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Posted By: wwh demagogue - 09/16/02 02:06 PM
There are lots of words endinging in -gogue:
pedagogue, emetogogue, chologogue, emmenogogue, etc.
Have fun adding your favorites.

Posted By: Faldage Re: chologogue - 09/16/02 02:10 PM
Cholo is Mexican for "trailer trash". Any connection?

Neither m-w nor AHD recognize chologogue.

Posted By: wwh Re: chologogue - 09/16/02 02:37 PM
3.AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY Botanical Medicine Monographs and ... (PDF) - ...
or Rutherford. Rohrig found that colocynth was the most active chologogue, and then jalap, aloes,
senna, and rhubarb. Rutherford ...
http://www.ibiblio.org/SWSBM/AJP/AJP_1885_No_10.pdf

As a jest, Faldage, your suggestion that I would mislead members, acts as a "chologogue" on me.
It provokes a choleric mood, a temptation to vent my bile on you.
Posted By: Faldage Re: chologogue - 09/16/02 02:46 PM
colocynth was the most active chologogue, and then jalap, aloes,
senna, and rhubarb.


Cholos do eat a lot of jalapeños.

Posted By: Wordwind Re: Another Gogue - 09/16/02 03:15 PM
I'm a Googlegogue.

Posted By: wwh Re: Another Gogue - 09/16/02 03:48 PM
Dear WW: meet me at the synagogue.

Posted By: dxb Re: demagogue - 09/16/02 04:17 PM
If you gave a cow both a lithalogue and a galactalogue who knows what would happen?

dxb.

Posted By: Faldage Re: lithalogue and galactalogue - 09/16/02 04:42 PM
Stone milk?

Posted By: wwh Re: lithalogue and galactalogue - 09/16/02 05:10 PM
Galactogogue is an acceptable word.
"Galactogogue, special foods, herbs or rituals, that are believed to increase milk supply are used almost
universally"

Incidentally, that site mentioned "colostrum". In all newborn vertebrates, it is important that they get
the first milk the mother secretes. It is loaded with proteins prtotective against common infant infections,
and also has a lot of fat necessary to meet infant's early high caloric requirements.

However, the colostrum of cows if given to humans is not enjoyable, and likely to act as
"defecagogue", off-the-cuff coinage for diarrhea.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc I'm all agog - 09/16/02 07:38 PM
Webster Lake, not too far from here, is also called by the Indian name "Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamogg."*

I hear that qualifies three times over :-)

*(and no, it doesn't mean what you heard it means). The best I could come up with is at
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=67142
Posted By: wwh Re: I'm all agog - 09/16/02 09:06 PM
Dear wofahulicodoc: Wallace Nutting's book says it means: "I fish on my side, you fish on your side,
Nobody shall fish in the middle." What's your version?

Edit: just to be mischievous, I checked and this is a YART of a post I made back in April. I am
deeply wounded. Sob,sob!

http://makeashorterlink.com/?T5ED62FC1

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: I'm all agogg - 09/16/02 11:15 PM
(I think that's the same thread my reference points to...and I haven't come up with anything better that that since then.)

We yart together !
Posted By: wwh Re: I'm all agogg - 09/17/02 12:19 AM
Give me the old fraternity grip.
(Actually there were few fraternities at our almamammy, and I suspect wofahumicodoc
regrets it as little as I do. I still get a chuckle out of FDR getting blackbadded by Hasty Pudding.

Posted By: dxb Re: lithalogue and galactalogue - 09/17/02 09:16 AM
Stone milk?

Nice one!

I Googled stone milk on a whim and discovered milkstone and Texas Correctional Industries who make a product for removing it. TCI had a hazardous substances sheet for their product on their site that included symptoms that you might develop from “Ova Exposure” to it. A funny typo! Makes you wonder how or where the stuff might be applied.

dxb.


Posted By: Faldage Re: I'm all agog - 09/17/02 09:48 AM
and no, it doesn't mean what you heard it means

I have problems with someone's saying that it doesn't mean what we've always heard it means without being able to come up with an alternative. At least they could say something like, "'I fish on my side of the lake...' is 'lemporabasip...'".

Posted By: wwh Re: I'm all agog - 09/17/02 01:01 PM
I wonder what the Indians had for fishing tackle.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc the definitive ggoggle - 09/19/02 03:01 PM
...At least they could say something like, "'I fish on my side of the lake...' is 'lemporabasip...'".

Hey, you casting aspersions on my orthography? (What's the emoticon for mock outrage?)
"lemporabasip" is very close to "improbable sp."

For an undocumented, maybe even grudging, refutation of the You-fish-on-your-side theory, see http://users.net1plus.com/websterpd/webster_lake.htm
at the end of the last paragraph...
Posted By: Faldage Re: the definitive ggoggle - 09/19/02 03:24 PM
"lemporabasip" is very close to "improbable sp."

And I thought I was just spewing out some random phonemic groups.

Posted By: Faldage Re: the definitive ggoggle - 09/19/02 03:38 PM
Looks like not so much a refutation of the translation per se, as it is a condemnation of it as being too cutesy.

I had a friend time back way back in college who knew the lake from his boyhood and said that it was normally referred to as Lake Ugh.

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