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zhuzh
verb
to make (something) more lively and interesting, stylish, or appealing, as by a small change or addition (usually followed by聽up): These colorful throw pillows are an easy way to zhuzh up your living room.
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Zhuzh (also spelled zhoosh) as a verb means 鈥渢o make (something) more lively, interesting, and stylish.鈥� It is a fairly recent slang term, first appearing in the mid-1960s in gay communities in the U.K. in the sense “to improve the look of one’s clothing or outfit鈥�; its current, more general sense dates from the mid-70s. The source of zhuzh, as with most slang terms, is problematic: zhuzh may be purely onomatopoeic, representing the sound of someone rushing around; it may be from Polari, a kind of British slang derived largely from Italian and used since the 18th century among theatrical and circus performers and in some gay and lesbian communities; finally, zhuzh may be from Romani zhouzhou 鈥渃lean, neat.鈥�
how is zhuzh used?
But don鈥檛 just throw some cooked rice into the bottom of a bowl! You鈥檝e got to zhuzh it up before you pile on everything else so that every element is packed with flavor.
First up was hairdressing icon Jonathan Van Ness, who wanted to keep the spirit of Gritty 鈥� but just zhuzh it up a bit.
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hortatory
adjective
urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
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Hortatory comes from Late Latin 丑辞谤迟腻迟艒谤颈耻蝉 鈥渆ncouraging, cheering,鈥� an adjective that first appears in St. Augustine鈥檚 Confessions (a.d. 397鈥�400). 贬辞谤迟腻迟艒谤颈耻蝉 ultimately derives from the verb 丑辞谤墨 鈥渢o urge,鈥� from a Proto-Indo-European root gher-, ghor-, 驳丑峁�– 鈥渢o like, take pleasure.鈥� From the variant gher-, Oscan, an extinct Italic language related to Latin, has Herentate铆s s煤m (鈥淚 am of the goddess Venus,鈥� i.e., 鈥淚 am a dedication to Venus鈥�). Gher– yields Sanskrit 丑谩谤测补迟颈 鈥�(he) takes pleasure鈥�; 驳丑峁�– yields Greek 肠丑补铆谤别颈苍 鈥渢o rejoice鈥� and 肠丑谩谤颈蝉 鈥済race, favor.鈥� Hortatory entered English in the second half of the 16th century.
how is hortatory used?
He admired the man’s passion and fighting spirit, his wit, his hortatory style, his good looks and fine speech.
Other summits serve a similar hortatory function: leading by example and pressuring others to do more.
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limn
verb (used with object)
to portray in words; describe.
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Limn is not a misspelling of another word. It comes from the late Middle English verb lymne(n) (also limnen, liminen, limpnen, luminen) 鈥渢o illuminate (a book, manuscript, or rubric),鈥� a shortening of enlumine, from the Old French verb enluminer. Enluminer comes from Latin 颈濒濒奴尘颈苍腻谤别 or 颈苍濒奴尘颈苍腻谤别 鈥渢o give light to, brighten, illuminate.鈥� The root of the Latin verb is the noun 濒奴尘别苍 (inflectional stem 濒奴尘颈苍-) 鈥渓ight, radiance, rays of light,鈥� from an unrecorded louksmen. Louksmen is derived from the common Proto-Indo-European root leuk-, louk-, luk– 鈥渨hite, bright,鈥� which is also the source of Latin 濒奴虫 (stem 濒奴肠-) 鈥渁 light,鈥� 濒奴苍补 鈥渕oon (from 濒辞耻办蝉苍腻, which is also the source of Russian 濒耻苍谩 鈥渕oon鈥�), Greek 濒别耻办贸蝉 鈥渨hite, bright,鈥� 补尘辫丑颈濒媒办脓 鈥渢wilight,鈥� and Old English 濒脓辞丑迟, 濒墨丑迟 (English light). Limn entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
how is limn used?
What we do as writers, paradoxically, is attempt at one and the same time to summon up the whole of experience, to limn the world at full tilt, and to render some small portion of this world with such specificity that, walking past, the reader feels the grit of it catching in the soles of shoes.
The creators of the blog Tom and Lorenzo limn the reality show 鈥淩uPaul鈥檚 Drag Race鈥� as a window into gay culture and history.
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