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Posted By: tsuwm today's wwftd is.. unthirlable - 07/20/05 09:59 PM
this word is of no value at all, as the only evidence for it is in an incunabulum -- in this case an olde, English/Latin wordbook.

the worthless word for the day is: unthirlable

[fr. un- + thirlable]
obs. impenetrable

according to OED2, unthirlable and thirlable itself
are only to be found in Catholicon Anglicum, an
English-Latin wordbook c. 1483; to wit,
Thirleabylle, penetrabilis
Vn Thyrleabylle, jnpenetrabilis


thirlable
[f. OE thirl: hole, perforation]
obs. rare that may be thirled or pierced; penetrable

Our lawyer presented the case with unthirlable logic.



edit: <mutter> shoulda saved thirlable for a round of hogwash®..
Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: today's wwftd is.. unthirlable - 07/20/05 10:04 PM
maybe ask the custos, or the mairs.

or the Grinch...

Posted By: maverick Re: today's wwftd is.. unthirlable - 07/21/05 10:35 AM
> [f. OE thirl: hole, perforation]

Hence the phrase thirled world debt...

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: today's wwftd is.. unthirlable - 07/21/05 11:35 AM
> thirled world debt

heh. ®

no spindly punster you.

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