Based on French surrealistic film "Un Chien Andalou", by Spanish
director Luis Bunuel (1928). The film has a scene in which an
eyeball is being cut open.
"I am un chien andalusia" actually mixes English ("I am"), Spanish
("un", which exists in French, but is actually pronounced as in
Spanish), French ("chien"), and something undetermined ("andalusia"
as such is neither French nor Spanish).
'I wish Bunuel was still alive. He made this film about nothing
in particular. The title itself is a nonsense. With my stupid,
pseudo-scholar, naive, enthusiast, avant-garde-ish, amateurish way
to watch 'Un Chien Andalou' (twice), I thought: 'Yeah, I will make
a song about it,' he sings: "un chien andalou"...It sounds too
French, so I will sing "un chien andalusia", it sounds good, no?'
(Black Francis, translated from a Spanish interview)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Debase [De*base"], v. t. [imp. & p. p. Debased; p. pr. & vb. n. Debasing.] [Pref. de- + base. See Base, a., and cf. Abase.] To reduce from a higher
to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to
debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Syn: To abase; degrade.
Debaser [De*bas"er], n. One who, or that which, debases.
WordNet (r) 1.5
debase v
1: corrupt morally [syn: corrupt, pervert, demoralize, debauch, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]
2: lower in value; of metals [syn: alloy]
3: add water to a mixture to dilute it [syn: adulterate, water down, dilate]