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Thoreau practiced it, describing a sunset in which he There'sД®ven a word for it: nephelococcygia, literally 'cloudД¬uckooland,' from the Aristophanes play The Birds. 'Finding shapes in clouds is an old endeavor. Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists (1840) Hard-hearted impudent debauchees, and women worthy Of Queen Mab, we can meet with sharpers, bullies, 'Without flying to Nephelococcygia or to the Court by the Greek comic poet Aristophanes, this was [first used in the play The Birds written in 414Д«.C. The worthless word for the day is: nephelococcygia Scientific Computing & Instrumentation, 01 Jan 05 Neurial principle of 'change is an opportunity to 'A crucial objective of our program is to remove any Arizona Business Gazette (Phoenix) Nov 11, 1993 Payment, it may be nothing more than appellate judges 'Although I agree with the majority that no appellateД¬ourt has yet held an insurer liable absent a premium miso KINE eah/ДЄn abnormal aversion to new things or ideas The worthless word for the day is: misocainea Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NY Times Aug 9, 1982 (before breakfast), while the antonym of wealth may well Is called a zarf (if you didn't already know it) that theДЄntonym for postprandial (afterdinner) is antejentacular 'You will learn that the holder for a handleless coffeecup 'Not one poor visit in the antejentacular perambulations.' The worthless word for the day is: antejentacular Themselves in charge of fing everything up.' Hammers of the first order who happened to find Pleasantly) because of the most gignatic f-up,Д«rought about by domnoddies, nincompoops and ninny. 'What bothers me is that I am dying (albeit quite Jim Weaver, How Did You Manage That? (2002) Managers rely heavily on rules, policies, and Things done, but is caught in a strangle hold byДЄn unqualified and incapable domnoddy. Subordinate who yearns to be productive and get 'But it can be a miserable, lonely existence for a Gerald Morris, The Squire's Tales (1999) ''You idiot! You cabbageheaded domnoddy! If you've The worthless word for the day is: domnoddy There are so many contestants for the lackwitД¬hampionships that all come in equal first.' 'I will tell you who the rattlebrains are, beginningДЄt the top. Orson Scott Card, Shadow Puppets (2002) I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I Professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? ''Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English Yahoo, thickwit, dope, nitwit, dimwit, half-wit The worthless word for the day is: lackwitДЄ dull or witless person: blockhead, fool Louis de BerniГЁres, Birds Without Wings (2004) Should be forced into political union with old The distant past and is now partially Greek, it 'Clodpoll number two, the Greek people again.ДЇor thinking that just because the civilization Ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth. 'Therefore this letter, being so excellently The worthless word for the day is: clodpoll

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. Jack Smith, Los Angeles Times Jan18, 1993 To define one of my traits: That's pleionosis, the 'I confess that one word I had never heard of seems Peter Bowler, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words (1992) 'The only disorder universal to humankind.' The worthless word for the day is: pleionosis Seemed, my daughter and I, to be the only patrons.' 'In the flocculent hush of the Golf Hotel we The worthless word for the day is: agraffeДў) made up of loosely aggregated particles or The Observer (London), letter to the editor Of disappointment at someone else's success. Me that there is no single word to express the feeling '.my chief emotion was, to coin a phrase, Freudenschade.' (this week, some neologisms for the nonce) The worthless word for the day is: freudenschadeДissatisfaction, unhappiness, or pain as the 'OK, now you are just being wilfully doofusistic.' In the name of a doofus, or in lieu of a doofus, or The worthless word for the day is: doofusisticДone by a doofus, or with a doofus, or to a doofus, or John Kass, Chicago Tribune August 24, 2007 I don't wanna look like aД¬humbolone, an idiot, stupid,' Doyle said from the [of uncertain origin, perhaps a comflation of chump and The worthless word for the day is: chumbolone

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