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Scran does not sound appetizing at all, Handley. Of course, snack is not much better, but I am used to that one.

profluent - adj flowing copiously or smoothly
 
Ah, it is Monday, again, and a busy one for me, so here's a quickie and off I go;

profligate - adj 1. completely give up to dissipation and licentiousness 2. wildly extravagant: PRODIGAL
 
I do hope you enjoy your Mardi Gras. I am going out to celebrate a bit.

profiteer - noun one who makes what is considered an unreasonable profit esp. on the sale of essential goods during times of emergency

I can think of a few modern day profiteers...
 
Well, I certainly celebrated and am still paying for it. I have a love/hate relationship with alcohol. LOL

proffer(1) - vt to present for acceptance: TENDER, OFFER vi obs: to move as if about to act

proffer(2) - noun 1. OFFER, SUGGESTION 2. obs: ATTEMPT
 
I am feeling better today, thank goodness. There is a reason they call it alcohol poisoning, after all. I could give up drinking alcohol for Lent, but that would be too easy for me. The last time I imbided before Mardi Gras was on January 8 in celebration of my 60th birthday. Now, giving up dark sweet chocolate, that would be difficult. Anybody else giving anything up for Lent? Catholic or not?

prodigal - adj 1. recklessly extravagant 2. chatacterized by wasteful expenditure: LAVISH 3. yeilding abundantly: LUXURIANT
 
AllardChardon said:
I am feeling better today, thank goodness. There is a reason they call it alcohol poisoning, after all. I could give up drinking alcohol for Lent, but that would be too easy for me. The last time I imbided before Mardi Gras was on January 8 in celebration of my 60th birthday. Now, giving up dark sweet chocolate, that would be difficult. Anybody else giving anything up for Lent? Catholic or not?

prodigal - adj 1. recklessly extravagant 2. chatacterized by wasteful expenditure: LAVISH 3. yeilding abundantly: LUXURIANT
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I might try and give up the daily doughnut but that's about it!
I'm not supposed to drink alcohol, although I figure a little Martini in lots of lemonade is medically beneficial (therapeutic!). It certainly gives a decent taste to the lemonade.

Good luck with the headache. . .

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Thanks, Handley. I must admit alcohol has worse effects on my body now that I am older and no longer menstruating. I guess overindulgent bingeing works better for the young. At least the effects are not permanent. Soon enough I am good as new and done with that stuff for another couple of months. Alcohol really messes with my ability to write well.

procure - verb 1.a. to get possession of: OBTAIN b. to get and make available for promiscuous sexual intercourse 2. to bring about: ACHIEVE ~ vi: to procure women
 
AllardChardon said:
Thanks, Handley. I must admit alcohol has worse effects on my body now that I am older and no longer menstruating. I guess overindulgent bingeing works better for the young. At least the effects are not permanent. Soon enough I am good as new and done with that stuff for another couple of months. Alcohol really messes with my ability to write well.

procure - verb 1.a. to get possession of: OBTAIN b. to get and make available for promiscuous sexual intercourse 2. to bring about: ACHIEVE ~ vi: to procure women
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According to my little Oxford:-

procure /prkj/ v. ME. [(O)Fr. procurer f. L procurare take care of, attend to, manage, f. as PRO-1 + curare look after.] I
1 v.i. Endeavour, labour, use means, (to do). Also foll. by for or to a thing. ME-E17.
2 v.t. Contrive (an action or proceeding); try to bring about (esp. something bad). ME-L17.
3 v.t. Bring about, esp. by care or with effort; cause to be done; arrange that. Now rare. ME. b Manage (to do). M16-L17.
4 v.t. Obtain, esp. by care or with effort; gain, acquire, get. ME. b v.i. & t. Act as a procurer; obtain (women) for prostitution. E17.
5 v.t. Prevail on or persuade (a person) to do. Now Sc. exc. Law. ME. b Bribe, suborn. LME-E17. c Prevail on (a person) to come; bring, lead. L16-E17.
6 v.t. Try to induce; urge. M-L16. II
7 v.i. Act as a procurator or legal agent; fig. plead, make supplication. LME-M17. III
8 v.i. Proceed, advance. rare. L15-L16.procurative a. tending to produce something; productive of: M17. procurement n.
( a ) the action or an act of causing or arranging something; instigation;
( b ) acquisition; an instance of this; spec. the action or occupation of procuring military equipment and supplies: ME. procurer n. [AN procurour, OFr. procureur f. L
PROCURATOR] ( a ) a procurator; ( b ) (now rare) a promoter, an instigator, (of); ( c ) a person who obtains something; spec. one who obtains women for prostitution, a pimp: LME. procuress n. a female procurer, spec. a bawd LME.


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Copyright © 1998 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


Don't forget that the top Scottish legal bloke is called the Procurator Fiscal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procurator_Fiscal

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Handley, your little Oxford is very extensive compared to my medium-sized Webster's.

procumbent - adj 1. being or having stems that trail along the ground without rooting 2. lying face down
 
Handley, in my dictionary it says recumbent means lying down or prone, which means lying face down. Under prone it says recumbent means the posture of one sleeping or resting. Prostrate is also face down. Is there a term for lying down, face up, I wonder?
 
