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yorkie77

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Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:52 PM Oct 2016

Thought you would like the word of the day: Trumpery

Trumpery This is real!!

Oct 20, 2016
This week’s theme
Words that appear to be coined after someone (but aren’t)


trumpery

PRONUNCIATION:
(TRUHM-puh-ree)

MEANING:
noun:
1. Something showy but worthless.
2. Nonsense or rubbish.
3. Deceit; fraud; trickery.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French tromper (to deceive). Earliest documented use: 1481.

USAGE:
“The room was crowded with a chilly miscellany of knick-knacks and ornaments, gewgaws, and trumpery of every kind.”
Leo Bruce; Case for Three Detectives; Academy Chicago; 1980.

“History, made up as it is of so much trumpery, treachery, and tyranny, needs deeds of valor, of sacrifice, and of heroism if it is to be palatable.”
The Medal of Honor: A History of Service Above and Beyond; Zenith Press; 2014.

See more usage examples of trumpery in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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Thought you would like the word of the day: Trumpery (Original Post) yorkie77 Oct 2016 OP
Trumplify Dangerrus Oct 2016 #1

Dangerrus

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1. Trumplify
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 10:54 PM
Oct 2016
http://www.trumplify.com

verb

(used with object), trumplified, trumplifying.

1) to make vociferous noise about complex issues and problems as if they were much simpler than they really are while appealing to the gallery.

2) generating increased noise about challanges as if they were much simpler than they really are.

3 ) to vocally expand in overstating; clarify by loud misrepresentation.

4) to give usually innaccurate information about (something, such as a statement) : to loudly speak or write about (something) in an exagerrated innappropriate way

5) to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem by yelling at it.
6) Archaic. to loudly exaggerate.

(used without object), trumplified, trumplifying.

5) to loudly discourse at length; expatiate or expand one's remarks, speech, etc. (usually followed by on): The used car salesman trumplified his sales pitch.

adjective

trumplifiable.

Entomology. To cause to be or make loud blaring noise changing the intensity of the situation.

-trump (noun) Middle English trompe < Old French < Old High German trumpa, variant of trumba trumpet; (v.) Middle English trompen < Old French tromper, derivative of trompe

-ampluMiddle English amplifien, from Middle French amplifier, from Latin amplificare, from amplu

-fy a verbal suffix meaning to make, cause to be, render ( simplify; beautify); to become, be made (liquefy). The suffix was introduced into English in loan words from Old French ( deify), but is also used in the formation of new words, usually on a Latin root ( reify).
Word Origin: from Old French -fier, from Latin -ficare, verbal ending formed from -ficus -fic
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