Word for the Week

[TotallyOz]

Here is the word for this week:

absquatulate \ab-skwoch-uh-leyt\, verb:

To flee; abscond.

"If you try to absquatulate again, I'll sic the FBI on you."

Elliott Roosevelt; Murder in the Executive Mansion; St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1996.

"You'd thank me to 'absquatulate,' as the Yankees say,"interrupts she, laughing and showing the sweetest, shortest, whitest little set of teeth that ever set dentist at defiance. "Well, I will in a minute; but' I have an errand unto thee. oh, captain.'"

-- Rhoda Broughton, Cometh up as a flower: an autobiography

Predictably, he is rejected by the people and threats are made on his life (Jeremiah is probably in prison at this time) so the Lord commands him to take his family and absquatulate into the desert.

-- "A Book of Mormon Synopsis: The Small Plates," What Mormons Believe blog, January 2009.

Absquatulate is an example of a pseudo-Latinism, which combines Latin roots to form a new word. This was a 19th century linguistic trend in various parts of the United States.

[TampaYankee]

I don't know. It just sounds like an act of self abuse.

[Guest CharliePS]

Here is the word for this week:

absquatulate \ab-skwoch-uh-leyt\, verb:

To flee; abscond.

"If you try to absquatulate again, I'll sic the FBI on you."

Elliott Roosevelt; Murder in the Executive Mansion; St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1996.

"You'd thank me to 'absquatulate,' as the Yankees say,"interrupts she, laughing and showing the sweetest, shortest, whitest little set of teeth that ever set dentist at defiance. "Well, I will in a minute; but' I have an errand unto thee. oh, captain.'"

-- Rhoda Broughton, Cometh up as a flower: an autobiography

Predictably, he is rejected by the people and threats are made on his life (Jeremiah is probably in prison at this time) so the Lord commands him to take his family and absquatulate into the desert.

-- "A Book of Mormon Synopsis: The Small Plates," What Mormons Believe blog, January 2009.

Absquatulate is an example of a pseudo-Latinism, which combines Latin roots to form a new word. This was a 19th century linguistic trend in various parts of the United State

I assumed it was a new exercise to tone the abs.

[MsGuy]

Something in my soul rejects the very existence of this abortion. I have neither heard this word before today nor seen it written and, insha'Allah, I pray to never encounter it again.

Of what possible use is such a piece of verbal dog vomit? Fiends in Hell composing demented crossword puzzles would draw back in disgust.

AdamSmith, crawl off whatever poor New York twink you're currently currupting and drag your sorry carcass to the nearest keyboard. Put on your best Bill Buckley persona and properly chastise Oz for foisting this horror upon us. And I mean right now, AS! Justice delayed is justice denied.

[TotallyOz]

Sasquatulate-verb-the act of fleeing from the monster that lurks within the darkest recesses of our being.

[MsGuy]

Sasquatulate-verb-the act of fleeing from the monster that lurks within the darkest recesses of our being.

Of course, you realize that I am compelled to e-mail your Bangkok street address to the Thai section of the LDS Missionary Society, along with an earnest plea in your name to save your eternal soul. Muahhahahaha...

How's that for a heart of darkness?

[Guest Matrix]

Why did Noah Driver absquatulate with my advance? Why won't he contact me and why is Benjamin Nicholas covering for him?

[Guest Matrix]

How's that for a heart of darkness?

When they traveled in pairs, they were much more enjoyable and desirable convincing.

[MsGuy]

They are always in pairs. Company policy.

[Guest Matrix]

They are always in pairs. Company policy.

And, equally hung?

[AdamSmith]

AdamSmith, crawl off whatever poor New York twink you're currently currupting and drag your sorry carcass to the nearest keyboard. Put on your best Bill Buckley persona and properly chastise Oz for foisting this horror upon us. And I mean right now, AS! Justice delayed is justice denied.

Sorry to lag replying. Needless to confirm, you diagnose the case. Actually a pair of twinks here night before last, as generically referenced above. (Took the devil's own effort to gently evict them yesterday late morning, in fact.) My favorite lil Latina escort (a lesbian at that!) night previous. But I digress.

In any event, doing one's best to lean way back in onstage interview chair, clipboard in hand, and intone in one's drollest Yale accent (actually WFB's sly parody of the Harvard accent, I am convinced!):

Oz's word remains obdurately lodged in my craw. Notwithstanding the violent urge to accomplish one or the other, I cannot see how to make a determination whether 'twould be better to hurl instantly, or rather to swallow then strain to pass it with the greatest expedition, as the better cocaine messengers must sometimes undertake, at their peril.

[MsGuy]

Stripper bars, volunteer Asian cuties, lesbo Latinas, all night twink sandwitches, half the rentboys in NY. And Andre too?

AdamSmith, if "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," you must have a reserved suite at Balmoral Castle complete with a resident staff of Talmud scholars.

[AdamSmith]

AdamSmith, if "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,"

The only hope for me, when you come down to it.

you must have a reserved suite at Balmoral Castle complete with a resident staff of Talmud scholars.

How did you manage to rid the place of those meddlesome priests?!

In whatever way, congratulations, and thanks.

I'll stop there, lest you have to warn me yet again not to pick it up and play with it.

[AdamSmith]

Stripper bars, volunteer Asian cuties, lesbo Latinas, all night twink sandwitches, half the rentboys in NY. And Andre too?

AdamSmith, if "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," you must have a reserved suite at Balmoral Castle complete with a resident staff of Talmud scholars.

Thinning' on Harry's late exposure...just to note again what looks HRH's pitch-perfect modulation of the Palace's (all but non-)response to the Vegas bit -- Elizabeth R. is showing she has a PR flair that is a bit startlingly subtle, discerning, and absolutely au courant for an aged beldame who might ordinarily be presumed to be more or less out of it.

Bravissima, or whatever the English countryside version in tweeds thereof is.

[MsGuy]

Chaetophobia (from the Greek χαίτη - khaitē, "loose, flowing hair" and φόβος - phobos, "fear") is fear of hair.

Often confused with twinkophilia, a related but distinct condition.

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Well, at least chaetophobia is a real word...

[AdamSmith]

Well, at least chaetophobia is a real word...

The pun, as that wondrous film Wit from some years back reminded us, is the most contemptible form of humor. But for your remarkable construction here we will grant an exception!

"Harry" indeed.

Bravo.