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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: DJT is a Mamamouchi
Date: 09/25/26 10:15 AM
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Obsolete word of the week:

MAMAMOUCHI
n.
:a pompous-sounding title; also, a person assuming such a title;
:a ridiculous pretender to elevated dignity, viewed as an object of derision;
:a buffoon
→ 1672 obs.

ETYMOLOGY:
from mamamouchi, an imaginary Turkish title (invented by Molière in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), where it is pretended to have been conferred by the Sultan upon M. Jourdain)

EXAMPLE:
“... In fine, to tell you my whole embassey, he is coming down to demand your Daughter in marriage, and to make you worthy to be his Father-in-Law, he will make you a Mamamouchi, which is the greatest honour and dignity among the Turks. ...”

From: The Citizen Turn’d Gentleman. a comedy
By Edward Ravenscroft, 1672

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