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Word of the Day for Tuesday, January 20, 2009 pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\, noun: 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. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for pandiculation Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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