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googy egg ...wonder where that one came from?A googy chicken.You just had to ask, didn't you hev?  'Round here, we blame an insatiable appetite on the tapeworm.
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My wife's family used the expression "full up to dolly's wax".
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Full up to dolly's wax???? I don't get it. What dolly? What wax? Wax doll? I thought the wax in wax dolls was everywhere.
And, Silk, you wrote that y'all scarf it up; we scarf it down in Dinwiddie--or, more exactly, scarf down. Kinda nice thinking about a person scarfing up something--I mean, what else would a hungry person named Silk do other than scarf something up (in your territory) or scarf it down (in Dinwiddie).
Fed up,
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(how do you
make a wink?)
You're not fooling anybody.
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Another couple of Oz expressions:
"Chock a block"
(and hence)
"I'm chocker, ocker"
"Flup" ie full up
"Full as a maggot"
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"...maggoted"
(a stalesism) "as bloated as week old road kill"
(& another) "stuffed jammed packed full"
FWIW, I was saving my 700th with the intention of making it deep, meaningful and thought provoking. Ah well....maybe next time (but can't see it happening for years).
stales - old bastard, old hand.
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jack sprat could eat no fat
his wife could eat no lean
and so, betwixt them both,
they licked the platter clean!
The variant I grew up with was
...and so between the two of them...
in line three. Accuracy I can't vouch for, but it does scan better.
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How about "I am as full as a stuffed goose". On another note - When we were really thirsty as kids we would drink a lot of water. (Chicago water is soooo gooood.) Mom would say - "Save some for the fish".
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Hi Wordwind. Never having played with dolls, I'm a little unsure of their exact structure, but I seem to recall some dolls which had a head and neck made of wax with clothing below the neck. Anyone verify this?
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Regarding 'scarf up' or 'scarf down' - we just plain scarfed, in my family (well, if we were hungry); not sure whether this was a Darwin or an Adelaide thing, as we lived in both while I was growing up.
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