WORD FOR THE DAY: MEPHITIS

2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words | October 5, 2016 | Norman Schur

[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".

MEPHITIS [meh FYE tis]

hear it pronounced

noun

This is the term for a noxious emanation from the earth, such as a poison gas, but the word is also applied to something less deadly, like any foul, noisome stench, even if not actually poisonous.

The adjective is mephitic (muh FIT ik), describing any offensive odor, noxious or not.

Exposure to mephitic exhalations are to be avoided; they may or may not be poisonous but they certainly are exceedingly offensive.

Swamps give off mephitic odors. Living within smelling range of the mephitic emanations from certain industrial operations, like oil refineries, can be unhealthful, and is undoubtedly unpleasant.

it is often not worthwhile putting up with the mephitic odors of a compost pile, despite its value as fertilizer.

Mephitis was taken over as is from Latin; mephitic from Late Latin mephiticus. Appropriately enough, mephitine (see apitrine) means "pertaining to skunks."

[Louis Foxwell]

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.

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[Keli Kilohana]

Is there a mephitis around Uranus?

[Fai Mao]

Mephitiis, Hillary Clinton’s natural stae.

[Louis Foxwell]

Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 5, 2016 -- MEPHITIS

O! What great fun we shall have with today's WFTD. Play on, Lads and Lassies. Beware the skunk in the bushes.

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[lefty-lie-spy]

I was listening to the recent Motörhead extended play album, and man, the new mephitis is pretty damned awesome. Rest In Peace, Lemmy!

[Daffynition]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

On every front, leftists will fight us
Their mouths spewing vile mephitis
Our side should fight back
Even go on attack
Shouldn’t act like we’re weak with arthritis

[NicknamedBob]

Mephitis -- This is the term for a noxious emanation from the earth, such as a poison gas, but the word is also applied to something less deadly, like any foul, noisome stench, even if not actually poisonous.

Yep. I try to avoid the smell of mephane.

[T-Bone Texan]

A haiku:

Hill'ry's mephitis
Surprisingly not brimstone
but rather, Depends

[thingumbob]

The mephitis coming from the Hildabeast Campaign is so overwhelming that even I, an anti-abortion believer, was thinking it might not be a bad thing if only their mothers had used it on them.

[upchuck]

Mephitis: A city in western Tennessee on the Mississippi river.

[nickedknack]

For eight years I’ve tried to resist this administration’s scandal, criminality, and stench, but mephitis nearly gone.

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[T-Bone Texan]

Well hey, thanks for that, I think.