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WORD OF THE DAY..........courtesy of Dictionary.com
ifyoucantfixit:
aphotic \ey-FOH-tik\, adjective:
Lightless; dark.
I sat curled up on the sofa, trapped in the dream from which I had begun to awaken, but still lost in the reminiscence of our aphotic rendezvous.
-- Žakalin Nežić, Goodbye Serbia
The stars and moon outside the windows on the twenty- first floor of Fordum Towers shined in the distance, the sky otherwise ebony and aphotic.
-- Steven Gillis, Water Falls
Coined in the early 1900s, aphotic comes from the Greek word photic meaning "light," as in the word photo, and the prefix a- meaning "not."
This word is very apprapro to the OS. Ennis woke in the morning, with his dream of Jack Twist..
ifyoucantfixit:
ort \awrt\, noun:
A scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
She continued and enjoyed every tender morsel. There wasn't even an ort left on the plate.
-- Jack Collins, The Polyandrist Murders: Book 1 Of 2
They fed her on the orts and ends, a little better than the dog, and a little worse than the cat.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Charles's programs didn't turn up anything?” “Not an ort.” “ Wow. You think they might be dead?
-- Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man
Ort is related to the Old English word eten meaning "to eat."
ifyoucantfixit:
kowtow /Cow tow
1. To act in an obsequious manner; show servile deference.
2. To touch the forehead to the ground while kneeling, as an act of worship, reverence, apology, etc., especially in former Chinese custom.
noun:
1. The act of kowtowing.
Mei-hua was sitting nearby, and though she could not understand the English words she understood what was happening. She murmured that her daughter should kowtow.
-- Beverly Swerling, City of God
It's a new one for Morrison to meet a girl who doesn't kowtow. He's a very great personage in his line, and he can't help knowing it.
-- Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig
Kowtow comes from the Chinese practice of touching the ground with your forehead to show respect, called k'o t'ou. It literally means "to knock the head
Mandy21:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on May 02, 2012, 09:00:08 am --- Kowtow comes from the Chinese practice of touching the ground with your forehead to show respect, called k'o t'ou. It literally means "to knock the head
--- End quote ---
"To knock the head," huh? I had a marriage like that once -- one giant kowtow, day after day after day...
ifyoucantfixit:
I am terribly sorry Mandy. I too know what that can be like. Not in my marriage. My father was like that. He was
one of those people that sounded exactly like Mel Gibson, when on a rant.
I told my husband before we married. If you evet get a notion for such behavior, I have this to say. "you have to
sleep sometime." I don't advise you sleep very soundly in case you ever do that.. He doesn't do it, nor would
I have ever tolerated such..
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