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Word For The Day, Friday, August 1, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/1/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/01/2003 5:27:13 AM PDT by RikaStrom

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....


carouse \ca*rouse\, verb
carouses, carousing, caroused; intransitive verb
carousal, carouser; noun:

1. To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
2. To drink excessively
3. To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.

Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. --Denham.
Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. --Young.

Etymology: [German garaus, all out, drink up : gar, completely (from Middle High German, from Old High German garo) + aus, out, up]

Word History: The origin of the word carouse can be found in a German interjection that meant “time to leave the bar.” German garaus, which is derived from the phrase gar (“all”) aus (“out”), meaning “all out,” then came to mean “drink up, bottoms up,” and “a last drink before closing time.” The English borrowed this noun, with the meaning “the practice of sitting around drinking until closing time,” sometimes spelling the word garaus but usually spelling it closer to the way it is spelled today. Soon after the word is first recorded as a noun in 1559, we find the verb carouse, in 1567.


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There's Changing Diapers and fetching beers during football.
121 posted on 08/01/2003 7:08:48 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Texan5
see above.lol
122 posted on 08/01/2003 7:09:10 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Gabz
Me Too!
123 posted on 08/01/2003 7:09:25 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1; Texan5
I was not implying that those Three things were all women are good for....

Of course we know you weren't IMPLYING it - you were stating it as FACT.

124 posted on 08/01/2003 7:09:51 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Gabz
Oh not at all. See 121....lol
125 posted on 08/01/2003 7:11:32 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
PHTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
126 posted on 08/01/2003 7:12:26 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: hobbes1
Naw, I think that I will continue with the hopes and dreams that the broncos will go to the playoffs, and then watch the DOOFUS coach Shanananananananahan screw up on play after play and drive our hopes into the ground!
127 posted on 08/01/2003 7:14:08 AM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: Gabz
Speaking of a circus in california, i thought this was appropriate in terms of the carouse word and the xs lessons...http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956366/posts
128 posted on 08/01/2003 7:15:11 AM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: hobbes1; xsmommy
If I ever needed further proof that it was past time for me to get out of Dover, this just adds fuel to the fire:

Three charged in Dover, Delaware drug probe

The apartment complex where the major arrest took place not only was only about a block from where our house was, but directly across the street from where Jax would have been going to school in September.

129 posted on 08/01/2003 7:16:33 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: hobbes1
That hole you have dug should be about the depth of the Mariannas trench by now....
130 posted on 08/01/2003 7:24:40 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: Gabz
Wow....good timing...
131 posted on 08/01/2003 7:24:42 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
I mean the guy has handled the transition to the bench fabulously, and his snaps will be so limited during the year....

I've never been a Vinny fan, it goes back to the Cleveland days but I must say he has handled the situation with class.

132 posted on 08/01/2003 7:25:32 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Ohio Chapter. Original White Devil for Sharpton!)
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To: Texan5
What Hole?



I was just pointing out how much I love women..in their natural state......you know...


Barefoot, Pregnant and in the Kitchen...; )
133 posted on 08/01/2003 7:25:41 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: gas_dr
I don't know - anything would be an improvement over what they have in Sacramento right now.............
134 posted on 08/01/2003 7:26:02 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Texan5
prob with using hookers is that one is likely to get hoof n mouth or some such from the experience.
135 posted on 08/01/2003 7:26:14 AM PDT by camle (dis blondes in MY presence willya?!)
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To: Gabz
Good God! You got out just in the nick of time. Scary stuff.
136 posted on 08/01/2003 7:26:20 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: dubyaismypresident
Vinny was a victim of poor timing.

Great Arm, came into the league when it was still Going big down the sidelines.

Once he was able to get into an offense where he could work the underneath stuff with timing, he was going great.

Then he snapped his Achilles, Once he came back they had Drafted Pennington bc of his age....
137 posted on 08/01/2003 7:27:42 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: hobbes1
Very good timing.

But after re-reading the story, I have come to the conclusion that part of that probe involved the problems I was having across the street from me - the timing of it is just too close to be just coincidental.
138 posted on 08/01/2003 7:28:42 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: Gabz
You well may have something there-I am not much of a believer in coincidence, either, especially when there is something like that going on.
139 posted on 08/01/2003 7:30:59 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: xsmommy
I thought that when you talk sex you clean ears. Just got out of meeting from hell.
140 posted on 08/01/2003 7:31:34 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Call em "Smoke Gnatzies" Little minds buzzing into your business. Swat em every time.)
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