5 February 2018

adipose

[ad-uh-pohs]

adjective

1. fatty; consisting of, resembling, or relating to fat.
noun
2. animal fat stored in the fatty tissue of the body.

Origin of adipose

Latin

1735-1745; < Latin adip-, s of adeps fat, lard + -ose1

Related forms

adiposeness, adiposity [ad-uh-pos-i-tee], adiposis, noun
hyperadipose, adjective
hyperadiposity, noun

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Examples from the Web for adipose

Historical Examples

This was an office lined with adipose, with no work to speak of.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7
Elbert Hubbard

Fit as a fiddle only he has a lot of adipose tissue concealed about his person.
Ulysses
James Joyce

There are also three beautiful red spots on the adipose fin.
Fly Fishing in Wonderland
Klahowya

He sat, an adipose mass, breathing heavily, and sucking at his cigar.
The Man in the Twilight
Ridgwell Cullum

He works his oxen hard, gives them enough to eat to keep them in full health and vigor, but nothing for adipose.
The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright’s Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism,
Charles Edward Page

His bulging eyes grew more and more prominent, and his adipose jaw dropped.
The Sins of Sverac Bablon
Sax Rohmer

She is adipose to a degree that makes her circumference problematical, and her weight a mere matter of conjecture.
The Witches of New York
Q. K. Philander Doesticks

But once they had begun with the meagre child, the adipose old man, the lean or flabby youth, they went on through thick and thin.
Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Dupr
Giovanni Dupr

The acini are imbedded in a mass of adipose tissue which contains the vessels and nerves.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II
Various

He perched hesitatingly on the arm of an adipose easy chair, not having been specifically invited to sit.
Winnie Childs
C. N. Williamson

Anagram

sop idea
aide ops
peso aid
soda pie

Today’s quote

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

– William S. Burroughs

On this day

5 February 1914 – birth of William Seward Burroughs, otherwise known as William S. Burroughs or William Lee, Beat Generation author, painter, spoken word performer. The beat generation rose to prominence in the 1950s and experimented with innovation in art, style, rules and drugs. Burroughs work includes Junkie, Queer, and Naked Lunch. Burroughs died on 2 August 1997.

5 February 1922 – Readers Digest first published by DeWitt and Lila Wallace.

5 February 2009 – China tells Canada not to accept 17 Chinese Uyghur prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. The Uyghurs had applied for refugee status in Canada. They had been arrested in Afghanistan during the 2001 US invasion.

4 February 2018

aggrieve

[uh-greev]

verb (used with object), aggrieved, aggrieving.

1. to oppress or wrong grievously; injure by injustice.
2. to afflict with pain, anxiety, etc.

Origin of aggrieve

Middle English, Middle French, Latin

1250-1300; Middle English agreven < Middle French agrever < Latin aggravāre to make heavy, worsen, equivalent to ag- ag- + grav- (see grave2) + -āre infinitive suffix; cf. aggravate

Related forms

aggrievement, noun
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Examples from the Web for aggrieve

Historical Examples

No natives know so well how to aggrieve and be unpleasant to travellers.
In Darkest Africa, Vol. 2; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria
Henry Morton Stanley

The mighty mother cannot find it in her heart to pronounce a decision which must aggrieve one of such a devoted pair.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
Various

Everything that can most aggrieve the heart of man has befallen me here under his eyes.
A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete
Georg Ebers

Anagram

age giver
give gear
I rave egg

Today’s quote

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On this day

4 February 1904 – birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was executed on 9 April 1945 at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, two weeks before the camp was liberated by US soldiers.

4 February 1948 – birth of Alice Cooper, (Vincent Damon Furnier), legendary American shock rocker.

4 February 1948 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is granted independence from Britain, but remains a member of the British Commonwealth.

4 February 1959 – the barbie doll is invented by Ruth Handler.

4 February 1993 – Yugoslavia is dissolved and replaced by a union between Serbia and Montenegro.

4 February 2004 – Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

3 February 2018

noddle

[nod-l]

noun, Older Slang.

1. the head or brain.

Origin of noddle

late Middle English

1375-1425; late Middle English nodel

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Examples from the Web for noddle

Historical Examples

I remember him because it took some explainin’ to get the bet through his noddle.
Thoroughbreds
W. A. Fraser

Don’t you see that I may have become a rather desirable match for a noddle ?
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens

And now the sun declines between the noddle Fell and Bleaberry.
The Shadow of a Crime
Hall Caine

Anagram

old den
do lend

Today’s quote

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.

– Henry David Thoreau

On this day

3 February 1830 – Greece achieves full independence from the Ottoman Empire following Great Britain, France and Russia agreeing to the London Protocol (1830). This followed on from Greece obtaining internal autonomy through the London Protocol (1829) on 22 March 1829. The borders of Greece were finalised in the London Conference of 1832.

3 February 1904 – birth of Charles Arthur ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, American gangster. Shot to death by FBI agents in Ohio on 22 October 1934.

3 February 1919 – Inaugural meeting of the League of Nations (the predecessor of the United Nations), which was headed by US President Woodrow Wilson, aimed at promoting world peace and security.

3 February 1959 – ‘The Day the Music Died’. Plane crash during a storm near Clear Lake, Iowa, claims the lives of some of America’s finest rock and roll stars: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). The pilot, Roger Peterson, also died. Another rock star, Dion Di Mucci, decided not to board the plane. The stars had performed at Clear Lake as part of ‘The Winter Dance Party Tour’ and were on their way to the next venue. Don McLean’s iconic song ‘American Pie’ paid homage to the tragedy, declaring it the ‘Day the Music Died’.

3 February 1966 – The Soviet Union achieves the first moon landing when the unmanned Lunix 9 spacecraft touches down on the moon’s Ocean of Storms area.

2 February 2018

shindig

[shin-dig]

noun, Informal.

1. an elaborate or large dance, party, or other celebration.

Origin of shindig

1855-1860, Americanism; shin1+ dig1; compare slang shinscraper dance

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Examples from the Web for shindig

Contemporary Examples

Also at the shindig were Jemma and Jodie Kidd, Pixie Lott, Anna, Hamish and the rest.
Beckham at Belstaff Party on Bond Street: “I’ll Have a Becks, Please.”
Tom Sykes
September 15, 2013

Historical Examples

“It’s no Pike County shindig,” had responded the floor-manager, cheerfully.
Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands and Other Stories
Bret Harte

Why, we got this shindig up, he noted irreverently, just so Miss Lane could sing at it.
The Girl From His Town
Marie Van Vorst

Anagram

dishing
hidings
hid sign

Today’s quote

We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

– Rutherford D. Roger

On this day

2 February 1943 – the German 6th Army surrenders to Soviet forces in Stalingrad.

2 February 1964 – Hasbro launches G.I. Joe (‘Government Issue Joe), an Armed Forces toy.

2 February 1971 – Idi Amin declares himself President of Uganda and launches a genocidal program that massacres between 80,000 and 300,000 people.

2 February 1990 – South African President, F.W. De Klerk orders the release of Nelson Mandela from jail. Mandela had served 27 years in prison for his anti-apartheid work with the African National Congress. De Klerk also lifted the 30 year ban on the ANC.