AllardChardon said:
Well, I certainly celebrated and am still paying for it. I have a love/hate relationship with alcohol. LOL

proffer(1) - vt to present for acceptance: TENDER, OFFER vi obs: to move as if about to act

proffer(2) - noun 1. OFFER, SUGGESTION 2. obs: ATTEMPT
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In classic porn, women were always proffering their breasts. No one ever proffered an ass, or a dick or a testicle, though I think I've also seen proffered lips.

Okay, here's a couple:

aboulia -- a kind of lethargy or ennui; the inability to make decisions. It's also used to describe the condition where a person is totally uninterested in sex or sensual pleasure.

vincilagnia is the scientific term for the paraphilia that finds excitement in being bound and restrained for sex.

Lats of interesting names for interesting sexual practices and perversions in the Sexual Practices Encyclopedia.
 
Doc, proffering breasts is a big deal in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, as you well know.

Another ancient Greek character that escaped my research, but was found in the dictionary;

Procrustes - noun a legendary robber of ancient Greece noted for stretching or cutting off the legs of his victims to adapt to the length of his bed
 
AllardChardon said:
Handley, in my dictionary it says recumbent means lying down or prone, which means lying face down. Under prone it says recumbent means the posture of one sleeping or resting. Prostrate is also face down. Is there a term for lying down, face up, I wonder?
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To be lying down face upward is to be supine. The two words supine and prone are often confused with each other—but should not be.
 
AllardChardon said:
Doc, proffering breasts is a big deal in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, as you well know.

Another ancient Greek character that escaped my research, but was found in the dictionary;

Procrustes - noun a legendary robber of ancient Greece noted for stretching or cutting off the legs of his victims to adapt to the length of his bed
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Hence, someone who must face an ordeal of some kind is sometimes said to have to lie in a Procrustean bed.
 
Good to know, Carlus. In keeping with that thought;

procrustean bed - noun often cap P: a scheme or pattern into which something or someone is arbitrarily forced

procrustean - adj , often cap 1. of, relating to, or typical of Procrustes 2. marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances
 
This is seldom-used to describe human noses, unless it refers to a real honker, like Jimmy Durante's or even Ringo's;

proboscis - noun 1.a. the trunk of an elephant; also any long flexible snout b. the human nose esp. when prominent 2. any of various elongated or extensible tubular processes of the oral region of an invertebrate
 
Here is one entry I've never heard, probably because I don't travel much and don't eat out often;

prix fixe - noun 1. TABLE D' HOTE 2. the price charged for a table d' hote meal

Of course, the o has a ^ over it, but I can't figure out how to pull that one off.
 
AllardChardon said:
Here is one entry I've never heard, probably because I don't travel much and don't eat out often;

prix fixe - noun 1. TABLE D' HOTE 2. the price charged for a table d' hote meal

Of course, the o has a ^ over it, but I can't figure out how to pull that one off.
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ô ( lower case )

ALT 0244
(while holding down the "ALT" key, enter 0244 )




Ô ( upper case )

ALT 0212

 
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Thanks, Trysail. I knew there had to be a way to do it.

privy purse - noun (often both Ps are in caps) an allowance for the private expenses of the British sovereign
 
trysail said:


ô ( lower case )

ALT 0244
(while holding down the "ALT" key, enter 0244 )




Ô ( upper case )

ALT 0212
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You can also use an HTML code to get the symbol ô: Type ampersand, pound sign, 2, 4, 4, semicolon, with no embedded spaces. When you preview your post, you will see ô. (I had to spell out the symbols, because they disappear and produce the character when the board processes them.)

Upper case requires 212 in place of 244.
 
For some reason, I had to post these two;

privy(1) - adj 1. belonging or relating to a person in his individual rather than his official capacity 2.a. WITHDRAWN, PRIVATE b. SECRET 3. admitted as one sharing in a secret (~ to the conspiracy)

privy(2) - noun 1. a person having a legal interest of privity 2.a. a small building having a bench with holes through which the user may evacuate and usually lacking means of automatic discharge b. TOILET
 
I came across this word at the weekend when visiting Chiswick House near London. It was a repeated symbol in a room decorated with Masonic references:

ouroborus or uroborus noun a circular symbol depicting a snake swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity.

An additional explanation given at Chiswick was that it could also be a symbol of death and rebirth, the death and rebirth of a third level Mason.
 
AllardChardon said:
Good to know, Carlus. In keeping with that thought;

procrustean bed - noun often cap P: a scheme or pattern into which something or someone is arbitrarily forced

procrustean - adj , often cap 1. of, relating to, or typical of Procrustes 2. marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances
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My Dear AC,

I couldn't let your following of the Procrustes/Procrustean Bed citation pass without adding a touch of background. A bit of background:
In Greek mythology Procrustes, also known as Prokoptas or Damastes (Δαμαστής) "subduer", was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who physically attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed.

In general, when something is Procrustean, different lengths or sizes or properties are fitted to an arbitrary standard.

That's all.

A fellow lexist.
 
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