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    Nicko

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    Well blow me down...I forgot to write my word... CURMUDGEON..= bad tempered old trout, that needs to get a life and stop moaning at everybody. :D
    Nicko, Sep 13, 2003
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    Maljonic

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    stoic \STOH-ik\, noun:
    1. (Capitalized). A member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno holding that one should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity.
    2. Hence, one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, joy or grief.
    Maljonic, Sep 14, 2003
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    Nicko

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    Yes, a word I often find myself using. Didnt realise info re: 1. though!
    Nicko, Sep 15, 2003
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    AUTOCONDIMENTOR

    Someone who will put certainly salt and probably pepper on any meal put in front of them whatever it is and reagardless of how much its got on it already and regardless of how it tastes :D
    colonesque10, Sep 18, 2003
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    Maljonic

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    Have you just made that one up? Good luck in Wales theis weekend ;)
    Maljonic, Sep 19, 2003
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    I'm not sur if it's a real word Mal. It was in Reaper Man. PTerry said it about Mustrum Ridcully.

    PS: Had a good time in wales even though it rained all weekend
    colonesque10, Sep 23, 2003
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    Maljonic

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    Did you see any beautiful valleys :)

    retardataire


    an adjective meaning behind the times, or characteristic of an earlier period. Used mainly about artistic styles, it seems useful to describe people with fossilized hairdos: 'She's so retardataire – when was the last time you saw a beehive like that?' The word comes from a French word meaning 'one who is late in arriving.'
    Maljonic, Sep 24, 2003
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    undaftiness


    untidiness. The word associated with the 'tidy' part is not daft 'silly,' but the dialect word deft, meaning 'tidy, pretty.'
    Paul, Sep 26, 2003
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    bedaub \bih-DOB\, transitive verb:
    1. To smudge over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
    2. To overdecorate; to ornament showily or excessively.

    The patient's signature is less neat than usual, not only because of his agitated state but also, quite possibly, because the pen is so bedaubed with chocolate that it slips through his fingers.
    Paul, Oct 17, 2003
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    Maljonic

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    illeism


    excessive reference to oneself in the third person; especially excessive use of the pronoun he.

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    I happen to know someone that does this a lot; think I might mention his illeism and see what happens. :)
    Maljonic, Oct 18, 2003
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    sciatherical


    an adjective meaning 'concerned with the recording of shadows, especially the shadow of the sun as a means for telling time.' From a Greek word for sundial, literally 'shadow-catcher.'
    Paul, Oct 24, 2003
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