which it lingers.

ETYMOLOGY: From French sillage (wake, trail). Earliest documented use: early 1800s.
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ILLAGE - the total amount of time spent being sick

SILLRAGE - uncontrollable fury at seeing dead insects right outside your window

SILTAGE - all that fine dirt clogging the harbor (see also FILLAGE)

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Snillage- the effect of kindness and helpfulness

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ANDROCRACY

PRONUNCIATION: (an-DROK-ruh-see)

MEANING: noun: A system ruled by men.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin andro- (male), from Greek + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1903.
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ADDOCRACY - government by accretion (see also ANDOCRACY)

AND/ORCRACY - government that goes two steps forward, one step back

ANY-ROCRACY - government at random

MANDROCRACY - you don't really want me to explain that, now do you?

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PINETUM

PRONUNCIATION: (py-NEE-tuhm)

MEANING: noun: An arboretum of coniferous trees such as pines.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pinetum (pine grove), from pinus (pine). Earliest documented use: 1828
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SPINETUM - a place where small upright pianos are grown

OPINETUM - a place where opinions are thoughtfully digested

PRINETUM - very poorly pronounced Springtime in Paris

PINEMUM - a late-fall-flowering conifer

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