mucus trooper
(MYOO.kus troo.pur) n. An employee with a cold or the flu who insists on showing up for work.
Jactation
(jack-tay’-shun) n. boasting; bragging.
No-Tacular
earworm
(EER.wurm) n. A song or tune that repeats over and over inside a person’s head. Also: ear-worm, ear worm.
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding bananaphone!
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Word of the Day for Friday May 7, 2004
hardscrabble \HARD-skrab-uhl, adjective:
- Yielding a bare or meager living with great labor or
difficulty. - Marked by poverty.
I remember it being green and humid, nothing like this
hardscrabble land.
--Elmore Leonard, [1]Cuba Libre
Most inhabitants scratched out a living from hardscrabble
farming, yet these newcomers were hopeful and enterprising.
--Ron Chernow, [2]Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller,
Sr.
A scenic town fed by rich snowbirds who reside a few months
a year in gated communities, High Balsam also is home to
the hardscrabble residents who frequent Margaret's
food-pantry giveaways.
--Deirdre Donahue, "A sweet 'Evensong,' " [3]USA Today,
December 2, 1999
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Hardscrabble is formed from hard (from Old English heard) +
scrabble (from Dutch schrabbelen, “to scratch”).
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bibliobibuli
noun. People who read too much and so are generally oblivious to world around them.
LOOK OUT CHEE CHOO!!!
sexual frustration is my word for the day hahahaha 
Here is a word that should exist…
Percussive-Maintenance : \purr-q-siv main-ten-ense\ The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again
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Percussive-Maintenance : \purr-q-siv main-ten-ense\ The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again[/quote]
That could be a snigglet. Waitaminit…thats a good word of the day, Snigglet.
meh word for today
immortalityyyyyyyyyy infadalityyyyyy injunalityyyyyyy heh
so im bored…
Oh, folks is so darf?
That they makes me larf
Till I nearly splits
Me face in ?arf.
Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.
juxtaposition
When the shit really hits the fan and you realize that your principles are juxtaposition?