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Word For The Day, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - lucifugous
dictionaries ad nauseum
| 30 Zeptember 2010
| Thursday's sub
Posted on 09/30/2010 4:39:28 AM PDT by secret garden
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".
lucifugous\ loo-see-FOO-guhs \ , adjective
Avoiding light.
Example sentences:
There begin to be seen walking the streets, hugging the walls, odd lucifugous creatures such as the tide uncovers when the water withdraws.
-- André Gide, Justin O'Brien, Journals: 1914-1927
The lucifugous house, firmly fastened on its corner, with a light that descended while it was hardening, dragged along by the cream-colored crab toward subterranean hibernation.
-- José Lezama Lima, Paradiso
Etymology:
Lucifugous combines two Latin roots, luci- , "light," and fugere , "to flee." '
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
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To: secret garden; Fierce Allegiance; JoanVarga; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; ...
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:40:32 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:43:40 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: secret garden
Lucifugous Congress heads for the airport, after not dealing with the tax cut issue.
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:48:14 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
To: JoeProBono
Perfect! Is that Jerry Brown left in charge of the California budget? A+ for you!
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:49:37 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: sauropod
This will be a great election issue, to expose them for the cowards they are. A for you!
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:50:40 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Obama’s lucifugous past may lead this nation to its own Dark Ages.
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:52:16 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(......and then there were none.)
To: secret garden
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posted on
09/30/2010 4:55:01 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
Every autumn Charlie Brown attempts to kick a field goal but, inevitably, lucifugous.
To: Roccus
Wouldn't that be something? A for you!
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posted on
09/30/2010 5:00:07 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: xsmommy
What? He is not beloved by the uninformed masses anymore? And they are increasingly catching on to what an empty suit he is? A+ for you!
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posted on
09/30/2010 5:02:17 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: Jack Hammer
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posted on
09/30/2010 5:03:02 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
Lucifugous! You got some 'splainin' to do!
To: secret garden
The storm outside was so lucifugous, at one point the clouds were so think it was as dark as it had been before sunrise.
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posted on
09/30/2010 5:30:22 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: xsmommy
Obama Battling Severe Depression Obama Battling Causing Severe Depression
FIFY
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posted on
09/30/2010 5:44:52 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(I can see November from my house. Christine turned me into a Newt. I got better. Go Joe DioGuardio)
To: secret garden
This wasn’t in my “Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary,” but they did have luciferous, meaning “giving or provinding light.”
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posted on
09/30/2010 5:55:01 AM PDT
by
TimeLord
(A whale fetus is a whale; a human fetus is a blob.)
To: NeoCaveman
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posted on
09/30/2010 5:56:12 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
When Clinton remarked, "I've dreamed of getting a lesson from Annika Sorenstam," the crowd interpreted the comment as a double entendre Bubba's getting old, that's pretty tame.
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posted on
09/30/2010 6:05:20 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(I can see November from my house. Christine turned me into a Newt. I got better. Go Joe DioGuardio)
To: secret garden
Rats hide from the glare
Of facts from Obamacare
All lucifugous
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posted on
09/30/2010 6:21:31 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(If not for the double standard, liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: NeoCaveman
That vegan diet has left him pretty dang debilitated.
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posted on
09/30/2010 6:25:52 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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