;Posted on 07/07/2014 5:27:21 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, monday, 7/7/14
;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".
truculent; adj.
1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.
Etymology: c.1540, from L. truculentus "fierce, savage," from trux (gen. trucis) "fierce, wild."
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Thanks. I thought it would be difficult to
find a phrase to rhyme with “uck” “you” “ent,” but the first two syllables were actually pretty easy. :)
I think it would have been harder to think of ANY word other than the wellknow one that rhymes with “uck”
He was just an SA TV weatherman who owned part of a private jet rental place-everyone involved with the jet rental place-including the weather guy-was busted for bringing in drugs from S America on their planes, laundering drug money, and orgies with underage girls-salacious stuff.
He did just a few months prison time because he ratted out some other people, his wife of many years left, and when he got out he came out here to hide. He supposedly OD’d on sleeping pills-some say here in the house, but the new owner-garage guy-told me he did it down there by the rock seats at the river. Supposedly he used to go down there and sit at night when he was alive-I was surprised he didn’t get offed because he ratted...
well then it makes SENSE it was his spook down there on the rocks!
Probably is, but it could also be someone living-I see other people on the trails when I hike-I just can’t stand not knowing which it is...
I saw a couple of turkey hens with their chicks in the common area this morning.
No such character exists.....lol
Old...sheesh...
I didn’t see if there were any chicks with that flock-it was already getting dark and they were on the other side of the river at the edge of the woods. There probably were-there are lot of wild turkeys out here.
You need to get an IR camera and start a porn site. Downbytheriver.com
LOL
LMAO, but not a good idea-the riverbank, woods and trails in the neighborhood are a closed loop-they begin at the private, locked gate of the neighborhood park and end at the bridge on the next road, at the next neighborhood-fenced as well. There is only one way in and out, unless you are paddling a canoe or kayak-with a key that only residents have to the gate at the park. Which means that the ATV riders I saw are residents-and as secretive and under the radar as we are out here, if a resident caught you watching them en flagrante, you would get an ass kicking...
BTW-check out the number of your last post, as related to the subject matter...
Today, I accidentally stepped down the stairs leading on my bad knee. My physical therapist had just arrived and witnessed it. I screamed my heart out. She cancelled my session and insisted I ice it. The only good thing was that I didn’t fall. OMG, it HURT.
Oh, HELL, ti! It is a good thing the PT was there, and that you didn’t fall. Can you avoid the stairs for a couple or three days?
Stairs are easy if you do it right. I bent my knee with all my weight on it. Walking stiff legged is fine.
I’d forget and screw up everything...
IIRC...
Down by the River always ends badly.
That just sounds racist...
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