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Post by oldarmybear on Sept 15, 2018 10:48:05 GMT -5
melancholia noun mel-un-KOH-lee-uh Definition
: a mental condition and especially a manic-depressive condition characterized by extreme depression, bodily complaints, and often hallucinations and delusions
Source for this and any subsequent words is" www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
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Post by oldarmybear on Jun 13, 2020 18:17:45 GMT -5
varlet
[ vahr-lit ] a knavish person; rascal.
Featured on June 11th, 2020. An O'Reilly word of the day.
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Post by oldarmybear on Jun 21, 2020 18:36:09 GMT -5
Desultory: (Adj.) 1: marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose 2: not connected with the main subject 3: disappointing in progress, performance, or quality.
The current democratic controlled Congress is desultory. Rather than tending to the nations business they are intent upon the causing demise of the Trump presidency and returning to democratic fascism......
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Post by oldarmybear on Jul 16, 2020 10:36:39 GMT -5
pettifogger [ pet-ee-fog, -fawg ] to bicker or quibble over trifles or unimportant matters. Featured on July 15th, 2020.
IMO this is what liberals do best....
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Post by oldarmybear on Jul 30, 2020 8:04:34 GMT -5
codswallop
[kodz-wol-uh p] nonsense; rubbish.
Featured on July 29th, 2020.
Bill O'Reilly word of the day
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Post by oldarmybear on Aug 14, 2020 8:27:28 GMT -5
quiescent
adjective kwy-ESS-unt
Definition
1 : marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest
2 : causing no trouble or symptoms
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Post by oldarmybear on Jul 3, 2021 12:06:53 GMT -5
July 1, 2021
Picayune
[ pik-ee-yoon ] petty; worthless
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Post by oldarmybear on Jul 3, 2021 12:11:15 GMT -5
Choleric
[ kol-er-ik ] extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible
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Post by oldarmybear on Jul 18, 2021 17:36:31 GMT -5
Word of the Day : July 18, 2021
parry verb PAIR-ee
Definition
1 : to ward off (something, such as a weapon or blow)
2 : to evade (something, such as a question) by an adroit answer
Did You Know?
Parry (which is used in fencing, as well as in other applications) was borrowed from French parer, meaning "to ward off" or "to avert," and may specifically have come directly from the plural imperative form of that word, parez. The French likely borrowed the word from Italian parare, meaning "to prepare, adorn, avert, shield, keep out." That word's source is Latin parāre, meaning "to supply, provide, make ready," an ancestor to many familiar English words, among them prepare, repair, emperor, separate, and apparatus.
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Post by oldarmybear on Jul 26, 2021 15:40:30 GMT -5
MONDAY, JULY 26, 2021
hugger-mugger
[ huhg-er-muhg-er ]
noun
secrecy; reticence.
ORIGIN EXAMPLES
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WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF HUGGER-MUGGER?
The noun hugger-mugger, “disorder or confusion; secrecy; reticence,” has the earlier spellings hucker-mucker, hukermoker, hoker moker, hocker-mocker, hugger mucker, and the Scots variants huggrie-muggrie and hudge-mudge. All of these variant forms share reduplication, similar sounds, and nearly identical meanings, but there is no secure origin or origins for them. The word or element mucker leads some scholars to see a connection with Middle English moker “worldly possessions, wealth” and mokeren, mokren “to heap up (money); hoard.” Hugger-mugger entered English in the first half of the 16th century.
HOW IS HUGGER-MUGGER USED?
Usually, Victor enjoyed hidden doors, secret passageways, and the hugger-mugger that was necessarily part of any scheme to destroy civilization.
DAN KOONTZ AND ED GORMAN, CITY OF NIGHT, 2005
Newsom doesn’t relish the rote functions of politics. His smile when he poses with voters is a rictus, he ducks fund-raising calls, and he lacks patience for the backroom hugger-mugger required to pass legislation.
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Post by oldarmybear on Nov 5, 2021 16:49:09 GMT -5
homophone [ˈhäməˌfōn, ˈhōməˌfōn]
NOUN
each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, for example new and knew. Compare with homograph, homonym.
each of a set of symbols denoting the same sound or group of sounds.
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Post by oldarmybear on Nov 5, 2021 16:54:33 GMT -5
supercilious
[ soo-per-sil-ee-uhs ] behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
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Post by oldarmybear on Nov 11, 2021 14:21:55 GMT -5
phenomenon
[fəˈnäməˌnän, fəˈnäməˌnən]
NOUN
a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.
"glaciers are unique and interesting natural phenomena"
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Post by oldarmybear on Nov 12, 2021 9:13:11 GMT -5
denouement [ˌdāno͞oˈmäN] NOUN the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. "the film's denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous"
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Post by oldarmybear on Nov 15, 2021 14:39:38 GMT -5
farouche
PRONUNCIATION:
(fuh-ROOSH)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Wild; fierce.
2. Shy; unsociable.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French faroche, from forasche, from Latin forasticus (living outside), from foras (outdoors). Earliest documented use: 1765.
USAGE:
“I badly needed a guide to get me to the Khyber Pass, and I decided that what I required was the most farouche-looking guy ... and the toughest modern automobile.”
Christopher Hitchens; Love, Poverty, and War; Nation Books; 2004.
“At an event organised by the Writers’ Centre in Norwich the other week, one of the volunteers ... observed that when she was young, writers were semi-mythical creatures, farouche, barely ever seen in the flesh.”
Will Self; The Novelist Offers His Tips for Reading Your Work Aloud; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); May 25, 2013.
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