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7 Jan 2007, 04:11 PM
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This is a game involving some really bizarre words and their meaning. Updated often.
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7 Jan 2007, 04:13 PM
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[title]7 Jan 2007 : prestidigitation[/title]
prestidigitation \pres-tuh-dij-uh-TAY-shuhn\, noun: Skill in or performance of tricks; sleight of hand. He was the man who had sat alone in a room for hundreds and hundreds of hours, his fingers manipulating cards and coins until he had learned and could perfectly reproduce every form of prestidigitation found in books of magic lore. -- Brian Moore, The Magician's Wife Some modern readers may be less surprised to find that efforts to use accounting prestidigitation to deflect borrowing away from current expenditure speedily came unstuck and that a return to more conventional ideas of financial integrity was rewarded by what seems to be a generation of calm, not entirely due to gaps in the record. -- Peter Rycraft, "Fiscalitat i deute public en dues viles del camp de Tarragona: Reus i Valls, segles", English Historical Review, November 2002 One of his magician friends told me that practitioners of prestidigitation have great respect for their fellow magicians who also hold forth behind the bar. -- Gary Regan, "Tricks and treats: cast a mystical spell on guests with a magician bartender", Nation's Restaurant News, March 3, 2003 Prestidigitation was adopted from French, from preste, "nimble, quick" (from Italian presto, from Late Latin praestus, "ready at hand") + Latin digitus, "finger." One skilled in sleight of hand is a prestidigitator. also see : Wikipedia -------------------- |
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16 Aug 2007, 01:13 PM
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ABSQUATULATE
ab·squat·u·late (ăb-skwŏch'ə-lāt') pronunciation intr.v. Midwestern & Western U.S., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates. To depart in a hurry; abscond: “Your horse has absquatulated!” To die To argue The 1830s — a period of great vigour and expansiveness in the US — was also a decade of inventiveness in language, featuring a fashion for word play, obscure abbreviations, fanciful coinages, and puns. Only a few inventions of that period have survived to our times, such as sockdologer, skedaddle and hornswoggle. Among those that haven’t lasted the distance were blustrification (the action of celebrating boisterously), goshbustified (excessively pleased and gratified), and dumfungled (used up). Absquatulate has had a good run and is still to be found in modern American dictionaries. It was common enough that it became one of the favourite bêtes noires of writers on style in the latter part of the century. One such was Walton Burgess, who wrote Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking Pronouncing and Writing the English Language, Corrected, a title sufficient in itself to make the strongest heart quail. He included the word in a list of those to avoid, with this evocative example of it in action: “He has absquatulated, and taken the specie with him”. He remarked disdainfully that “ ‘absconded’ is a more classical word”. A writer in the New Orleans Weekly Picayune in December 1839 noted that the origin of the word lay in squat, to which had been added the Latin ab– (from abscond), meaning “off, away”, and the verb ending –ulate (borrowed from words like perambulate), so making a word meaning to get up and depart quickly. Or, as a writer in the old Vanity Fair magazine in 1875 elaborated: “They dusted, vamosed the ranch, made tracks, cut dirt, hoed it out of there”. Also see: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/absquatulate http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/absquatulate -------------------- |
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3 Nov 2010, 04:55 AM
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6 Mar 2011, 12:26 AM
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17 Nov 2012, 11:06 AM
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