Jeroboam

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Jeroboam: Champagne bottle equal to four standard bottles, biblical king.
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Quote of the day: "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes." Author Unknown
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Spate

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Spate: Overflow
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Quote of the day: "Arizona looks like a battle on Mars." Author Unknown
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Parp

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Parp: Sound like a car horn.
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Quote of the day: "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot
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Diplodocus

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Diplodocus: Big, plant-eating Dinosaur of the late Jurassic period.
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Quote of the day: "Criticism is prejudice made plausible." H. L. Mencken
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Killick

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Killick: Anchor, hitch, head man.
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Quote of the day: "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." Benjamin Disraeli
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Assai

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Assai: Very (musical term, Italian)
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Quote of the day: "When you don't know what you are doing, you don't know when to quit." George Foster
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Wankel

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Wankel: Pistonless rotary engine.
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Quote of the day: "What dreadful hot weather we have!  It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." Jane Austen
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Epithet

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Epithet: A word of description that clarifies or comments on the characteristic qualities of a person or object. The wine-dark sea, from Homer's Odyssey, describes the nature and appearance of the sea. Richard the Lion Hearted, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Quote of the day: "Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends." Chinese Proverb
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Zydeco

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Zydeco: American folk music of creole origin.
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Quote of the day: "Laughter is the closest distance between two people.” Victor Borge
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Toots

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Toots: Term of endearment, iconic harmonica player.
Boots: Fires.
Coots: Geezers
Foots: More than one pedal extremity.
Hoots: Gatherings of folk singers.
Loots: Steals openly.
Moots: Unnecessary arguments.
Roots: Underground support.
Soots: Black coatings.
Woots: Bargain sites.
Zoots: Saxophone players Sims.
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Quote of the day: "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." Jean-Paul Sartre
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Rictus

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Rictus: Open-mouthed.
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Quote of the day: "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Abraham Lincoln
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Bigotry

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Bigotry: Irrational ethnic, religious, sexual and racial enmity often leading to personal, military and economic violence.
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Quote of the day: "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." Socrates
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Patriot

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Patriot: Everybody.
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Quote of the day: "To disagree with three-fourths of the...public is one of the first requisites of sanity." Oscar Wilde
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Moke

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Moke: Undesirable person, aka mook.
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Quote of the day: Waiter: "You should be nice to me." Patron: "Why should I?" Waiter: "Because I'm in charge of the butter."
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Cantabridgian

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Cantabridgian: Of Cambridge, gauche.
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Quote of the day: "Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." George Iles
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Perseverate

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Perseverate: To continue to do something after there is no reason to do it. Beating a dead horse comes to mind.
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Quote of the day: "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." Albert Ellis
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Burrow

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Burrow: Squirrel hideout.
Furrow: Row.
Murrow: Newsman.
Turow: Writer.
Barrow: Clyde.
Darrow: Lawyer.
Farrow: Actor.
Harrow: School.
Jarreau: Al.
LaRue; Lash.
Marrow: Red cell maker.
Narrow: Mountain pass.
Perot: Helicopter pilot.
Tarot: Mumbo Jumbo.
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Quote of the day: "Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."  Saskya Pandita
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Minim

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Minim: Not much, half note.
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Quote of the day: "The perfection of art is to conceal art." Quintilian
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Avocado

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Avocado: Testicle shaped lawyer. [Word Origin: 1763, from Sp. avocado, altered (by folk etymology influence of earlier Sp. avocado "lawyer," from same L. source as advocate) from earlier aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuakatl "testicle."]
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Quote of the day: "There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal." Sigfried Hulzer
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Arbitrage

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Arbitrage: What Enron did to us, a bit like the operation in the movie, The Sting. A dress shirt brand.
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Quote of the day: "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."  Benjamin Franklin
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