GAME: Word of the Day (WOTD)

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

daguerreotype
(also daguerrotype)

Said one of the gorilla types: "No boss, da guerilla type in dis here da-guer-ro-type ain't nobody I know, boss!"

[Algot Runeman]

sobriquet

Pronunciation: /ˈsōbriˌkā, -ˌket/
(also soubriquet /ˈso͞obri-/)
noun
a person’s nickname.

Origin:
mid 17th century: French, originally in the sense 'tap under the chin', of unknown origin


Epiclectic

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Does Bozo the Clown actually have a sobriquet? Bubba, maybe?

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

sobriquet

In the non-kosher section the butcher shop often sells the exact same meat, but with a different sobriquet. What looks so brisquet there is sold as potroast, and cheaper too, but it's just as kosher as the brisquet.

Elle Fitzgerald used to sing about it: " ♪♫ A brisquet, a brasquet ... ♫♪ "

[Algot Runeman]

corybantic

Pronunciation: /ˌkôrəˈbantik/
adjective
wild; frenzied.

Origin:
mid 17th century: from Corybantes, Latin name of the priests of Cybele, a Phrygian goddess of nature who performed wild dances, from Greek Korubantes + -ic


Beni Ishaque Luthor

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Hurrying to prepare for dinner, Deanna saw the backing fly across the room as she dried her hair. She immediately initiated a corybantic search of her hotel room for a lost diamond earring. No luck. The maintenance crew kindly hurried in to check the sink drain since the earring backing landed on the sink's edge. Still no luck.

Two hours later, as her husband tried vainly to ease her anguish and slow her tears, she reached to scratch a strange tickle, and the earring turned up in her ear canal.

[Algot Runeman]

kaleidoscope

Pronunciation: /kəˈlīdəˌskōp/
noun
a toy consisting of a tube containing mirrors and pieces of colored glass or paper, whose reflections produce changing patterns that are visible through an eyehole when the tube is rotated.
a constantly changing pattern or sequence of objects or elements: the dancers moved in a kaleidoscope of color

Origin:
early 19th century: from Greek kalos 'beautiful' + eidos 'form' + -scope


photoflux

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As a kid, I was fascinated by a kaleidoscope. As a teen, I was fascinated by the "girl with kaleidoscope eyes."

[laurie]

As a kid, I was fascinated by a kaleidoscope. As a teen, I was fascinated by the "girl with kaleidoscope eyes."

Try looking through a kaleidoscope while listening to the song. You'll find yourself turning it to the beat.

[Algot Runeman]

oblate [definition 1*]

Pronunciation: /ˈäbˌlāt, ˌōˈblāt/
adjective
Geometry
(of a spheroid) flattened at the poles. Often contrasted with prolate.

Origin:
early 18th century: from modern Latin oblatus (from ob- 'inversely' + -latus 'carried'), on the pattern of Latin prolatus 'prolonged'


Glen Euloth

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If it were October, most of us would instantly say, "Hey, look at that huge oblate spheroid on the porch, there."
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*Oddly, the Oxford Dictionaries Online didn't provide a second definition when I looked up oblate while marking the word with the superscript.

Wikipedia discusses Oblate as a person who chooses to affiliate with a monastic society without being a monk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblate
and Roman Catholic membership of a religious group of men or women.

[laurie]

*Oddly, the Oxford Dictionaries Online didn't provide a second definition when I looked up oblate while marking the word with the superscript.

Wikipedia discusses Oblate as a person who chooses to affiliate with a monastic society without being a monk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblate
and Roman Catholic membership of a religious group of men or women.

Catholic seminary students are often called oblates, too, especially if they attend a religious order's seminary (ie. Jesuit, Dominican, etc.) rather than a diocesan seminary.

[Algot Runeman]

suasion

Pronunciation: /ˈswāZHən/
noun
formal
persuasion as opposed to force or compulsion.

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin suasio(n-), from suadere 'to urge'


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By gentle suasion, he urged his friends to play with words.
Indeed, he urged play above efficiency in many realms.
His friends smiled, thinking him childlike.
He smiled, knowing they were right.
Growing up doesn't need to mean loss of wonder.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

suasion

My grandma would never have voluntarily parted with her precious furs.
Brigitte Bardot, nor even Voralfred, could ever have brought sufficient suasion to bear.

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An eccentric acquaintance of mine considered himself an amateur alchemist. One day, when traveling in a mountainous region of Czechia, he found a compound unknown to him. He took a sample home and analysed it in his basement laboratory.
The compound proved to be a Sulfate salt. The positive ion was Arsenic (As) alloyed with some other metalloid element. The man became convinced he had discovered a new element and he named it Sudetium (Su), for Sudetenland, the historic name of the region where he found it.
His experiments had shown that the compound dissolved readily in water, dissociating in a negatively charged Sulfate ion and a metalloid pair which he called a SuAsion, the positively charged ion of the aqueous solution of SuAssulfate.
He obstinately ignored all dissuasion to publish by chemists who told him the "new" element was Selenium.

(The above is all hogwash of course. As if you didn't know that.)

[Algot Runeman]

propinquity

Pronunciation: /prəˈpiNGkwətē/
noun
1the state of being close to someone or something; proximity: he kept his distance as though afraid propinquity might lead him into temptation
2 technical close kinship.

