Posted on 11/16/2009 8:43:45 AM PST by Salvation
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The small portion of food, a few ounces, formerly permitted at breakfast on fast days. This was provided by canon law (Canon 1251), which permitted taking some food, morning and evening, in addition to the one full meal per day.
Beats having your whole staff (or order) down with hypoglycemic blackouts.
This was one of the rare posts that I had absolutely no idea what the word meant until I read the definition. :-).
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You know, I can't help thinking that it would be extremely funny if it turned out that you just made half of these words up. We would never know :0)
I didn’t know what it meant either. Learn something every day!
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LOL!!
Thanks Salvation for posting these threads. Never mind my little drollery!
But - just as a little game for the thread - I invite readers to try guessing which of the following are real words from the Dictionary, and which are made-up ones. 50% are authentic.
CRYPTOLECH
EDUCTION
HEORTOLOGY
HOMOSTINISM
KIDDUSHIN
LEUCOBREPT
MIND DUST
OIKETIC
RACCOLTA
TRICOPHAGE
KIDDUSHIN
MIND DUST
OIKETIC
RACCOLTA
TRICOPHAGE
Here are my guesses. I used to play this with my Sunday School classes. High schoolers would gasp in horror when I said, “We’ll start with a test!” and then I’d put up a selection of words and ask them to pick out the “real” ones.
(and the correct answers are)
EDUCTION
HEORTOLOGY
MIND DUST
RACCOLTA
KIDDUSHIN
Frustulum: what you expectorate when you’re so frustrated you could spit.
Well, I got three. I thought “tricophage” was something that eats tricot, like moths eat wool.
Crumbs Tax-chick that was pretty good going, nice work!
I might have given the right answers out too early, if so sorry to all.
The ‘fake’ words were mix-and match- words which owe a lot to moth taxonomy.
Weirdly enough - ‘Frustulum’ is not only used for “the breakfast meal on a Fast day” but also forms part of the latin name for some species of moth. Perhaps they don’t eat much in the morning :0)
Or maybe there were moths in the grain they used to make the frustulum. We’ve had a moth infestation in our pantry this fall. Every time a package is left open or a bin not firmly closed, they come back. Sometimes the catz get in there and chase them, too.
I figured “oiketic” was “related to the house,” since oikos is house in Greek. That’s a problem when you study words: if you put various roots and suffixes together, it *could* mean something, even if nobody’s used it in print yet. Like, there could be a buggie that eats tricot (leaving holes in one’s undies ...)
Guilty! I just whipped out the H in the middle of Trichophage and hoped it would sound like some mysterious liturgical practice.
That is just brilliant.
UK FReepers will remember the hit show "Call My Bluff" where celebrities would all come up with a definition for an obscure word - only one of which was true. Tax-Chick, you would have been a contender :0)
I do well at Scrabble, too ;-).
BreakfastVery, very simple. The monastic term is frustulum.
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6:30 Collation
A light supper, then clean-up.
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