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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 10, 2010snuff \SNUHF\, verb: 1. To extinguish or suppress. noun: verb: Derek Jeter bashed Duensing's sixth pitch into the bullpen, then almost single-handedly made the run hold up with a spectacular play to snuff a second-and-third Twins threat, and the Yankees won for the 10th time in their last 11 games against the Twins. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The verb form of snuff has acquired layers of meaning through time: "to cut or pinch off the burned part of a candle wick," is an adaptation from the noun snoffe, the "burned part of a candle wick." The sense "to die" stems from the 1800s, and "to kill" appears in the 1930s, as in a snuff-film. | |||||||||
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  A giant eyeball is a Web craze, so what do you call the stuff inside the ball?Sometimes the Internet community gets a little twitterpated about random stuff. In this case, a�30-foot�sculpture of an eyeball in Chicago has�transmogrified artist Tony Tasset into an online celebrity. Web searches on "giant eyeball" went bananas. Let's use this eye mania as an excuse to take a look at some of the wonderful names for�the parts... | |||||||||
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