To expose to sunlight.

"You shouldn't apricate yourself so much. Your skin will turn to leather."

Any relation to apricot?

Slava

Dress flashily, over-decorate, etc.

Plus, it's a verb!

Slava

Folk etymology here, but my thoughts are that one of the roots of the confusion is the idea of the j/gerry can of WWII days. Since things at that time had to be fixed up any way they could, perhaps by extension this has led to the blending of the phrases?

Slava

Egad, you blighter! Thou hast stolen my word! Just yesterday I was thinking of posting this one as a suggestion, and you've beaten me to the punch. That'll teach me to wait a day. I do like it, though, so I'm glad someone has suggested it. However, I never thought of it as being overly cutesy. My fe...

Thanks gailr. Interesting coincidence that it is listed under twig2, also. Did you look at twig3? Another usage in Britain.

Slava

Does anyone out there know how this came to mean "caught on"? Or "came to understand"? I like it so much I even use it.

Slava

In case you're interested in language history, you might find this worth looking at:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0719/p13s01-stgn.htm

No registration necessary.

Slava

A bunch of interesting meanings in this one. How fast are you? I may be fast, but I'm not cheap? Or, I'm so fast I'm not cheap? Or...?

I hope you all enjoy playing with this one.

Slava

"Let me ingeminate, I am not a crook."

Thank you for the tutorial. I'd forgotten completely about the mode and range. I also thought the median was the number at which 50% are above, and 50% below. This tutorial doesn't put it that way. Oh, well, shows what I know, eh?

Slava

A simple little word that has had lots of different meanings and usages.

Enjoy,

Slava

I could have sworn that way back when, in grade school, we were taught that these each had different meanings in Math. However, I can't come up with a difference between mean and average. Am I mis-remembering, or is there a difference? Any math wiz out there who'd care to help?

Thanks,

Slava

I'd call this one rare. However, it's quite useful in meaning: To leave without paying. Though I gather the Scots use it to mean a brawl. Then again, if you do try to swedge, a brawl could result.

Slava

(STORE-gee) The love of a parent for offspring.

A fun word, and a lot easier to remember than philoprogeneity.

Slava

A liquid Ben-Gay, perhaps?

I came across this reading some short stories from the late 19th century, Rivals to Sherlock Holmes. It struck me it might have a use for sesquipedalians.

Slava