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Phlegm: Inactivity.
BEM: In SciFi: bug-eyed monster.
Dem: Demoscrat.
Hem: Edge.
LEM: Lunar dingus.
REM: Rapid eye movement.

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Quote of the day: "What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money." Henny Youngman
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Tatterdemalion

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Tatterdemalion: Motley.

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"Quote of the day: "Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home." Bill Cosby
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Nudje

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Nudje or noodge: Pest, pester.

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Quote of the day: "Art must take reality by surprise." Francoise Sagan
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Tyro

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Tyro: Beginner.
Gyro: Spinning
Pyro: Related to fire.
Cairo: Cities in Egypt, Georgia, Illinois...

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Quote of the day: "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." Henny Youngman
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Nonce

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Nonce: Used once; for the occasion only, idiomatically: for the time being.

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Quote of the day: "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."  Dorothy Parker
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Pronk

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Pronk: Jump straight up as a Gazelle.

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Quote of the day: "To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult." Plutarch
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Col

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Col: Mountain pass
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Quote of the day: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato
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Bloke

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Bloke: Gent, dude.
Cloak: Covering garment, veil.
Doke: Follows Okey.
Folk: The people.
Hoke: Nonsense.
Joke: Funny story.
Coke: Recreational ingestible.
Poke: Rude touch.
Soak: Get very wet.
Toke: Puff.
Woke: Stopped sleeping.
Yolk: Egg yellow.

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Quote of the day: "Neither blame nor praise yourself."  Plutarch
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Midden

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Middens: Heaps of the remains of ancient cooking sites.

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Caltrop

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Caltrop: Jack, spiked ball for disabling cavalry or barefoot troops, nanojack, acupressure jacknobber.

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Tocsin

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Tocsin: Alarm bell, nuclear attack simulation in Canada, painting by Lautrec
Toxin: Poison
Talk sin: Pornophony
Tock's in: After tick leaves
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Gelada

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Gelada: Unusual Ethiopian monkey.

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Toaster

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Toaster: One who salutes important people at formal dinners.
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Bronck

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Bronck: Jonas Bronck called an area of NYC Bronck's River, later known as The Bronx.

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Bebop

Bebop: A form of Jazz in which improvisation is foremost. Most notable players: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.

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Gad

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Gad: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, short for Egad; an exclamation, go hither and thither rapidly, seventh son of Jacob, geologist's pry bar.

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Prink

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Prink: Gussy up, prank.

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Nub

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Nub: Kernel, heart, protuberance, cigar.
Nub City: City where many inhabitants have cut off a limb to defraud insurance companies.
Nub Theory: In which one supposedly can determine the gender of a baby long before birth.

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SNY

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SNY: New York sports network, Special Needs Yard for prisoners at risk in the general population, curved plank.

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Pyx

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Pyx: Communion box, coin sample box.

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Paronomasia

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Paronomasia: Pundigrion

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Falute

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Falute: Specialized speech indicating social position.

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Pi-eyed

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Pi-eyed: Obsessed with numbers

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Headline

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Headline: The line that indicates the end of the neck and the beginning of the head,

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Chairman

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Sam Maloof,
Charles Eames,
Herman Miller,
Marcel Breuer,
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Klook

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Klook: Kenny Clarke, jazz drummer, inventor of the 'klook-mop' sound found in be-bop music.

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Flibbertygibbet

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Flibbertygibbet: Mild invective, flighty person.

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Shampoo

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Shampoo: Fake feces

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Splat

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Splat: Piece of wood in a chair.

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Velvet

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Velvet: Corduroy, as in the suits worn by Erik Satie.

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Collywobbles

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Collywobbles: Upset stomach

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Particle

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Particle: Function word.

