The Winner. Mine was just a tad late.
'Fraid you’re both using the same word to describe different things – and you’re both mistaken. Proletariat is the adjective form of prolate which means “to hurl.” As in, the way drunks may suddenly and forcefully eject the contents of their stomachs.
Wait, I thought that
Secretariat
was a word describing something sacred and inviolable
If it’s
sacrosanct
that you’re thinking of, I must point out that that’s a baseball term for a bunt or a fly ball that’s intended to advance a runner while deliberately inviting an out.
It’s also a wonderful thing to do to young maidens, assuming you can find one these days.
You are quite mistaken, sad to say. Sacrifice is the name of the joint between the pelvis and the bottom of the spine.
A refreshing mistake – sacroiliac is an old-timey soda pop.
Unless I correct you now, this mistake will be preserved for all eternity. A
sarsaparilla
is a stone coffin.
No no, you’re thinking ofsarcophagus.That’s the gullet.
It amazes me how many people think that
esophagus
is stuff that only the insiders and specially trained can relate to and understand
Zeldar, it’s not hard to understand that you’re thinking of
esoterica,
but that’s really just a fancy term for literature and other materials designed to invoke sexual arousal.
Incidentally, the
that I was going for yesterday is
anaphoresis.
Thanks for the clarification on your lost word, but in the case of
erotica
that’s the workaday name of one of Beethoven’s symphonies
That was an heroic effort on your part but for the third time
Eroica
is the name of a 1994 movie directed by Atom Egoyan.
Actually – strange but true – Exotica is the part of the car next to the muffler.
Looks like Damien has gone back to auto mechanics again.
Exhaust is a priest who casts the devil out of a possesed person.
And Sternvogel I’m sorry I misread you yesterday, but
anaphoresis was the name of that English schoolteacher who went to Siam in The King and I.
The word you’re looking for, which only someone with as masterful a command of the English language as myself would know, is
exorcist
which means, “Someone who thinks very highly of themselves.”
You must think very highly of yourself to try and pull that one off, when everyone knows that an Egoist is a supporter of the late Yugoslavian president (or dictator, if you prefer.)
Oh, my. Here we go again, again.
Titoist
is that planet from Star Wars
Sorry, you’ll continue to come up short until you learn that Tatooine is Mr. Roarke’s sidekick on Fantasy Island.
You get good marks for that retort, but
tattoo
is the yokel’s way of pronouncing the garden variety spud
Must I tell you people everything?
A tater, or rather potato
is a type of soup where meat and vegetables are boiled together with water until they form into a thick mush.