This morning I recieved a call from my daughter— they were about to head out to pick me up when the back windshield suddenly burst, shattered glass everywhere. My daughter remarked that this was the third glass shattering event to occur with them in the last few months. In the meantime … and because the word “glass” has a cryptic “ass” in it… a prominent word as of late, I decided to continue with investigating the word “jab” that cropped up in my previous post. Note from their Jab wikipedia page:
Historians consider some of the best jabbers in history to be Sonny Liston, Larry Holmes, Muhammad Ali, and George Foreman. Recent master jabbers include Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko, both coached by the same trainer and able to develop significant power into their jabs. Holmes' jab has often been called "the best among Heavyweights", Ali's jab was famous for its speed and Liston's for its power. Mike Tyson used a rare version of a slip jab, that allowed him to jab effectively against taller opponents with longer reach. Gennady Golovkin has been regarded as having one of the most proficient jabs in boxing.
The first notable person immediately caught my eye— his surname Liston being an addition to the recently formed “First and Last 2 Letters of Name Makes a Word” pattern cluster, and so making “*LION” again, and so yet another “ROAR” in the repertoire!!! In fact, two others mentioned in the above excerpt are additions to the same cluster, note the following info on the three (*see cryptic word resulting at end of each ):
- Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (c. 1930 – December 30, 1970) "the Big Bear" (*lion)
- Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) *the Easton Assassin”. (*hoes)
- Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016). (*clay
- George Edward Foreman (January 10, 1949 – March 21, 2025)
- Lennox Claudius Lewis (born 2 September 1965)
- Wladimir Klitschko (born 25 March 1976)
- Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) "Iron Mike” and "Kid Dynamite"
- Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin (born 8 April 1982) "GGG" or "Triple
hoe(n.)
"implement for digging, scraping, or loosening earth," mid-14c., from Old French houe (12c.), from Frankish *hauwa, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan(source also of Old High German houwa "hoe, mattock, pick-axe," German Haue), from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (see hew).
hoe(v.)
early 15c., "to clear weeds with a hoe," from hoe (n.). Tedious and toilsome work, hence a hard (or long) row to hoe "a difficult task;" hoe (one's) own row "tend to one's affairs." Related: Hoed; hoeing.