Wordwind, this is good!
Brings to mind another question: Is a Plutarch plutish?
Is a Plutarch plutish? No, but he has been brutish. [Ref. "Horrors!" thread]
And when do we get his biography?
Bingley
Bingley, remembering my own experiece, I'd say that by the time one attains the journeyman rank one feels familiar enough with board-practices to author a bio. And Plutarch is now quivering on the verge of that rank. (hint, hint)
Jackie started this thread asking, "Is a radish rootish?"
Leading to the further question, "Is our ravishing requester raffish?"
"Is our ravishing requester raffish?" Hmm--I can't quite tell. Wordwind, are you?
Nice dodge, J, but that question was addressed to
you!
Dag nab it, can't get away with
anything around here.
But I can try: which definition did you mean, sir?
raffish: characterized by a carefree or fun-loving unconventionality; rakish.The play of the last word with "ravish" and "raffish" surely rendered clear my intended definition!
Ogden Nash: "Miss Rafferty, in taffeta / Grew definitely raffisher / And less and less stand-offisher."
Jackie, wearing tafeta
Fears that folk will laugh at her,
Dear Jackie, no one's after ya' ...
Just answer the darn question!
Oh, NOW I get what the heretofore-mysterious ref.'s were in some private messages! Well, let me just say that my heretofore-posted posts have surely rendered clear my intended answer!
Nice verse, wow.
No, no, dr. bill, you relish reddish raddishes.
Presuming that said "dish" was indeed both ravishing and rakish (doubtless in a MaeWestian sense), and was viewed with relish by the raffish doctor, I can only say,
Down, boy!
"Physician, heel thyself!"
The only time I ever got ravished was by chaperone who came with student nurses to a party.The first time I ever encountered a furor coeundi greater than my own.