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Author Topic: New Word Of The Day Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-11-2006 06:56 AM                        Rated G crapulous \KRAP-yuh-lus\, adjective: 1. Suffering the effects of, or derived from, or suggestive of gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous stomach. 2. Marked by gross intemperance, especially in drinking; as, a crapulous old reprobate. These were the dregs of their celebratory party: the half-filled glasses, the cold beans and herring, the shouts and smells of the crapulous strangers hemming them in on every side, the dead rinsed-out April night and the rain drooling down the windows. -- T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock The crapulous life which her future successor led. -- Lord Brougham, Historical Sketches of Statesmen in the Time of George III The new money was spent in so much riotous living, and from end to end there settled on the country a mood of fretful, crapulous irritation. -- Stephen McKenna, Sonia Crapulous is from Late Latin crapulosus, from Latin crapula, from Greek kraipale, drunkenness and its consequences, nausea, sickness, and headache  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-12-2006 08:13 AM                        Rated G parvenu \PAR-vuh-noo; -nyoo\, noun: 1. One that has recently or suddenly risen to a higher social or economic class but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class; an upstart. adjective: 1. Being a parvenu; also, like or having the characteristics of a parvenu. But the favourite's power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps even a sorcerer. -- Francis Wheen, "The whole truth about Peter's friends," The Guardian, January 31, 2001 However, the Creoles, French, Spanish, and Acadians who preceded the American parvenus were deeply entrenched and incredibly snobbish and clannish in relation to outsiders. -- Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life When John Stewart Parnell went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1865 he found that "the sons of moneyed parvenus from the North of England tried to liken themselves to country gentlemen and succeeded in looking like stable boys." -- J. Mordaunt Crook, The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists. -- Norman Birnbaum, After Progress Parvenu is from the French, from the past participle of parvenir, from Latin pervenire, "to come through to, to arrive at, to reach, hence to succeed," from per, "through" + venire, "to come."  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-15-2006 12:16 PM                        [Standing in for Bob Maar, who is presently without computer but is with onions, demonstrating the way of the perfect Maartini here at ShoWest.] Rated G Ides \YDZ\, plural noun: In the ancient Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. In one measure of how fast this calendar has become in recent years, by the Ides of March 1984, seven states had held primaries, said Rhodes Cook, the author of "Race for the Presidency". -- Robin Toner, "Both Parties Seek Ways to Tame Fast and Furious Primary Process.," New York Times, January 24, 2000 Oh he is a very fast horse, and on the Ides of November you will know just how fast he is. -- "The Aristocracy of the Democratic Party.," New York Times, November 9, 1864 A soothsayer bids you beware of the Ides of March. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar There is a poem inviting Philodemos to dinner which he is supposed to have written himself, and one of the other guests is Artemidorus, very likely the same son of Theopompos of Cnidos who warned Caesar about the Ides of March in 44 BC on his way to his assassination. -- Peter Levi, Virgil: His Life and Times  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-16-2006 12:32 PM                        [Rejoice Bob Maar fans, for as I type this he is JetBlue-ing his way back to The Place So Nice They Say It Twice. In the mean time here's today's NWotD.] Rated G megalomania \meg-uh-lo-MAY-nee-ah; -nyuh\, noun: 1. A mania for grandiose or extravagant things or actions. 2. A mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur. Eighteen months generally elapse nowadays between the time a publisher accepts a manuscript and its appearance in book form -- the gestation period of an elephant. During that year and a half of waiting, a writer is visited by every emotion in the fun house, from rosy anticipation to exultation, megalomania, brooding, dread, cringing humility, avarice, guilt and, finally, stolid acceptance. -- Phillip Lopate, "Waiting for the Book: Storms Before the Calm," New York Times, May 24, 1987 He too often allows us to laugh off notions that science might occasionally be the handmaiden of megalomania, greed, and sadism. -- David J. Skal, Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture Mao was a man of considerable charisma and megalomania. -- Seth Faison, "Deng Xiaoping, Architect of Modern China, Dies at 92," New York Times, February 20, 1997 Megalomania is an occupational hazard for judges, said Prof. Paul Carrington of the Duke University Law School, noting that a trial judge inevitably has a great deal of power over everyone in the courtroom. "Judges can get awfully full of themselves," he said. -- Neil A. Lewis, "You're Out of Order, Your Honor," New York Times, July 12, 1998  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-17-2006 11:09 AM                        Rated G verdant \VUR-dnt\, adjective: 1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green with vegetation. 2. Green. 3. Unripe in knowledge, judgment, or experience; unsophisticated; green. Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring. -- Patricia Albers, Shadows, Fire, Snow Dry as the region just outside the delta may be, it would still be covered with grasses, yellowish in the dry season, verdant in the wet. -- Niles Eldredge, Life in the Balance I was verdant enough to think her Agrippine very fine. -- Henry James, "The Théâtre Français" Verdant comes from French verdoyant, present participle of verdoyer, "to be verdant, to grow green," from Old French verdoier, verdeier, from verd, vert, "green," from Latin viridis, "green," from virere, "to be green."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-18-2006 07:39 AM                        Rated G amalgam \uh-MAL-guhm\, noun: 1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; used especially (with silver) as a dental filling. 2. A mixture or compound of different things. In that year, Zola struck back at the novelist and critic Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, that curious amalgam of religious conservative and blasphemous melodramatist -- Zola called him a"hysterical Catholic" -- whom he had long detested for his superior bearing and his unfortunate sallies against writers Zola admired. -- Gary B. Nash, History on Trial The so-called "protest" literature of the thirties was often an amalgam of the private rebellion of youth with social revolt. -- Nona Balakian, The World of William Saroyan The governing body of college athletics is gradually extruding a regulatory text that reads like some crazed amalgam of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the Uniform Commercial Code. -- Paul F. Campos, Jurismania Her vocabulary was an amalgam of slang, especially the show-business jargon of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, and a requisite amount of cultivated English. -- James A. Drake, Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography Amalgam comes from Old French amalgame, from Medieval Latin amalgama, probably from Greek malagma, "emollient," from malassein, "to soften," from malakos, "soft."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-19-2006 07:22 AM                        Rated G dudgeon \DUH-juhn\, noun: A state or fit of intense indignation; resentment; ill humor -- often used in the phrase "in high dudgeon." Higgins was so frustrated by such a basic error that he stormed out of the arena for the mid-session interval in high dudgeon. -- Phil Yates, "Stevens begins to feel pressure as Swail stages customary revival," Times (London), April 29, 2000 This woman is forever in a state of spiritual high dudgeon, and a list of her dislikes is as long as the Omaha phone book. -- Jim Harrison, The Road Home What you see, they reckon, is all there is: a media star of fading allure--and shortening temper, if his dudgeon over a television soap-opera satire about him called "How was I, Doris?" (a reference to his fourth wife) is anything to go by. -- "Gerhard Schröder, embattled chancellor," The Economist, September 18, 1999 The origin of dudgeon is unknown.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-20-2006 06:21 AM                        Rated G paragon \PAIR-uh-gon; -guhn\, noun: A model of excellence or perfection; as, "a paragon of beauty; a paragon of eloquence." Even his friends and business associates, men and women alike, were paragons of health: avoiders of fatty foods, moderate drinkers, health-club habitues, lovers of cross-country skiing, weekend canoe trips, and daylong hikes in the North Woods. -- Alvin Greenberg, How the Dead Live Voters, if they chose, could easily convince themselves that the people running their government were faithful spouses and temperate drinkers, paragons whose public images were in perfect accord with their private behavior. -- Gail Collins, Scorpion Tongues Paragon comes from Middle French, from Old Italian paragone, literally, "touchstone," from paragonare, "to test on a touchstone," from Greek parakonan, "to rub against, to sharpen," from para-, "beside" + akone, "a whetstone."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-21-2006 08:20 AM                        Rated G aubade \oh-BAHD\, noun: A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning. He was usually still awake when the birds began to warble their aubade. -- Christopher Buckley, "What was Robert Benchley?," National Review, June 16, 1997 And there he lingered till the crowing cock...Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emma and Eginhard Aubade comes from the French, from aube, dawn + the noun suffix -ade: aube ultimately derives from Latin albus, white, pale, as in "alba lux," the "pale light" of dawn.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-22-2006 04:50 AM                        Rated G succor \SUH-kuhr\, noun: 1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. 2. The person or thing that brings relief. transitive verb: 1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve. In Asakusa, a crowd sought succor around an old and lovely Buddhist temple, dedicated to Kannon, goddess of mercy. -- Richard B. Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire Ever since I was five, I have inserted myself into every movie I've seen and gratefully, humbly found succor there. -- Laurie Fox, My Sister from the Black Lagoon There was some talk about the perils of the sea, and a landsman delivered himself of the customary nonsense about the poor mariner wandering in far oceans, tempest-tossed, pursued by dangers, every storm blast and thunderbolt in the home skies moving the friends by snug firesides to compassion for that poor mariner, and prayers for his succor. -- Mark Twain, "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion," The Atlantic, November 1877 He honors the old, succors the infirm, raises the downtrodden, destroys fanaticism. -- Alan Jolis, Love and Terror Succor derives from Latin succurrere, "to run under, to run or hasten to the aid or assistance of someone," from sub-, "under" + currere, "to run  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-23-2006 07:11 AM                        Rated G paterfamilias \pay-tuhr-fuh-MIL-ee-uhs; pat-uhr-; pah-\, noun; plural patresfamilias \pay-treez-; pat-reez-; pah-treez-\: The male head of a household or the father of a family. His father served as paterfamilias to the entire García clan, dispensing money and advice to those who needed it, and the family, in turn, revered him. -- Leslie Stainton, Lorca: A Dream of Life Just after World War II the paterfamilias, Eric, briefly abandons his wife and children for a doomed romance in Paris. -- John Domini, "review of Drowning, by Lee Grove," New York Times, July 21, 1991 On the face of it, Henry Spencer Ashbee was a typical middle-class Victorian: a successful businessman, a strict paterfamilias. -- Iain Finlayson, "Victorian erotic values," Times (London), February 21, 2001 Paterfamilias is from Latin pater, "father" + familias, "of the family or household," the archaic genitive form of familia, "family or household."