Tawpie

\TAW-pee\

By Matt Lassen

...means a foolish or thoughtless person
   ...comes from the Swedish word tabe meaning "a simpleton"


Limerick:
Peewee is a tawpie
A boy who wears a topi
An Indian name for a hat
Which he thinks he could use
To lure his elusive cat.

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Akimbo

source: Wikipedia

\uh-KIM-bo\ ...means hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards.  I've been doing this act many times as far as I can remember yet I haven't even thought that this position has a particular name. So when it appeared in my email (I subscribed at dictionary.com), it made me grin widely, front teeth open and really felt a little embarrassed. Ha ha!

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Imago

\ih-MAH-goh\  
...is Latin for "image"

       ...means an idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and 
              remained unaltered in adult life

Entomology: an adult insect

An animated cicada molting into a winged imago.

Example1: She pictured him her imago in her heart, never been replaced through time and maybe until death.

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Cachinnate

\KAK-uh-neyt\ means to laugh loudly or immoderately

Example1:
Bachelors who cachinnate may feel that they're charming their way to connubial bliss but what they do not know is that their cachinnation only serves to isolate them from prospective partners.
Example2:
Humans, who like cachinnating hyenas laugh in immoderate abundance, might find themselves become food for ravenous scavenging ruffians.
Example3:
A cachinnating hyena / met a little myna / asked the bird "why do you laugh?" / said the hyena "life is so tough / all the world's laughter is not enough."

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Kith

\KITH\ 
...means acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group.

Our teddy friendz, our genuine kith.

Limerick:

Kith are all around 

Short, tall, slender or round

But when troubles abound

They're nowhere to be found

Teddy Friendz Story:

(From top-down, left-right)...Warmie is his name, journalism is his game. Due to his popularity, a tedoid Wormie wanted his fame but Warmie, the journalist, is smart he's always on the dart. Chikki is small, a scholar by nature. Whatever seems confusing Chikki gets the musing. Problems get solved coz Chikki made the move. Gummy 'd" Bear has nothing to be proud of about himself but to have a family that is proud of him is a treasure to him. This line is a fine line and it's Gummy 'd' Bear's line. Dolly is a maiden full of mysteries hidden and soon she'll be taken to a paradise called Teddyland, a land of peace, joy and freedom. And secrets no more! Milky is a beauty. And the secret of her beauty? A bowl of milk three times a day. Browlie looks tiny but her brain is always hungry for arguments that are fiery. She is the renowned Browlie "the Lawyer", the undefeated opponent of Brawlie "the Liar". Chani was imprisoned for freeing Geese from the captivity of a Mogul in China. Got help from Mother Goose and the Great Wall of China they crossed to find a nice home in our handsome abode. The last in line is Chokie, the brother of Chikki. Far from being a scholar, in humor he is a connoisseur. He is the clown in this little hometown where everybody is a family, a genuine kith in their own teddycality. And that's the story of these little creatures. In reality they may not be alive but in our hearts they're always real. 

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Beek

is a verb and read as \BEEK\ which means

...........(of wood) to season by exposure to heat

.................to bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fire

Example1: 

Kitty basking in the sun

In our family, it is usual to beek firewood especially the newly chopped wet logs.

Example2:

It is almost always observed that cats like to beek and roll under the sun.
Example 3:
Mr. Johnson asked the children to move a little farther and beek themselves by fireside.

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Autodidact

\aw-toh-DAHY-dakt\ refers to a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education
........a self-taught person; an automath

Self-teaching kids.

Example1:
Driven by his interest, curiosity and yearning to know everything there is in the world, our friend, Cheekie "the scholar" is not only an erudite but also an autodidact.

Example2:
F.S. Flint, being an autodidact, was an English poet and translator whose extraordinary talent in language acquisition enabled him to become proficient in many languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Danish and Japanese. Source: Wikipedia

                                Limerick:
                            An autodidact is a person 

Tadao Ando, Source: Wikipedia

             Who finds schooling fun
For he is the teacher 
And the learner
             All rolled into one.

Example 3: Tadao Ando is probably the most famous autodidact architect of the 21st century.


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Zaftig

\ZAHF-tig\ means
.......full-bodied; well-proportioned; voluptuous
...........(of a woman) having a pleasantly plump and sexually attractive figure

                                                 Example1:

The zaftig and the zealot, both have in common an excessive overabundance but in contrasting ways, for while the fullness of one attracts, the fullness of the other repels.

Example2:
If only the anorexics knew the advantages of being zaftig, they would not be so fanatic in their dieting.

