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Nov 23, 2018
This week’s themeWords from music This week’s words fiddlestick upbeat orchestrate concert pitch trombenik 
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with Anu Gargtrombenik or trombenick
PRONUNCIATION:
(TROM-buh-nik)
MEANING:
noun: A lazy or a boastful person.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish tromba (trumpet, horn) + -nik (suffix denoting a person
associated with a particular quality, group, etc., e.g. nudnik). The English equivalent
is a person tooting one’s own horn. Earliest documented use: 1931.
USAGE:
“Her children, the big trombenik who was good-for-nothing and the little
pisher who knows nothing about anything, were destroying her life.” Floyd Skloot; 1957; Sewanee Review (Baltimore, Maryland); Winter 2005. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when
action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out
danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of
eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. -Steven Brust,
novelist (b. 23 Nov 1955)
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