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spleeny

2 September 2006

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Sarah Graves talks about this word in her books (the Home Repair is Homicide series). It is a New England term that means “peevish and irritable with hypochondriac inclinations,” according to Merriam-Webster Online. What a great one!

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spoony

14 February 2006

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Today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day is too good to pass up: spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective: 1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental. 2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love. Another one worth remembering…

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sesquipedalian

13 February 2006

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Talk about a cool word! This wonderful word, pronounced “ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn,” describes words much like itself: long. As an adjective, it means: 1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words. 2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables. This is according to Dictionary.com, which featured the word as Word of the Day for January [...]

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