There is a character in Williams Burroughs' work named Izzy the Push--whose
business in life of course is to provide the energy required for the
defenestration of various individuals.
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Threw my dictionary out the window.
Reid Wood
On Apr 2, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Allan Revich wrote:
2:00 PM EST:
Threw a crumpled drawing of Don Quixote out the window.
http://www.digitalsalon.com/revich/defenestration.jpg
Allan Revich
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Word Event
April 2, 2006
1. Throw something out the window
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12:25
threw a troll-doll out my bedroom window
Word of the Day for Sunday April 2, 2006
defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\, transitive verb:
To throw out of a window.
Some of his apparent chums . . . would still happily
defenestrate him if they caught him near a window.
-- Andrew Marr, "No option bar the radical one,"
[1]Independent, July 5, 1994
I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
-- Lane Smith, "quoted in Who's News," [2]Time for Kids,
September 25, 1998
A woman, driven to fury by the manner in which her lover
prefers to lavish his attention on a match on the telly
rather than her, starts to throw his possessions out of the
window. He's finally moved to stop her when she tries to
defenestrate his new Puma boots.
-- Jim White, "Budgets substantial enough to buy most of
the clubs in the Endsleigh," [3]Independent, April 6, 1996
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Defenestrate is derived from Latin de-, "out of" + fenestra,
"window." The noun form is defenestration.
References
1. http://www.independent.co.uk/www/
2. http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
3. http://www.independent.co.uk/www/
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