Word of the Day: foofaraw

Whistle
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Both definitions are on topic.

from
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/

Word of the Day for Tuesday August 17, 2004
foofaraw \FOO-fuh-raw, noun:

  1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
  2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.

A somber, muted descending motif opens and closes the work, which is brief but effective. It provided much needed relief from the fanfares and foofaraw in which brass-going composers so often indulge.
–Philip Kennicott, “Brass Spectacular is a Spectacle of Special Sound,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 17, 1997

After working in the news business for a number of years, I’ve become a bit cynical about mass-media coverage of events like the Y2K foofaraw.
–Roy Clancy, “Ready for Y2K…,” Calgary Sun, December 15, 1999

Making the Times best-seller list, or a movie, or all that other foofaraw is not necessarily proof of [a novel’s] lasting significance.
–Roger K. Miller, “‘Peyton Place’ was remarkably good bad novel,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 29, 1996

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excessive ornamentation, so…does that mean L.E. Culloch is a foofarist?

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A good word! I’m partial to “crap”, myself. :laughing:

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how very uneloquent. you oaf!

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Or maybe…uhh, yeah, Crap, that’s it…

Tom

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Well, even better, and obscure enough to excape a dirty look from your mom, is “coprolite” and the adjectival form “coprolitic.”

I actually have an example of coprolite at home, but it didn’t come with documentation or any provenance–lord knows what I’ll ever do with it.

M

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coprolites, due to extreme constipation…heavens…where on earth did you get that piece of shit from?

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Speaking of eloquence. :roll:

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I seem to have created a monster.

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Nah, we were already monsters before. :laughing:

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Here’s a contribution which is almost on topic. At an Annapolis shop which used to sell Irish and Welsh knick knacks and memorabilia (including whistles–see, that’s the on topic part)
someone had rearranged the letters in a shillelagh(that’s the mispelled part,) window vignette to spell “merde.” That was on display for quite a few weeks.

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You can insult your illiterate friends with “coproceph” (adj. coprocephalic) and “coprophage” (adj. coprophagous), too.

Challenge of the the week: Say “coprophagous coprocephs” three times at high speed.

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Ever been to the turd museum? Ya ,they 've got some really neat shit in there… and some of that crap is really expensive! T I used 3 potty words AND paraphrased Steve Martin.

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As a self-confessed coprophiliac, what were you expecting? :slight_smile:

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Would this be correct?
My first wife was a plague to humanity with her endless foofaraw.

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..Well…Sources report corporate movements of two major firms here:

http://www.satirewire.com/news/march02/merde.shtml
:smiley:

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Wombat!!! I mean, really. Everyone, I must apologise for Wombat’s forgetting his gravitas. Quite uncharacteristic and untoward of him.

And what I do in the privacy of my WC is my own business.

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Oops, depravitas on this occasion. Mea Culpa.

But you’d really have much greater privacy if you kept the door closed. :wink:

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I’m embarassed to admit that all these years I’ve been pronouncing it frofraHaw.I blame it on all though years attending foreign schools. I used to get points deducted on homework for misspelling. I was using British English spelling in American system schools. Who would of thought there was a difference.To this day I get corrected. It’s not like those French though, it’s like they have a different word for Everything!

(edited for spelling )

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Here’s another use for the word:

There was plenty of foofaraw in East Durham in the middle of July, 2004. I know, I was there, and I have it recorded on my trusty iRiver… Plenty of foofaraw… a plethora of foofaraw.

Is that the correct use of the word, do you think?