Friday, October 12, 2007
Thaumaturge
Yes, thaumaturge is a real word. And a good one. It means miracle worker. I had fun reading the meanings from our word imps today and welcome the contributions from several new names on the blog. There was a wide range of suggestions and the winner on the blog came from a newcomer of royal status, named King William. Well done, KW.
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In a cheaply furnished backstreet restaurant on the menu you may be tempted to select:
Chicken Thaumaturge - chef's special, carelessly left in the oven for at least 9 hours. This is a stunning charcoal flavoured chicken to assault your taste buds. Served with black roast potatoes, canonball peas and garnished with something off the kitchen floor. £5.50
thaumaturge - a response to a sudden increase of internal body temperature, typically among those experiencing hot flashes.
Every time she had a hot flash Jane did anything she could to cool down. Drink ice water, rub ice cubes across her neck, find a magazine to fan herself, or sometimes just yell at the nearest person, but it had gone too far when she realized she was standing in her underwear in Times Square.
Thaumaturge is the desire for instant gratification to spit when the thauma gland is enlarged.
Thaumaturge: A condition where a dog can't stop chasing it's own tail. Nobody has figured out where this urge comes from but the dog usually stops when they are given some food.
It's a geological term, to do with movements of the earth's tectonic plates. It occurs when one plate dips under another and the resultant thaumaturge may cause a volcanic eruption, if not a tsunami.
Thaumaturge happens when the freezer breaks down and you are in a hurry to keep all the meat from thawing out via cooking as much of the meat you can while the freezer gets repaired.
thaumaturge is a type of lethargy that comes from eating a large holiday meal most often including turkey and starch rich potatoes. Tryptophan and a glucose crash cause inertia in even the most festive of guests.
Bill was both startled and instantaneously embarrassed when the host of the Thanksgiving party had to wake him. His dread grew paramount when he realized that in his sleep he had undone his pants (having eaten too much) and all of the other guests had long gone home."Wretched thurmatauge!" he thought as he tried to discreetly button his pants.
A thaumaturge is the ominous silence unfortunately heard sometimes in intensive care units and operating theatres, when the machinery that moniitors a patient's vital signs, flatlines indicating the patients death.
Are you sure this is really a word????
OK - Thaumaturge; the urge to rush to the scene of an accident. Many ambulance drivers, firefighters and lawyers select their professions based upon this dark and secret urge.
Word Imp is partly correct - Thamaturge can be musical. It is the name given to a Paternoster in progressive churches, who use female pronouns to describe God. It originated in an Evangelical movement in Yorkshire who translated "Our Father" to "Tha Ma".
Thaumaturge (n)- a chemical in all our brains that makes us crave comfort foods (like mac n cheese and chocolate chip cookies) more than our healthy teeny diet portion salad, or a sudden urge for this kind of fare.
i.e. Grace looked down at her tiny saucerful of lettuce and had a sudden thaumaterge for a big dish of warm apple pie.
Thaumaturge is the frenzied thumping noise a washing machine makes at the end of its cycle.
Thaumaturge: An expert in the analysis of fairy tales. The kind of person who knows that Rapunzel's hair represents her virtue, and that the main moral message in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is tolerance.
Thaumaturage is the exact time when fruit is ripe enough to consume.
When this pineapple reaches thaumaturage we will cut it and serve it.
OK, most people have never heard of it but thaumaturge is a medical term for the urge to...well, you know, caused by a sudden change in temperature. Like when you suddenly need to tinkle when you get too cold. The effect is more profound in women who have had children and ditzy teenaged girls when their crush is close-by.
Thaumaturge-a meteorological term for a time when global temperatures go haywire. Like when the ice age suddenly melted, or when the dinosaurs died off because of heatstroke (as demonstrated in the Disney movie Fantasia)"In the year 3218, we will experience the next major thaumaturge and global temperatures will decrease so significantly that everyone will freeze into popsicles and the earth will be populated only by polar bears and penguins." Kinda puts this global warming thing in perspective, doesn't it?
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