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euchred
adjective
Australian Informal.
utterly done in or at the end of one's tether; exhausted.
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In Australian English euchred has meant 鈥渆xhausted, destitute鈥� since the second half of the 19th century, a meaning that formerly existed in American English. The sense derives from the card game euchre (originally American) in which, if a player plays a round and fails to take three tricks, they are euchred 鈥渄one for,鈥� a sense that was extended to 鈥渙utwitted, outdone, deceived, cheated.鈥� Euchre, the name of the card game, dates from the first half of the 19th century and has no known etymology.
how is euchred used?
You had one water bottle a day for all purposes, and it would be 48 degrees, so we were euchred physically as much as anything else, and it鈥檚 very wearing on the mental factor.
My breath comes hard鈥擨’m euchred boy …
pacific
adjective
tending to make or preserve peace; conciliatory: pacific overtures.
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The adjective pacific ultimately derives from the Latin adjective 辫腻肠颈蹿颈肠耻蝉 鈥渕aking peace, peaceable,鈥� a compound derived from 辫腻虫 (inflectional stem 辫腻肠– 鈥減eace鈥�) and –ficus, a combining form of the verb facere 鈥渢o do, make.鈥� In the Vulgate (the late 4th-century Latin version of the Bible, used by the Roman Catholic Church), 辫腻肠颈蹿颈肠耻蝉 as an adjective means 鈥減eace-loving,鈥� and as a noun 鈥減eace offerings.鈥� The Romans wanted peace like everyone else, but on their own terms. The great Roman historian Tacitus in his Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law, has the British chieftain Calgacus deliver a speech in which Calgacus says of the Romans, 鈥� ubi s艒lit奴dinem faciunt, 辫腻肠em appellant, 鈥溾�� where they make a desert, they call it peace.鈥� Pacific entered English in the 16th century.
how is pacific used?
My mother was a very calm, pacific individual, and I learned from her to be the same way.
In this way arose the Roman empire, the largest, the most stable, and in its best days the most pacific political aggregate the world had as yet seen.
sidesplitter
noun
something that is uproariously funny, as a joke or a situation.
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Sidesplitter is perfectly obvious in its derivation and meaning: something that is so uproariously funny that you split your sides from laughing. Sidesplitter first appears in a weekly newspaper, the New-York Mirror, in 1834 and slightly later in England.
how is sidesplitter used?
If the lyric 鈥淚n New York, you can be a real ham鈥� sounds like a sidesplitter, this one鈥檚 for you.
My appreciation of the short form was enhanced when I discovered the quirky humor of Damon Runyon and Ring Larder, clearly at their peak in a twenty-page sidesplitter.