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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 29, 2010busticate \BUHS-ti-keyt\, verb: To break into pieces. We all know that there is nothing so easy to macerate, percolate, absquatulate and totally busticate as the Ten Commandments. A security contest is being held by Google to try and busticate their native client code. Busticate came into existence in the Northern United States during the 19th Century, as the common verb bust became wedded to the Latin root -icate. This phenomenon occurred across the U.S.; another example is the Southern coinage argufy. | |||||||||
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  A "zedonk," half donkey/zebra, was just born. What are the parents of ligers, dzos, & beefalos?Zedonk. Yes, this is for real. "The offspring of a zebra and a donkey." Prepare yourself for an even larger dose of absurdity: there are plenty more zany names for unlikely crossbreeds, and we've collected a nonsensical herd of them. We don't know if the baby zedonk, born in the state of Georgia about a week ago, has... | |||||||||
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