- Feb 2024
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another word which he invented but whichwas never picked up by anyone else: crinanthropy, judgement or criticism ofother people.
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Another science-fiction writer and vicar among the Dictionary Peoplewas the Revd Edwin Abbott Abbott, who came by his repeated last namebecause his parents were first cousins.
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- Nov 2023
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medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.comtomaine1
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ptomaine [to´mān, to-mān´] any of several toxic bases formed by decarboxylation of an amino acid, often by bacterial action, such as cadaverine, muscarine, and putrescine.ptomaine poisoning a term commonly misapplied to food poisoning. Contrary to popular belief, ptomaines are not injurious to the human digestive system, which is quite capable of reducing them to harmless substances.
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I recall hearing ptomaine used in an Abbott and Costello bit with the connotation of foot poisoning. Charlie Chaplin also portrayed Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania, in the picture The Great Dictator (1940).
The implication of the country name Tomania outside of the "mania" meaning may be lost on audiences today.
Lou Costello: Now look, Mr. Fields, don't get mad. Now, you can bring your kids to the party, and they can eat anything they want. They can have plenty of food. They can eat anything they want.<br /> Sid Fields: Sure, I can have my kids eat first, huh? Then if that broken-down, bad food you got doesn't give my kids ptomaine, then the other people will eat it, huh? You're gonna use my kids for guinea pigs. Say it! My kids are guinea pigs!<br /> Lou Costello: Mr. Fields, your kids are not guinea pigs.<br /> Sid Fields: Oh, they're just plain pigs?
The Abbott and Costello Show, S1.E5 "The Birthday Party", Episode aired Jan 2, 1953, Running time: 00:27:00 <br /> (emphasis added)
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- Aug 2021
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Press, Associated. ‘Texas Drops Mask Mandate Ban Enforcement in Public Schools’. POLITICO. Accessed 23 August 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/19/texas-drops-mask-mandate-ban-schools-506339.
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