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NOBODADDY
PRONUNCIATION: (NO-buh-dad-ee)
MEANING: noun: 1. God. 2. Someone who is no longer considered worthy of respect.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the poet William Blake as a blend of nobody + daddy. Earliest documented use: 1793. ________________________
ROBODADDY - artificial insemination taken to its logical extreme
NO, NO, DADDY - says the child who catches her father with his hand in the cookie jar
NOOB-O'DADDY - inept first-time Irish father
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BAROMETER
PRONUNCIATION: (buh-ROM-i-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: 1. A device for determining atmospheric pressure in predicting weather. 2. Something used as a gauge or as an indicator of change. 3. A standard for measuring something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek baro- (pressure) + -meter (measure). Earliest documented use: 1666. ________________________________
BALOMETER - a CRAP filter; measures the reliability and amount of nonsense
BARMETER - evaluates the desirability of a drinking/socializing emporium
CAROMETER - tool for deciding on the correct angle for a bank shot
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BARONEY – like a low-ranking English lord (not early)
MALONEY – an illogical statement (see Irish bull)
BULLONEY – ditto
I posted this before I saw BAROMETER above. Quite a coincidence...
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FAVONIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (fuh-VOH-nee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Relating to the west wind. 2. Mild; gentle; benign.
ETYMOLOGY: After Favonius (literally, favorable), the god of the west wind in Roman mythology. His Greek equivalent is Zephyr. Earliest documented use: 1656. _________________________
AVONIAN - high-priced, of dubious use, and sold by a workforce of uncertain qualifications and quality
FAV-ONION - the vegetable I prefer over all others
FAVANIAN - coming from bean country
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AUTUMNAL
PRONUNCIATION: (aw-TUHM-nuhl)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Relating to the season of autumn. 2. Past the prime of life or maturity.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin autumnus (autumn). Earliest documented use: 1440. __________________________________
TAUTUMNAL - tensely awaiting leaf-peeping season season
AUTUMN-MAL - as opposed to this one, who's sick of raking leaves already
AURUMNAL - golden-hued
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Speaking of AURUM, could you translate Aurum virumque cano as "The Song of King Midas"?
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WEATHER VANE
PRONUNCIATION: (WETH-uhr vayn)
MEANING: noun: 1. A device having a pointer rotating on a vertical spindle, used to indicate the direction of the wind. 2. Someone or something constantly changing.
ETYMOLOGY: From weather, from Old English weder + vane, from Old English fana (flag). Earliest documented use: 1721. Since a weather vane traditionally featured a rooster on top, it’s also known as a weathercock. __________________________________
LEATHER VANE - a gadget made of tanned animal skin to tell the direction of the wind
EAT HER VANE - if you're really starving
WEATHER SANE - what we get less of as the earth's temperature rises
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HIBERNAL
PRONUNCIATION: (hy-BUHR-nuhl)
MEANING: adjective: Of or relating to winter.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin hibernus (wintry), from Latin hiems (winter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghei- (winter), which is the ancestor of words such as hibernate, hibernaculum, hiemal, chimera, and the Himalayas, from Sanskrit him (snow) + alaya (abode). Earliest documented use: before 1626. _____________________________
TIBERNAL - pertaining to a Roman river
HI BE: RENAL - pretty good grade in Kidney Function
HIM BERN, AL - Mr Gore, meet Mister Baruch
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STYMIE
PRONUNCIATION: (STY-mee)
MEANING: verb tr.: To obstruct, thwart, stump, etc. noun: A hindrance.
ETYMOLOGY: From Scots stymie. The modern game of golf originated in Scotland from where both the game and the word stymie came to English. In golf, a stymie refers to one player’s ball obstructing another’s. Earliest documented use: noun: 1834, verb: 1857. __________________________
STY MILE - unit of distance between here and the pigpen
STYMPIE - Manx cat, buddy of Ren, the crazy Chihuahua,
'S TYPIE - Whass'a name of that book Melville wrote before he wrote OMOO ?
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SLUICE
PRONUNCIATION: (sloos) MEANING: noun: 1. An artificial channel, stream, etc. 2. A valve or gate to control the flow of a liquid. 3. A body of water controlled by a sluice gate. verb tr.: 1. To let out, by or as if by, opening a gate. 2. To wash, flush, cleanse, etc. 3. To send logs, gold-bearing gravel, or other material down a sluice. verb intr.: To flow, as if from or through a sluice.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French escluse (sluice gate), from Latin exclusa (water barrier), from excludere (to exclude), from ex- (out) + claudere (to close). Earliest documented use: noun: 1340, verb: 1593. __________________________________
SQUICE - shivers that run up and down your spine at the sound of fingernails on the blackboard
ST. LUICE - big city in Missouri
SLUIC - what they speak in Slu
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