Reading the Merriam Webster Dictionary Backwards
September 4, 2014 Thursday "zeugman"
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a word that modifies two words, applying to each in a different sense, i.e. "she opened her heart and her home to the homeless boy."
See the wonderful Modern English Usage by Fowler. A treasure.
An aside: zeug means "rubbish or junk" in German (sounds like 'soyg')
Ok, some other loose "zug" associations:
In chess, zugzwang means to force the opponent to make a bad move - they have no other moves available. Zug in German means "move" (sounds like 'zoog'); and zwang means 'to force' (sounds like
'svahng').
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