Wednesday, February 13th, 2008...9:32 am
Learn-A-Word: lubricious \loo-BRISH-us\
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adjective:
1. Lustful; lewd.
2. Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination.
3. Having a slippery or smooth quality.And even if the public ate up every lubricious detail about their leaders, that same public grew offended that the news media would actually pander to their baser impulses.
– Jeff Greenfield, “Film at 11″, New York Times, November 7, 1999Lubricious derives from Latin lubricus, “slippery, smooth.”
Maybe because Valentine’s Day is coming. Maybe because I just read Candy Girl by Diablo Cody (I’m gettin’ to Cannery Row, book club, I’m gettin’ there). This word seemed appropriate.
Are you having lubricious thoughts this week?
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February 13th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Unfortunately, my only lubricious thoughts lately fall under the 3rd definition - having a slippery or smooth quality. As in, “Pick your lubricious banana peel off the floor!” or “I just slipped and fell on my butt because the front walk is so lubricious.”
February 13th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Yes, mine, too. Like, “now that I cleaned it, my sink is all lubricious!” Weeeeee!
February 14th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Weekly lubricious thoughts? Naw…daily.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Isn’t that normal?
February 14th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I’ll bet the Bainbridge Safeway is all out of Astroglide.
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