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RE: Word Fight - 3/1/2006 4:08:09 PM   
candystripper


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Are you still on pain meds Candy? You've been quite the treat yourself!

Hohoho


i am NOT happy; stop this vicious rumor now, LMAO.

New word: phrontislery (cheated, LOL.)

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RE: Word Fight - 3/1/2006 6:43:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		We have a little bit of stocktaking to do. "Lues" (pronounced LOO-weez) does not quite mean "plague." I believe it could, in theory, refer to any infestation, but in practice it was commonly used for what we call "syphilis." It's a very rare term now, but you find it a lot in the old sexological literature.

I've looked up "busk" in OED and found what has to be the definition that Hohoho was looking for:

quote:

A strip of wood, whalebone, steel, or other rigid material passed down the front of a corset, and used to stiffen and support it.


I had no idea.

OK, next word...genuflect

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ORIGINAL: candystripper

plague


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RE: Word Fight - 3/2/2006 12:00:21 PM   
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genuflect .....I went to church last night. I believe I practiced genuflection before the altar to receive the ashes.(the only kneeling I've done lately)


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New word: shoefly (not pie)



cmon....i don't have that big a vocab will someone try?

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RE: Word Fight - 3/2/2006 5:56:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		colloquial usage is a ne'er do well.........

de minimis
unless someone dont buy my definition of shoefly.
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RE: Word Fight - 3/2/2006 7:05:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		shoefly is a railroading term having to do with switching or throwing tracks for repairs.

Next word...knavish

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RE: Word Fight - 3/2/2006 7:25:55 PM   
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Next word...knavish


Umm... Has to do with being a knave - untrustworthy, or dishonest

How about: evanesce (people ask me what it means all the time, anyway)

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RE: Word Fight - 3/2/2006 7:46:39 PM   
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Seriously,
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RE: Word Fight - 3/2/2006 9:22:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		"Evanescent" means fleeting; it refers to something that doesn't last forever. I assume "evanesce" is the verb.

Next word...well, how about a set of four?

minaret, minuet, martinet, lazaret

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ORIGINAL: Evanesce

How about: evanesce (people ask me what it means all the time, anyway)


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RE: Word Fight - 3/2/2006 9:25:39 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Evanesce

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Next word...knavish


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It is a bagel with lox and cream cheese. A corruption of the protoger-manic middle-eastern, sanskrit:
nosh


Evanesce is somebody's nick.........


LOLOL,

Still the same words, I'm just fuckin' with ya!!!!!!!

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RE: Word Fight - 3/3/2006 1:05:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		BTW; de minimus; too small to be of concern.

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RE: Word Fight - 3/3/2006 9:20:29 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster


Next word...well, how about a set of four?

minaret, minuet, martinet, lazaret






Well...Minuet is a dance for couples from the 17th century, also used as a description for the music that it's danced to.

A lazaret is a place for quarantine or a hospital that treats contagious diseases.

A martinet is someone very rigid in rules and protocol.


I will have to look up the other one to see if there's a correllation between them when the 4 are used together, otherwise I'm confused as to why you called them a set. Unless you are grouping them because of their shared "et" ending.

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RE: Word Fight - 3/3/2006 11:18:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, it's just because they all end in "-et." I guess I could have added "tete-a-tete," "duet," and "barrette."

Pink, it's DE MINIMIS, not de minimus.

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RE: Word Fight - 3/3/2006 4:35:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		My apologies for misspelling. ROFL. (Wait; didn't You and i spell it the same way?)

Next word: "transmogrification"

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RE: Word Fight - 3/3/2006 8:23:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's a complete change, usually implying a change from something good into something fundamentally different and less appealing.

We still haven't done "minaret."

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RE: Word Fight - 3/4/2006 1:55:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		minaret = decorative top of building.

kk; what was wrong with de minimus?

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RE: Word Fight - 3/4/2006 10:37:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's not the definition of "minaret."

It's "de minimis" (ablative plural) not "de minimus" (which would be ungrammatical in Latin).

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RE: Word Fight - 3/4/2006 1:45:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Man, it took some staring to get Lam's point, LOL.

kk...cheated..."minaret" is: a tower and balconey on a mosque. i submit my answer was right and Lam's picking on me. LOL.

next word?

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RE: Word Fight - 3/4/2006 4:54:34 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 3/4/2006 5:44:06 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 3/4/2006 6:36:13 PM   
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