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word i read today i have not heard before while i was reading about the australian chef who is selling cures for coronavirus
Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans.

Spruiking
Google definition
spruik
/spruːk/

verb
informal•Australian
gerund or present participle: spruiking

1. speak in public, especially to advertise a show.
   "men who spruik outside striptease joints"
   • promote or publicize.
     "the company forked out $15 million to spruik its digital revolution"

Collins Dictionary on line definition
Definition of 'spruik'


spruik in British English
(ˈspruːɪk)
verb
(intransitive) Australian archaic, slang
to speak in public (used esp of a showman or salesman)
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Derived forms
spruiker (ˈspruiker)
noun
Word origin
C20: of unknown origin

 

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Deepity

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milquetoast

noun

a timid or feeble person.

"Jennings plays him as something of a milquetoast"

adjective

feeble, insipid, or bland.

"a soppy, milquetoast composer"

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retronym

noun

a new term created from an existing word in order to distinguish it from the meaning that has emerged through progress or technological development

(e.g., cloth diaper is a retronym necessitated by the fact that diaper now more commonly refers to a disposable diaper).

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Watchugot .....retro music version

 

akratic

adjective PHILOSOPHY

characterized by weakness of will resulting in action against one's better judgment.

"an akratic person goes against reason"

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palter

verb

ARCHAIC

gerund or present participle: paltering

equivocate or prevaricate in action or speech.

"if you palter or double in your answers, I will have thee hung alive in an iron chain"

trifle with.

"this great work should not be paltered with"

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parosmia

noun MEDICINE

abnormality in the sense of smell.

"currently, just over seven months after the accident, I have parosmia"

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Is it Magnum?

 

sucker = timid person

 

No, a sucker is a gullible person - like a person who believes we never landed on the moon.

 

Gyrification

is the process by which the brain undergoes changes in surface morphology to create sulcal and gyral regions. The period of greatest development of brain gyrification is during the third trimester of pregnancy, a period of time in which the brain undergoes considerable growth.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815169/#:~:text=Gyrification is
%20the%20process%20by,the%20brain%20undergoes%20considerable%20growth.

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Trump

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Need one of those to crack that nut.

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Does Gyrofication mean spinning?

 

Is there not something ,you know ...like disinfects?

 

Since this is a language thread, allow me to be a definition Nazi: "During the third trimester of pregnancy" suggests that it is the mother's brain that is developing. I would have said, "during the third trimester of gestation."

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Gyrification

Is the word being defined and if you use the link, the link takes you to the the site

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Under which is the cut and paste

Gyrification

is the process by............

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If you Google GYRIFICATION DEFINE you will find this Wikipedia article

Gyrification is the process of forming the characteristic folds of the cerebral cortex.[1] The peak of such a fold is called a gyrus (plural: gyri), and its trough is called a sulcus (plural: sulci). The neurons of the cerebral cortex reside in a thin layer of gray matter, only 2–4 mm thick, at the surface of the brain.[2] Much of the interior volume is occupied by white matter, which consists of long axonal projections to and from the cortical neurons residing near the surface.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrification
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during the third trimester of gestation applies to the fetus as well the potential mother

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Pregnancy is the word I'm contesting. Pregnancy happens to the mother, not the fetus.