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Math teacher humor - No longer an oxymoron! Remember the good old Pythagorean theorem from math class? I have collected 101 different spellings of the word "Pythagorean" from real math students' papers. I would like creative email definitions (think Dictionary game) for these new words and will add them to this page. Help me out please, I know my family won't be able to resist this one.
Mythagaris - Mithter Pythagaris' daughter. Pete's
reputed evil twin whom no one has actually seen. (When I was in geometry class
he was referred to universally as "Pete".) (Dyke)
Paenthagorean - n., hymn of praise honoring the
speakers of those Asiatic languages that do not distinguish g from k.
(Mike)
Pagarem - n. a unit of dream, equivalent to one
paragraph of prose. (Mike)
Palaygerean
Pamugrean
Paragathum - that portion of text in a romance novel
that is substituted for a climax scene, to render the book acceptable for
younger audiences. (Marc)
Paragathy - the practice of replacing a romance novel
climax scene with a paragathum (less interesting text), to render the book
acceptable for younger audiences. (Marc)
Patangaream
Pathagareum - the section of every foreign city
containing the fabled "route to the train station." (Dyke)
Pathagariam
Pathagarian - a resident or expatriate of Pathagaria, a utopian nation
originally colonized by medical professionals." (Shawn)
Pathagarien
Pathageram
Pathagern - a disease you have to make sure you don't
catch from someone because, in spite of all, it could kill you. (Dyke)
Pathagery - dishonest copying and use of another's
directions. (Katie)
Pathagmeun
Pathagofream - Confederate slang term for the Underground
Railroad during the
Pathagorean - Florida voting judge circa 2000. (Jeff)
Pathagoreon
Pathagoreum - n. the area of convocation, spacious and open to the sky, of
all the lanes, byways, and unpaved trails in a given region. Topologically identical with the
region itself after removal of the named roads. Best known as the referent of the original proverb
(since corrupted): "All paths lead to roam." (Mike)
Pathagorin
Pathagorium - n. a room reserved for devotions honoring
Ancestral Pat. Communicant with the kitchen, it holds relicts, attested accounts
of numinous and oracular deeds, and evidence of miracles. It is furnished with a
comfortable chair, an altar for tobacco offering, and a representation of the
Never Empty Bottle. (Mike)
Pathagorun - the usual jogging route of buff Cosa
Nostra members. (Dyke)
Pathagourus - a swift but doomed dinosaur species which
was noted for always staying between the lines. Pathagourus was gradually
brought to extinction by Policaurus, which would rest just off the edge of the
path and wait. Also see Crulleropods. (Marc)
Pathagreon - found in most university towns where
math-oriented films are shown (The Maltese Fraction, etc.). (Dyke)
Pathagreum
Pathagrian
Pathagrim - adj., so bleak or forbidding as to impair
health. (Mike)
Pathagrium
Patheargram
Pathegerian - elderly person in the stage of life in
which one regrets having not chosen the other fork in the road. (Katie)
Pathegiryan - n., a folk dance of the Ozark and
Southern Appalachian mountains, residuum of the spectacular pre-medieval
patergyran. As performed in boots and overalls rather than peacock-feathered
slippers, the flamboyant Prime-Mover-evoking rotations are thrown from the heel
rather than the toe. (Mike)
Pathegorean
Patheogeorm - what you get when you mix religion and
math. (Derek)
Patheram - the Pythagorean theorem's shortest nickname.
(Dyke)
Pathgorean
Pathgrethic - adj., arousing pity or mild scorn by
inadequately shocking an audience. Offensive cursing on stage, stereotypical
dirty jokes at parties, closeups of gore in movies, are often pathgrethic.
(Mike)
Pathnagarewn
Pathogomy - The clinical term for marrying someone who
reminds you of your horrible parents. Most of us deal with this, but no one
likes to discuss it. (Marc)
Pathreoum
Pathyum - perverse fascination with delicious tastes.
(Katie)
Patragrum - an alcoholic liquid made from fermenting and
distilling kerchiefs collected at the end of a hot day. Fortunately the word is
too difficult for an intoxicated person to pronounce, and the rest of us have
better sense. (Marc)
Pehogrom - the system program associated with newer
versions of Microsoft products which requires you to upgrade your computer in
order to run it. (Derek)
Perthagium - Western Australia's death-tax collecting
headquarters. (Dyke)
Petageum - Athenean orgy hall used by preteens to
practice in. (Dyke)
Petagriam
Pethagariom - an account of the lives of saintly domesticated animals.
