Posted on 09/21/2011 6:20:29 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
prepradial \pree-PRAN-dee-ul\ - adjective
of, relating to, or suitable for the time just before dinner
Example sentence:
Although dinner was served late, the preprandial conversation was so diverting that no one minded.
Extra Example sentence:
"Churchill celebrated Christmas with the Roosevelts, took part in FDR's preprandial cocktail hours, shared most meals with the president, and, to Eleanor Roosevelt's great dismay, kept her husband up until the early hours each morning, drinking brandy, puffing cigars, and talking endlessly about everything." -- From Lynne Olson's 2010 book Citizens of London
Did you know?
Though the Latin noun "prandium" means "late breakfast" or "luncheon," its derivative English adjectives -- "preprandial," "prandial," and "postprandial" -- are just as likely to refer to other meals; in fact, "preprandial" is usually applied to dinner. Those adjectives were quite new in our language ("prandial" and "postprandial" first appeared in print in 1820, and "preprandial" in 1822) when a Scottish judge wrote in his memoirs, "Every glass during dinner required to be dedicated to the health of some one.... This prandial nuisance was horrible." English also acquired the adverbs "prandially" and "postprandially," but those are much rarer words these days.
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
A lovely word. But no mention in the FDR story of Mrs. Nesbit. Mrs. Nesbit was FDR’s White House housekeeper who served the worst food in the nation. Churchill hated her!
Best tweet of the game: Semin had better ice bedazzled to his pants.
best recent tweet was from one of the “buddies” saying
“i have 5 days to lose ten pounds before having my picture taken with sasha” ROR! This weekend is the Caps convention. Paula and i are going to go with xsgirls. i want to be there when Sasha is posing for pic with him, to see if he is squeezing sasha’s behind in the pic!
Maybe it’s a variation of “querida” only with a fruity twist (no insult intended—I tend to think of everything in terms of food—you know, how alcoholics give directions using bars as reference points—my directions involve restaurants, taco stands, etc.)
oh yum, tacos!! can you tell i’m dieting? so every food reference sounds yummy to me! LOL!
BTW, what’s franol? Sounds like engine lubricant.
if i knew how to do a tilde, i would have put it over the n. Franol would be french and espanol hybrid, Cheri combined with Querida.
Wow, I forgot what you call a tilde. I think you can get it by pulling up characters. I don’t remember how to do an umlaut (sp), either. Haven’t thought about that in years. Oh well, anyway, muchissimas calcetines grandes para ti y su familia! (Customary parting benediction.)
many big stockings to you too! LOL!
There are those of us who not only mangle Spanish, we chop it up and pour soy sauce all over it. (Here we go with the food references again.) Garcias and buenos dias!
Yes, I saw that. Funny. Oblivious.
xsjr just asked me that very thing on the way in, in the car this AM, will he be unemployed when he loses? i said he sure will!
Those annoying phone calls from vendors and solicitors who dial your home while you’re preparing dinner are hardly preprandial...
for some reason, this made me smile.
And it's the day/week from hell.
Perhaps the loony troll and the leprechaun are your ticket ; )
Sorry about the bad week
Penguins
Madaholic
Syndrome????
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