26 November 2018
stooge
[stooj]
noun
1. an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
2. any underling, assistant, or accomplice.
verb (used without object), stooged, stooging.
3. to act as a stooge.
Origin of stooge
1910-1915 An Americanism dating back to 1910-15; origin uncertain
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Examples from the Web for stooge
Contemporary Examples
Other speakers suggested that Barack Obama himself had become a stooge of the Islamists, or possibly even a closet Muslim.
Bachmann, Gaffney, and the GOP’s Anti-Muslim Culture of Conspiracy
Jonathan Kay
July 23, 2012
There is a perceived danger in hiring foreign firms, a fear of being seen as a Western stooge.
Iraq’s New Hired Guns
Michael Hastings
January 19, 2010
Historical Examples
They tried to tell people what Venus was like, and what lies Carlson and his stooge Jaimison were using for bait.
The Merchants of Venus
A. H. Phelps
The papers said that the steel necktie worn by my stooge at the theatre had to be cut off by a water-cooled electric saw.
The Double Spy
Dan T. Moore
If I’m half as good a stooge as I think I am, we’ll be needing overcoats before we get back.
Queen of the Flaming Diamond
Leroy Yerxa
If the contest was a part of the day’s program, no spectator seemed willing to play ” stooge ” in this preliminary performance.
David Lannarck, Midget
George S. Harney
And see how he managed to slide in that bit about corruption, right before his stooge handed him that bulletin?
Null-ABC
Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
His stooge, who had already risen with a prepared speech of seconding, simply gaped.
Null-ABC
Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
Anagram
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set goo
to egos
Today’s quote
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
– Mark Zuckerberg
On this day
26 November 1922 – British archaeologist Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon enter the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen which Carter had discovered a few days earlier. Legend held that the tomb was protected by the ‘Mummy’s Curse’. Within 7 months of entering the tomb, both Carter and Carnavon were dead.
26 November 1942 – world premiere of iconic film ‘Casablanca’, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. The movie was nominated for 8 Oscars, winning 3 of them.
26 November 1992 – The Queen begins paying income tax and the number of royals receiving tax-payers funds is reduced to the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen Mother.