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Message board > WORD OF THE DAY, Monday, 14.01.2013
WORD OF THE DAY, Monday, 14.01.2013
ldthemagicman
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WORD OF THE DAY, Monday, 14.01.2013
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Hello, Everybody!
The Word of the Day is:
AGRARIAN
Is it an Individual? An Animal? An Element? An Object? An Idea? An Ultrasound? An M.P? An Honest Person? An Ytterbium atom? An Yves Saint Laurent film? An 8?
Or is it possibly A University? A One-Pound Coin? A Ouija Board? A Euro? A European? A Euphemism? A Acomb (Pronounced "Yakkum") resident? A Yorkshireman? A UFO? A Handout? A Yak? A 7?
What do you think?
Let �s have your definitions --- ANY DEFINITION, provided that it is NOT the correct one, for the Word of the Day
AGRARIAN
Les Douglas |
14 Jan 2013
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sarguero
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Agrarian: It �s a caucasian farmer with the zodiac sign of Aries
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14 Jan 2013
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edrodmedina
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Sarguero you are very,very close. The agrarians are indeed farmers but farmers with an agenda. They shaved their heads , got lots of weird tatoos and formed a secret society promoting the cultivation of white vegetables only. They call themselves the "Agrarian Brotherhood". Ed |
14 Jan 2013
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MarionG
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a - indefinite article
grar - to howl or roar with bestial vigor ("Grar!! I �m hungry!!!)
ian - belonging to the above...
She detested her husband for being such an agrarian. She found it unacceptable that in this modern day and age he would still give her the "wife, where is my food" routine everytime he came home from work. |
14 Jan 2013
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cunliffe
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I �m afraid this is an easy one for me. An Agrarian is an alien from the planet Agra (no, it �s not a curry house in Bradford! Edit: OK, yes, it is). Just the same as an Andorian is from the planet Andora. Simple!
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14 Jan 2013
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Pelletrine
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Actually,
only very few agrarians became
farmers ( you�ll see: they were the losers of the Tribe).
We will have to go way back to ancient
Transylvania to find out more about them. They were a fierce, greedy tribe of very well organized
nomad warriors. They loved gold and would fight anything for a good pay!!! We
find them mentioned in written words from the mid 5th century AD. (ref.Attila
in: History of
Transylvania, Volume I. L�szl� Macsy, Andr�s M�kkai. Columbia University
Press. 2001).
This
Eurasian tribe used to belong to the Avar tribe (Avarians)�already quite greedy,
but they became so much more wealth-aware .... , than the rest of the Avarians,
that they broke away from this tribe� and became known and feared as �The greedy Avarians� �. Very soon shortened into the �Agrarians�.
The very
last recorded descendant of the agrarians is �Scroodge� described by Charles Dickens in �A Christmas
Carol� �. As you all know. But, what you may not know is the origin of the
French word �avare� meaning greedy: it�s an understatement: people thought it too scary even to pronounce the word �Agrarians��
so the greedy ones were bestoved the name derived from �Avarians�, namely avare.
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14 Jan 2013
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ldthemagicman
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Gosh, Pelletrine.
That was SCAREY !!!
And I REALLY mean S-C-A-R-E-Y !!! !!! !!!
Les |
14 Jan 2013
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Pelletrine
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^.^ Maybe ;o)) But thanks a billion you just taught me a new word: "scarey" wow! The movie can just lay down still ... and only be "scary" ;o))
I would prefer this daffination from the dico one: "scarey" = a stray cat so known (recognized?) as scary that all other stray cats find him scarey.
btw: how do you pronounce it ? - differently from "scary" ? |
14 Jan 2013
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Pelletrine
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Hehe: be aware.... not "avare" ;o)) |
14 Jan 2013
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ldthemagicman
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Pelletrine,
Where I live, it is such a tough district that even the Tom cats, (the male cats), go around in twos.
My area is S-O scarey, (or scary), pronounced �scare - ee�, to rhyme with �fairy� = �fair - ee�.
Les Douglas
P.S. The English word: "Avarice" = "Greed" |
14 Jan 2013
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Pelletrine
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Thank you Les,
^.^ ^.^ : two Tom cats ready for stroll in your tough district ;o) Huh, must be pretty bad ;o) |
15 Jan 2013
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