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Flurry

December 15th, 2009

Tonight flurries are expected in these areas …

Heard it in weather network channel.

n., pl., -ries.

  • brief, light snowfall.
  • sudden gust of wind.
  • stirring mass, as of leaves or dust; a shower.
  • sudden burst or commotion; a stir: a flurry of interest in the new product; a flurry of activity when the plane landed.
  • short period of active trading, as on a stock exchange.

Foxsnowflurry Flurry

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Underpowered

December 14th, 2009

He is underpowered. Heard it in the keeping up with appearances.

underpowered

1 : driven by an engine of insufficient power
2 : having or supplied with insufficient power

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Choke up

November 21st, 2009

Oprah winfrey is annoouncing her last season. Yahoo used the title, Oprah gets chocked up. Plesae enjoy the video.

choke up To be unable to speak because of strong emotion

Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.

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Hawk

November 17th, 2009

A 2010 Olympic torch is being hawked in eBay.

hawk 2
vb

  1. to offer (goods) for sale, as in the street
  2. (tr; often foll by about) to spread (news, gossip, etc.)

hawk /hk/ noun, verb
noun

  1. a strong fast bird of prey (= a bird that kills other creatures for food): He waited, watching her like a hawk (= watching her very closely).—see also sparrowhawk
  2. a person, especially a politician, who supports the use of military force to solve problems dove

verb

  1. [vn] to try to sell things by going from place to place asking people to buy them peddle: He made a living hawking cleaning products from door to door.
  2. [v, vn] to get phlegm in your mouth when you cough see eye n.

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Douse

November 15th, 2009

Found this word reading an article in Yahoo!. The article can be found here. It is about climate change. and the title is “APEC leaders douse hopes on climate pact”.

douse (also dowse) /da{phon_capu}s/ verb [vn]
1 ~ sth (with sth) to stop a fire from burning by pouring water over it; to put out a light: He doused the flames with a fire extinguisher.
2 ~ sb/sth (in / with sth) to pour a lot of liquid over sb/sth; to soak sb/sth in liquid: The car was doused in petrol and set alight.

verb

1. To plunge briefly in or into a liquid: dip, duck, dunk, immerge, immerse, souse, submerge, submerse. See enter/exit.
2. To make thoroughly wet: drench, saturate, soak, sodden, sop, souse, wet. See dry/wet.
3. To cause to stop burning or giving light: extinguish, put out, quench, snuff out. See continue/stop/pause.

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Eternity

November 13th, 2009

Al goes to hell. The devil tell him till the end of eternity you can not see your children and wife as a punishment.

n., pl., -ties.

  1. Time without beginning or end; infinite time.
  2. The state or quality of being eternal.
    1. The timeless state following death.
    2. The afterlife; immortality.
  3. A very long or seemingly endless time: waited in the dentist’s office for an eternity.

While in the popular mind, eternity often simply means existence for a limitless amount of time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside of time. There are a number of arguments for eternity, by which proponents of the concept, principally Aristotle, purported to prove that matter, motion, and time must have existed eternally.

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Crummy

November 12th, 2009

Leela and crew are discussing naming the parallel universe professor created to be Universe A or Universe B. When the other Leela said you can call your “crummy” universe, Universe A.

crummy /krAmi/ adj. (informal) of very bad quality: Most of his songs are pretty crummy.

crum·my also crumb·y (krm)
adj. crum·mi·er also crumb·i·er, crum·mi·est also crumb·i·est Slang
1. Miserable or wretched: a crummy situation in the family.
2. Shabby or cheap: a crummy little rowboat.

crummy
adj -mier, -miest Slang
1. of little value; inferior; contemptible
2. unwell or depressed to feel crummy

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