abacinated造句

• Fixin'to is a Southernism covered in " Jesse's Word of the Day From Abacinate to Yonic, " lively scholarship by Jesse Sheidlower ( Random House paperback, $ 12.95 ).
• As we all know, abacinate means " to blind cruelly, " and yonic is the female equivalent of phallic ( a doughnut, Sheidlower notes, is a yonic symbol ), but the primary meaning of fix is " to repair "; where did the sense of " to prepare to " come from?
• In addition to having written " The F-Word " ( Random House, 1995 ), he was the project editor of " The Random House Dictionary of American Slang, " the originator of a " Word of the Day " feature on the Internet ( http : / / www . randomhouse . com ) and the author of " Jesse's Word of the Day : From Abacinate to Yonic " ( Random House, 1998 ).