Word For The Day, Tuesday, September 16, 2003: Fastidious

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online | 09/16/2003 | The Janitor

[VRWCmember]

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".

fastidious \fass-TIH-dee-uss\ adjective
1. having high and often unpredictable standards
2. showing a meticulous or demanding attitude *

* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Example sentence: The celebrated imperial Easter eggs designed by goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge are regarded as the ultimate in fastidious workmanship.

Did you know?
There's nothing offensive about fastidious workmanship, and yet the word "fastidious" traces to the Latin noun "fastidium," meaning "disgust." "Fastidium" itself is most likely a combination of the Latin words "fastus," meaning "arrogance," and "taedium," meaning "irksomeness." ("Taedium" also gave us our "tedium.") In keeping with its Latin roots, "fastidious" once meant "haughty" or "scornful" or "disgusting" or "disagreeable," although those uses are now archaic or obsolete. The word then came to be applied to someone who was overly difficult to please or squeamish, and later, to work which reflected a demanding or precise attitude.

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.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[xsmommy]

that reminds me. lunchtime means it is survey question time....is your peepee cleaner than your hands, yes or no?

[Slip18]

You avoid the usage of all soap? Do you vinegar your body? I used to use vinegar on my hair to make it super shiny when I was younger. That was after I put a raw egg and oil on it, though. My hair was a chef salad.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

A man was at the sink after main vein drainage, so I was forced to stand around and act like I wanted to wash my hands after he finished.

[Slip18]

How do I tell? Or is this just a Croq question?

[xsmommy]

[Argh]

raw egg and oil on it, though. My hair was a chef salad.

Sounds like Hair Tartare.

[Slip18]

I hope I'm not reading your last response correctly. Ewwwwwwww!

[Argh]

Is yours?

[xsmommy]

no, it's for everyone. did you read that thread about handwashing in airports? i thought the responses on the thread were hysterical. until people started getting hypertechnical on where the germs are in bathrooms etc. then i started to get grossed out. i am betting you are clean from head to toe, slippy.

[Slip18]

Hehehehehe!

[Slip18]

Yes, I am. I even use baby wipes in the bathroom. Freakish about cleanliness. As the newspapers pile higher and higher on the dining room table . . .

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I concur with your 'ewwwwwwww' given the way I mis-wrote that! However, correct series of events is that after I finished my business (in the correct receptacle) there was a man washing his hands (in the correct receptacle), so as to avoid public embarassment I had to wait to wash my hands rather than just walking out.

[xsmommy]

i am sure you were raised hearing that cleanliness is next to Godliness as did i....

[Slip18]

Thank goodness. I thought you might have been behind Bill Klintoon and the sink debacle.

[xsmommy]

you guys are lucky that it was years ago that i polled the men in my ofc asking what that little opening in men's underpants was for.... i like to conduct polls... : )

[Hegewisch Dupa]

there is so much there to work with I don't know where to start....

[xsmommy]

you know the one i mean?

[Slip18]

Sure was. Except we all had dirty minds. Catholic school thing. My mother couldn't wash it out of my brain. And she tried. Poor suffering soul. But she got an automatic go to heaven because of having more than six children. Do you remember that?

[Slip18]

Double dang.

[xsmommy]

yes, i have not had enough to get that automatic "by" into heaven, lamentably. repression from Catholic school isn't necessarily a bad thing. i recall Mark DeStefano in 3d grade, covering up the letters "A" and "HAM" in the book titled Abraham Lincoln, and showing the word BRA.