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Word For The Day: "VERJUICE"
2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words | January 12, 2016 | Norman Schur

Posted on 01/12/2016 7:13:58 PM PST by Louis Foxwell

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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".

VERJUICE [VUR joos]

hear it pronounced

noun

VERJUICE, literally, is the sour juice of unripe fruit, especially crab apples and grapes.

Figuratively, VERJUICE is sourness of temperament, disposition, or expression. It is the hallmark of a curmudgeon, itself an interesting word, generally described in dictionaries as of unknown origin, though Samuel Johnson (the English lexicographer, 1709-1784) says in his Dictionary: "It is a vitious (the old spelling, based on Latin vitiosis) manner of pronouncing coeur mechant (French for wicked heart....)

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1 posted on 01/12/2016 7:13:58 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell; xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
Here is a word with wonderful application to the current squabbles among our presidential wannabes and, of course, their personalities. Have a salacious time of it wordsmiths. Is there a VERJUICE among us?
2 posted on 01/12/2016 7:17:07 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Verjuice?

Heck, I don’t know. It’s where ever you left it. 8<)


3 posted on 01/12/2016 7:24:17 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The verjuice of Obama is the scourge of the Nation and oozes from every lie he tells!


4 posted on 01/12/2016 7:40:57 PM PST by pke
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To: Louis Foxwell
"Is there a VERJUICE among us?"

Verjuice its own reward. (See tagline.)

How was I to know? And yet ...

VERJUICE, literally, is the sour juice of unripe fruit, especially crab apples and grapes.

Figuratively, VERJUICE is sourness of temperament, disposition, or expression.
Been there, done that. See for yourself.

At Bottom

They brought some new stock in today,
And dumped it on my head!
"You have to rotate stock, you know!"
Was what I should have said.

Instead I suffered silently,
I've done that far too long.
One needs to speak up fervently,
When something's clearly wrong!

It's such a simple job, I thought,
I'll get a chance to shine!
The other apples all around,
I think would rather whine.

They've clearly lost ambition,
Can't do the simplest task.
Just suck it up and hold it in,
Is that too much to ask?

I guess a case of attitude,
Is what I now have gotten,
From too much pressure felt too long.
Boy, do I feel rotten.

NicknamedBob . . . . July 26, 2005

5 posted on 01/12/2016 8:05:21 PM PST by NicknamedBob ("I have my books and my poetry to protect me" --- and if that doesn't work, I can always write more.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Send VERJUICE to O’Reilly.


6 posted on 01/12/2016 8:33:00 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The verjuice from Obama just oozed from behind reasonable words at the SOTU Tuesday night. Perhaps it was Taqquia at work.


7 posted on 01/13/2016 12:11:55 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; Louis Foxwell

Regarding my post above: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/12/fact-check-state-of-the-union-2016/


8 posted on 01/13/2016 12:14:29 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Louis Foxwell

The verjuice of the Left is a vintage best shown the drain...


9 posted on 01/13/2016 2:32:06 AM PST by W. (Make that rubble BOUNCE!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I now have Bohemian Rhapsody stuck in my head

verjuice, verjuice, will you the fandango?

thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening.


10 posted on 01/13/2016 5:59:09 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Oil: natural, organic, and gluten free)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Shouldn’t “verjuice” be true juice?


11 posted on 01/13/2016 6:06:19 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

Nope - Green!


12 posted on 01/13/2016 6:07:06 AM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Hillary, crabby with verjuice
Lies, disassembles and perjures
She’s anti-Israeli
Would not treat them fairly
Yet a lot of her sycophants were Jews


13 posted on 01/13/2016 6:14:05 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hillary's last name were anything but Clinton, she'd already be behind bars.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Does OBams have the verjuice to realize his dream of being king of the world? or will he settle for antichrist?
14 posted on 01/13/2016 7:05:56 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: MortMan

That makes sense.


15 posted on 01/13/2016 7:12:14 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Where you will never find it.


16 posted on 01/13/2016 7:23:35 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

obama’s SOTU speech—so I hear (since I did not listen to it live) was full of verjuice against Mr. Trump—and, in reality, against those citizens of th US who have not been brainwashed into clintonism/obamunism!!!!

How un-Presidential, and completely lacking in class!!!! We shall need to upgrade the Presidency from the trash-heap it has become if we are to survive as a nation!!


17 posted on 01/13/2016 7:23:45 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: pke
On target. Nicely done.

Third Place

18 posted on 01/13/2016 7:25:07 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
When you're thirsting for crabby, sour and green, pucker up for an ice-cold bottle of Hillary Rotten Clinton Verjuice. 100% Her Highness genuine bodily fluids--Accept no substitutes. Cackle cackle!


19 posted on 01/13/2016 7:48:52 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Donald trumped the tramp
He’s a twittering scamp
Hillary thinks she’s got presidential juice
When all she has is a case of liberal verjuice
and a bit of a woman cramp.

And now it’s game on between the heavyweights. LOL


20 posted on 01/13/2016 7:55:10 AM PST by tioga
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