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COEQUALITY
PRONUNCIATION: (koh-ee-KWAH-li-tee)
MEANING: noun: The state of being equal with one another, as in rank, power, value, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin co- (with) + aequus (level, equal). Earliest documented use: 1583. __________________________________ C.O.QUALITY - Just how good is your Commanding Officer, anyway? COQUALITY - the essence of Roosterness (even without the French wine) COP QUALITY - a laudable goal for the Blue Lives Matter movement
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ENUNCIATORY
PRONUNCIATION: (ee-NUHN-see-uh-toh-ree)
MEANING: adjective: Announcing; declaring; pronouncing.
ETYMOLOGY:From Latin ex- (out) + nuntiare (to announce). Ultimately from the Indo-European root neu- (to shout), which also gave us announce, denounce, pronounce, renounce, and pronunciamento. Earliest documented use: 1693. _____________________________
NUNCIATORY - serving as spokesperson or ambassador to a foreign country, as from the Pope
DENUNCIATORY - attempted shaming
ENUNCLATORY - removing my mother's brother from the Family Tree
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COVENTRY
PRONUNCIATION: (KUV-uhn-tree)
MEANING: noun: A state of ostracism.
ETYMOLOGY: After Coventry, a city in central England. It’s unclear how Coventry developed this sense. One conjecture is that Royalist prisoners were sent there during the English Civil War. Earliest documented use: 1691. Also see stellenbosch. ___________________________
COW ENTRY - Elsie's front door
COME'N'TRY - a carnival midway barker's spiel
COVEN CRY - witches sound the alarm
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ROMAN MATRON
PRONUNCIATION: (ROH-muhn may-truhn)
MEANINGnoun: A woman having a dignified bearing.
ETYMOLOGY: From the ideal of a married woman in ancient Rome. From Latin matrona (a married woman), from mater (mother). Earliest documented use: 1596. __________________________________________________
NOMAN MATRON - Penelope (wife of Odysseus, who called himself "Noman" when he struck the blow that blinded the Cyclops)
ROMAN MACRON - makes a Roman vowel long
ROMAN MAîTRON - chief of waiters in the Colosseum
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CANTERBURY TALE
PRONUNCIATION: (KAN-tuhr-ber-ee tayl)
MEANING:m. mnoun: A story that is long, tedious, or absurdly implausible.
ETYMOLOGY: After The Canterbury Tales c. 1400 by Geoffrey Chaucer. It’s a collection of 24 stories told in verse by a group of pilgrims as they travel from London to Canterbury. Earliest documented use: 1575. ____________________________________
CANTERBURY TALC - a soft stone that was avoided in building the cathedral
CANTER BURN TALE - the story behind why the horse pulled up lame after using the wrong gait
CANTOR BURY TALE - the lost twenty-fifth chapter of Chaucer's magnum opus, about the interment of the church's vocalist; later suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities
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TROJAN HORSE
PRONUNCIATION: (TRO-juhn hors)
MEANING: noun: Something or someone placed in order to subvert from within.
ETYMOLOGY: In the legendary Trojan War, the Greeks left a large hollow wooden horse at the gates of the city of Troy. The Trojans took it inside. Greek soldiers hidden in the horse came out at night and opened the gates of the city, allowing the Greek army to enter and conquer the Trojans. Earliest documented use: 1574. In computing, a Trojan horse is a program that, while seemingly useful, steals passwords or does other damage to computers. ______________________________________
TROJAN HOARSE - King Priam has been shouting from the parapets much too much
TROJAN GORSE - a kind of prickly shrub found around Troy in the old days
TROJAN HOUSE - storage place for prophylactics
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KENTISH COUSINS
PRONUNCIATION: (KEN-tish kuh-zuhns)
MEANING: noun: Distant relatives.
ETYMOLOGY: After Kent, a county in England. Since most of the county is bounded by the sea and the river Thames, its citizens were not as mobile and intermarriages were common. Earliest documented use: 1796. _____________________________
KENTISH COSINS - in another identity Superman was a trigonometry teacher
PENTISH COUSINS - very VERY distant relatives, like fifth cousins
KENNISH COUSINS - others in the Jeopardy champion's family had keen memories for all sorts of trivia
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PLOTZ
PRONUNCIATION: (plots)
MEANING: verb intr.: To faint, collapse, explode, or flop down, as from excitement, frustration, surprise, exhaustion, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish platsn (to burst), from German platzen (to burst). Earliest documented use: 1920. ____________________________________________
PILOTZ - people who control sea- and air-craft
POT-Z - a game city kids play on the sidewalk, similar to Hop-Scotch
SLOT Z - where you insert Tab Y
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FRUM
PRONUNCIATION: (froom) [short oo, as in book]
MEANING: adjective: Religious; observant of religious laws.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish frum, from Middle High German vrum (pious). Modern German fromm (pious). Earliest documented use: 1889. _________________________________________
FLUM - a purple stoned fruit, from which is brewed Slivovitz
FFUM - a very loud expletive, uttered when a Giant smells blood...
FRUG - what a dancing tadpole grows up to be
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