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Who likes obscure words? I have just come across this one anthropophagi.

azzow2 9 Sep 7
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Niblings is how I describe my sister’s kids, but alas, I am pedantic.

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Pentotenatotricalcicoberilico with chocolate flavor

Dictionary.com did not know that word nor did Google search.

@azzow2 it's not a word but a memory of my younger days in middle school many years ago. It did come back out of the blue when I was reading this posting and it was typed out just like that. Also, it's not English. It's funnier in my mother's tongue anyway. If you would've found it online then I would've been more surprised. Long story short, it's a bogus word built with three concatenated real words, meant as a joke.

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sesquipedalian or hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Love it when I worked for Stroh's in Pennsylvania the guys would say don't use them there ten dollar words say what you need to say in English lol.

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well i hadn't heard it, but phage is eat, so it wasn't too hard to figure out!

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bacteriophage French interesting.

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another A word - Alemite........ a grease fitting.

That seems more like a company name

@azzow2 lol..i was thinking minerals.

@azzow2 I got to use this one the other day...pogonip

[dictionary.com]

@hankster ironic for me I had just written The ice frog in my notes intending to create a poem for the title later.

@azzow2 oooooo.......peace frog. haven't tuned into that in a while. ice frog? cool.

@hankster I just copied and pasted it to dictionary.com [dictionary.com]

@azzow2 the link i sent you? confused.

@hankster I spent a lot of time in western Pennsylvania I had lived in Allentown. i had never heard that terminology. I even had a friend who's sister who was the manager of Jack Frost ski resort.

@hankster Was my mistake, very tired have been not sleeping well.

@azzow2 no worries...sleep is kinda mandatory. i think its a very local to the Northwest thing.

@hankster I will have to ask my Dad when I talk to him he has lived in Pennsylvania just about all of his life.

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LiterateHiker is mostly right, it was synonymous with cannibal for most of it time in which is was used.

It is an older version of the term, and refers to a race of people who were cannibals as a defining feature. Comes from the Greeks and was used some by Shakespeare.

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Skeuomorph - Something designed to look as though it does the job it is supposed to do. Apple is famous for this: making the Notepad app look like a real paper notepad, making the delete tool look like a real rubbish bin. It doesn't have to be visual: The fake shutter-click noise of digital cameras is a skeuomorph.

One of my favorites.

that 1st sentence is so much a politician of any stripe.

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Iconoclastic.

I will have to comment in group on that one.

@azzow2 I enjoy contradicting established religious beliefs. Sounds good, what group were you referring to? I had sent you another message by the way.

@SpikeTalon I will look at it on the computer later

@SpikeTalon sleep has not been my friend the last few days.

@azzow2 That's not good. I don't sleep as well as I used to either, been that way for a few years now, alot on my mind at times.

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"Anthropophagi" means eaters of human flesh; cannibals. Dictionary.com.

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Just leaned a new word, "anodyne," by reading Time magazine. It means:

  1. anything that relieves distress or pain; or

  2. a medicine that relieves distress or pain.

It looked familiar, I had seen in an old first aid book.

anodyne and alcohol are synonyms.

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I'm gonna take a guess before I look it up... A viral infection that comes from humans..? ??‍♂️

No, it, however, is an ancient practice some of the tribes did it to their enemies and the old.

@azzow2 Oh no ! Runs away .....

@azzow2 Ah... Alas, I'm a vegetarian.

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