GROK

/GRAWK/ verb- to understand, especially in a profound and intimate way.

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milksop

\MILK-sop\, noun:An effeminate or weak-minded person; an unmanly man

This place is filled with so many milksops that I don’t know which one have a hoo-ha and which ones have a choo-chi.
LICK ME BUTTONS, MILKSOP.
Ragamuffins, nogoodniks, and milksops oh my!
“Hey Bill, is this a milksop convention or what?” “No, Stan, it’s a Cure concert.”
Look at the lowly milksop, CRYIN’ INTO HIS ANCHOVIES LIKE A LITTLE BABY GIRL.


n. milksop

YIKES

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nefarious

\nuh-FAIR-ee-uhs\, adjective:
Wicked in the extreme; iniquitous.

--Queen Curry was found guilty on several nefarious crimes against the state, among them: perjury and failing to change her own litterbox.
--Yeah I’ll have a triple wicked burger with the evil onion rings and nefarious sauce on the side, thanks.
--Why, that lofty limerick belongs to none other than nefarious Norwegian poet, A. Myouzoonian! THE CASE IS SOLVED EGADS!
--If nefarious was a pancake you’d be an IHOP.

tintinnabulation

\tin-tih-nab-yuh-LAY-shuhn\, noun:A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.
--Sweet tintinnabulation brings me sweet jubjubilation!
--The tintinnabulation of the Knickknackpaddywack Brigade never failed to put Henderson in a stupor.
--Allow me to introduce myself:  My name is Professor Dingdong, Head Scholar of Tintinnabulation at Dippledupple University!

puerile

\PYOO-uhr-uhl; PYOOR-uhl\, adjective:Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile; childish

--Please, everyone, stop these puerile political rivalries, and let us attend to the slip ‘n slide.
--This is the most puerile Purell that’s ever moisturized my skin!
--Even at 5 months old, he was already acting puerile.
--Poised, puerile, and triple-parked, Paul promptly plundered the post-op room for posterity.
--All those 500-year-old men were so puerile.  She wanted a real man, like Yoda.

porcine

/por-SINE/ Of or resembling swine or a pig

--I say, Jeeves, that cat is rather porcine, isn't it?































































































































































































--Which cat, sir?
--That one over there.
--Oh you mean...










































































































































































... that one right there?

--Yes, Jeeves, that one.

--Yes sir, that is a porcine feline, sir.
--Excellent.

jo

jo \JO\ A sweetheart.

--You’re everything to me! You’re my honey, my baby, my Susie, my Betty, my sweetie, my doll, my olive, my shaker, my stirrer, my bubula, my cookiepuss, my J. Edgar Hoover, my jo!
--I’m warning ya, you and your jo better scram before my hemorrhoids get here!
--Whaddaya know, jo? You solved the case!
--When a couple a jo’s who were up to no good/started makin’ trouble in this here neighborhood.
--Hey, I just saw up your skirt! That means you’re my jo now, right?

imprecation

\im-prih-KAY-shun\, noun:
A curse.

--"There's no such thing as an imprecation!" said the talking boil, right before belching pus.
--Salutations and imprecations from your local wizard team!
--Sometimes I wonder if this big vocabulary is a gift or an imprecation.
--20 pushups, a couple of imprecations, a cup of coffee... and that's pretty much my morning.
--...a booty so big it coulda only been made through imprecation!

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sinecure

\SY-nih-kyur; SIN-ih-\, noun:
An office or position that requires or involves little or no responsibility, work, or active service.

I AM SECURE IN MY SINECURE.
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What's the point of having a sinecure if your boss expects you to shower?


sinecure

lachrymose

\LAK-ruh-mohs\, adjective:
1. Given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
2. Causing or tending to cause tears.

--It is my party and I will exhibit lachrymose behavior if I want to, lachrymose behavior if I want to.
--Gibbons often wept while he jogged, making for both a lachrymose and salubrious display.

--Foofy’s wedding was, to put it lightly, a lachrymose affair.
--The firehouse cookout took a lachrymose turn when Jake decided to put on the new Morrissey.


"Roger, you seem lachrymose today."

jape

\JAYP\, intransitive verb: To joke; to jest.
transitive verb: To make fun of; to mock.
noun:
1. A joke or jest.
2. A trick or prank.

--HEY BUDDY, WHATSAMATTER? CANTCHA TAKE A FUCKIN’ JAPE?
--Yo, ya boyfriend’s an ape, that ain’t no jape.
--A whoopee cushion filled with urine that's wearing a clown nose? Now that’s what I call a TRIPLE JAPE, my friend! Mucho props para TI.
--WHEN I FIND THE JOKER THAT JAPED MY DAUGHTER…
--Look, fellas, I love a good jape as much as anyone, but kidnapping Mr. Muggins and shaving his fur off when it’s barely 15 degrees outside? That's not funny, it’s wrong.

roborant

\ROB-uh-ruhnt\, adjective:
Strengthening; restoring vigor.

