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« Reply #60 on: May 05, 2012, 10:59:39 am »
besot \bih-SOT\, verb:

1. To infatuate; obsess.
2. To intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
3. To make stupid or foolish: a mind besotted with fear and superstition.
 

I love all three definitions of this word -- the stuff of LIFE.
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« Reply #61 on: May 05, 2012, 12:07:54 pm »
I am enjoying this thread immensely ... I love words.   This one is particularly nice.  :) 
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Re: WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
« Reply #62 on: May 06, 2012, 10:51:59 am »
 
 
mensch \mench\, noun:

A decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.

It's easy to be a mensch, his dad says. You honor your father and mother. You stay married, you set your kids a good example, you don't lie or cheat or steal. And every once in a while, Cookie, you gotta pick up the check, his father says, then winks.
-- Jane VanDenburgh, Physics of Sunset
 

Thanks ladies.  I love words too.  The more obscure the better.. But I do truly enjoy a new meaning for a word I thought I was
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« Reply #63 on: May 07, 2012, 03:11:58 pm »


sudorific \soo-duh-RIF-ik\, adjective:

1. Causing sweat.
2. Sudoriparous.

noun:
1. A sudorific agent.

Having thrown him into a cold sweat by his spiritual sudorific, he attacks him with his material remedies, which are often quite as unpalatable.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Medical Essays, 1842-1882

Wracked by such sudorific thoughts, he tossed noisily about, maddened, aching.
-- Angela Huth, South of the Lights

Every sudorific hitherto employed had failed to produce this result upon a skin which horrible diseases had left impervious.
-- Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Pons

Sudorific comes from the Latin word sūdor meaning "sweat." The word "sweat" is unrelated and comes from the Old English, swote



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« Reply #64 on: May 08, 2012, 06:45:51 am »
 
 
pother \POTH-er\, noun:

1. A heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.
2. Commotion; uproar.
3. A choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.

verb:
1. To worry; bother.

"An' why all the pother?" Mrs. Rickards emitted a series of sniffs and returned his scowl with a frosty glare.
-- Colin Arthur Roderick, The Lady and the Lawyer

I don't know what's so extraordinary about it, or why there should be such a pother.
-- William Dean Howells, Novels 1886-1888, Volume 2

Pother is of unknown origin. It is not related to the word bother which did not enter English until the 1700s and is related to the word both
 



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« Reply #65 on: May 09, 2012, 08:07:05 am »


cicatrix \SIK-uh-triks\, noun:

1. New tissue that forms over a wound.
2. Botany. A scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.

A new relationship can develop. But the cicatrix of the old one remains. And nothing grows on a cicatrix. Nothing grows through it.
-- Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes

He discriminates also very properly between the cicatrix, which is produced by the healing of wounds which have penetrated the cutis, and those in which the surface only is affected.

-- James Moore, "Differtation on Healing of Wounds," The Analytical Review, Volume 5

Cicatrix is derived from the Latin word cicatrix meaning "scar." The Latin word has no clear origin.




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« Reply #66 on: May 09, 2012, 08:39:31 am »
"Cicatrix" is even more fun to say than "macaronic".  In fact, it's impossible to say without smiling.   ;D   But alas, the conversational opportunities are limited.  Perhaps I need to start hanging out with multi-lingual dermatologists; maybe I could squeeze both of them into a single sentence...  :laugh:
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« Reply #67 on: May 09, 2012, 09:47:16 am »



     :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:  Verry good.

  I personally think that cicatrix is going to be easier to fit into conversation than macaronic....but we'll see?
 
  Is it just me, or does it sound a bit raunchy?



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« Reply #68 on: May 10, 2012, 09:10:23 am »
  Is it just me, or does it sound a bit raunchy?


It's probably just the dominatrix in you...   :o

Most words with an X in them sound a bit raunchy to me.
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« Reply #69 on: May 10, 2012, 09:56:03 am »



                              :laugh:



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