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SPIV
PRONUNCIATION: (spiv)
MEANING: noun: An unscrupulous person or a petty criminal, especially one who is sharply dressed. verb intr.: To make a living unscrupulously. ___________________________
SHIV a small knife used by a petty criminal
SHTV - use the Mute button on a television set
SPID - went too fast and skidded
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RIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (ryv)
MEANING: verb tr.: To tear, split, fracture, etc. verb intr.: To become split or cracked.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse rifa (to tear apart). Earliest documented use: 1250. _______________________________
RIVER - one who cracks
ROVE - used to crack
DRIVE - chief design officer (CDO) of Apple Inc. (from 1997 until 2019) after he was awarded an honorary doctorate
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IDIOLATRY
PRONUNCIATION: (i-di-OL-uh-tree)
MEANING: noun: Self worship.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek idio- (one’s own, personal) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1626. A synonym is autolatry. ________________________________
IDI-OLATRY - glorifying the former head of Uganda
INDIOLATRY - diehard NASCAR racing fanatic
I DIOL AUTRY - What do I do when I want to talk to Trigger?
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CYNANTHROPY
PRONUNCIATION: si-NAN-thruh-pee)
MEANING: noun: A delusion in which one believes oneself to be a dog.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek kyon (dog) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1594. ______________________________
CYANTHROPY - believing to b one of Burton Rouché's Eleven Blue Men
CYGNANTHROPY - believing to be an Ugly Duckling (actually, a baby swan)a
MY ANTHROPY - a child pioneer in Nebraska at the end of the Nineteenth Century _____________________________________________
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BOLT-HOLE
PRONUNCIATION: (BOLT-hol)
MEANING: noun: 1. A place of escape, hiding, or seclusion. 2. A hole through which to escape when in danger. ETYMOLOGY: From bolt + hole, from Old English bolt (a heavy arrow) + Old English hol (hole, cave). Earliest documented use: 1851. _____________________________________
BOLT HOME - what the third-base runner does on a passed ball
DOLT-HOLE - alternative to a dunce cap on the three-legged stool in the corner
BOLE-HOLE - where you hang the bucket after tapping the sugar maple tree
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HYPERACUSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (hy-puhr-uh-KYOO-sis)
MEANING: noun: A heightened sensitivity to sounds.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hyper- (over) + acousis (hearing). Earliest documented use: 1825. _______________________________
HYPERACUSS - a very special swear word
HYPER-ACCUSIS - "But her e-mails!..."
HOPE-RACUSIS - how we wished the Clarence Thomas affair had worked out (alas, in vain)
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SUEDE-SHOED
PRONUNCIATION: (SWAYD-shood)
MEANING: adjective: Affecting smartness and respectability.
ETYMOLOGY: From the perceived preference of suede shoes by people supposedly smart and respectable. From suede (a soft leather), from French gants de Suède (Swedish gloves). Later the word suede was applied to the material, instead of the country. Earliest documented use: 1936. Also see white-shoe. _________________________________
SUED-SHOED - obtained a warrant against the person with the boots
SUE, DE-SHOD - yes and they took off her high heels, too
SUE DE-SHOWED - she took down the racy web images
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SABOTEUR
PRONUNCIATION: (sab-uh-TUHR)
MEANING: noun: One who disrupts, damages, or destroys, especially in an underhanded manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From French saboter (to walk noisily, to botch), from sabot (wooden shoe). Earliest documented use: 1921.
NOTES: The popular story of disgruntled workers throwing their sabots into the machinery to jam it is not supported by evidence. Rather, it’s that the workers typically wore sabots. ___________________________
SAVOTEUR - a devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan, so named because of G&S' connection with the Savoy Theater in London
SABETEUR - one who knows (after Spanish ¿Quien sabe?, proposed source of Tonto's "Kemo Sabe")
SAMBOTEUR - habitual patron of a now-defunct restaurant chain (long considered politically incorrect)
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WELL-HEELED
PRONUNCIATION: (wel-HEELD)
MEANING: adjective: Having plenty of money.
ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a person who can easily afford to replace shoes often. Earliest documented use: 1871. The opposite is down-at-the-heel. _________________________
WELL-HEEDED - paid attention when told "the first priority is a good water supply"
WELL-WHEELED - having enclosures for its wheels
WE'LL-SEE-LED - the CEO has a make-it-up-as-we-go-along attitude
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(B)SNEAKERNET(/B)
PRONUNCIATION (SNEE-kuhr-net)
MEANING: noun: The transfer of electronic information by physically moving it storing it on a device and moving the device), instead of doing it over a computer network.
ETYMOLOGY: From sneaker (a shoe popular in everyday use) + net, alluding to someone carrying a disk, memory key, etc. from one computer to another. The shoes were called sneakers because their rubber soles made them very quiet. Earliest documented use: 1984.
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