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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

pule

\PYOOL\, intransitive verb:
To whimper; to whine.

--Stop puling like a little girl! You put on that tennis outfit, and you go out there and do the best Centrum Silver commercial you can do, Regis Philbin!

manse

\MAN(T)S\, noun:
A large and imposing residence.

--"Why, to a tick, even the hollowed-out engine of a Ford Taurus is a manse!" Hobo Bill said to himself gleefully, as he did every night before falling asleep in the hollowed-out engine of a Ford Taurus.

--Kid, Play, I respect your large vocabularies, but I think we can find a catchier title than "Manse Party."

Monday, December 11, 2006

moil

\MOYL\, intransitive verb:
To work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge

As the Royal Mohel moiled in the soil, he recoiled at the sight of Peter Boyle dressed in foil boiling London Broil in a vat of canola oil.

Monday, December 04, 2006

burgess

[bur-jis] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.
American History. a representative in the popular branch of the colonial legislature of Virginia or Maryland.
2.
(formerly) a representative of a borough in the British Parliament.

--You know, the word "burgess" had meaning long before the Rocky movies or "Grumpy Old Men." It was also the first name of the guy who played the Penguin in the original Batman series! Oh wait, that's the same guy? Oh. Nevermind.

Friday, December 01, 2006

swarthy

[swawr-thee, -thee]
–adjective
(of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.

--The post 9-11 world has been a difficult one for us swarthy men. You can barely even step onto a plane without someone asking to see your boarding pass first.

--There is nothing on this earth more delightful than a swarthy woman drizzled in olive oil bathing herself in a tub of kalamata olives.