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1word1day2017-07-06 07:34 am
prettygoodword.livejournal.com) wrote in 1word1day2017-07-06 07:34 am
Thursday word: xyster
xyster (ZIS-tuhr) - n., a surgical instrument for scraping bones.
I don't know what it looks like and I do NOT want to. Just thinking about that definition makes my skin crawl, like the mental equivalent of hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. I don't want to know why a surgeon would WANT to scrape someone's bones while they are still alive. Nope. Nope nope nope. I can tell you the word comes from Greek xūstēr, scraper, from xūein, to scrape. But that's it.
Nope.
---L.
I don't know what it looks like and I do NOT want to. Just thinking about that definition makes my skin crawl, like the mental equivalent of hearing fingernails on a chalkboard. I don't want to know why a surgeon would WANT to scrape someone's bones while they are still alive. Nope. Nope nope nope. I can tell you the word comes from Greek xūstēr, scraper, from xūein, to scrape. But that's it.
Nope.
---L.