Sunday, October 18, 2009
Emunctory
One of our talented word imps nearly got this one, I presume accidentally. Emunctory is to do with nose blowing or ejecting any other waste matter from the body, apparently. Now, for something a little nicer, I enjoyed your invented meanings and am happy to announce that sliver_flight was today's winner. Excellent.
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An emunctory is where electronic monks stay.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Emunctory is the adverb to describe an auctioneers patter and spiel during an auction.
Behind every computer, hi-fi (is their such a thing?) or tv nowadays you will find an emunctory which refers to the entanglement of wires and leads required to connect all the boxes together. You can buy the Ronco emunctorytidierawayer which is like a curly-wurly snake and binds them all together into a huge unmanageable sausage with a life of its own.
Emunctory is the unpleasant, remains of an average Saturday night, found on Sunday mornings upon the pavements of many British towns. Jobs are advertised these days for public emunctorists, rather than street cleaners, which doesn't sound anywhere near as important.
It is the service used to kick unlikeable monks out of a priory.
An emunctory is the place where specialist cheeses are stored to allow them to ripen.
It is the smell of stale alcohol.
When the mother stepped into her underage son's bedroom, she noticed the emuctory right away while he slept.
Emunctory (n) An unpleasant nasal noise, louder and messier-sounding than your average sniff.
This term describes the manners and speech of shy people at parties.
An emunctory is a jetty disguised to seem natural. Most people object to the geographical confusion and the seeming waste of money, but some emunctories have become so naturalized that the sea life has disguised the underwater parts, too.
this is a bratty kid who spoils the internet
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