MC Word of the Week with Ronan Hamill #3

Valetudinarian

–noun

1. an invalid.
2. a person who is excessively concerned about his or her poor health or ailments.

–adjective

3. in poor health; sickly; invalid.
4. excessively concerned about one’s poor health or ailments.
5. of, pertaining to, or characterized by invalidism.

Word history & origin

“one who is constantly concerned with his own ailments,” 1703, from valetudinary  (1581), from L. valetudinarius,  from valetudo  ”state of health,” from valere  ”be strong” (see valiant) + -tudo,  abstract noun suffix. Valetudinary  (adj.) “sickly” is recorded from 1581.

-synonyms

1. hypochondriac
2. soft cock


Modern usage

Very much under-used these days. Quite simply because you sound like a knob when  dropped in conversation. You will be received by  the “i smell shit” face if you use it. Doesn’t really roll off the tongue this one does it. Although the phrase ‘sick cunt’ ostensibly has a similar meaning it is in essence the complete antithesis.

Rhymes with:

Wee-Bey’s aquarium

(well it almost does. I’ve been obsessing of The Wire this last few months. I need some sort of fuckin’ outlet. C’mon!)

23 May 1 Permalink

MC Word of the Week with Ronan Hamill #2

Okay, okay so its turning into MC word of the Fortnight but shit im a working man. I have trees to look after during the week. And i don’t mean Defari’s type of trees.

So this weeks is a companion to last weeks offering. I’ll try not to mention Tony Abbott every week but this word has so much precision in describing him and his ilk that it would make Lyudmila Pavlichenko look like she had a hefty dose of myopia.

Bunkum

–noun

1.
insincere speechmaking by a politician intended merely to please local constituents.

2.
insincere talk; claptrap; humbug.

3.
bullshit; shite-talk.

Also, buncombe.

Origin:
Americanism ;  after speech in 16th Congress, 1819–21, by F. Walker, who said he was bound to speak for Buncombe  (N.Carolina county in district he represented with the an adjoining county called Yancey, home of the Dilla family. I’m kidding……about the Dilla family home not that its called Yancey….it is).

Ronan knows words and Ronan knows hip hop. Check the man on Twitter and his radio show on PBS,

8 April Permalink

MC Word of the Week with Ronan Hamill

I love the art of rhyme as much as the next man, in fact I love it more than Madonna loves dick! (Editor - according to Steve Buscemi thats reportedly a lot of dick). It’s the rhyme, the clever word play, the cadence, the delivery. All that. But what it isn’t is that verbose hyperbole (see even I cant do it with those last two). It’s absent. MC’s need to broaden that vocabulary. MCs is lackin’ in the F.L.D. (Flowery Language Department). So listen up and don’t shut the fuck up!

This weekly installment is a tool. Not the Tony Abbott kind, more a Swiss Army Knife kind. Use it!

For the first offering I thought i’d treat you to a noun that really sums up what an MC is to me. Peep #6 - Classic.

HUCKSTER

–noun

1. a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.

2. a person who employs showy methods to effect a sale, win votes, etc.: the crass methods of political hucksters.

3. a cheaply mercenary person.

Informal

4.

a. a persuasive and aggressive salesperson.

b. a person who works in the advertising industry, especially one who prepares aggressive advertising for radio and television.

-verb

5. to deal, as in small articles, or to make petty bargains

6. to sell or promote in an aggressive and flashy manner.

Origin

1150–1200;  Middle English  huccstere  (perhaps cognate with Middle Dutch  hokester ), equivalent to hucc-  haggle  (cognate with dialectal German  hucken  to huckster) + -stere  -ster

Related forms

huck·ster·ism, noun

huck·ster·ish, adjective

Rhymes with

Fuckster, wankster.

Tune into Ronan’s show Hippopotamus Rex every Monday from 8-10pm on PBS

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