Posted on 09/21/2011 6:20:29 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".
prepradial \pree-PRAN-dee-ul\ - adjective
of, relating to, or suitable for the time just before dinner
Example sentence:
Although dinner was served late, the preprandial conversation was so diverting that no one minded.
Extra Example sentence:
"Churchill celebrated Christmas with the Roosevelts, took part in FDR's preprandial cocktail hours, shared most meals with the president, and, to Eleanor Roosevelt's great dismay, kept her husband up until the early hours each morning, drinking brandy, puffing cigars, and talking endlessly about everything." -- From Lynne Olson's 2010 book Citizens of London
Did you know?
Though the Latin noun "prandium" means "late breakfast" or "luncheon," its derivative English adjectives -- "preprandial," "prandial," and "postprandial" -- are just as likely to refer to other meals; in fact, "preprandial" is usually applied to dinner. Those adjectives were quite new in our language ("prandial" and "postprandial" first appeared in print in 1820, and "preprandial" in 1822) when a Scottish judge wrote in his memoirs, "Every glass during dinner required to be dedicated to the health of some one.... This prandial nuisance was horrible." English also acquired the adverbs "prandially" and "postprandially," but those are much rarer words these days.
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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)
She said she got right up in his face too. I lmao.
DK is a deal breaker for me...
“My Sharona”
All right, damnit-that was an uncalled-for earqworm that caused me to dig out the CD of the Knack and play it while I freep!
Let’s make that “earworm”, okay?
Gotta play the album version with the jam session in the middle, not the single version.
The preprandial conversation by
The Obamas must be a trip-
With staff hanging on every word
Hoping for a little slip
Perhaps a snipe from Michelle
To set some ears on fire-
An incriminating tidbit to sell
To the National Enquirer
Or maybe even fast and furious words-
The press could hardly wait-
That staffer would get a king’s ransom
For opening the next Watergate...
The single version is on my album, not the one you are referring to.
I never understood the mentality of radio people who figured a song would be more popular if they removed an instrumental bridge or coda.
Oh, my album has the instrumental bridge that changes tempo three or so times, but that is not the long, long original one that goes on for several minutes and is practically a piece in itself-I haven’t heard that version in years.
OMG OMG OMG OMG...........I forgot to turn on GB and that fox at five show is killing me.....now I have forgotten my password.......egads. what a day.
They were talking about the military on “The Five”, and not being PC, and instead treating women like one of the guys instead-I guess like they do on “Battlestar Galactica”, or some of the cop shows. Why is this even an issue? I work with guys, and if I want to be treated as an equal, I’d better be able to laugh and not blush or be offended at sexual jokes, gestures, etc-I didn’t think anyone really bothered about that stuff anymore where men and women worked side by side.
You have the right attitude. You want to be taken as an equal, not treated special or fragile because of your gender. Harrassment or intimidation is one thing. But an entire culture can not change just because one female appears.
I’m watching (OK, mostly listening) to Beck now. Still wish he’d just boil it down to one hour a day.
And that is how it should be-but now that there can be open homosexuality in the military, watch how loudly the same-sex-loving men howl about harrassment, etc. I don’t think the women will-most of the lesbians I know WANT to be treated like all the other guys...
The $16 prepradial muffin had debuted in the latest government audit.
Oh, do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man......oh do you know the muffin man who got that lucrative contract?
Before you cut a hole with your jigsaw, you must preradial the center and diameter, then - like a good first grader - stay within the lines as you finish the picture.
10 am, no sign of SG, i will open a thread i guess.
even sunshinier than your norm : )
It’s just 9 am here in CST.
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