--Name: Robbie the Roborant Robot. Location: Robinson, Rhode Island! Mission: To rob you of your wrinkles!
--Hey, what's the opposite of roborant? Oh, I know: LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
--Why, this roborant substance makes me feel 20 years younger! Cocaine you call it?
--Anger can be very roborant; just look at Malcolm X, or the Incredible Hulk.
--The brackish paterfamilias took a stentorian bite of my roborant rhubarb, extempore.

truckle

\TRUK-ul\, intransitive verb:
To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to act in a subservient manner.

--You’re truckling to me? But I was just about to truckle to you! I’m not a god! I thought you were the god! You thought I was the?! Wow, this is really embarrassing!
--This used to be an ophthalmology office with integrity. Now it’s nothing but a big TRUCKLEFEST, y’hear me? A big, fat TRUCKLEFEST!
--Flimsy-minded consumers have been happily truckling to the whims of the almighty Burger King since 1933!
--You don’t choose a husband based on looks, personality, or common interests! Ya pick the boy who truckles the easiest and ya marry him! Easy as pie, goddammit!
--“Son,” Father said with his hand on my shoulder, “if yer ever hopin’ to have a successful marriage, ya might as well start truckling now, cuz that’s the only chance ya got.”

brackish

\BRAK-ish\, adjective:
1. Somewhat salty.
2. Distasteful; unpalatable.

--To call Old Man Somers brackish was an understatement; I mean, Jesus, the man’s legs were made of sodium!
--Fran and Tony had a brackish love, always scowling and whining at each other like a couple of sourpusses whenever they were in the act.
--Needless to say, our former feline Bootsy’s choice to live with another family has left a brackish taste in all our mouths.
--I spent that miserable summer sweatin' over a stove cookin’ catfish on the bayou for that ol' pepper shaker Blind Lemon Jefferson who kept crowin’ about how his woman done him wrong and Lawdy Lawd I tell ya the whole thing was brackish, just brackish!

schadenfreude

\SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.

--There's nothing wrong with feeling a little schadenfreude once in a while. After all, there are plenty of miserable fucks out there just like you.
--Are you shaying zat, sheeing me completely helpless in zis veelchair, you do not feel ze shlightest tinge ohf, ohf… ohf SCHADENFREUDE ?!
--I am no stranger to schadenfreude. In fact, we play poker every Wednesday with our good buddies Liebensraum, Doppelganger, and Chutzpah.
--Ze feeling of schadenfreude is like ze Flash Gordon movie; it's so bad, yet sooo good

alpenglow

\AL-puhn-gloh\, noun:
A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains.

--Ah, sweet alpenglow, how you bookend my days much the way stone Papa Smurfs bookend my books.
--“Enjoying the alpenglow, good sir?” “I was, ‘til ya trap flapped.”
--George simply hated calling what he had a “herpes rash.” He much preferred the term “Rectal Alpenglow.”
--With Sofia by his side, love and tenderness brimming in her eager azure eyes, the couple bathed in the sweet crimson twilight of the descending alpenglow, Rick decided this was the time to pull out his Blackberry and for new Myspace comments.

sesquipedalian

\ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective:
1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables.

--George, your speech is good, but I’ll be honest: it’s a little on the sesquipedalian side.
--I say! This “Hi” is the very antithesis of the sesquipedalian verbiage I have come to acknowledge and appropriate in my daily vernacular! Harumph!
--Absurd! Prince Markie Dee was QUITE OBVIOUSLY the most sesquipedalian of the Fat Boys!
--“I didn’t give ya mono. I gave ya MONONUCLEOSIS,” remarked Cindy the Infamous Sesquipedalian Whore.
--Granted, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is sesquipedalian, but quite as sesquipedalian as PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS,.

busker

\BUSK-ur\, noun:
A person who entertains in public places, especially for money; a street musician.

--So many of Rafaela's children became street musicians that folks eventually took to calling her "The Busker Factory."
--Believe it or not, I spent my first five years out of college as a busker. Then I found out you could make a lot more money being a stockbroker. So here I am. Oh, and you're fired.
--Bruce Springsteen invited a bunch of buskers onstage to play with him, you say? My word, what a man of the people!
--"Honey, I'd like you to meet Frijole, the world's first and only combustible busker." Sadly, those were her husband Tom's last words.
--I've spent the last 60 years calling myself "Busker the Street Musician," and now you're telling me that that's redundant?!... Awww shitballs!

scintilla

\sin-TIL-uh\, noun:
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount; the slightest particle; a trace; a spark.

--Truth be told, Scintilla, we've named you after the amount of love still left in Mommy and Daddy's marriage at the time of your birth. Just be glad you weren't born today. Your name would've been Negative Eight Scintillas.
--Looking back, I can safely say that I have not two scintillas of regret about the life I've led. Maybe three, maybe three thousand, but not two.
--Seeing her again sparked in him an expected scintilla of disgust, but he was not prepared for the flame of revulsion ignited by hearing her speak.
--Joe revisited the basement bathroom of his old dorm and felt old scintillas of past rejections start to rumble inside him. After all, this was the only public toilet he had ever hugged, the only bathroom floor that had ever touched his face.