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yaqona (medicine)


yaqona


A Fijian drink made from the powdered root of Piper methysticum (family Piperaceae); excessive drinking of it causes a state of hyperexcitability and a loss of power in the legs; chronic intoxication induces roughening of the skin and a state of debility.

See: methysticum.

Synonym: kava, yanggona.

Origin: Fijian name


shmoo (iou)



shmoo noun. N. Amer. M20.
[Invented word (see below).]
A fictitious animal invented by the US cartoonist Al Capp in 1948, represented as small, round, and ready to fulfil immediately any material need; a model or toy version of this.