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September 16, 2017

Thread before the Gardening Thread: Wordplay [KT]

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Gargoyle: an olive-flavored mouthwash

I hate to break it to Misanthropic Humanitarian, but Coffee means "a person who is coughed upon".

These are new "fun words" from a Washington Post Yearly Reader Contest. Of course, WaPo is pretty good at supplying new meanings for words right in their news stories.

Doing anything interesting this weekend? Made up any new words recently?


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