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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
  2. Lascivious, lecherous, exciting lechery.
  3. In United States legal application, sick, morbid or shameless.

The word is derived from the Latin word prūriēns, which means to itch. In its most general contemporary sense it denotes an excessive interest in sexual desire.

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