26 May 2015

ambrosia

[am-broh-zhuh]

noun
1. Classical Mythology. the food of the gods.
Compare nectar (def 3).
2. something especially delicious to taste or smell.
3. a fruit dessert made of oranges and shredded coconut and sometimes pineapple.

Origin of ambrosia

Latin
1545-1555; < Latin < Greek: immortality, food of the gods, noun use of feminine of ambrósios, equivalent to a- a-6+ -mbros- (combining form of brotōs mortal; akin to Latin mortuus dead, murder ) + -ios adj. suffix; replacing Middle English ambrose, ambrosie < Old French ambroise < Latin

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Examples from the web for ambrosia
– Like ambrosia from the gods, I suddenly realized that Nicotine is the most amazing legal substance of the twentieth century.
(How My Little Slice of Heaven Became My Toddler’s Hell Laura Bennett October 20, 2008)

– Start with the beets and horseradish crème fraiche, then move on to the ambrosia burger, ending strong with the banana cream pie.
(Gal With a Suitcase Jolie Hunt February 19, 2010)

– If Tilda Swinton ate anything for five years straight, it would probably be ambrosia.
(The Tilda Swinton Weirdness Quiz: All About the MoMA-Napping Actress Melissa Leon March 26, 2013)

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Today’s quote

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

– Buddha

On this day

25 May – Towel Day. A tribute to Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which states that a towel is ‘about the most massively useful thing that an interstellar hitchhiker can have‘. First held in 2001, two weeks after the death of Adams. Fans carry a towel with them on this day in appreciation of Adams and his work.

25 May 1999 – Bill Morgan, who had been resuscitated after spending 14 minutes clinically dead following a heart-attack, wins a $27,000 car from a Tatts Scratch lotto ticket. During a reenactment of the event for a Melbourne TV station, Bill won $250,000 from a Scratch-It ticket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBYuxQBSc0o