Our Gummy 'd' Bear

Example3:
A zaftig teddy bear named Gummy 'd' Bear went to the zoo to meet his friend, the little wild bear, but could not get into the cage because he was too plump to squeeze through the bars.

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Sylvan

\SIL-vuhn\  
...means bounding in forests or trees; wooded 
    ...living or located in a wood or forest.
        ...a fabled deity or spirit of the woods 
            ...one that lives in or frequents the woods or forest
                ...a rustic.

Spirit of the Woods

Example1: Rima, a character from W.H. Hudson's Green Mansion, is the girl who lived all her life in the forest who is often referred by the natives as a sylvan or a spirit living in the woods that protects everything in it, a tale that makes these natives don't want to hunt there.

Example2:
I guess I can practically say that our place is sylvan.

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Writhe

Writhing in pain

 \rahyth\
... means to twist the body about, or squirm, as in severe pain

Related terms: thresh; flail; contort; wriggle

In knot theory, the writhe is a property of an oriented link diagram. It is the total number of positive crossings minus the total number of negative crossings.

Example
      The child tried to writhe free from his uncle's embrace. Guess he didn't like his uncle or he didn't like the embrace itself. Which one, I am not sure!

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Tare

\TAIR\ means
........the weight of a vehicle without cargo or passengers
.............the weight of the wrapping or container that holds an object
.....................any of various climbing plants, generally with edible seeds

Example1:
Is there a case when a truck enters a regular beach resort the entrance fee is not per person but by tare?

Example2:
Junior just brought in an electronic weighing scale that has a button to subtract the tare of a container from its posted weight.

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Attar

\AT-er\ is a perfume or essential oil obtained from flowers or petals

Example1:
It was known that many apothecaries have sold attar of jasmine to kings and queens.
Example2:
An attar of roses made by a loved one is worth wearing than a fancy million dollar perfume bought from a store.

Apothecary is a medieval person who studies the art and science of mixing medicine, who is known as pharmacist today.

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Juggernaut

\JUHG-er-nawt\ is frequently used today to describe
..........something usually large or massive.
................an irresistible, ruthless force or machine that destroys everything that gets in its way.
.......................in Britain, juggernaut is a very large lorry for transporting goods by road, esp. one that travels throughout Europe.

Juggernaut is also called Jagannath, a crude idol of Krishna worshiped throughout Orissa and Bengal, wheeled through the town on a gigantic chariot and devotees were supposed to have thrown themselves under the wheels as sort of sacrifice.

Example1:
The terrifying juggernaut we have to face at the end of life is not the inevitability of Death but the realization that all our existence has been a mere act of artful trickery by that great juggler called Nature.
Example2:
So was set in sudden, ugly motion a juggernaut that, before it was finally put to a halt, cost more than a thousand lives.
Example3:
Juggernaut and lorry are never found in my vocabulary until I came to India. Somehow, in Philippines, though we are used to find big trucks traveling around, mostly at night, and carrying heavy loads, I could not just recall any word that names these trucks...we generally call them "dakong/malaking trak".

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Fantod

\FAN-tod\ means
..............a sudden outpouring of anger or outrage
...................a state of worry or nervous anxiety, irritability
.........................a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness

Example1:
There are times when someone just feels uneasy about nothing in particular, characterized by rapid beating of the heart and not able to get himself indulge in anything. Can this be called fantod?
Example2:
It is a rarely known fact that the company of teddy bears is a better cure for fantod than bottles of hot toddy.
Example3:
The fans of the fanatic kind can be identified by their fantod behavior when they fail to gather the attention of the object of their affections.

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Jocose

\joh-KOHS\, an adjective given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful

Synonyms:
Jocose, Jovial, Jocular, Jocund agree in referring to someone who is in a good humor.

......Jocose refers to that which causes laughter; it suggests someone who is playful and given to jesting: with jocose and comical airs..............Jovial suggests a hearty, joyous humor: a jovial hostess.....................Jocular means humorous, facetious, mirthful, and waggish: jocular enough to keep up the spirits of all around her.
..........................Jocund (a literary word) suggests a cheerful, light-hearted, and sprightly gaiety: glad and jocund company.

Among the four words listed above, only jovial is familiar to me. I almost always associate it with convivial, a word I cannot forget for it's my nature to be convivial most of the times but moody sometimes. Now, by looking up the word jovial, I found three more similar words which remind me of their opposite, gloomy.

Example1:
A joker must be jocose enough to be able to laugh at himself or else he will end up laughing alone.
Example2:
Even if done jocosely, jaywalking can unfortunately fetch you a ticket to the final joyride of your life, a.k.a. a trip to the cemetery.

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