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Provided by the compucert vituperate \vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi-\, verb:
- To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Vituperate comes from Latin vitupero, vituperare, to scold, blame, censure.
- "Shuffle shame" is when your mp3 music player is playing on speakers in shuffle mode, and somebody enters the room at the exact moment the worst song of your collection is being played.
I felt shuffle shame when Tony came to the office today, my iPod was playing Paris Hilton's single as he came in.
Trivia
According to French tradition, how many pleats should there be in a chef's tall starched white hat?
- 100—to represent the number of ways a master chef can prepare eggs.
federal income tax: was levied for the first time in the US (1861) - "Damn the torpedoes": famous order was given by Union Admiral David G. Farragut as he led his fleet at Mobile Bay during the Civil War (1864)
- traffic lights: first electric system was installed, in Cleveland (1914)
- Little Orphan Annie: Harold Gray's comic strip debuted (1924)
- Marilyn Monroe: was found dead after overdosing on sleeping pills (1962)
- Revolver: chart-topping Beatles album was released (1966)
- Erika Slezak (62): Victoria Lord on One Life to Live; other actors born on this date include John Saxon (73), Loni Anderson (62), Maureen McCormick (52) and Jonathan Silverman (42)
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