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Monday, March 29, 2010

Je pète dans votre direction générale.

From Merriam-Webster.

Mephitic

Pronunciation: mə-ˈfi-tik

Function: adjective

Etymology: French or Late Latin; French méphitique, from Late Latin mephiticus, mefiticus, from Latin mephitis, mefitis mephitis + –icus -ic

Date: circa 1623

: of, relating to, or like mephitis : offensive to the sense of smell : NOXIOUS, PESTILENTIAL <the mephitic verdure of the Malay peninsula — Jean Stafford> <that purpose which is now hidden in a mephitic cloud of love and romance and prudery and fastidiousness — G.B.Shaw>

Silens, tamen mortifer!

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