Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)of the southern United States and Mexico that emits a strong vinegary odor when disturbed.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of vinegaroon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A whip scorpion, esp. a large Mexican species (Thelyphonus giganteus) popularly supposed to be very venomous; -- from the odor that it emits when alarmed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed
Etymologies
- American Spanish vinagrón, from Spanish vinagre, vinegar, from Old Spanish, from Old French vinaigre; see vinegar. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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-oons (once of more than one syllable)
Originally this list was to contain multisyllabic words that end in "oon," but as you can see from the comments, all hell broke loose.
doubloon, poltroon, spittoon, patroon, dragoon, bassoon, platoon, typhoon, rangoon, maroon, pontoon, monsoon and 96 more...
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confelicity, bristol stool scale, blatteroon, toejam, serendipity, oubliette, crepuscular, honeysuckle, mellifluous, sesquipedalian, flaberkin, magnanimous and 141 more...
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Sog's Ark
Unlike Noah, I have only one of each animal.
salamander, panther, aardvark, leopard, elver, weasel, cheetah, orang utan, snail, parakeet, slater, scarab and 23 more...
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live thriving words
IE roots of bhel- and a few others
bless, blossom, foil, foliage, folio, folium, cinquefoil, defoliate, exfoliate, feuilleton, perfoliate, milfoil and 67 more...
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leev2 My wife and I once lived in a custom steel-and-glass house on 47 isolated acres of high desert ranch land some 25 miles north of Sonora, Mexico. She was never fond of creepy crawlies, and it had become my habit to quietly and secretly capture and dispose of any such critters found to be living with us but not paying rent. However, when confronted by the mother of all vinegaroons (as large as my hand plus a six inch tail) and watched it rear up like a monstrous toy transformer, waving it's claws in the air, I abandoned SOP, calling out to her: "Honey, you've GOT to come see this!"
Big mistake.
But this episode solved a long-standing riddle. For months we had been finding and vacuuming up dessicated moth wings. No bodies; just wings. Turns out that the vinegaroon was consuming the bodies but could not (or would not) digest the wings. Who knew? Mar 16, 2009
sonofgroucho I'm having one of these! Mar 16, 2009
bilby So I do! Go on, keep on vinegarrroooning me you cruel old scientists. Mar 12, 2009
mollusque Bilby apparently has a Pavlovian response to either spelling. (See vinegaroon). Mar 12, 2009
frogapplause I've never seen the word spelled with a double r. Mar 12, 2009
frogapplause I had one as a pet when I lived in El Paso, Texas. They were easy to find. Once a vinegaroon's whip falls or breaks off, it doesn't grow back. Amazing creatures. I'd love to have another one. Mar 12, 2009
bilby Omg, it's a slag-ass vinegarroon. Mar 12, 2009
fbharjo vinegarroon Mar 12, 2009
djsalinger There's a Calexico song called this and I never knew what it meant. Might have only had one 'r' in though. Mar 12, 2009
fbharjo A harmless scorpion of the SW which will emit a vinegar like smell when disturbed - a skunk scorpion Mar 12, 2009