APR 24 2005

SPOONY:
- Enamored in a silly or sentimental way.
- Feebly sentimental; gushy.

I'm spoony for unnecessary foistage.

APR 24 2005

FOIST:
- To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: �I can usually tell whether a poet... is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention� (J.D. Salinger).
- To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery: They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss.
- To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.

MAR 19 2005

WEASY:
- Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous.

Riding my bike up a big hill, makes me feel sensual and gluttonous.

MAR 19 2005

HOOPLA:
- Boisterous, jovial commotion or excitement.
- Extravagant publicity: The new sedan was introduced to the public with much hoopla.
- Talk intended to mislead or confuse.

MAR 09 2005

DWANG:
- A piece of wood set between two studs to stiffen and support them.

MAR 09 2005

EPIGONE:
- A second rate imitator or follower, especially of an artist or philosopher

MAR 09 2005

DESERT:
- Something that is deserved or merited, especially a punishment. Often used in the plural: They got their just deserts when the scheme was finally uncovered.

It also means other more common stuff that you should already know, but the fact that you can give someone a desert struck me as nearly mind boggling.

MAR 09 2005

PERSPICACITY:
- Acuteness of discernment or understanding.

"I'm losing my perspicacity!"

JAN 20 2005

LUGUBRIOUS: lu�gu�bri�ous
- Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Strangely, when I looked this one up, I thought it meant something totally different. Something to do with spitting.

JAN 16 2005

LAMBASTE:
- To give a thrashing to; beat.
- To scold sharply; berate.

This does not mean what it sounds like it means. It should be something closer to beating someone with their own juices so they don't get dry.

JAN 07 2005

CRAPULENCE:
- Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- Excessive indulgence; intemperance.

Used in a sentence: "He was festering in his own crapulence"

I've been saying this one incessantly for about a week now.

DEC 17 2004

ZEMMIPHOBIA:
- A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of the great mole rat

I found this perticular definition whilst browsing around the web, and all sorts of pages for it. This is one of them. Are they serious? Who knows. If so, what is the great mole rat? Why is THE great mole rat? Are there many of these people?

DEC 17 2004

CEPHALOPHOICE:
- A saint, who, when beheaded picks up his own head and carries it to his burial place.

Kind of creepy that they actualy have a word for this kind of thing. Apparently it used to happen all the time. A buddy leared of this in an art history course he is taking at the local U.

NOV 30 2004

VASTATION: \Vas*ta"tion\, n..
- A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation.
- Purification through fire.

NOV 26 2004

FLABBERGAST: \Flab"ber*gast\, v. t.
- To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements. [Jocular] --Beaconsfield.
- Overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!"





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