Bill Hirst
July 22nd, 2005, 12:03 PM
Here they are, 20 fake and one real definition for guttrotetany,
slighly edited for grammar, consistency and human decency. Don't look
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10:00pm Saturday LaLa time.
1. Gradual dripping.
2. A disease of the spine.
3. A spasm in the throat causing stutter.
4. A tossing, twitching or jerking of the body; a false
claim.
5. A cramp or spasm in the calf muscle (Colloq. charlie
horse).
6. The act of sending a case from appellate court back to
trial court.
7. The science or art of engraving microscopic
inscriptions, often inside rings.
8. A sculpting technique of building up a bas-relief from
layers of a soft plaster.
9. An onomatopoetic word coined by Rudyard Kipling to
describe the sounds of battle.
10. The act of spitting out or spraying particles of
saliva while speaking forcefully.
11. An invariably fatal disease of horses caused by renal
paralysis; Garner's syndrome.
12. [Medicine] A minimally-invasive procedure, developed
in 1987, to remove the gall bladder.
13. The process by which water is exuded from the leaves
of a plant as a result of root pressure.
14. The noise made when someone uses a big fat belly
(one's own or some consenting other) as a drum.
15. The reflexive tightening of tracheal muscles near the
larynx that is associated with strong emotion.
16. Architecture. One of a series of small ornaments in
the shape of truncated cones used on a Doric entablature.
17. The process of making long narrow excavations in the
ground by digging; i.e. ditches for laying pipe and wires.
18. A term applied to those laws which are imposed on us
from without, or the violence done to us by our passions,
wants, or desires.
19. [Med.] A syndrome in which the lower jaw is lowered
and does not meet the upper jaw, usually due to malformation
of the transmandibular joint.
20. A pseudo-Latin term for tetanus (or lockjaw), invented
by the standup comedian Steve Harvey. "After my wife left
me, the only thing I had was my gutturotetany!"
21. A technique among opera singers of lowering the larynx
so as to produce the "singers' formant" [L. _guttus_ throat
+ _tetanus_ stretched, fm Gk _tetanos_, fm _teinein_ to
stretch].
-Bill
slighly edited for grammar, consistency and human decency. Don't look
up the word yet, just vote publicly (by reply to this message) before
1:00 am Sunday (Eastern Time), or Sunday at 0500 Zulu (GMT), or
10:00pm Saturday LaLa time.
1. Gradual dripping.
2. A disease of the spine.
3. A spasm in the throat causing stutter.
4. A tossing, twitching or jerking of the body; a false
claim.
5. A cramp or spasm in the calf muscle (Colloq. charlie
horse).
6. The act of sending a case from appellate court back to
trial court.
7. The science or art of engraving microscopic
inscriptions, often inside rings.
8. A sculpting technique of building up a bas-relief from
layers of a soft plaster.
9. An onomatopoetic word coined by Rudyard Kipling to
describe the sounds of battle.
10. The act of spitting out or spraying particles of
saliva while speaking forcefully.
11. An invariably fatal disease of horses caused by renal
paralysis; Garner's syndrome.
12. [Medicine] A minimally-invasive procedure, developed
in 1987, to remove the gall bladder.
13. The process by which water is exuded from the leaves
of a plant as a result of root pressure.
14. The noise made when someone uses a big fat belly
(one's own or some consenting other) as a drum.
15. The reflexive tightening of tracheal muscles near the
larynx that is associated with strong emotion.
16. Architecture. One of a series of small ornaments in
the shape of truncated cones used on a Doric entablature.
17. The process of making long narrow excavations in the
ground by digging; i.e. ditches for laying pipe and wires.
18. A term applied to those laws which are imposed on us
from without, or the violence done to us by our passions,
wants, or desires.
19. [Med.] A syndrome in which the lower jaw is lowered
and does not meet the upper jaw, usually due to malformation
of the transmandibular joint.
20. A pseudo-Latin term for tetanus (or lockjaw), invented
by the standup comedian Steve Harvey. "After my wife left
me, the only thing I had was my gutturotetany!"
21. A technique among opera singers of lowering the larynx
so as to produce the "singers' formant" [L. _guttus_ throat
+ _tetanus_ stretched, fm Gk _tetanos_, fm _teinein_ to
stretch].
-Bill