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Miscellany
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Re: jeopardous
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 10:36 PM
couldous adj. concerned with possibility or capability: The motivational speaker gave his usual couldous talk.
Forget it; I made it up. Whew, now I don't have to go back and attempt to give the pronunciation.
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Q&A about words
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Re: Sidebums
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BranShea
Yesterday at 02:59 PM
Originally Posted By: dalehileman
(2) Did anyone at first glance misread the heading as "sideburns"
Me, no. But I like your word as a headline for our avatars
here.
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Weekly Themes
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Re: Sideburns
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Myridon
Yesterday at 02:23 PM
In one of Sheri S. Tepper's books, a primitive culture is visited by a space traveller whom they mistake for a god. After all the planet's problems are solved, the space traveller leaves with the parting remark "Don't let anyone mess with your heads
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Q&A about words
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Re: Help!
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tsuwm
Yesterday at 12:51 PM
and then Sonic (the Hedgehog) declaimith not:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face
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Words from medicine
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Re: dyspareunia
by
zmjezhd
Yesterday at 10:24 AM
"autoquiroerastia"
well, qu is not something you find in Greek words. It doesn't bring to mind anything in Latin. (Perhaps it's related to the Catalan cognate of Spanish querer 'to want, desire' which is from Latin quaro, quaerare, 'to loo
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Q&A about words
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Re: jazey
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morphememedley
05/15/08 01:47 PM
Flax? Ah yes, good fiber in the event a jazey is accidentally ingested during a windstorm.
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Q&A about words
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Re: Synonym for "farmer"
by
BranShea
05/15/08 11:35 AM
farmer
1. A person who operates a farm.
2. United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920).
3. An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915).
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