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Word for the Day: ARGOT
https://www.wordnik.com ^ | April 27, 2021 | Red Badger

Posted on 04/27/2021 8:30:37 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 04/27/2021 8:30:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: xsmommy; Louis Foxwell; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Word Pingy!........................


2 posted on 04/27/2021 8:31:08 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

Isthmus be my lucky day!


3 posted on 04/27/2021 8:33:42 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Red Badger
noun A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.

The cisgendered normative patriarchy engenders a reification of the praxis inherent in bourgeois privilege and its concomitant oppression of ideological Marxian or proto-Marxian theorists.

4 posted on 04/27/2021 8:36:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Red Badger

You won’t catch me eatin’ no esc-argot.


5 posted on 04/27/2021 8:37:59 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: Red Badger
Sorry, thought you said Margot...


6 posted on 04/27/2021 8:39:13 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You said a mouthful!..................


7 posted on 04/27/2021 8:42:16 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

In the argot of American racism, “get a job” is an expression used by whites to keep minorities in their place and discourage them from executing their democratic right to vote.


8 posted on 04/27/2021 8:54:56 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Red Badger

After S killed Q, argot the hell out of there.


9 posted on 04/27/2021 9:06:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: AndyJackson

I am not po!
Why?
Argot a job!..................


10 posted on 04/27/2021 9:06:43 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

See synonyms for argot on Thesaurus.com

noun:
A specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
a Restoration play rich in thieves’ argot.

The special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group:

sociologists’ argot.


11 posted on 04/27/2021 9:14:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( We are alive! In spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021!)
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I went to the fresh Market and the potatoes were all soft and had eyes. I asked if they had any fresh ones.

No, said the clerk, that’s all argot..............


13 posted on 04/27/2021 9:20:44 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

Argot is how pirates talk.


14 posted on 04/27/2021 9:21:48 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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The cisgendered normative patriarchy engenders a reification of the praxis inherent in bourgeois privilege and its concomitant oppression of ideological Marxian or proto-Marxian theorists.

You wrote that too easily. Should it be you or I that is scared?

15 posted on 04/27/2021 9:25:13 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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HA! I’ve been tossing out versions of that for decades. I lived in Cambridge, MA for years and knew a lot of communists.They don’t talk like that, but they do write like that. It never really means anything.


16 posted on 04/27/2021 9:31:51 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Red Badger

Yea..... another movie thread; Jason and the Argonauts.


17 posted on 04/27/2021 9:43:54 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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It’s Greek to me........................


18 posted on 04/27/2021 9:45:57 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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Woke argot trends among the Godless effete.


19 posted on 04/27/2021 10:28:33 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The language of tyranny..............


20 posted on 04/27/2021 10:40:38 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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