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afflatus, punchinello, ribald, and rock-juice.
2002-07-16 � 6:22 p.m.

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sup here are some wordios

afflatus uh-FLAY-tuhs, noun:

A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.

Whatever happened to passion and vision and the divine afflatus in poetry? --Clive Hicks, "From 'Green Man'(Ronsdale)," [1]Toronto Star, November 21, 1999

Aristophanes must have eclipsed them . . . by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus. --John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets

punchinello (pun-chuh-NEL-o) noun

1. A short, fat buffoon, principal character in an Italian puppet

show.

2. A grotesque person.

[From Italian (Naples dialect) polecenella (a character in Italian

puppet shows), diminutive of pollecena (turkey pullet), ultimately from Latin pullus (young chicken). From the resemblance of punchinello's nose to a turkey's beak.]

"Unlike Mr. Donahue, she doesn't automatically sympathize with every oddball and Punchinello who feels mistreated by `straight society'(a phrase, believe it or not, that still rolls off Mr. Donahue's tongue)." Martha Bayles, Oprah vs. Phil: Warmth Wins Out, The Wall Street Journal (New York), Jan 26, 1987.

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ribald RIB-uld; RY-bawld, adjective:

Characterized by, or given to, vulgar humor; coarse.

noun: A ribald person; a lewd fellow.

Barrymore delights you with his own delight in his silly, ribald jokes (most of which are unprintable here). --Ben Brantley, "A Dazzler of a Drunk, Full of Gab and Grief," [1]New York Times, March 26, 1997

His sense of humor is sharp and ribald; he never passes up an opportunity to insert a salty story. --Frederick Luciani, "No Jail Could Hold Him," [2]New York Times, October 25, 1998

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. --Bernard Shaw, [3]Man and Superman

the last example is amazing.

i need to sleep. i babysat Emily on saturday and she was relatively boring exept with some blank threats invovling cover her dad and the chair in 10 lbs of turkey, 5 lbs of ham, 50 lbs of rock-juice, and 20 lbs of sparkly barbie toothpaste. when i asked what rock juice was i was shot down quickly with "it is juice from a rock of course"

i gotta go

byeness

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