Thursday, June 6, 2013

Ultra Question and NOT being facetious (adj.) Look up facetious at Dictionary.com 1590s, from French facétieux, from facétie "a joke" (15c.), from Latin facetia "jest, witticism," from facetus "witty, elegant, fine, courteous," of unknown origin, perhaps related to facis "torch." It implies a desire to be amusing, often intrusive or ill-timed. Related: Facetiously; facetiousness. "Facetiæ in booksellers' catalogues, is, like curious, a euphemism for erotica." [Fowler] whodunit (n.) Look up whodunit at Dictionary.com "murder mystery," 1930, U.S. slang, originally a semi-facetious formation from who done it? pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (n.) Look up pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis at Dictionary.com 1962, "A facetious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word" [OED]. Said in an early reference to have been invented by seventh grade students in Norfolk, Virginia. curvaceous (adj.) Look up curvaceous at Dictionary.com 1936, U.S. colloquial, from curve + facetious use of -aceous, Modern Latin botanical suffix meaning "of a certain kind." First recorded reference is to Mae West. absquatulate (v.) Look up absquatulate at Dictionary.com 1837, "Facetious U.S. coinage" [Weekley], perhaps rooted in mock-Latin negation of squat "to settle." Said to have been used by the U.S. Western character "Nimrod Wildfire" in the play "The Kentuckian," as re-written by British author William B. Bernard and staged in London in 1833. Related: Absquatulated; absquatulating. underwhelm (v.) Look up underwhelm at Dictionary.com 1953 (implied in underwhelming), a facetious play on overwhelm. Related: Underwhelmed; underwhelmingly. jocularity (n.) Look up jocularity at Dictionary.com 1640s, from Medieval Latin iocularitas "jocular, facetious," from iocularis (see jocular). gazebo Look up gazebo at Dictionary.com 1752, supposedly a facetious formation from gaze + -bo, Latin first person singular future tense suffix (cf. videbo "I shall see"), on model of earlier belvedere "cupola," from Italian bello verde "handsome sight." But perhaps rather a corruption of some oriental word. hobo (n.) Look up hobo at Dictionary.com 1889, Western U.S., of unknown origin. Barnhart compares early 19c. English dialectal hawbuck "lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin." Or possibly from ho, boy, a workers' call on late 19c. western U.S. railroads. Facetious formation hobohemia, "community or life of hobos," is from 1923 (see bohemian). coulrophobia (n.) Look up coulrophobia at Dictionary.com "morbid fear of clowns," by 2001 (said in Web sites to date from 1990s or even 1980s), a popular term, not from psychology, possibly facetious, though the phenomenon is real enough; said to be built from Greek kolon "limb," with some supposed sense of "stilt-walker," hence "clown" + -phobia. Ancient Greek words for "clown" were sklêro-paiktês, from paizein "to play (like a child);" or deikeliktas; other classical words used for theatrical clowns were related to "rustic," "peasant" (cf. Latin fossor "clown," literally "laborer, digger," related to fossil). The whole creation looks suspiciously like the sort of thing idle pseudo-intellectuals invent on the Internet and which every smarty-pants takes up thereafter; perhaps it is a mangling of Modern Greek klooun "clown," which is the English word borrowed into Greek. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=facetious&searchmode=none

Real Language Tho,

Has anyone ever asked, " Is "Ra" El ? " ..... in plain sight viewing: " Is "Ra" El ? "

Si OR No ?

(So-called) Yay's or Nay's ?

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