[identity profile] prettygoodword.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] 1word1day
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.

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Date: 2017-07-07 06:35 pm (UTC)
med_cat: (cat and books)
From: [personal profile] med_cat
There was a "Mister Twister, a businessmen and banker"...:P

(EDIT: and a Duchess Cascara Sagrada...;))
Edited Date: 2017-07-07 06:36 pm (UTC)
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