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French propinquité, from Latin propinquitas, from propinquus 'near', from prope 'near to'


joseph a

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Being close neighbors is good. Propinquity propels powerful friendships, but that this picture was taken of houses in the rural countryside shocked even me. (stretching the truth slightly)

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

propinquity

You should take a drive with Google Maps starting from 'Zurenborg 2, Antwerp' (drive south, away from the railway overpass).

You'll see some fine houses with more or less propinquity in Antwerp's old Zurenborg area.

[Algot Runeman]

tsuris

Pronunciation: /ˈtso͝oris, ˈtsər/
noun
informal
trouble or woe; aggravation.

Origin:
early 20th century: from Hebrew


Amber Nimmervol

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The rain may be a tsuris for your morning commute.
The grass and trees and flowers care nothing for your commutes.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

tsuris

The Street View of Google Maps shows only the northern part of the Cogels-Osy Avenue in Antwerp, Belgium (see this post). The southern part of that street is blacked out. Maybe because Street View compromised security, caused too much tsuris and the inhabitants complained? I don't know.
Just point Google Maps at 'Zurenborg 60, Antwerp' and zoom in. You'll get photo's but no Street View to stroll around in.

Anyway, you can still admire pictures of some of the old magnificent mansions and stately architecture by searching Google Images for 'cogels-osylei'.

P.S.1. IMHO, they should have put the cable junction box somewhere else ...

P.S. 2. I'd love to get exact locations of beautiful streets around the world (street names in cities) to visit and view with Google.
(not Lombard Street in San Francisco or Sydney's Opera House, I've seen those often enough )

[Algot Runeman]

minatory

Pronunciation: /ˈminəˌtôrē, ˈmī-/
adjective
formal
expressing or conveying a threat: he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging

Origin:
mid 16th century: from late Latin minatorius, from minat- 'threatened', from the verb minari


Shawn Liu

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Sue smiled sweetly at the instructor's minatory glower. She slid her magazine under her textbook and pretended to read the chapter, as if for her fourth time.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

minatory

After Theseus and the girls escaped from the labyrinth, he humbly admitted to Ariadne and Phaedra that, for a minute there, he had felt the situation was quite minotaury.

[Algot Runeman]

the situation was quite minotaury.

[Algot Runeman]

congé

Pronunciation: /kôNˈZHā, ˈkänˌjā/
noun
[in singular]
an unceremonious dismissal or rejection of someone: the woman who gave you your congé when she wanted to marry Mr. Sugar

Origin:
late Middle English (in the general sense 'permission to do something'): from Old French congie, from Latin commeatus 'leave of absence', from commeare 'go and come'. The word is now usually treated as equivalent to modern French


Ujwala Prabhu

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I've often given ice cream its congé. Yet, as often have I relented and returned its affection.

[Algot Runeman]

afflatus

Pronunciation: /əˈflātəs/
noun
formal
a divine creative impulse or inspiration.

Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin, from the verb afflare, from ad- 'to' + flare 'to blow'



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Can aught but good result from afflatus, even merely an unwitting misdeed?

[Algot Runeman]

biltong

Pronunciation: /ˈbilˌtôNG/
noun
chiefly South African
lean meat that is salted and dried in strips.

Origin:
Afrikaans, from Dutch bil 'buttock' + tong 'tongue'


Kusie

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For us Yanks, the term biltong sounds a little jerky. Then who am I to say. It is all carne seca to me, y'all.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

biltong

Thanks to his homemade Bündnerfleisch or Viande des Grisons the famous Swiss mountaineer Pemmi can, all by himself, pack enough biltong and other food for 5 days without resupply.

It's also produced in the Austrian Alps where I've seen it called "Bergfleisch" (mountain meat).

Antwerp, Belgium is almost at sea level, but it also has a typical dried meat, though not as dry as the "trockenfleish" (dried meat) above, its famous Filet d'Anvers.

And among many other dried meats, there's the Pastrami sandwich.

Have I given you a clue?

[laurie]

It is all carne seca to me, y'all.

Lou Carnesecca ?

I don't remember anyone named Biltong playing for St. John's.

[laurie]

Have I given you a clue?

No, but you've made me very hungry at 11:15 pm.

[Algot Runeman]

perigee

Pronunciation: /ˈperəˌjē/
noun
Astronomy
the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is nearest to the earth. The opposite of apogee.

Origin:
late 16th century: from French périgée, via modern Latin from Greek perigeion 'close around the earth', from peri- 'around' + gē 'earth'


Ken Lord

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The meteorite totally ignored the concepts of both apogee and perigee, streaked directly past Luna's orbit and blazed a bright trail through the atmosphere on its way to full contact with Earth. Gee Whiz!

[Algot Runeman]

ceroc

Pronunciation: /səˈräk/
noun
chiefly British
a type of modern social dance having elements of rock and roll, jive, and salsa.

Origin:
1990s: invented word, apparently coined in English from French ce 'this' + roc 'rock'


Rodney Lewis

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"Come on let's twist again, like we did last summer."
"Come on, come on. Do the hokey-pokey with me."
"Come on, Baby, let's ceroc." (When will I hear this on the radio?)