Posted on 11/17/2010 3:50:40 AM PST 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".
banausic \buh-NAW-sik\
relating to or concerned with earning a living -- used pejoratively; also - utilitarian, practical
Example sentence:
The heiress dismissively declared that she would never have to worry about such banausic concerns as holding down a job.
Extra example: "At the far end was a wooden board on which were hung saws, chisels, knives and other banausic instruments of the trade." -- From Sebastian Faulk's 2005 novel Human Traces
Did you know?
The ancient Greeks held intellectual pursuits in the highest esteem, and they considered ideal a leisurely life of contemplation. A large population of slaves enabled many Greek citizens to adopt that preferred lifestyle. Those who had others to do the heavy lifting for them tended to regard professional labor with contempt. Their prejudice against the need to toil to earn a living is reflected in the Greek adjective "banausikos" (the root of banausic), which not only means of an artisan (from the word for artisan, "banausos") but nonintellectual as well.
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 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
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Didn’t those control freaks get the message on 11/2? No more tyranny.
i feel so liberated now that glenn has said it’s ok to stockpile food and now jeans!
Obamacare, liberals’ last straw trick
Three thousand pages, banausic
Lobbyists wrote it
Can the people outvote it?
It’s terrific, unless you’re old or sick
Given how police statey everything is getting, collapse isn’t sounding half bad as an alternative.
Wasn’t Banausic that old 70’s P.I. show starring George Peppard?
i agree.
See also Bauhaustic.
I got a surprise night off last week and tuned in to see her dance......I apparently fell asleep during HER routine and missed it....so I just went up to bed. Wasn’t really impressed by the show.
...what a lovely target...don't ya just wanna kick him in the ass?
have no idea what time/days etc. it’s on, haven’t watched, nor am i likely to, but the level of mania that Palin and her progeny inspires is pretty funny.
I thought another couple in those same rolls would have vastly improved that movie.
Obama has never had any banausic concerns, always relying on his silver tongue to convince Congress to redistribute other people’s wealth.
I thought Steve Carrell was really funny but that she was just plain crass in some parts and I think those were the parts where she improvised.
Home for the day, but at least I have a little job to bid on-
To avoid the banausic issues
That tend to cramp his style
Obama will jet off to Europe
To spend our money for awhile
The more he ignores those issues
The more angry the people get-
We’re tired of funding luxuries
For he and Michelle Antoinette
Most of us can’t afford a trip
For business, much less for fun-
May he return from a jaunt to find
His impeachment is over and done
The WFTD reminds me of another, similar sometimes-pejorative term-”bougeois”...
this was the night my glucose levels bottomed out in the 40s and my crew had come up to the house and told me to take the rest of the night off.....so I flipped through some channels in boredom and happened on it.....probably couldn’t find it again if my life depended on it......and as I waited for her I must have dozed off, a few minutes later I woke up and their routine was over....so I went to bed to read.
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