| Front | acnestis \ak-NEES-tis\ |
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| Back | noun The part of the body where one cannot reach to scratch. [From Greek aknestis (spine)] "In what has to be the longest post-election season in living memory, the last five months have felt like an acnestis upon our collective soul; like that little patch of skin on our backs that we just can't reach to scratch ourselves. It's irritating. It's annoying. It's left us reaching and spinning around in circles." - A Wish List to Soothe Our Collective Itch; New Straits Times (Malaysia); Aug 5, 2008. |
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