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• Oregano, n.: The ancient Italian art of pizza folding.
• Bore, n.: A guy who wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary. -- Walter Winchell
• MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment.
  He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals....
• SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire
  later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile....
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