Newly wed wife to her husband:
"That is why I can"t stand you – you are so unpredictable. On Monday you liked the potatoes, Tuesday you liked the potatoes, Wednesday you liked the potatoes, Thursday you said you loved the potatoes preparation, Friday you liked the potatoes, Saturday you liked the potatoes and now all of a sudden on Sunday you say that you don"t like potatoes."
adj. Not easily excited or moved; impassive, unemotional. stolidity n. Stolidly adv. [latin]
STONED
adj. Slang drunk or drugged.
STOOGE
colloq. —n. - butt or foil, esp. For a comedian.
- assistant or subordinate, esp. For routine or unpleasant work. —v. (-ging) 1 (foll. By for) act as a stooge for.
- (foll. By about, around, etc.) Move about aimlessly. [origin unknown]
STOPGO
n. Alternate stopping and restarting, esp. Of the economy.
STOREY
n. (pl. -s) 1 = *floor n. 3.
- thing forming a horizontal division. -storeyed adj. (in comb.). [anglo-latin: related to *history, perhaps originally meaning a tier of painted windows]
STORMY
adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 of or affected by storms.
- (of a wind etc.) Violent.
- full of angry feeling or outbursts (stormy meeting). stormily adv. Storminess n.
- petrel var. Of *storm petrel.
STRAFE
v. (-fing) bombard; attack with gunfire. [german, = punish]
STRAIN
—v. - stretch tightly; make or become taut or tense.
- injure by overuse or excessive demands.
- exercise (oneself, one's senses, a thing, etc.) Intensely; press to extremes.
- strive intensively.
- (foll. By at) tug, pull.
- distort from the true intention or meaning.
- a clear (a liquid) of solid matter by passing it through a sieve etc. B (foll. By out) filter (solids) out from a liquid. —n. - a act of straining. B force exerted in this.
- injury caused by straining a muscle etc.
- severe mental or physical demand or exertion (suffering from strain).
- snatch of music or poetry.
- tone or tendency in speech or writing (more in the same strain). [french estrei(g)n- from latin stringo]
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