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Jun 18, 2014
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Words borrowed from Spanish

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camarilla
fandango
pungle
picaroon
arroyo

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with Anu Garg

pungle

PRONUNCIATION:
(PUNG-uhl)

MEANING:
verb tr.: To make a payment; to shell out.

ETYMOLOGY:
Alteration of Spanish póngale (put it down), from poner (to put), from Latin ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away) that is also the source of after, off, awkward, post, puny, apposite, apropos, and dispositive. Earliest documented use: 1851.

USAGE:
"Congress pungled up $700 billion for a bailout."
Steve Rubenstein; 2008 in Review; San Francisco Chronicle; Dec 30, 2008.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. -Roger Ebert, film-critic (1942-2013)

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