the worthless word for the day is: mitigate [fr. L. mitigare, to soften] to make less intense or serious or severe; appease NOT to be confused with militate,...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 3, 2011 4:34 am
the worthless word for the day is: enormity well, I have one more confusion before returning you to your regular programming.. [fr. L. enormitas] 1) great...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 7, 2011 5:51 pm
the worthless word for the day is: exfluncticate [mock Latinism from U.S. pioneer days] (now used historically) also, exflunctify to overcome or beat...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 8, 2011 7:28 pm
the worthless word for the day is: axiopisty [fr. Gk axiopistos, trustworthy] obs. rare : the quality that makes something believable: trustworthiness; hence,...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 10, 2011 4:35 am
the worthless word for the day is: yataghan [Turkish yatagan] /YA tuh gan/ a Turkish sword or scimitar having a double-curved blade and (often) an eared...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 14, 2011 4:39 am
the worthless word for the day is: incondite [fr. L. in- + condere, put together] badly put together: crude <incondite prose> (unrelated to condite, to pickle;...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 15, 2011 4:38 am
the worthless word for the day is: smirr [origin obscure] /smur/ also smur or smir Scots : fine rain; drizzle "Rebus twice had to leave his car and call in...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 18, 2011 5:13 am
the worthless word for the day is: bedder Cambridge University : one who makes the beds and performs other necessary domestic duties for residents in college ...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 21, 2011 5:10 am
the worthless word for the day is: steampunk [steam + punk] neologism : a sub-genre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 22, 2011 4:56 am
the worthless word for the day is: quiddle [fr. L. quid, what] (not to be confused with quibble) chiefly dialect : to trifle or waste time; to dawdle hence,...
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tsuwm2002
Feb 28, 2011 2:40 pm
the worthless word for the day is: amphitryon [fr. Molière's comedy, in which Amphitryon (foster-father of Hercules) gives a fine dinner] /æm'fitrion/ a...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 3, 2011 3:26 pm
the worthless word for the day is: supralapsarian [fr. L. supra- before + lapsus, fall] pertaining to the belief that the predestination of some to eternal...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 4, 2011 5:59 pm
the worthless word for the day is: epiphor [Gk. epiphora, a bringing to or upon] a metaphor that expresses the existence of something (opposed to diaphor,...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 7, 2011 2:29 pm
the worthless word for the day is: benthic [fr. Gk benthos, depth] occurring at the bottom of a body of water, or in the depths of the ocean "They're all here...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 8, 2011 5:20 am
the worthless word for the day is: ichthyologist [fr. Gk ichthys, fish + -ologist] a zoologist who studies fishes "Some ichthyologists have been so bold as to...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 9, 2011 7:00 pm
the worthless word for the day is: gasogene [F. gazogène, from gaz, gas + o-gene] a late Victorian device for producing carbonated water "[H]e waved me to an...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 14, 2011 4:22 am
the worthless word for the day is: wheeze [in this sense, orig. Theatrical slang, a joke or comic gag introduced into a performance] Brit. slang : a...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 15, 2011 5:53 am
the worthless word for the day is: swingeing [fr. swinge, to flog] Brit : very large: whopping "This was more than a kerfuffle... The authority of the...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 21, 2011 4:10 am
the worthless word for the day is: pickelhaube [G.] /PIK el how bee/ a spiked helmet once worn by German soldiers (file under: so that's what that's called) ...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 23, 2011 5:39 am
the worthless word for the day is: clarty [origin unknown] Scots : dirty, muddy; sticky, gooey "His mind was trying to avoid the unattractive mental task that...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 24, 2011 4:04 am
the worthless word for the day is: recusant [fr. L. recusare : to object to, refuse] 1 a) a person (as a Roman Catholic) refusing to attend the services of the...
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tsuwm2002
Mar 25, 2011 4:22 pm
the worthless word for the day is: bouleverse [F. bouleverser] obs., rare : to upset, overturn "..the usual number of limbs which waved spasmodically in the...
1603
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tsuwm2002
Mar 29, 2011 6:05 am
the worthless word for the day is: thole [OE tholian] Scots : to endure something without complaint; tolerate (not to be confused with thole, the peg on the ...
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tsuwm2002
Apr 4, 2011 4:01 am
the worthless word for the day is: melismatic [fr. Gk melisma, a song or tune] Music : relating to, or being a melisma; the style of singing several notes to...
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tsuwm2002
Apr 5, 2011 8:18 pm
the worthless word for the day is: zoetic [fr. Gk zoe, life + -etic] pertaining to life: living, vital "'His article in last fall's Zoetic Review is the reason...
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tsuwm2002
Apr 8, 2011 4:04 am
the worthless word for the day is: butty [fr. butter + -y] Brit. informal : a sandwich "On day six he was moved out of intensive care and on day seven he...
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tsuwm2002
Apr 11, 2011 5:09 am
the worthless word for the day is: dyslogy [dys- + stem of eulogy] dispraise, censure (as opposed to eulogy "In the way of eulogy and dyslogy and summing-up of...
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tsuwm2002
Apr 12, 2011 1:23 pm
the worthless word for the day is: praxeology [fr. praxis, customary conduct + -ology] the study of human conduct "The entire realm of praxeology and its best...
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tsuwm2002
Apr 18, 2011 4:38 am
the worthless word for the day is: niffy [fr. niff, an unpleasant smell, perhaps fr. sniff] Brit. informal : having an unpleasant smell: malodorous "'Me, like...
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tsuwm2002
Apr 19, 2011 4:33 am
the worthless word for the day is: palter [origin uncertain, perhaps related to paltry] archaic : 1) to equivocate 2) (palter with) to trifle with (thanx to...
