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Provided by the compucert supernumerary \soo-puhr-NOO-muh-rair-ee; -NYOO-\, adjective:
- Exceeding the stated, standard, or prescribed number.
- Exceeding what is necessary or desired; superfluous.
- A supernumerary person or thing.
- An actor without a speaking part, as a walk-on or an extra in a crowd scene.
Supernumerary is from Latin supernumerarius, from super, "over" + numerus, "number."
- v.- Describing someone with the ability to use their feet to pick things up. Also, pedextrous
Susie dropped her pencil on the floor during school and, thanking Sweet Jesus for her pedexterity, slipped her foot out of her flip-flop and picked it up with her toes.
Trivia
For what was Teflon first used?
- To coat equipment used in the uranium-enrichment process needed for the development of nuclear weapons by the Manhattan Project during World War II.
- Sports Illustrated: largest US weekly sports magazine was first published by Time Inc., with Milwaukee Braves third baseman Eddie Mathews on the cover (1954)
- Cyprus: was granted independence from Britain (1960)
- Joseph Kittinger: USAF pilot set records for a parachute jump, including fastest speed by a person through the atmosphere — 614 mph/988 kph (1960)
- Menachem Begin (1913-1992): former prime minister of Israel
- Frank Gifford (78): zombie football star/sports commentator; today is also the birthday of his wife, Kathie Lee Gifford (55)
- Eydie Gorme (77): pop singer; other musicians born today are Billy Joe Shaver (69), Tim Farriss (51) and Emily Robison (36)
- Suzanne Farrell (63): ballet dancer
- Angela Bassett (50): actress, What's Love Got to Do With It?; also, actors Fess Parker (84), Robert Culp (78), Julie Newmar (75), Anita Gillette (72), Bob Balaban (63), Lesley Ann Warren (62), Reginald VelJohnson (56), Laura Innes (49), Timothy Hutton (48), Steve Carell (46), George Stults (33) and Shawn Pyfrom (22)
- Madonna (50) singer, terrible actress, possible zombie
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