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Mornin' folks! Apologies for missing last week. Luckily, I'm finally over my brief foray into being sick.
Quomodocunquise (-ize) [kwo-moh'doh-kun'qwise]
verb
Definition
To make money in any possible way.
Etymology
From Latin quomodocunque, meaning in whatever way. From Latin quomodo (or quo modo), literally 'In what way?' questioning the way/manner/means for something to be done.
First seen
1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834), 213: Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets.
Usage
You know, I couldn't think of a good sentence to use, but really - why would I when the perfect one is up there? Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets!
Now there's a good, old-fashioned way to insult someone!
Quomodocunquise (-ize) [kwo-moh'doh-kun'qwise]
verb
Definition
To make money in any possible way.
Etymology
From Latin quomodocunque, meaning in whatever way. From Latin quomodo (or quo modo), literally 'In what way?' questioning the way/manner/means for something to be done.
First seen
1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834), 213: Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets.
Usage
You know, I couldn't think of a good sentence to use, but really - why would I when the perfect one is up there? Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets!
Now there's a good, old-fashioned way to insult someone!
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Date: 2010-06-14 04:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-14 08:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-14 08:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-14 02:25 pm (UTC)1. A man or lad acting as an attendant or servant; a menial, a groom. An attendant on a knight or other person of military importance. Varlet of the chamber, valet-de-chambre.
2. A person of a low, mean, or knavish disposition; a knave, rogue, rascal. In later use freq. without serious implication of bad qualities. Employed as an abusive form of address.
I'm guessing the second one. ;)
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Date: 2010-06-16 02:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-14 02:20 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 2010-06-14 02:28 pm (UTC)My homework forthe week is, in lieu of calling my fellow colleagues just plain incompetent, is to call them rapacious varlets or quomodocunquising clusterfists!