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RUMMY

PRONUNCIATION: (RUH-mee)

MEANING:
adjective: Odd or unconventional.
noun
1. Drunkard.
2. Any of various card games in which the objective is to make sets or sequences of three or more cards.

ETYMOLOGY:
adjective: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1828.
noun:
1. From rum (an alcoholic drink distilled from sugarcane products). Earliest documented use: 1843.
2. Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1910.
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ARUMMY - lily-like

RUB MY... - any of several gestures my dog makes, asking to be stroked someplace not yet specified

RUM,NY -
1. former Governor of Massachusetts and Presidential candidate
2. city in upstate New York about 17 miles west-north-west of Utica

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GAGE

PRONUNCIATION: (gayj)

MEANING:
noun:
1. A pledge: something offered as a guarantee.
2. Something thrown down as a symbol of a challenge to fight. (See also: gauntlet)
verb tr.:
To offer something as a guarantee of good faith.
Origin: From Old French g(u)age (to wage, gage), of Germanic origin. The Germanic w sound became g or gu in some French dialects. That’s the reason we have the doublets such as wage/gage, warranty/guarantee, ward/guard (also reward/regard), warden/guardian, war/guerre, and William/Guillaume. Earliest documented use: 14th century.

noun:
1. An instrument or criterion for measuring or testing.
2. The thickness or size of something. For example, diameter of a gun barrel, thickness of sheet metal, distance between the rails of a railroad track.
verb tr.: To measure or estimate.
Origin: From Old French gauge, or unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1444.

noun:
Any of the varieties of plum, such as the greengage.
Origin: After William Gage, botanist who brought it to England from France. Earliest documented use: 1718.
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GANGE - one river in India. Its source is in the North in the Himalayas near the border with Tibet, flows mainly from West to East and through Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal

GRAGE - where you pahk the cah

GAGLE - a colection of gese

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SPITFIRE

PRONUNCIATION: (SPIT-fyr)

MEANING: noun: Someone high-spirited, quick-tempered, and outspoken.

ETYMOLOGY: Describing one who appears to spit fire. Earliest documented use: 1600. A synonym, also a tosspot word, is shitfire.
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SPITFARE - what you roast and then eat at a barbecue. See also SPITFIRE above, PITFIRE, and (if the grill overturns) SPILTFIRE

SPITFORE - how the angry Scotsman warned he was about to tee off

SPLITFIRE - what Moses had to do to bring his people out of Egypt across the Red Volcano

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SHUTEYE

PRONUNCIATION: (SHUHT-eye)

MEANING: noun: Sleep.

ETYMOLOGY: Describing the literal shutting of one’s eyes when sleeping. Earliest documented use: 1899.
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SLUTEYE - what a hooker looks you over with

SHUTNEYE - a sweet-and-sour condiment eaten with many Indian foods

BHU-TEYE - what you use to lace up your footwear ( see also SHU-TEYE )

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ROTGUT

PRONUNCIATION: (ROT-guht)

MEANING: noun: A cheap or inferior alcoholic drink.

ETYMOLOGY: From the possibility that a drink that’s poorly made or adulterated could damage the internal organs of the drinker. Earliest documented use: 1632.
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ROTMUT - mixed-breed attack dog

ROTGOUT - Uric-acid-metabolism disease with necrotizing tophi

RO-TOUT - hang by a rope and give tips on the races

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CLUTCHFIST

PRONUNCIATION: (KLUHCH-fist)

MEANING: noun: A miser.

ETYMOLOGY: Describing someone who clutches money in a fist. From Old English clyccan (to clench) + fyst (fist). Earliest documented use: 1643.
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CLUTCHIST - one who declines to use a car equipped with automatic transmission

CLUTCHFISH - how many flying aquatic birds catch their dinner

CRUTCHFIST - a painful hand that won't open after prolonged use of crutches

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FUSSPOT

PRONUNCIATION: (FUHS-pot)

MEANING: noun: One who worries or complains about unimportant things: a fussy person.

ETYMOLOGY: From fuss (to worry or complain about trifles), of uncertain origin, perhaps an echoic word. Earliest documented use: 1921. A synonym, that is also a tosspot word, is fussbudget.
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US-SPOT - our favorite trysting place

FUSES-POT - the rheostat (potentiometer) that used to go where the circuit-breakers are now

FUSSPORT - where Lucy van Pelt lives

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PLUNDERBUND

PRONUNCIATION: (PLUN-duhr-buhnd)

MEANING: noun: A group of political, business, and financial interests engaged in exploiting the public.

ETYMOLOGY: From plunder (pillage), from German plündern (to loot) + bund, from German Bund (association). Earliest documented use: 1902.
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BLUNDERBUND - bumblingly inept leadership

PLUMDERBUND - explore the depths of the Merkel government

PLUNDERBAND - a gang of hoodlums

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OREXIGENIC

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-rek-suh-JEN-ik)

MEANING: adjective: Stimulating the appetite.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek orexis (longing) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1907.
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OREO-IGENIC - cookiemaker

T.REXIGENIC - ancestor of the Dinosaurs

OR EX-GENIC - alternatively, inheritable but outside the DNA

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PALILOGY

PRONUNCIATION: (puh-LIL-uh-jee)

MEANING: noun: A repetition of words, especially for emphasis.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek palin (again) + -logy (words). Related words are palinode and palindrome. Earliest documented use: 1721.
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PARLILOGY - halting French speech

PAULILOGY - the study of the various Popes Paul

MALILOGY -
1. bad words
2. the study of a small West African nation
3. wife of Father Lilogy

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