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    CHEAPSKATES

    Miserly people, or companies/corporations/business' like Burnley Football Club.

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    PSITTACINE adjective (sit-uh-sahyn)

    adjective
    1. of or relating to parrots.


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    In 1930, the U.S. Health Service clamped down on the importation of psittacine birds, other than a few permitted to research institutions, zoos, and private parrot fanciers returning from Europe with uninfected birds they had owned for at least six months.
--*"New Deal for Parrots," The New Yorker, February 2, 1952


    Now the psittacine tribe can claim another brainy feat: tool use. Researchers at the University of York and the University of St. Andrews observed captive greater vasa parrots ... using date pits and pebbles to pulverize cockle shells.
--*Michelle Z. Donahue,*"14 Fun Facts About Parrots," Smithsonian, January 5, 2016



    Origin

    The English adjective psittacine comes straight from Latin psittacinus, which comes straight from the Greek adjective psittákinos, a derivative of the noun psittakós “parrot” and the common adjective suffix -inos. Sittakós and bittakós, variant spellings of psittakós, confirm what one would expect, that psittakós is not a native Greek word. Psittacine entered English in the 19th century.

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    DANDLE verb (dan-dl)

    verb
    1. to move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one's knee or in one's arms.
    2. to pet; pamper.


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    ... Paul would want me to dandle his baby on my knee. There is a time to dandle, and a time to watch a limited amount of dandling from the comfort and security of a dry easy chair across the room.
--*Gregory Mcdonald,*Exits and Entrances, 1988


    ... I would like quiet, books to read, a wife to love me, and some children to dandle on my knee.
--*William Makepeace Thackeray,*The Virginians, 1858–59



    Origin

    The English verb dandle has no clear etymology. It looks akin to the Italian noun dandola, dondola “a (child’s) doll” and the verb dandolare “to rock, swing, dangle, dandle,” but there is no recorded evidence associating the Italian dandolare with English dandle. Dandle entered English in the 16th century.

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    COUP DE FOUDRE noun (kooduh foo-druh)

    noun
    1. love at first sight.
    2. a thunderbolt.


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    Do you believe in love at first sight? The coup de foudre, the heart falling into the stomach, the moment when Cupid's arrow breaches the iron armor of even the hardest of hearts?
--*Sally Christie,*The Sisters of Versailles, 2015


    I mean, the coup de foudre is wonderful--seeing someone for the first time across a room and just feeling this huge surge of necessity, the knowledge that you want to be with them. But it's not the only way. Increasingly I'm coming around to the view that the other kind is better.
--*Simon Brett,*Penultimate Chance Saloon, 2005



    Origin

    In French coup de foudre, literally “a clap of thunder,” means “love at first sight.” Modern French coup is a development of Old French coup, colp “a blow, strike,” from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus, from Greek kólaphos “a slap.” French foudre “lightning” comes from Latin fulgura, the plural of the neuter noun fulgur “lightning.” Coup de foudre entered English in the 18th century.

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    POLYCHROMATIC adjective (pol-ee-kroh-mat-ik)

    adjective
    1. having or exhibiting a variety of colors.


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    ... the degreening of leaves is a widely appreciated natural phenomenon, especially in autumn, when the foliage of deciduous trees turns into polychromatic beauty.
--*S. Hörtensteiner and P. Matile,*"How Leaves Turn Yellow: Catabolism of Chlorophyll," Plant Cell Death Processes, 2004


    Throughout, Suzy Lee’s polychromatic illustrations astonish. Each page bursts with color.
--*Carmela Ciuraru,*"'A Dog Day,' 'Ask Me' and 'Sidewalk Flowers'," New York Times, July 10, 2015



    Origin

    English polychromatic is a borrowing from French polychromatique, which comes from Greek polychrṓmatos “many-colored, variegated” and the suffix -ique, from the Greek suffix -ikos or the Latin suffix -icus. Polychromatic is used mostly, but not exclusively, in the physical sciences, e.g., hematology, physics, and formerly in chemistry. Polychromatic entered English in the 19th century.

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    Dyched..

    Bournemouth just got Dyched..

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    Quote Originally Posted by alfinyalcabo View Post
    Dyched..

    Bournemouth just got Dyched..
    Nice One Alf

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    LEGERDEMAIN noun (lej-er-duh-meyn)

    noun
    1. trickery; deception.
    2. sleight of hand.
    3. any artful trick.


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    ... it was precisely that sort of legerdemain—tapping a dicey loan with the magic wand of financialization—which built the mortgage-securitization industry to begin with.
--*Tad Friend,*"Home Economics," The New Yorker, February 4, 2013


    The city today stretches out along the flatlands by the Fyris River, then ripples up a glacial ridge, culminating in a massive six****th-century castle painted the color of a poached salmon—a bit of legerdemain by pigment that leavens the bulky fortress considerably.
--*Emily Hiestand,*"The Constant Gardener," The Atlantic, March 2007



    Origin

    There are about 50 spellings in Middle English for (modern) legerdemain. The English word most likely comes from a Middle French phrase leger de main “light of hand,” which is unfortunately unrecorded. Middle French has two similar idioms meaning “to be dexterous”: estre ligier de sa main, literally “to be light of his hand” and avoir la main legiere, literally “to have the light hand.” In English, legerdemain first meant “skill in conjuring, sleight of hand” and acquired the sense “trickery, artful deception” in the 16th century. Legerdemain entered English in the 15th century.

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    SIBILATE verb (sib-uh-leyt)

    verb
    1. to utter or pronounce with a hissing sound.
    2. to hiss.


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    It may be that there is some mysterious significance in the pitch at which an idea is vocalized; but, as for this writer, we doubt if it makes any difference whether he sibilates his opinions to himself in half-suppressed demi-semiquavers, or roars them to the world through a fog-trumpet--their obliquity may safely be assumed as a constant quantity.
--*E. L. Youmans,*"Herbert Spencer's Sociology," Appletons' Journal, February 21, 1874


    "I've been in for twenty years," he sibilates in my ear.
--*Kevin Dutton,*The Wisdom of Psychopaths, 2012



    Origin

    Sibilate comes from Latin sībilātus, past participle of the verb sībilāre “to hiss, hiss in disapproval.” From sībilant-, the present participle stem of sībilāre, English has the noun and adjective sibilant, used in phonetics in reference to hissing sounds like s or z. Sibilate entered English in the 17th century.

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    TOYETIC adjective (taw-yet-ik)

    adjective
    1. (of a character or object from a movie, TV show, etc.) potentially marketable as a toy: a toyetic superhero.
    2. (of movies or other forms of mass entertainment) having merchandising potential: toyetic comic books.


    Quotes

    There’s a singular pleasure that comes with holding a Star Wars toy. The film’s vehicles, weapons, heroes, and villains, after all, are uniquely “toyetic" ...
--*Melissa Leon,*"How 'Star Wars' Revolutionized the Toy Industry," The Daily Beast, January 1, 2018


    It adds another powerhouse toyetic property to their portfolio, with a proven track record of success.
--*Rob Salkowitz,*"Hasbro Powers Up, Acquiring Power Rangers From Saban For $522 Million," Forbes, May 1, 2018



    Origin

    Toyetic, an obvious composition of toy and the adjective suffix -etic, was supposedly coined by the American toy developer and marketer Bernard Loomis (1923–2006) in a conversation with Steven Spielberg about making figures based on Spielberg’s movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

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