puzzled!

hehe - must be nice. I see the dentist this afternoon to get a painful tooth pulled out. I tried to pull it out myself but it wasn't loose enough to come out all the way. No insurance so I thought I'd try to save a few bucks. Now I wish I had some pain relief meds

If to 'dote' on something is to worship and nourish it, then an 'antidote' would be to attack it or deny it, drive it away... ? Maybe there is something in 'dote' as a root for that word...

I believe (ok, I looked it up) that the word dote comes from an old german word dotten, which means to be foolish....So anitdote might mean against foolishness....

Sure would make sense that someone bitten by a snake whilst playing/teasing it would need an antidote....

Who knows....strange language....

antidote - early 15c., from L. antidotum, from Gk. antidoton "given as a remedy," verbal adjective of antididonai "give in return," from anti- "against" + didonai "to give."

ouch, DavidK! just ask the dentist if he wants you to walk out through his foyer grimacing horribly and holding your jaw.

OK, paxx....just who died and gave you my job, hmmm?....

thanks, paxx. it makes sense if anti was applied to a verbal route er.. root, rather than a noun, even in my current state.
one dead riddle. got Juni's update. now what am i going to do for the rest of the day?

Jafo, sorry.

paxx....I believe the word in question was 'dote'

Peff does have a point! well, Jafo?

I've always wondered why no is ever described as being "chalant"............ as opposed to being "nonchalant".

Are we going to continue to dote upon this subject....?

didonai "to give."

I think paxx covered it anyway...

Agreed Koasati, and is the opposite of "disgruntled", "gruntled"?
"Oh I am so gruntled today, falalalala!"

With all of this taking apart words. Why not have a word of the day. Learn a new word and discus it. Then somebody can can do the next word. We could do all words known to man or not known to man. Or just keep it to Computer related terms/words.

Analysing the roots can be amusing. Especially when people start mixing and matching to make new words.

We had the word "homosexual": to be sexually atracted by somebody of the same sex (homo: the same)
And we had "phobic": be afraid of.

Somebody had the brilliant idea to mix them together and make "homophobic". The intention is to describe somebody who hates or is afraid of homosexuals.
But just talking "homo" and leaving "sexual" out, kind of changes the meaning. "Homophobic" should really mean: somebody who is afraid of his peers, or somebody who is afraid of humans.

Not the same.

paxx is a sharp exegetist! and i do think Koasati is looking pretty "nochalant" these days. and that's a lot better than looking notalant like most of the rest of us.

Hmmm you better stop drinking homogized milk!

"homogenized" make sense: made all the same (in other words, it's mixed to be very smoth, without chucks of fat floating around)

and lord knows we don't need any fat chucks!

I was exagerating a bit. But original milk (before it's homogenized) does have a layer of yellow fat floating above the white milk. You have to mix your milk before you pour it in your glass.