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Word of the Day for Friday, October 11, 2013

snollygoster \SNOL-ee-gos-ter\, noun:

Slang. a clever, unscrupulous person.

A snollygoster is a shyster, and not, as President Truman thought, a man born out of wedlock…
-- Anthony Burgess, Homage to Qwert Yuiop, 1986

"...But you wouldn't be advised, would you, you chuckleheaded old snollygoster!"
-- William Kelley, The Tyree, 1979

This American English slang term, which entered English in the mid-1800s, is of unknown origin.

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Fwd: adiós: Dictionary.com Spanish Word of the Day

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Spanish Word of the Day
Friday, October 11, 2013

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adiós, exclamation
goodbye; hi, hello

You'll already know that adiós means goodbye.

Vengo a decirte adiós.
I've come to say goodbye to you.

If you pass a friend in the street in Spain and they say adiós, don't think they're acting strange. In this context it simply means hi. Remember that in Latin America the usual word for goodbye is hasta luego.

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