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Word for the Day, Tuesday April 15, 2014

Posted on 04/15/2014 5:00:50 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday April 15, 2014



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".

mot [moh]

-n
1. a pithy or witty remark; bon mot .
2. Archaic . a note on a horn, bugle, etc.

[ 1625–35; < French < Late Latin muttum utterance. See motto]

la sudadera [soo-dah-DEHR-ah]

-adv
sweatshirt

Las niñas estaban vestidas en sudaderas azules idénticas.

The girls were wearing identical blue sweatshirts


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1 posted on 04/15/2014 5:00:50 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...

Up an at ‘em.


2 posted on 04/15/2014 5:01:15 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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While many are familiar with the term bon mot, Obama seems to only spew mal mots as he tries to seem more intellectual than the rest of us.


3 posted on 04/15/2014 5:04:20 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SoothingDave

At’em


4 posted on 04/15/2014 5:09:41 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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To: SoothingDave
MSM mitigation of a mote of truthful mot.


5 posted on 04/15/2014 5:11:46 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: SoothingDave

Ohhh, it ain’t gonna rain no mot, no mot...


6 posted on 04/15/2014 5:13:49 AM PDT by SAJ
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To: SoothingDave
plural form


7 posted on 04/15/2014 5:13:54 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
You know, of course, what this thread makes all of us.


8 posted on 04/15/2014 5:21:55 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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beat me to it.


9 posted on 04/15/2014 5:25:04 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: Fightin Whitey

indeed : )


10 posted on 04/15/2014 5:27:36 AM PDT by xsmommy
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sorry. have a potato pancake to go with...


11 posted on 04/15/2014 5:29:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Potato pancakes with applesauce?

It’s supposed to be pork chops and applesauce.


12 posted on 04/15/2014 5:30:20 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

ok, so i didn’t put the a/c on the past few days, but may need to put the HEAT on tonight! i had just put away my space heater in my ofc and i bet i have to take it back out.


13 posted on 04/15/2014 5:30:38 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

in my house it was potato pancakes with applesauce or sour cream. maybe it was the HEALTHY alternative to top the FRIED item ; )


14 posted on 04/15/2014 5:31:29 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Are you using unauthorized electrical devices in your office? ;-)


15 posted on 04/15/2014 5:31:34 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Yep. With the Peter Brady Humphrey Bogart sound...


16 posted on 04/15/2014 5:32:58 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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To: SoothingDave

hey the secretary gave me a power strip for it...
i will often wake up in the middle of the night, wondering if i had turned it off.


17 posted on 04/15/2014 5:33:32 AM PDT by xsmommy
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Scratch that it wasn’t Bogart... EGR I think, but I’m not thru that first cup of coffee yet.


18 posted on 04/15/2014 5:34:20 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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To: xsmommy

All it needs is butter.


19 posted on 04/15/2014 5:34:30 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

Try a timer....Peace of Mind. 10 bucks.


20 posted on 04/15/2014 5:35:00 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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