Somebody please invent a CURWHIBBLE to zap viruses

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CURWHIBBLE [KUR-wib-ul] (noun) 

A thingamajig or whatchmacallit

"Many thanks to your honor. What pretty curwhibbles and etceteras! I'll hang 'em to my watch to give it a travelled air."
--Anonymous, "A Captivity among the Rockites," in The Metropolitan (1831) (TWITO, page 37)

Let's EXFLUNCTIFY this virus, shall we?

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EXFLUNCTIFY [eks-FLUNK-ti-fy] (verb)

To destroy completely

"Interrupted again! my blood boiled, and I resolved that I would do my best to 'exflunctify' the animal at once."
--"Extract from the Journal of an Odd Fellow," in The Parterre (1834) (TWITO, page 50)

How many times could you have said "What an IMBROGLIO" lately?

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IMBROGLIO [im-BRO-lee-o] (noun)

A confusing, complex, or embarrassing situation, a painful misunderstanding, or a scandal

"Mr. Ervin Wardman, in the Broadway Magazine for April, exhaustively reviews the McClellan-Hearst-Murphy imbroglio, and concludes that Mr. Hearst’s real ambition, the goal of his desire, is the White House."
--Albert Shaw, The American Monthly Review of Reviews (January–June 1907)