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Games, activities and teaching ideas > Word of the day - 2nd shift
Word of the day - 2nd shift
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blizzard1
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Word of the day - 2nd shift
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Word of the day
Today �s word of the day is:
PABULOUS
Remember not to post the real definition.
Hugs
Elizabeth
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10 Oct 2010
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moravc
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Pabulous man is a fabulous pub bummer who sits + drinks a lot and talks a lot :-D
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10 Oct 2010
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ituska
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Pab - Pablo lous - lousy
PABULOUS is a lousy counterfeiter of Pablo �s art
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10 Oct 2010
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Pelletrine
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Pabu - "pas bu" (in French) = have/hasn �t drunk
- so, I think that the pabulous people, are the fabulous people who drive you home after a rather �wet � party : because they are the only sober ones ;o)) capable of doing so without getting into trouble with Law And Order...
to be pabulous = to be sober |
11 Oct 2010
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epit
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hi,ituska gives the true meaning .I know "paboulus " with the same meaning .But we have pabulous in Turkish,too and we use it for the loose ballet shoes .Pab is abb. for pabu� (it means shoe in Turkish )loose means not tight in English .So it comes fromTurkish and it is used loose ballet shoe in English.Hugs |
11 Oct 2010
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SueThom
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Pablum is a sort of infant torture: it �s feeding the poor little things a sort of cereal-like substance that has essentially no flavor and the consistency of glue.
The suffix -ous means that something has the qualities of or is like or full of whatever the base word is, e.g. poison/poisonous, humor/humorous
So, it �s an adjective used to describe a tasteless, unappetizing food.
For example, two people leaving a dinner party:
A - "What an awful meal!"
B - "I agree. It was really pabulous!"
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11 Oct 2010
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NanG
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Hi Everyone!
May I join in? =)
I think that Pab stands for Personal Address Book.
And I agree with SueThom when she says that "The suffix -ous means that something has the qualities of or is like or full of whatever the base word is" .
So... I think that Pabulous is an adjective used to describe someone who is very popular, knows a lot of people or is in contact with a lot of people!
For example: She �s a pabulous executive. 
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11 Oct 2010
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