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RE: Word Fight - 4/26/2006 9:45:36 PM   
FootQueen


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Status: offline 		ok, uhhhh...... "oniomania"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/26/2006 9:52:51 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/26/2006 10:00:20 PM   
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oniomania is an uncontrollable urge to buy things.
 new word: "onychophagia"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/26/2006 10:04:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK, "onychophagia" has to mean "eating fingernails" (it could also mean "eating toenails"--yuck), but it sounds like a word that some doctor invented.

Yup, I was right.

"Oniomania" is a cute word, also coined.  Late 19th cent.

Next one..."tibicinate"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/26/2006 10:10:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		actually it's not eating fingernails but the pratice of biting nails  (but close)....

as far as your word... I leave that to someone else. Where's Tikkiee, she's normally good at these words?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/26/2006 11:15:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, it SHOULD mean "eating fingernails."  The suffix "-phagia," from Greek phagein, means "eating."  (So, for example, "coprophagia" means "eating shit.")

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 4:48:13 AM   
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that will teach me to read everything before posting :P

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  tibicinate"

to play with pipes?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 5:45:56 AM   
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but why doesn't avow mean without a vow?

And why doesn't athenian mean that you don't live there?

Ron



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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 8:28:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Tikkiee is right; "tibicinate" means to play the flute.

And I have no answers for Ron's timeless questions.  Why isn't "dress up" the opposite of "dress down"?  Why isn't "in-law" the opposite of "outlaw"?

Tikkiee, it's your turn.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 9:00:17 AM   
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  Tikkiee is right; "tibicinate" means to play the flute.


The flute? OOPPS, I thought it referred to the bagpipes.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 9:30:29 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Tikkiee

"furphy"
 
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  Tikkiee is right; "tibicinate" means to play the flute.


The flute? OOPPS, I thought it referred to the bagpipes.


That shiela tried to furphy me that the koala was a roo:)

To not be 100% honest<g>

vagile - I like that one sounds rude:)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 10:11:17 AM   
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To not be 100% honest<g>

I guess it could be seen that way. It actually means rumor.
 
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  vagile

Able to move around
 
"Ozonolysis"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 10:17:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		To "tibicinate" means "to play the part of a tibicen"; and a "tibicen" is "someone who plays a tibia."  What's a tibia?  Glad you asked.  OED defines it as "An ancient (single or double) flute or flageolet."

I didn't know "furphy," and it's listed as slang.  I'd say slang words don't count.

"Ozonolysis" has to be another one of those pesky science words.  Based on the roots, I'd say it refers to some kind of chemical process affecting ozone.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 11:16:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well darn, I did not know it was just a slang word. The guys from mythbusters use it all the time lol.
 
And yes, ozonolysis is the technique where ozone is used to oxidize an organic material. You are up :)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 12:27:02 PM   
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"Barmecide"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 12:53:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mathiasdomm

I'm gonna jump in.

"Barmecide"


Does that have something to do with a person who perfers illusion over reality as a way of making them appear better?


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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 1:49:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: IrishMist


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ORIGINAL: candystripper

Liar; this is no word, LOL.

k; "sentient". No, wait; "st andrew's cross", LOL.

candystripper


It is too a word lol...first used by shakespear...theres your hint


Being used by Shakespeare is NOT a good argument for something being a word. Shakespreare's vocabulary is approximately 2.5 times that of the Oxford Dictionary. MANY of the words we use in everyday conversation were coined by the Bard (such as "upstairs"), but not everything stuck, and one man's gibberish is not a word until it's accepted into use by the rest of the civilization or, in the case of coloquialisms, region.

So there.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 1:51:13 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mathiasdomm

I'm gonna jump in.

"Barmecide"


Something that kills drunks (no idea...)

"Antidisestablishmentarianism"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 2:20:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		Tikkiee is close enough.  It's something that looks better than it is.  Like an out of state tuition waiver.

Antidisestablishmentarianism-

I've seen this used in print two different ways. 

In high school, they told us it was the people who were opposed to getting rid of the church of England. 
But I read an essay in Harper's a few weeks ago that used it to talk about people who were opposed to opposing any kind of state religion.

Basically, these are the anti-anti people. 

"Gadzooks"



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RE: Word Fight - 4/27/2006 2:40:34 PM   
SweetPosession


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Status: offline 		(Yeah... if you take it apart the Latin makes a lot of sense. Anti (against)+ dis (against)+ establishment (root)+ arian (person who)+ ism (belief in)=people who don't like people who don't like the establishment.)

A colorful interjection suggesting suprise.

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