Thank you for the neat word, Gail. I appropriate it very much! We have some spotted yellow topical fruit on the counter; when I call them 'badnanas' people say my annunciation is bad but I never did take any vows! Anyway I can't think straight right now because I have sleep-depravity and all last night I was dreaming that I was awake. I would see a doctor about it but they are so expensive - Oh, to be effluent! Sometimes they are so fresh, you know what I mean? - like one listened to my heart and when I complained about achey joints she told me that I am very rheumantic, and I didn't even think she was cute!

My aunt always liked to brag that my cousin was in exhilerated classes at school!




And then there was a patient's mother who told us her son was having problems because he didn't take his peanut butter balls regularly... (phenobarbitol)

ROFLOL!!! You guys are great!

I was just chatting with Mrs Malaprop, and she reminded me that "the early word alway gets the berm;" so getting back to the WOD 'aubade,' she advised me not to trust those artsy, eggs- heads who say it deviated from French and Latin when it is so plainly English! Those inner-lecturals, she says, going around with their thumbs up their noses couldn't smell a devient if it was right in front of them. Anyway, when I posted the 2nd def. above I omitted to say that the 'aubade' is a poem or song of or about lovers "parting at dawn;" this being a Christian Forumn and all. Well, Mrs Malaprop reminded me that it is exploratory of its deviance to have that specified because when the church board heard about it they all said, "OH, BAD!!!" Thus it is plainly of English deviance, and a New England accent is retrained even into the prescient day.

Further more, you all know, I'm sure, so I won't say anything.

On second thought maybe I should or I might be mistaken for not understanding what is on your minds. What's on my mind is how the French want to blame everything on the English, vices-verses even. If Aubade were actually a French word, it would be a different word not English, therefore eksetera (< Gr. eksetarov) and so on..... we see that the "au-" in French means "to the," or "of the" or "in the" for the French can never make up their minds...(hehe)... and the "-bade," means something else. My little French Dictionary says that "Bade" is a fem. pronoun, referring to Baden, a region of Germany. In French then, "aubade" if it means anything is an Expletive meaning "to Germany! (with you!!)." Many Sincere Thanks to you, Mrs Malaprop, for multiplying these deductions you have made a huge addition to the correct division of the truth about something important to somebody somewhere.

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ululate (UL-yoo-layt, YOOL-yoo-layt), intransitive verb. [ < Latin ululatus, p.p. of ululare, to howl; echoic]

1. To howl, as a dog or a wolf.
2. To wail or lament loudly.

ululant, adj.
ululation, noun.

Ululate is an echoic word imitating the sound of the howling or the wailing which it denotes, as you will understand if in saying the word you make the first syllable to sound for four or five seconds; then say it again louder and higher in pitch sounding the first syllable even longer and letting it drop gradually in pitch and fade away on the last two syllables.

“Voters, some ululating with joy, others hiding their faces in fear, cast ballots in higher-than-expected numbers in Iraq's first multi-party election in half a century.” – Yahoo news story

titivate (TIT-uh-vayt), transitive and intransitive verb, also tittivate.

To smarten up; to spruce up.

titivated
titivating
titivation, noun
titivator, noun

[Titivate is perhaps from tidy + the quasi-Latin ending -vate; perhaps tidy + ele-vate, thus to 'tidy-up', elevate one's appearance. When the word originally came into the language, it was written tidivate or tiddivate.]

"It's easy to laugh at a book in which the heroine's husband says to her, "You look beautiful," and then adds, "So stop titivating yourself."
-- Joyce Cohen, review of To Be the Best, by Barbara Taylor Bradford, New York Times, July 31, 1988

If one's vocabulary seems rather dull and commonplace one might begin to titivate it with today's word. Titivation of one's home could involve a new coat of paint on some dingy siding, or replacing stained and worn carpeting. One is a titivator of her car when she washes and vacuums it. Let's not be messy, and grumpy; let's titivate our appearances and our moods so that we may be more pleasing to our friends and families. :)

ne.ol.o.gism (nee-OLL-uh-jiz-um), noun: [The French word neologisme, from which the English is borrowed, is made up of the elements neo-, "new" + log-, "word" + -isme, -ism (all of which are derived from Greek).]

1. A new word or expression.
2. A new use of a word or expression.
3. The use or creation of new words or expressions.
4. (Psychiatry) An invented, meaningless word used by a person with a psychiatric disorder.
5. (Theology) A new view or interpretation of a scripture.

related words:
neological, adj.
neologist, noun
neologistic, adj.
neologistical, adj.
neologize, v.i., neologized, neologizing
neology, noun

"If the work is really a holding operation, this will show in a closed or flat quality in the prose and in the scheme of the thing, a logiclessness, if you will pardon the neologism, in the writing." -- Harold Brodkey, "Reading, the Most Dangerous Game", New York Times, November 24, 1985

neologisms

I found these on the internet yesterday:

o meanderthal, meander + Neanderthal , someone ahead of you taking their good old time when you are in a hurry.

o sarcastrophe, sarcasm + catastrophe, when an attempt at humorus sarcasm fails and others are deeply offended.

o spork, spoon + fork , an utensil for eating concave like a spoon and having rudimentary fork-like tines; usually plastic and found at fast-food eateries.

o andropause or viropause, formed along the lines of menopause; loss of virility in men.

o obesogenic, obese + -genic, having a tendency to cause obesitiy.

o Christianese, language used only by or appreciated only by practicing Christians.

o triviata, a collection of trivial things or facts; the word first entered our language as a book title in 1975.

o chatterati, noun, elite members of the chattering classes

o pygmalionism, noun, being in love with one’s own creation. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion created a statue of a female so beautiful he fell hopelessly in love with her, until the Goddess of Love brought the statue to life. George Bernard Shaw wrote a play based on this story which was in its turn the basis of the musical, My Fair Lady.


It would be interesting to see what new words the rest of you have encountered lately. :)

Reminded me of the Muppets discussing animal operas:

Pigoletto and

La Traviotter