WORD FOR THE DAY: DIGAMY

2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words | April 26, 2016 | Norman Schur

[Louis Foxwell]

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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".

DIGAMY [DIG uh mee]

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noun

DIGAMY is a "second marriage." it rhymes with bigamy but is legal after a divorce, an annulment or the death of a first spouse. Johnson called it the triumph of "hope over experience."

In a Marx Brothers film Groucho, although already married, proposes to the suprisingly unflappable, or at least insufficiently outraged Margaret Dumont. "But that would be bigamy!" says she. "Big o' you?" cries Groucho, "It would be big o' me!"

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
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[Louis Foxwell]

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.

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[NonValueAdded]

Digamy a grave for my presidential chances, said Ted.

[ConservativeMind]

That is a new word to me, but useful.

I will seek to remember it. Thank you.

[Louis Foxwell]

Today's silliness is brought to you by a digamist. There is also trigamy, quadrigamy, quinquigamy, sexigamy and septigamy. Any achievements beyond that are purely speculative.

Have fun. Bennies in the AM.

[verga]

Back in the sixties my friend asked if I liked his cousin Amy, I replied: Yeah I kind of digamy.

[MoochPooch]

Unfortunately, digamy has become a way of life in modern society.

[PROCON]

Well, I have committed Digamy, and then some.

[tinyowl]

Chicks Digamy.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I gotta digamy a new hole. The ole one is too little.

[t4texas]

And then there is this:

From Duck Soup . . .

Person 1: This means war!

Person 2: Something must be done. War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes!

Chico: Hey I got an uncle lives in Texas.

Person 2: No I’m talking about money, dollars, taxes.

Chico: Dallas! That’s where my uncle lives. Dallas, Texas!

[jobim]

Yes, the painted vixen divorced the industrialist,
for a pretty penny I might add, and proceeded to
seduce and conquer the high-rise developer.
A clear case of gold digamy.

[Boogieman]

Alright, so if you had one wife, it’s monogamy. Two wives is digamy. More than one at the same time is polygamy, if they are okay with it, and it’s legal, otherwise it’s bigamy.

What if you have no wife? Is guess it’s agamy?

I’m going to confess to someone that I’m an agamist... and see what kind of shocked look I can get :)

[60Gunner]

Digamy: the crime of one male mole having multiple wives.

[dblshot]

Once a bachelor I lived happily
Then suffered through matrimony
But where love is concerned
I just never learn
And took a shot at digamy

[verga]

Digamy: the crime of one male mole having multiple wives.

And multiple mothers in law.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

My ex-wife got totally sick o’ me
She decided to opt for digamy
Her new husband’s rich
Doesn’t mind she’s a bitch
He’s real short, just a wealthy pigmy

[NicknamedBob]

"I’m going to confess to someone that I’m an agamist... and see what kind of shocked look I can get :)"

It won't work. I used to try making a joke out of saying that my two favorite sports were archery and lechery.

The response would inevitably be, "Really? Archery?"

[left that other site]

I am still working on widowhood, and have no time for digamy.

BUT...someday, perhaps.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Donald Trump is a trigamist, but nobody seems to mind these days. At least, that is what the captivated media would have us believe.

8 years ago they were scandalaized at Rudy Giuliani and newt Gringich, 2 other trigamists who wre prominent in the political circus.

[GSWarrior]

I dig Amy Schumer....not