Posted on 10/01/2004 5:45:27 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".
fustigate \FUSS-tuh-gayt\ verb
1. to beat with or as if with a short heavy club
2. to criticize severely *
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence:
The incumbent senator has been fustigated by his opponent for twice voting to raise taxes.
Did you know?
Though it won't leave a bump on your head, severe criticism can be a blow to your self-esteem. It's no wonder that "fustigate," when it first appeared in the 17th century, originally meant "to cudgel or beat with a short heavy stick," a sense that reflects the word's derivation from the Latin noun "fustis," which means "club" or "staff." The "criticize" sense is more common these days, but the violent use of "fustigate" was a hit with earlier writers like George Huddesford, who in 1801 told of an angry Jove who "cudgell'd all the constellations, ... / Swore he'd eject the man i' the moon ... / And fustigate him round his orbit."
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....
Cool!
Far out!
Groovy even!
# 29 by Rebelbase was cute.
I have mine firmly in hand.
don't doubt that for a sec ; )
It's easy to find being as it's Commando Friday.
boys are born with their hands attached down there and very rarely give up a grip.
Is that what that's for? Nobody tells me anything. Next thing, somebody'll be telling me I'm black...
Timely and well done. Good job.
Yeaaaarrrrgh (in best Dean voice)-I'm finished with work on-site for the day and I can do some billing ahd Freeping-
Ketchup boy has the strangest ideas
Such as his "global test"-
Who would write the questions
And grade the answers at whose behest?
Would his precious UN do the grading
And fustigate those who don't pass?
I'd rather have W tell them goodbye and don't
Let the door hit them in the ass
The poodle may be more articulate-
But then, show me a lawyer who is not
He and his ambulance chasing running mate
Are just begging for a ZOT...
fustigate \FUSS-tuh-gayt\ verb
Speak softly then fustigate sKerry with a big stick.............I'm George W. Bush and I approved this Freepin' sentence!
LMAO! If my grandma were still alive, she'd use one of her favorite phrases for people she considered unattractive to describe the poodle-"looks like he was beaten with an ugly stick", or "he hires himself out on Halloween to scare little kids".
I think the intention was to make Lurch look warmer and more like a human being-instead, he looked like a mannequin from Madam Tussaud's wax museum...
Yes, a female mannequin in the French woman's museum. ;)
the word to describe his look in that pic is EFFETE. what normal joe construction worker, mail carrier, UPS driver can identify with that jagoff?
I was thinking prissy...
like he has a stick up his behind.
OK, I was out and about. I had one guy asking me if I saw the debates......he watched about ten minutes and went to bed.......he said nothing kerry could say would ever interest him. Said his brother served in 'Nam and got lots of medals. His brother never talks about them, or brags about them. He said "A real hero doesn't do that, kerry is no hero."
My male family members would say "tight-assed"-meaning snooty and aloof-same as having a broomstick there...
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