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WORD FOR THE DAY(7/23/18)Transmogrify
Merriam Webster
| 7/23/18
Posted on 07/22/2018 6:13:54 PM PDT by left that other site
WORD FOR THE DAY(7/23/18)Transmogrify
Word of the Day : May 28th, 2018
Transmogrify play verb transs-MAH-gruh-fye
Definition
: to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect
Did You Know?
We know that the prefix trans- means "across" or "beyond" and appears in many words that evoke change, such as transform and transpire, but we don't know the exact origins of transmogrify. The 17th-century dramatist, novelist, and poet Aphra Behn, who is regarded as England's first female professional writer, was an early adopter of the word. In her 1671 comic play The Amorous Prince, Behn wrote, "I would Love would transmogriphy me to a maid now." A century later, Scottish poet Robert Burns plied the word again in verse, aptly capturing the grotesque and sometimes humorous effect of transmogrification: "See Social life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrify'd, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking
."
Examples
"It hadn't been cleaned in more than two years and the captured leaves had transmogrified into a wonderfully fecund compost." Frank Mulligan, The Leader (Corning, New York), 8 Aug. 2014
"He was present in 1917 when communists shot their way to power and Imperial Russia transmogrified into the Soviet Union." Colin Nickerson, The Boston Globe, 30 Apr. 2017
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MY ENTRY: Since Photoshop, and numerous other programs make it easy to transmogrify images and videos, it has become more difficult to detect Fake news.
To: secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; theDentist; ...
My Grandpa would not recognize the Transmogrified democrat Party.
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:15:46 PM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
“often with grotesque or humorous effect”
Describes the Trans community to a tee.
To: left that other site
Who else first learned that word from Calvin & Hobbes?
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:22:35 PM PDT
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M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: MaxistheBest
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:23:49 PM PDT
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(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: M1903A1
Not me...but it sounds about right.
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:24:26 PM PDT
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(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
Carlos Santana embarked on his Transmogrify Tour in 2017; great concert in Uncasville, Connecticut at the Mohegan Sun. I had front row seats!
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:29:48 PM PDT
by
bertmerc1
(Conservative Buddhist)
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A transmogrified Cankles made an appearance at OddityFest
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:30:30 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Calvin used the Transmogrifier to transmogrify into a T-Rex fighter-jet pilot.
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:39:26 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: left that other site
He invented the Transmogrifier.
.
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posted on
07/22/2018 6:41:33 PM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: M1903A1
First thing I though of was Calvin when I saw the thread title.
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:09:34 PM PDT
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doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:12:28 PM PDT
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null and void
(Freedom is in our blood, we don't pass it down genetically, but through the blood we spill.)
To: bertmerc1
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:20:36 PM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:21:02 PM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: lepton
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:21:53 PM PDT
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(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: TLI
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:22:29 PM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: doorgunner69
Gotta git me one o’ those! :-)
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:22:59 PM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: null and void
This is turning into a Calvinist Thread! :-)
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posted on
07/22/2018 7:23:32 PM PDT
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left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site; xsmommy; BenLurkin
Yeppers.
Until new electric heaters and pollution controls came about, the smoke and fog over London’s river meant you could transmogrifly right across the Thames River many days of the year.
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posted on
07/23/2018 5:38:55 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: BenLurkin
Wanna bet she either was seated on stage the whole time she was in public, or wearing the now-famous back-and-neck brace under that vast umbrella of a dress?
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posted on
07/23/2018 5:40:43 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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