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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A friend came across this in conversation the other day. If you weren’t already familiar with the word, it isn’t likely you’d spot the fruit in “froo-ish’n” and ‘full-rition’ seems a reasonably creative stab at the meaning, with echoes of full bloom or fulfillment:
I am quite happy “risking” some hypothetical bug bear story’s fulrition if I can avoid the definite end result of sugar. (For instance, the sugar industry …
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one man’s dream to fulrition within Second Life – that of Gene Roddenberry. Now, we have a chance to make it even that …
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Blending with fulfilment, don’t you suppose?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Yes, it must be, and one of your round-trippers too:
anyone bear the price and enjoy the fruitment the high-technolegy brings. Besides, Anyone is worthy of owning cans, uses it as a protection …
forums.coolest-gadgets.com/showthread.php?t=9253 – Cached
... because even though Puritans were big on the whole “be fruitful and multiply,” they were considerably less big on enjoying the act of fruitment. ...
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Reminds me a little of ‘fruitile,’ which I or someone else had posted a while ago. It’s a portmanteau of ‘futile’ and ‘fruitless.’
It’s hard to admit to such a fruitile mistake as leaving the Pac NW, but many have done it and like you and I are trying to get back.
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Swim longs to be able to get that feeling again and has given up hunting as it’s fruitile these days.
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How about futiless? A metabolic pathway that leads nowhere or exhausts resources is a “futile cycle”.
Journal of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Possible “wasteful” or “futiless cycles” in lipid metabolism.
Not to be confused with da kine futless, for antsy or frustrated.
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