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here's another baffling Q a subscriber dropped on me:
I seek the meaning of "jamfled" and, if possible, its etymology.
I can't even come up with a variant that might work.
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Does the person who asked the question give any context? Net- dictio's nor books have given anything. Without a context all there is is jam and fly.  Flee! of course , flee and fled!
Last edited by BranShea; 02/23/07 02:10 PM.
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Maybe this person just made up a word to flummox the webmaster of wwftd.
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Yes, it looks like it . If it is it is a good fake.  imo
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My impression is that it's a Carrollian representation of jammed up + baffled.
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Yes,anyway I would feel baffled if I were jammed up and I would flee. (not fly  sorry, little mistake )
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Not sure, but there's an acronym from '60s African-American Vernacular English JAMF (and Pynchon named one of the characters in Gravity's Rainbow after it). There's also some build software called jamfile. Perhaps it might be related to one of them?
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A flea and a fly in a flue
Were stuck, so what could they do?
"Let us flee!" said the fly.
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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Thanks Pennyless, that taught me at the same time that flue isn't flu. I always wrote that one wrong. That's the whole lot together now.
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That word would be good for a googlewhack if it actually was a word, since googling gives no results.
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