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A new word for road rash!
- Subject: A new word for road rash!
- From: Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:58:18 -0500
Be sure not to excoriate your butt!
> The Word of the Day for January 14 is:
>
> excoriate \eck-SKOR-ee-ayt\ (verb)
> *1 : to wear off the skin of : abrade
> 2 : to censure scathingly
>
> Example sentence:
> "A day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm,
> would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman."
> (Anne Bronte, _Agnes Grey_)
>
> Did you know?
> "Excoriate" comes from the Latin verb "excoriare," which meant
> "to strip off the hide." "Excoriare" was itself formed from a pairing
> of the Latin prefix "ex-," meaning "out," and "corium," meaning "skin"
> or "hide" or "leather." "Corium" has several other descendants in
> English. One is "cuirass," a name for a piece of armor that covers
> the body from neck to waist (or something, such as bony plates
> covering an animal, that resembles such armor). Another is "corium"
> itself, which is sometimes used as a synonym of "dermis" (the inner
> layer of human skin).
>
> *Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
>
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Steve "Devil Dawg" Lawler
2000 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"
I.A.T.S.E. Locals #52 & 84
"I'm not a real carpenter, but I play one on t.v."
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