Posted on 03/16/2006 4:10:00 AM PST 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".
crapulous \KRAP-yuh-lus\, adjective
1. Suffering the effects of, or derived from, or suggestive of gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous stomach.
2. Marked by gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous old reprobate.
Example sentence:
The new money was spent in so much riotous living, and from end to end there settled on the country a mood of fretful, crapulous irritation.
-- Stephen McKenna, Sonia
Etymology: Crapulous is from Late Latin crapulosus, from Latin crapula, from Greek kraipale, drunkenness and its consequences, nausea, sickness, and headache.
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....
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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
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yeah well Papists with bingo and all are gamblers ar heart...
That must be like my MLB.com for baseball.
yeah, that fast paced game of baseball, you need to have constant reloading to keep up on those fluctuating scores.. RME!!!!
The Grand Canyon is gorgeous from afar. I can't look down. I'd pass out.
Cyber loves the Hoover/Boulder Dam. Again, I can't look down, but I can look at the statuaries and all. He wants to go on a tour of the Hoover Dam next time we go to Vegas. Thank goodness we don't go there often. But that's the shortcut to my sis's in Truckee.
Take me out to the ball game
Take me out to the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks
I don't care if I ever get back.
It's root, root, root for the home team
If they don't win, I don't care
It's one, two, three strikes you're out
At the old ball game!
Basketball is stinky. And the squeaking shoes. Yuck.
I just looked at Riverside Casino in Laughlin. It looks like they have the internet connection I want. They also have a private bowling alley, which I'd like. Now, if they have room service, we should go soon.
I'll check it out.
I misspelled Laughlin. I wonder why?
Har. Mispelled Laughlin, huh? I wonder why, too....
Hehehehehehe!
That's probably why I like baseball better than any other sport. It's outside.
that's why i would always pray for rain during the spring T-ball season when the xskids played... ; )
Slippy, i share your fear of heights. i couldn't look down either. You and cyber remind me of xskids when they were little, they LOVED to "eat in the room"!
There's an "old" (well late 60's) catholic Vatican Council guitar-Mass/we-are-trying-to-be-hip-but-can't-do-it-real-well-yet song that (endlessly) " kept repeating "Sons of God, Hear our holy word, ... with the same two chords over-and-over-and over again...
xsex would remember it verbatim - she's taht oooooooolllllllllllld ya know.
never heard of it.
At age 12, with a ton of cousins and brothers and uncles, went hiking down the (shallower but longer) Bright Angel trail, spent the night at the bottom of the Canyon, then hiked back up the (steeper but shorter) Kaibob Trail.
WORTH THE TRIP!!!!!! WORTH EVERT STEP DOWN AND BACK UP!!!!!
I think what surprised me was how thin the "uncles" thought the air was at the top (8000-odd feet), compared to how much easier they were breathing 5000 feet lower at the bottom!
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