Pashmina

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Pashmina: Persian wool.
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Quote of the day: "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." Saint Thomas Moore
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Aperçu

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Aperçu: Clever insight
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Quote of the day: "A film is--or should be--more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings." Stanley Kubrick
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Earwicker

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Earwicker: Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, (HCE, Here Comes Everybody, Has Childers Everwhere), principle character in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, by others; junk, by most; interesting and unusual.
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Quote of the day: "Often he who does too much does too little." Italian Proverb 
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Syllabub

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Syllabub: Spiked milk drink or dessert.
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Quote of the day: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." Jonathan Swift 
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Mumble

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Mumble: Speak indistinctly.
Bumble: Move awkwardly.
Fumble: Drop the ball.
Humble: Modest.
Hummus: Messed up chick peas.
Jumble: Word puzzle.
Rumble: Noise, fight.
Scumble: Mess up paint.
Tumble: Fall.
Gumble: Round bubble gum, Sometime partner of Couric.
Gamble: Risk, partner of Proctor.
Gimble: Department Store, Antagonist to Macy.
Grumble: Bitch about partner or antagonist.
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Quote of the day: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." William G. McAdoo
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Guernica

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Guernica: Small town in Spain carpet-bombed by Nazis in WWII for no strategic purpose other than terrorism and practice. Immortalized by Picasso.
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Quote of the day: "When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up." John Scalzi,
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Tenderloin

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Tenderloin: Cut of meat, red-light district.
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Quote of the day: "Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." Spanish Proverb
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Spondulicks

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Spondulicks: Money, from a greek word meaning vertebra, possibly from the appearance of a stack of coins.
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Quote of the day: "Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women." Muhammad Yunus
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Tuner

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Tuner: One who tunes, device for finding frequencies.
Tooner: with -ville; comic site featuring trolley.
Crooner: Sloppy singer.
Kahuna: Hawaiian leader.
Tuna: Food fish.
Petunia: Cartoon pig, flower.
Mooner: Marlon Brando.
Sooner: Oklahoman.
Spooner: With -ism; word confusion.
Swooner: Teen-ager with spooner, due to crooner. (obsolete)
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Quote of the day: "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not." Epicurus
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Lame

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Lame: Weak, crippled.
Lamé: Metallic weave.
Dame: Female knight.
Fame: Widespread but usually fleeting attention.
Game: What you got.
Mame: An Eisenhower.
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Quote of the day: "Don't set your wit against a child." Jonathan Swift
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Whist

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Whist: Card game.
Schist: Type of rock.
Cyst: Blob.
Dissed: Sneered.
Hissed: Disapproved a performance.
Kissed: Approved a performance.
List: Lean to one side.
Mist: Fog.
Wrist: Location of CTS.
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Quote of the day: "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it is his duty."--George Bernard Shaw
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Batten

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Batten: Wooden slat inserted into pockets in sails to give them shape. In a storm, hatches to the hold could blow open exposing the cargo to the weather. Battens were used to secure them by sliding the slat through metal loops, hence the term, "Batten down the hatches!" (Always shouted). Other similar uses.
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Quote of the day: "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."  Bernard M. Baruch
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Pilchard

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Pilchard: Long sardine, idiot.
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Quote of the day: "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."  Agnes Repplier
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Penuche

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Penuche: Fudge. (July 22 is National Penuche Day in the United States. Mark your calendar)
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Quote of the day: "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."  George Bernard Shaw
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