WORD FOR THE DAY(7/23/18)Transmogrify

Merriam Webster | 7/23/18

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WORD FOR THE DAY(7/23/18)Transmogrify



Word of the Day : May 28th, 2018

Transmogrify play verb transs-MAH-gruh-fye

Definition

: to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect

Did You Know?

We know that the prefix trans- means "across" or "beyond" and appears in many words that evoke change, such as transform and transpire, but we don't know the exact origins of transmogrify. The 17th-century dramatist, novelist, and poet Aphra Behn, who is regarded as England's first female professional writer, was an early adopter of the word. In her 1671 comic play The Amorous Prince, Behn wrote, "I would Love would transmogriphy me to a maid now." A century later, Scottish poet Robert Burns plied the word again in verse, aptly capturing the grotesque and sometimes humorous effect of transmogrification: "See Social life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrify'd, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking…."

Examples

"It hadn't been cleaned in more than two years and the captured leaves had transmogrified into a wonderfully fecund compost." — Frank Mulligan, The Leader (Corning, New York), 8 Aug. 2014

"He was present in 1917 when communists shot their way to power and Imperial Russia transmogrified into the Soviet Union." — Colin Nickerson, The Boston Globe, 30 Apr. 2017

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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.

MY ENTRY: Since Photoshop, and numerous other programs make it easy to transmogrify images and videos, it has become more difficult to detect Fake news.

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My Grandpa would not recognize the Transmogrified democrat Party.

[MaxistheBest]

“often with grotesque or humorous effect”

Describes the Trans community to a tee.

[M1903A1]

Who else first learned that word from Calvin & Hobbes?

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Hoo Boy! Yeah.

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Not me...but it sounds about right.

[bertmerc1]

Carlos Santana embarked on his Transmogrify Tour in 2017; great concert in Uncasville, Connecticut at the Mohegan Sun. I had front row seats!

[BenLurkin]

A transmogrified Cankles made an appearance at OddityFest

[lepton]

Calvin used the Transmogrifier to transmogrify into a T-Rex fighter-jet pilot.

[TLI]

He invented the Transmogrifier.

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[doorgunner69]

First thing I though of was Calvin when I saw the thread title.

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AWESOME!

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YIKES!

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Ah! I get it!

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LOL!

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Gotta git me one o’ those! :-)

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This is turning into a Calvinist Thread! :-)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeppers.

Until new electric heaters and pollution controls came about, the smoke and fog over London’s river meant you could transmogrifly right across the Thames River many days of the year.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wanna bet she either was seated on stage the whole time she was in public, or wearing the now-famous back-and-neck brace under that vast umbrella of a dress?