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May 8, 2019
This week’s themeWords from singer-songwriter Roy Zimmerman’s songs
This week’s words
legionnaire
moribund
carny
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PRONUNCIATION:
(KAHR-nee) 
MEANING:
noun:
1. A person who works in a carnival.
2. A carnival: a traveling amusement show.
3. The jargon used by carnival workers.
1. A person who works in a carnival.
2. A carnival: a traveling amusement show.
3. The jargon used by carnival workers.
ETYMOLOGY:
Short for carnival, from Italian carnevale, from carnelevare (removal of meat), from carne (flesh) + levare (to remove or lift). A carnival is named so because it was a period of merrymaking before Lent (a season of fasting and penitence before Easter). Earliest documented use: 1931.
USAGE:
“I’m the huddled masses.
I’m the amber waves of the green.
I’m the toothless carny in the shooting gallery at the county fair.”
Roy Zimmerman; I Approve This Message; 2008.
(lyrics; video, 4 min.)
I’m the amber waves of the green.
I’m the toothless carny in the shooting gallery at the county fair.”
Roy Zimmerman; I Approve This Message; 2008.
(lyrics; video, 4 min.)
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