Tag: word of the day
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Santagonistic : Word of the Day
san·tag·o·nistic /sanˈtaɡənəstik/ adjective noun: santagonist; plural noun: santagonists a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something obsessed with Christmas consumerism; an adversary to Christmas externals, though not necessarily the Christmas spirit per se. Example: “Sufjan Steven’s song Christmas Unicorn is santagonistic to holiday shoppers and Hallmark.” synonyms: adversary, opponent, enemy, foe, rival,…
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New York Dictionary : Sunblock
what New Yorkers think of when they hear sunblock :
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New York Dictionary : Car Lockout Kit
What car lockout kit means to a New Yorker:
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New York Dictionary : Walking Shorts
what New Yorkers mean when they say walking shorts :
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Blog: An Onomatopoeia for Vomit
You should love more than you hate, since this world’s filled with far more good than evil. That said, I hate few things, but one is this word “blog.” Oh, I get how it came about. People started creating new pages on a website back in the late eighties (post-Usenet) to create a log of…
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045: A New Era
My birthday the end of an era of poetry …again. era: a long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic Mid 17th cent from late Latin plural of aes as in aer— for “money, counter” AND DON’T YA KNOW wouldn’t ya know it didn’t you see it coming?…
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009: History
Concerning the reason “history” historia in Koine meant “finding out” or “narrative” from which we get our word: Story. I read Mallard today: Rhythm of breadth & Richness & again Breadth, like a powerful life-pulsation, the phenomenon of language articulates the history of a culture.