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Sprat

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Sprat: Small fish
Sprat: Jack; lean person
Spat: Small tiff
TIFF: Graphic file; lossless

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Graf

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Graf: Count
Comte: Count
Add: Count
ADD: Disability

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Kris

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Kris: Malaysian knife
Kris: Kristofferson
Kris: Kringle

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Hamlet

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Hamlet: Small village
Hamlet: Fictional dead King and angry Prince of Denmark
Hamlet: Little piece of pork.
Hamlet: Small actor

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Catenary

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Catenary: Chainlike.

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Bandy

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Bandy: Toss from side to side, game, argue.

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Rump

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Rump: Small remnant.

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Skeptic

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Skeptic: Member of an ancient Greek school that doubted the possibility of real knowledge.
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Blatherskite: Mark Twain's cat, nonsense, galimatia.

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Sneeze

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Sneeze: Sudden expulsion of air and particles from the lungs.
In Spanish: Estornudo. Also in Spanish it is "atchís" (pronounced "a" as in "hat", and the rest as in "cheess", and "atchús" (pronounced "a" as in "hat", and the rest as in "chooss").
In Esperanto: Terno (pronounced "tare-noh).
In French: Éternuement. Also in French it is "atchoum" (pronounced "a" as in "hat", and the rest as in "choom").
In German: Niesen, Also in German it is "hatschi" (pronounced "ha" as in "harp", and the rest as "chee" as in "cheese").
In Polish: Kichanie
In Chinese: 打喷嚏 , In Chinese it is "penti" (喷嚏).
In Italian: Starnutire
In Russian: чихать, In Russian it is "hapchkhi" ("апчхи").
In Kannada it is "seenu".
In Arabic" عطسة" (atsa).
In Persian it is "atseh"
In Bulgarian it is "апчих"("upchikh" pronounced "up" as the word "up", "chi" as in "children", and "kh" as "ch" in "Loch").
In Welsh it is "achw" (pronounced "a" as in "hat" and "choo" as in "choose")
In Portuguese it is "atchim" (pronounced "at" as in "matte", and "chim" like in "chin").
In Danish it is "atjuu" (pronounced "a" as in "hat", "tj" as "ch" in "rich", and "uu" as "oo" in "Boo!").
In Dutch it is "hatsjoe" (pronounced "ha" as in "harp", "tsj" as "ch" in "rich", and "oe" as "oo" in "Boo!"),
and "hatsjie" (pronounced "ha" as in "harp", and the rest as "chee" as in "cheese").
In Hebrew it is "apchee" (pronounced "a" as in "up", and the rest as "chee" as in "cheese").
In Hindi it is "chheenk".
In Indonesia it is "'hatchi'".
In Japanese it is "hakushon" or "kushami". Written as はくしょん or 嚏（くしゃみ).
In Cantonese it is "hut-chi" (乞嚏) .
In Latvian it is "apčī", (pronounced "ap" as in "up" and the rest is "chee").
In Marathi it is "shheenka".
In Polish it is "apsik" (pronounced "apsheek").
In Slovene is "apćiha".
In Turkish it is "hapşuu" (pronounced as "hupshoo").
In Romanian it is "hapciu" (pronounced as "hupchue").
In Urdu it is "chheenk" (pronounced as chheenk with stress on chh).
In Norwegian it is "atsjo".
In Tagalog it is "hatsing" (pronounced as "haching").
In Thai it is "Hutchew or Hutchei" (ฮัดชิ่ว or ฮัดเช่ย) (pronounced hut as "hut" and chew as "chiu" or and chei as "chei").
In Tamil it is "Thummal".
In Malayalam it is "Thummal".
In Telugu it is "Thummu".
In Icelandic it is "Atsjú" (pronounced "achoo").
In somali it is "Hindis"
In Gimerish language\gimerish it is "Gimer" (pronounced "loogee").

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Kaddidlehopper: Ned Flanders's's diddley cuss word.
Red Skelton character, Clem. Dumbbell.


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Cran

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Cran: About 1200 fish.

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Etui

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Etui: Case

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Corm

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Corm: A short, thickened, underground, upright stem in which food is stored.

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Kudos: Praise

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Caber

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