ADONIS

PRONUNCIATION: (uh-DAHN-is, uh-DOH-nis)

MEANING: noun: An exceptionally handsome young man.

ETYMOLOGY: After Adonis, a strikingly handsome youth in Greek mythology, loved by Aphrodite and Persephone. Earliest documented use: 1571.

NOTES: Adonis has a verb coined after him as well, adonize (to make more attractive), though he has nothing to do with anodizing.
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ADMONIS - chide or scold someone while drunk

'AD-ONS - wut 'e wuz wearin', colloquially

ADONISM - hypertrophy of the two masses of lymphoid tissue laterally in the back of the mouth