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TheOriginalCane said:
Thank you. 1,000 times over, thank you.

I learned this fact in my high school Latin class, over 40 years ago. My teacher had started a daily routine where we learned 2 new vocabulary words every day, as well as the etymology of those words. It was supposed to help us with the SAT scores, but I only got a 740. On Verbal.

Anyhow, SHE told us that pusillanimous is what gave rise to "*****" as an insulting word to describe someone's cowardice and lack of toughness.

And this is why I love using the word. People think I'm trying to be vulgar, when I'm really paying tribute to the word pusillanimous.
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Plus...... it's fun to say! :ROFLMAO:
 
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Felonious Monk said:
Last year Trish, the office manager, got us all word of the day desk calendars. I have no idea where she got them, but they had such gems as:
pusillanimous
pulchritudinous
callipygian
bathykolpian
sesquipedalian
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Man, can't you just see @TheOriginalCane just flipping through the days after he opened it saying "know that one, know that one, know that one, that's an easy one, know that one...."????
 
BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
Man, can't you just see @TheOriginalCane just flipping through the days after he opened it saying "know that one, know that one, know that one, that's an easy one, know that one...."????
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Pulchritudinous comes from the Latin adjective "pulcher", which in the feminine form is "pulchra", meaning beautiful.

Next up is my personal favorite, since in addition to TAKING Latin, I also went to Latin competitions (yes, I was very geeky in high school), and one of my competitive categories was GREEK deriviatives. And "callipygian" happens to come from Greek and refers to "beautifully shaped buttocks". I'm just going to let that reality settle in.

Bathykolpian is also from the Greek, meaning large-breasted. Again, take a deep breath...

Finally, sesquipedalian comes from Latin and has come to mean "overly verbose" (guilty as charged), but its LITERAL meaning in Latin was "a foot and a half long".

Having reviewed the evidence, I strongly suspect that Trish The Office Manager was trying to proposition @Felonious Monk in a verbal and/or sexual manner, and should be reported to the HR Department immediately...
 
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