Posted on 08/05/2005 2:04:23 AM PDT by Argh
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of four "Words for the Day".
1. habromania
Noun: [from Greek words habros meaning graceful or delicate and mainesthai to be mad]:
a kind of insanity during which the delusions are of a cheerful character
2.quackle [onomatopoeic]
to choke or suffocate
3. uranism [YUR-en-ism: from the Greek Urania, another name for the Greek goddess of sex and love Aphrodite. This is what my 3-volume Webster’s says. I thought Urania was just the Muse of astronomy. Then there was the Titan Uranus who was the sky god and first ruler. He was the son of Gaea, who created him without help. He then became the husband of Gaea (why the complex is named after Oedipus, who at least didn't know he was marrying his mom, instead of Uranus, is beyond me, but I digress) and together they had many offspring, including twelve of the Titans. His rule ended when when Cronus, encouraged by Gaea, castrated him. He either died from the wound or withdrew from earth.]
a homosexual condition especially when involving physically normal males
4. Friday word:
souteneur [pronounced soo-ten-EUR, from French sustenir to support]
A type of pimp, a man who cohabits with a prostitute, lives off her earnings, and often solicits for her - also called cadet
Example sentence:
Souteneur: think Bill and President Hillary.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using one or more of the Words for the Day in one or more sentences.
The sentences must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Good Morning, Class. Welcome to School!
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
No pushing at the door please!
It sounds as if you're feeling a bit better. That's GREEEEAAAAAATTTTTT!
Heck, I invited him in.
I did.
Why am I all of a sudden famous? Everybody is reading that. I don't get it.
But I hope it made you smile. ;)
Me too.
Never liked the guy at all. He divorced his first wife for what movie starlet? The first wife went through all the cancer junk with him, then he leaves her. Or maybe the first wife left him. I really don't know.
Secret Garden does a lot of the WFTDs in here, too. Sorry, SG. Brain dead.
The photo of Loosh you sent me was used in the new photo printer we got this week. Cyber wanted to see of e-mail photos would come out as well as regular photos. It did. I have Loosh right next to me.
He lurks about FR, you know - but he refuses to tell me his screen name.
Now that makes sense.
I don't think tD would do that, Cook. What an imagination!
Oh, it did! Made my happy you're in here with us, patton.
Merci beucoup. ;)
So you won't be going to the cuddle party?
Figures it was in Tarazana. "Me Tarzan, you Jane."
Cordially,
Bad typing today. The city's name is Tarzana.
We're always in the chat section of FR. They put us here in chains a couple of years ago.
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