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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 11-29-2005 05:58 PM                        Rated G billet-doux: a love letter.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 11-30-2005 06:30 AM                        Rated G wheedle: to entice by flattery.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 11-30-2005 11:46 PM                        Rated G Callipygous: (1) adj. Having beautifully proportioned buttocks. (2) adj. Pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks; "the quest for the callipygian ideal." [syn: callipygian] My favorite word and the object of my continuing graduate-level research.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-01-2005 07:28 AM                        Rated G alfresco \al-FRES-koh\, adverb: In the open air; outdoors. adjective: Taking place or located in the open air; outdoor.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-03-2005 07:26 AM                        Rated G chagrin \shuh-GRIN\, noun: Acute vexation, annoyance, or embarrassment, arising from disappointment or failure. transitive verb: To unsettle or vex by disappointment or humiliation; to mortify.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-04-2005 07:05 AM                        Rated G gaucherie \goh-shuh-REE\, noun: 1. A socially awkward or tactless act. 2. Lack of tact; boorishness; awkwardness.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-05-2005 09:59 AM                        Rated G panache \puh-NASH; -NAHSH\, noun: 1. Dash or flamboyance in manner or style. 2. A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-06-2005 06:20 AM                        Rated G logorrhea \law-guh-REE-uh\, noun: Excessive talkativeness or wordiness.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-07-2005 06:19 AM                        Rated G assiduous \uh-SIJ-oo-uhs\, adjective: 1. Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive. 2. Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, "assiduous labor."  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-08-2005 06:03 AM                        Rated G sylvan \SIL-vuhn\, adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to woods or forest regions. 2. Living or located in a wood or forest. 3. Abounding in forests or trees; wooded. noun: 1. A fabled deity or spirit of the woods. 2. One that lives in or frequents the woods or forest; a rustic.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-08-2005 11:50 AM                        Rated G therblig, noun: The fundamental motions of the hands of a worker. These operations are made up of 17 types of motion: search, select, grasp, reach, move, hold, release, position, pre-position, inspect, assemble, disassemble, use, unavoidable delay, avoidable delay, plan, and test to overcome fatigue. Frank Bunker Gilbreth defined these motions in his system of motion study. (Therblig is Gilbreth spelled backwards).  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-08-2005 12:30 PM                        Paul: You mean Therblig is Gilbreht ?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-08-2005 09:09 PM                        Yeah, he fudged a little treating the 'th' as one letter. After all it is his term.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-09-2005 06:38 AM                        Rated G voluptuary \vuh-LUHP-choo-er-ee\, noun: A person devoted to luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites; a sensualist. adjective: Voluptuous; luxurious.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-10-2005 06:56 AM                        Rated G inure \in-YOOR\, transitive verb: To make accustomed or used to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient; to harden; to habituate; as, "inured to drudgery and distress." intransitive verb: To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, "a gift of lands inures to the heirs."  |  IP: Logged

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