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Old 08-20-2012, 08:48 PM   #25
BigV
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Today's new word learned is "apocrine". Interestingly, I learned of it when reading an article in the Washington Post about a reporter who, as an (ill advised) thought experiment attempted to argue Akin's side of the his recent dumb-fuckery. But when I looked it up, I found that it was used poetically, if improperly. It was meant to convey a sweaty mess, but sweat glands are not apocrine glands except in name only for historical purposes.

The story.

The definition.
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