Porpentine

Ya Sam takoitov at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 9 15:51:49 CDT 2006


Thanks for the explanation. Quite a rare word. Greedy bastards indeed!!! I 
thought it rhymed with "turpentine".


>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Porpentine
>Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:42:32 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Damn those greedy bastards @ Merriam Webster ...
>
>porpentine
>One entry found for porpentine.
>Main Entry: porpentine
>
>porpentine can be found at
>Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com. Click here to start
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>
>Click here to search for another word in the
>Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
>
>http://m-w.com/dictionary/porpentine
>
>However ...
>
>Words rhyming with "PORPENTINE" (pronounced
>'Por"pen*tine'): Acolyctine, Aconitine, Adamantine,
>Agatine, Amanitine, Amethystine, Anatine, Annotine,
>Asbestine, Balaustine, Barbotine, Barkentine,
>Bizantine, Bottine, Brilliantine, Ceratine, Cespitine,
>Chryselephantine, Clandestine, Colbertine,
>elephantine, galantine, Gigantine, Legantine,
>Legatine, Matutine, Maxillo-palatine, Narcotine,
>Nicotine, Nitratine, Observantine, Osteodentine,
>Parietine, Paytine, Plicidentine, Polycystine,
>Pontine, Postpalatine, Predestine, Pristine,
>Procrastine, Pterygopalatine, Quartine, Quintine,
>Rabatine, routine, Sentine, serotine, Sestine,
>Sistine.
>
>http://www.websters-online-dictionary.com/definition/porpentine
>
>--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > porpenTEEN or porpenTAIN???
>
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