Mean Old Man is your winner.

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see also grognonomaticulation; grognonomaticulatory; grognonomaticulator.

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your clincher ladies and gentlemen.

take it away Mean Old Man.

i can NOT wait to see the word that guy comes up with.

mumble...darn mean old man...mumble...

-bump-

mumble, mumble...darn kitty...mumble.

-bump-

MOM.. a new word for us?

be patient, little one....

sorry Mean Old Man, your time is up, so i'll choose another word.
answer only if you plan to post a new word if you win please.
the new word is

resporkafus

MOM must have better things to do with his time. What's up with that?

resporkafus noun Bred from mating a Fork-tailed Bush Katydid with a Spoon Worm, the resporkafus probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

resporkafus noun In Appalachian luthiery: Any copper or brass weight suspended by braided human hair inside a stringed instrument, from the underside of the bridge, in order to augment sustain or alter tone.

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take it away Mean Old Man.

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I grovel in mortification. I was away from electricity for a few days.

I shall at least submit my definition for the newest word:

resporkafus: adj. : abattoir-colloquialism germane to the tradecraft of Yiddish-speaking Romanian gentile hog-slaughterers in the south Bronx, used when describing a pigskin with a pore-pattern density particularly suited for glove and handbag fabrication. Documented by Lewis Hine. Not attributed to Mark Twain.

resporkafus: A corruption of the Latin res porka fus, meaning 'the state of being upset about one's weight'. Due to the advertising and magazine industries, abetted by infomercials, a large proportion of the population of the Western world may fairly be described as resporkafus at any given time.

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resporkafus: Upon a second or subsequent instance of sporkification (usually involving the forced implantation of a spork into the facial area) being performed on a doofus, said doofus has now undergone a status change from sporkafus to resporkafus. This term is believed to have been coined by one Spence Churchwright, Bronx middle school student, after having performed the sporkification procedure on one Cornelius Pantyswaithe as many as thirteen times in the spring of 1983.

Despite their attempts at armchair philology, I must reluctantly point out that my esteemed colleagues have, as the colloquialism goes, “no clue.”

“Resporkafus” is the surname of Rufus Julliard Gustavus Resporkafus. “RJ,” as he was known to his friends, was the son of Ms. Aldi Gustavus, a Swedish immigrant and locally famous for her herbal remedies, and Jason Resporkafus, a freed slave of Ms. Gustavus’ father.

In the late 1840s, “RJ” set off to freehold in the rapidly opening West. He convinced a few wealthy backers in Boston to fund his trip - and promote Westward immigration supply shops in Des Moines owned by these backers - in a most unusual way: he wanted to cross the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to Oregon Territory by wheeled dog sled.

Needless to say, this ill fated attempted ended in misery just inside Kansas territory when, starving during an unusually fall blizzard, RJ’s few remaining dogs turned on him, leaving nothing more than pieces of RJ’s distinctive leather undershirt behind.

The name became synonymous with bad leadership decisions, and during the American Civil War, the term “to Respork” meant something similar to the Vietnam ear term “to frag,” although in the former, the soldiers responsible would generally leave behind one or two loose scraps of leather or “Resporkafus” to indicate that the officer in question had been deliberately killed for his poor leadership.

you guys aren't making it easy. deadline is 16:00 pst.

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I was away from electricity for a few days.

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who are you fooling, Mean Old Man? more like you were without electricity for a few days. my advice to you, sir, is to try defrosting one chicken at a time.

Ooooooh...the kitty taunted the mean old man.

"Who will triumph and why you should care, tune in to Fox 5 News at 9:00"

not bad, 'primate. the game is yours.

The word is: Caebati

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Your primate treats are in the mail. Same address as last time?
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Caebati: To prevent.

Caebati's father had never really wanted children - for a start, he was given to odd and pointless pedantry. Every time his wife asked whether it was perhaps time to start a family, he put the kybosh on that. One day, however, the kybosh (as he had come to refer to the prophylactics to which he had continual recourse) failed, and young Caebati was conceived. The child's father had the last laugh, though: "The Romans pronounced 'Caesar' as 'Kyzer'", he expostulated. "And in English, the 'a' in 'wash' is pronounced like 'o', and the 'ti' in nation like 'sh'!"

Caebati:

Obscure form of street fighting, fusing kick box, DDR, and nouvelle cuisine.