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Posted by YarnWright on May 20, 2008, 11:25 pm
angel_crafter spun a FINE 'yarn':
>Today's Word "vituperate"
>vituperate vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi- (verb) - To find fault with;
>to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or
>abusively; to rate.
>
>"The incensed priests...continued to raise their voices, vituperating
>each other in bad Latin." -- Sir Walter Scott, 'Ivanhoe'
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>Vituperate comes from Latin vitupero, vituperare, to scold, blame,
>censure
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angel_crafter. . .
funnily enough, we have 2 or 3 here who fill this description, LOL!
They're in my bozo bin now...
(not YOU!)
Noreen
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