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18-01-2017, 11:59 AM #111
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Are you saying i may be a bit dyspeptic and querulous. I always thought of myself a bit of a blatherskite.
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Now now Server, dont get Choleric
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18-01-2017, 03:00 PM #112
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18-01-2017, 04:37 PM #113
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Oh! Yes he is!
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18-01-2017, 07:19 PM #114
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
[noo-muh-noh-uhl-truh-mahy-kruh-skop-ik-sil-i-koh-vol-key-noh-koh-nee-oh-sis, nyoo-]
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an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language.
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18-01-2017, 07:27 PM #115
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KATZENJAMMER noun (kat-suh n-jam-er)
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(1) Uneasiness; anguish, distress.
(2) The discomfort and illness experienced as the aftereffects of excessive drinking; hangover.
(3) Uproar; clamor: His speech produced a public katzenjammer.
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When a reporter really loves the craft, takes it seriously as I did, his life goes by the extremes of exaltarion and depression.. . .Life becomes a series of mental intoxications, for which one pays by mental katzenjammer.
-"The confessions of 'a Literary Journalist," The Bookman, Volume XXVI, December 1907.
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19-01-2017, 08:51 AM #116
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Barmecide
Illusory or imaginary and therefore disappointing.
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19-01-2017, 05:47 PM #117
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ESPERANCE noun (es-per-uh ns)
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(1) Obsolete, hope.
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Teh lowest and most dejected thing of fortune, / Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608
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20-01-2017, 01:25 PM #118
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This ones for tomorrow really
Boilover
NOUN
Australian, NZ
informal
A surprise result, especially the defeat of a favorite in a sporting event.
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20-01-2017, 04:49 PM #119
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ASSEVERATE verb (uh-sev-uh-reyt)
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(1) To declare earnestly or solemnly; affirm positively; aver.
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He asseverates that it was all a joke.
"Babblings," The Capital, Volume XI, June 9, 1900.
I asseverate that, during my occupation of Master B.'s room, I was taken by the ghost that haunted it, on expeditions fully as long and wild as any of those.
Charles Dickens, "The Haunted House," All the year Round, 1859.
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20-01-2017, 04:54 PM #120
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I think you are both totally mad! (as in bonkers)
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