Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Q&A about words Eighty-sixed? Help, please.
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
OP Thank you all for helping, though there seems to be no definitive answer, just several plausible ones. Perhaps more than one of the given provenances of the expression are each true in themselves and have leant strength to each other over time.
Does not much of what communicates act in an ad-hoc way, delivering its precise instantaneous meaning as much from present context as from dictionary definition?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Eighty-sixed? Help, please. Pete Caruso 03/15/00 06:13 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. AnnaStrophic 03/15/00 06:36 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. Jeanne 03/15/00 07:23 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. AnnaStrophic 03/16/00 03:25 AM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. jackiemw 03/15/00 10:52 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. gfparsons 03/17/00 09:16 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. AnnaStrophic 03/18/00 12:21 AM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. MarkHJay 03/23/00 09:51 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. AnnaStrophic 03/23/00 10:08 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. Pete Caruso 03/26/00 06:49 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. Apocryphon 04/05/00 12:44 AM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. AnnaStrophic 04/05/00 01:01 AM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. tsuwm 04/05/00 07:25 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. cgblack 05/01/00 04:38 PM Re: Eighty-sixed? Help, please. tsuwm 05/01/00 04:53 PM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,335Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 487 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 17ddrinnan 1
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,543tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,917Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org