Posted on 10/21/2009 3:31:38 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
quash • \KWAHSH\ • verb 
to nullify especially by judicial action
Example sentence:
Thanks to a loophole in the law, the defendant's lawyers were able to persuade the judge to quash the indictment against their client.
Did you know?
There are two "quash" verbs in English, and although their meanings are vaguely similar, they have entirely different origins. Both essentially mean to get rid of something -- you can quash a rumor, for example, or you can quash a judicial order. The legal term "quash" (defined above) comes from an Anglo-French word, "casser," meaning "to annul," and ultimately from Latin "cassus," meaning "void." The other "quash" means "to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely." It derives from the Middle English word "quashen," meaning "to smash," and ultimately from a form of the Latin verb "quatere," meaning "to shake."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
If the federal courts even bothered to read the Constitution anymore, they would quash much of Zero's agenda before it even got started.
Democrats' hidden gas tax
Where's the health-care bill?
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Cowboys' Pro-Bowl Center Andre Gurode:
Hey Tony! There's only 
days until Christmas!
The substitute teacher walks across the room, still dripping wet from the shower. The hotel towel wrapped deftly around his waist slips and falls to the floor as he bends to open the classroom.
Happy Birthday NeoCaveman!
Not that the teacher’s towel slippage is a birthday present to Neo or anything like that.
oh i bet you thought no one would SEE YOU NEKKID at this hour didn’t you>? HA!
Quash:
The sound made when a mainstream news person hits their head on the ACORN scandal.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it...
Striving to quash the visual image thus created.
That's the purpose of a towel you know; it's a sash/quash.
Mrs. Tick planned squash for dinner, but I quashed that idea like Sasquatch scat quenching a forest fire.
I prefer baked potato(e).
Can you throw a pumpkin across the courtroom to quash debate, or must you use another gourd-like vegetable?
I’ve no wish to quash a birthday party, but I thought Neo’s birthday was last week? I even bought him a balloon...
WTF? Your link goes to some article about Asians in colleges, not nekkid pictures of Erin Andrews.
Also down in ‘Bama we would pronounce the WFTD “quarsh.”
Spain is usually serving rather bland rice, or rather greasy french fried potatoes.....
Lot’s of big crystals of salt on most food, even the steaks and chops. No squashes. Yet. Though I cannot always predict exactly what I’m going to get served when I order. 8<)
Well, I’ve never been to Spain (but I kinda like the music).
Business or pleasure?
French fries sound good, but I thought their paella was to die for.
Business. Have been here for 10 days doing power plant outage planning and pre-fab, will be here through about Nov 20, Nov 25.
10 and 11 hour workdays, 6 days a week. (So far, we’ve successfully gotten Sundays off. Spent last Sunday climbing through a nearby 1520’s era castle ruins, and driving through the central highland mountains.)
Cool! Enjoy it.
European travel on business is fun — I’m assuming someone else is picking up the check — provided it’s not ALL eleven hour days.
FRegards
Will the Senate Obamacare quash?
Or will they all say,”By golly, by gosh?”
Will the studs from our party
Be tough, firm, and hearty?
These RINOs? Why, surely, you josh
(And don’t call me Shirley)
i love your hw!
They plan those things? I always suspected.
But how do they know when I'm in the shower?
ai, hombre, porque no nos dijiste que estas trabajando en el pais del Don Quixote! Has visitado una bodega? Viste flamenco?
will you be there for El Dia de Accion de Gracias?
In a vain attempt to quash her poor ratings Oprah is going to have Sarah Palin on her program the day before Palins book “Going Rogue” comes out.
I really wish that somebody (Blue Dogs?) would quash Obamacare before it bankrupts the country.
go buy yourself a latte! ; )
Pretty biased article IMO, given the source. I doubt that an unbiased person with scientific training would have drawn the same histrionic conclusions.
um, i see no histrionics there.
Oh puhleeze. There’s no science in the reporting. Only someone with no medical background and a desire to sensationalize would draw the conclusion that a 70% vaccination rate requirement represents a failure. Influenza requires 85% to assure “herd immunity.” Polio required over 95%.
just taking the verbatim quotes from Harper at face value, it doesn’t sound like the vaccine does much at all. Certainly not enough to warrant [to quote your fave word] HISTRIONIC ad campaign for the drug.
I’m with you on that!!!!
About the only good thing about the domination of political ads on TV is they’ve bumped off the ambulance chasers and plastic surgeons :)
Ok - radio station here this morning reported something you won't hear anywhere else..... not sure if it is true but said last week when Bambi landed at George Bush International Airport, then took his helicopter to College Station to speak at A&M, there was a 45 minute wait to deboard Air Force One because all of the stairs had "George Bush Airport" on the side and they had to find something that didn't have that on there! lol Could this possibly be true? If so, how freaking funny is that?
i was gratified to hear from xsboy yesterday that his friends who have turned 18 yo in time to vote, are also registered [and they are conservative]. xshub intends to go with xsboy on election day, figuring someone will give him trouble, bc they have the same name, xshub=jr and xsboyb=III. while an illegal alien would pass through the process w/o raising an eyebrow with NO id, we figure they will hassle a white boy who has the same name as his father.
xsteen visited A&M last spring with her room mate, and one of the guys she met while visiting there, has as his FB status, something about being interrogated for speaking negatively about obams. She has written him to inquire whether that’s just a gag he is pulling or if he really was. she was pretty horrified at the prospect of it being true.
That is gratifying news about the young folks.
It makes perfect sense that dad is taking son to vote. I can just imagine the possible hassles he cold encounter. I remember the hassles coolbreeze had over getting a VA DL because he is a Jr. He had to present his birth certificate to prov he actually is a Jr. Heck I don’t remember how many election cycles it took for the county election people to finally figure out where on the list my name belongs (stupid hyphenation issue.) It is too the point now where most of the poll workers remember me, because we went through the mess so many times :)
Pulled - what was it?
Rasmussen daily tracking poll! LOL, unless it’s a dupe, can’t figure out why it would be.
So I just realized what bugged me: He got 95% of the black vote and a large percentage of illegal/Mexican American vote, and he's telling his followers to "grab a mop"....does that sound kind of demeaning and racist to you?
-13.........LOL that’s an unlucky number for theOne.
I intend to grab a mop for my next Tea Party. Heck we need a shovels to clean out Washington.
Hmmmmmmmmm..........good point. Need to push that idea, big time.
Well they twist every word Conservatives say..... two can play this game!
So true - if they want a mop as their symbol, we’ll bring a shovel -
good point, hadn’t thought of that. but his followers will NEVER look at it that way, even the mop-wielders.
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