My new word of the week: defenestrated

[4est_4est_Gump]

Which famous composer's piano was defenestrated by the revolutionaries?


Latin - de 'down from', fenestra 'window'

Throw something, or someone, out of a window.

It made some more sense when it hit me like a falling piano that the German for window is Die Fenster...


I can't recall ever seeing this word prior to this morning.

I am not a Smart Man.

 

[December]

That is a nifty word.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That is a nifty word.

It's been a long time since usufruct stumped me...


I think I was still Cap'nAMatrixca.

I really need to get my head out of the economics books and into something with a wider range of vocabulary.

 

[patrick1]

The Czechs first coined the phrase and have an especial talent for it: Jan Masaryk was probably defenestrated in 1948 by his Communist usurpers. Personally I first met the term because a defenestration in real life in 1969 was the inspiration for Dario Fo's play 'Accidnental death of an anarchist'.

Patrick

 

[Peregrinator]

cf. "Defenestration of Prague."

Helpful wiki link------> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

 

[MonaLittle]

That is a nifty word.

Nifty is a great word as well!
Almost better than the OP's word.

 

[Saint Peter]

cf. "Defenestration of Prague."

Helpful wiki link------> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

You just rained on his parade.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You just rained on his parade.

Pray tell why would that be?

 

[butters]

cf. "Defenestration of Prague."

Helpful wiki link------> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague

... must have been some big goddamned window

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

... must have been some big goddamned window

Okay, I laughed...

 

[Angellica1612]

Okay, I laughed...

Me too!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

A Prague on all your houses!

 

[rosco rathbone]

A Prague on all your houses!

lol. MO pronunciation

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

lol. MO pronunciation

That's how Charlie says it out in his rice field...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

What would I toss out of the window if I add one to the teepee?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What would I toss out of the window if I add one to the teepee?

The damned toad.


If you take up TeePee livin', you have no further need of direction, you have a Squaw blowing in...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The damned toad.


If you take up TeePee livin', you have no further need of direction, you have a Squaw blowing in...

Like Hell I'll toss the toad.


I'll put him in the Model A glovebox and defenestrate the empty pint bottle.


It dared me to defenestrate it.


I said, "it'll hurt if I do."

 

[LadyFairfax]

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=27673738&postcount=3


Done, years ago.

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=13116881&postcount=6

more than once.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Like Hell I'll toss the toad.


I'll put him in the Model A glovebox and defenestrate the empty pint bottle.


It dared me to defenestrate it.


I said, "it'll hurt if I do."

I defenestrated my self with the power of blazing .44s!


Blew me clean off my feet!

Newton's third...

Hu's on 1st.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I defenestrated my self with the power of blazing .44s!


Blew me clean off my feet!

Newton's third...

Hu's on 1st.

Hu's riding shotgun in the Pierce-Arrow.


Wait . . . that's Hickey.


And here I thought hickeys happened in the back seat.


Guess he's riding Tommy Gun instead.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The Czechs first coined the phrase and have an especial talent for it: Jan Masaryk was probably defenestrated in 1948 by his Communist usurpers. Personally I first met the term because a defenestration in real life in 1969 was the inspiration for Dario Fo's play 'Accidnental death of an anarchist'.

Patrick

I worked in Prague back in the 1990s, they have a city tour (in the 'actual bus used in the movie "The Sound of Music" ' no less) that takes you right to where the "Defenestration of Prague" occured. I think "defenestrate" is one of the very first English words that a Czech learns.

There was also a tourist book for singles called "What to expect when you pick up the Czech"....

 

[OzoneRed]

My father used to tell me that one of my ancestors, a German prince, was defenestrated and killed when he was only three years old.