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Provided by the compucert anodyne \AN-uh-dyn\, adjective:
- Serving to relieve pain; soothing.
- Not likely to offend; bland; innocuous.
- A medicine that relieves pain.
- Anything that calms, comforts, or soothes disturbed feelings.
Anodyne comes, via Latin, from Greek anodunos, "free from pain," from a-, an-, "without" + odune, "pain."
- A female 'friend' who shows no outward interest in you, but will go all out to prevent you from hooking with other women by slagging you behind your back.
I was so ready to hook up with the sheila, but annie date shielded me.
Trivia
French poet Arthur Rimbaud assigned colors to each vowel in his 1871 "Sonnet of the Vowels." What were they?
- As they appear in the first line of the sonnet: “A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue.”
- House of Windsor: in the wake of anti-German sentiment, British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1917)
- Potsdam Conference: world leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill begin the final Allied summit of WWII (1945)
S.Y. Agnon (1888-1970): Nobel-winning Israeli novelist; writer of detective stories Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) was also born on this date - Donald Sutherland (73): Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H, currently in Dirty Sexy Money; also, entertainers James Cagney (1899-1986), Art Linkletter (96), Phyllis Diller (91), Lucie Arnaz (57), David Hasselhoff (56) and Bitty Schram (40)
- Phoebe Snow (56): R&B singer; other musicians born on this date include Diahann Carroll (73) and Spencer Davis (66)
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