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derision

On-Yomi: チョウ、トウ — Kun-Yomi: あざけ.る

Elements:

derision, mouth, morning , mist, ten, needle, early, sun, day, moon, month, flesh, part of the body, ten2, needle2

Heisig story:

The bad feeling created by words spoken in derision often leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the one who speaks them, kind of like the foul aftertaste that follows a night before of too much of the wrong stuff - or what we call morning mouth.

Koohii stories:

1) [ikmys] 23-4-2007(72): When I wake up, I am always late, so I hurry to work. With a bad case of perpetual morning breath, I am the subject of derision at my office whenever I open my mouth.

2) [Aerin] 12-8-2008(39): If morning breath emanates from your mouth, you are subject to derision!

3) [Megaqwerty] 13-6-2007(11): Truly the epic mother-in-law who, at the very crack of morning, already possesses a mouth full of derision.

4) [mantixen] 10-12-2006(9): Your mouth is full of derision in the morning because you're grumpy.

5) [tuuli] 13-11-2008(5): When I opened my mouth to suggest an early morning meeting, my suggestion was met with derision.

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