(Shawn)
Phagaerm
Phygaream - a hand tool for removing the seeds from
figs. An attempt to patent the device was ignored because patent office
employees accidentally destroyed the paperwork during a raucous fig-throwing
bout that broke out just prior to testing the device. No one was willing to
explain to the applicant what actually happened. On such events does history
turn. (Marc)
Phythageorean
Phythagomy - extreme difficulty with physics. (Katie)
Phythagorem - a long, sharp thorn, or a plant bearing such thorns.
(Shawn)
Polagium - the shed where Cambridge University
undergrads keep their personal nautical propulsive gear. (Dyke)
Polyothomic - referring to the numerous descendants
(living and deceased) of Thomas
Pothagery - incorrigible, conspicuous display of fuss
(rarely fatal). (Katie)
Pothagleon - the bundle of nerves one finds themselves
after drinking Jolt Cola and eating chocolate bars in an all night cram for a
geometry test. (Bob)
Pothagorean - what Al was smoking when he invented the
Internet. (Derek)
Pothagreom
Pothagreon
Pothagrian
Pothagrium - a thick soup or stew favored by hags, ogres, and other
fairytale villains, usually made from barley, vegetables, and small animals or children when
available. The survivors of the Three Little Pigs incident are said to have used a similar recipe
when boiling their lupine nemesis. (Shawn)
Pothagurian
Pothogorin - the easily-infected wounds of torreadors
and Pamplona bull runners. (Dyke)
Prothageran - whereas promethean means "on top",
prothageran means "on the bottom." (Dyke)
Prothagrium
Pthagorean - pertaining to Egypt's rival god-geometer
of the same era. (Dyke)
Pyagorean - an undercooked kidney pie. (Shawn)
Pyrogean - adj. tending to start fires. (Katie)
Pytagulum - singular; Those annoying nylon fasteners
from which new clothing labels
Pythagarean - surgical procedure for removing a fetus
from a pregnant snake. (Katie)
Pythagarian - any of a class of constricting snakes
found in Hungary. (Derek)
Pythagerans
Pythagerean
Pythagering - the bold but ultimately futile act of
swaggering down an urban, urine-stained street. (Dyke)
Pythageroen - a facility for the care and entertainment of aged snakes.
(Shawn)
Pythagogrin - an expression common on one immobilized before a sinuous,
looming, implacable fate. It is seldom humiliating, but only because it is difficult to remember -
let alone admit - after survival, if any. (Mike)
Pythagonorean - characteristic of or resembling a
social disease of the constricting
Pythagora - a central square in which Greek noblemen
could (and did) relieve themselves willy-nilly, a custom later perfected by the
French. (Dyke)
Pythagoran
Pythagoream
Pythagorem
Pythagoren - the first man who figured out how to count
at "bridge." (Dyke)
Pythagoreon
Pythagoreum
Pythagorian - early musical chant form developed by
helmet wearing African explorers. (Katie)
Pythagorim
Pythagoris - n., the morphologically central organ of
motivation in the immature constricting serpent, replaced in the mature
individual by the pythagfreudeggis. (Mike)
Pythagorium
Pythagorum
Pythagory - the pointed yet veiled stories your
grandparents tell. e.g. "Foolish little mice are caught by wise cats if the mice
don't think before they speak." (Marc)
Pythagourom
Pythagous - of, related to, resembling, or covered in,
pithage.(pithage - 1970's Americanism of pith. This form can be applied to most
singular nouns and adjectives x, e.g x-age). (Marc)
Pythagraum
Pythagream
Pythagrean
Pythagreom - the oddly-shaped room in the Naval
Observatory, Greenwich, England, dedicated to "The Great Triangulator."
(Dyke)
Pythagrium - a tall cylindrical structure in which the year's crop of
pith is stored while the farmer tries to figure out what it's good for. (Shawn)
Pythalorgan - a hormone secreting gland that enables a
large snake to advise an elephant's child. (Katie)
Pythgenom - the primal genome from which all life
descends. (Marc)
Pythogoreom - the part of the house the snake lives in.
(Katie)
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