[每日] pandiculation (n) 伸懶腰
Word of the Day (Tuesday January 20, 2009)
pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\, noun:
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an instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning
"Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!"
Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since
1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device
called the "Pandiculator."
-- Time, 1942-04-12
by 1611 from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to
stretch oneself" and French suffix -ion.
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