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-24-2006 07:14 AM                        Rated G stolid \STOL-id\, adjective: Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited. Normally stolid, she occasionally joined in the frequent applause and smiled along with the laughter at the high-spirited session. -- Seth Mydans, "Indonesia Leader Imposes a Decree to Fight Removal," New York Times, July 23, 2001 The inherent irrationality of markets was first demonstrated in the 17th century, when the normally stolid Dutch population was seized by a tulip craze that caused the people to pay insane prices for a single bulb. -- Robert Reno, "Analysis: A market that rides on bubbles," Newsday, August 7, 2002 Republicans hailed Kemp as a quick-tongued charmer who would . . . appear in attractive contrast to the stolid Al Gore. -- James Fallows, "An Acquired Taste," The Atlantic, July 1, 2000 Ulster Protestants are a slow, stolid, quiet, decent, law-abiding people, unstylish and unfashionable. -- John Derbyshire, "Paisley Goes to Washington," National Review, March 15, 2001 Stolid derives from Latin stolidus, "unmoving, stupid."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-25-2006 07:11 AM                        Rated G metier \met-YAY; MET-yay\, noun: 1. An occupation; a profession. 2. An area in which one excels; an occupation for which one is especially well suited. The pairing of Maynard and Salinger -- the writer whose metier is autobiography and the writer who's so private he won't even publish -- was an unlikely one. -- Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Cult of Joyce Maynard," New York Times Magazine, September 6, 1998 In Congress, I really found my metier. . . . I love to legislate. -- Charles Schumer, "quoted in Upbeat Schumer Battles Poor Polls and Turnouts and His Own Image," New York Times, May 16, 1998 He is in the position of a good production engineer suddenly shunted into salesmanship. It is not his metier. -- James R. Mursell, "The Reform of the Schools," The Atlantic, December 1939 Metier is from the French, ultimately from Latin ministerium, "service, ministry, employment," from minister, "a servant, a subordinate."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-26-2006 06:44 AM                        Rated G bellwether \BEL-weth-uhr\, noun: A leader of a movement or activity; also, a leading indicator of future trends. Raised to believe they were among their generation's best and brightest, my class can be seen as a bellwether for a generation caught without a compass on the cutting edge of uncharted territory. -- Elizabeth Fishel, Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became Before that election, Maine's proud citizens had fancied their state to be a sort of bellwether, a notion embodied in the saying "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." -- Robert Shogan, The Fate of the Union Bellwether is a compound of bell and wether, "a male sheep, usually castrated"; from the practice of hanging a bell from the neck of the leader of the flock.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-27-2006 06:36 AM                        Rated G confluence \KON-floo-uhn(t)s\, noun: 1. A flowing or coming together; junction. 2. The place where two rivers, streams, etc. meet. 3. A flocking or assemblage of a multitude in one place; a large collection or assemblage. At the confluence of continents, at the narrow neck of the Nile Valley just before it spreads into the flat water-maze of the Delta, this has always been a place where elements mingle and cultures collide. -- Max Rodenbeck, Cairo: The City Victorious It's the combination of these various factors, then -- their historical confluence, if you will -- that must be held responsible for the rapid erosion of the church's authority over sexual matters since the Second Vatican Council. -- Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan A remarkable confluence of technological and economic forces is enabling women to join the paid labor force around the world. -- Helen E. Fisher, The First Sex At the time, I did not appreciate what an unusually fortunate confluence of circumstances was reigning in the cinematic heavens; I thought it would go on forever with the same incandescence. -- Phillip Lopate, Totally, Tenderly, Tragically Outside, about a mile below, the Monongahela River met the Allegheny and the Ohio, forming the confluence of waters upon which stood Pittsburgh. -- Stanley Bing, Lloyd: What Happened But it is not New-York streets built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations, though stretching out toward Philadelphia until they touch it, and northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester, and Boston, -- not these that make the real estimation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization," The Atlantic, April 1862 Confluence is from Latin confluens, "flowing together," from confluere, "to flow together," from con-, "with, together" + fluere, "to flow."  |  IP: Logged

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