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Word of the day - WINNER
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moravc
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Word of the day - WINNER
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Hello,
Thanks a lot for your definitions. Many of you knew the right meaning but played with both words very nicely :-D
I am off to bed now, so I give the winner a bit more time to pick a new word of the day...
The winner is ELODIE ! She managed to put both definitions in one funny story-definition. Congrats!
ELOJOLIE274
defenestrate = we have the same word in French, the French word "fen�tre" means window, so here �s my definition
"ding! yeah, i �ve got an email, let �s open it! pop! Oh noooooooo, it was a virus, what have I done... windows crashed... well there �s only one thing left to do... swoosh.... bang! What the hell happened? Where �s our computer? Windows crashed so I threw it out of the window! slap!"-----------------------------------------------------------
Wikipedia definitions:
Defenestrate means to throw somebody/something out of the window. Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The term "defenestration" was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618. The word comes from the Latin de- (from) and fenestra (window or opening).
Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes, eg animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar".
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15 Oct 2010
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