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OP The animal adjectives thread began August 2000 and, after it seemed dead, revivified in November, in December, and in March, April, June, August, October and November of 2001. Since it seems to have run through the the feline nine lives (and is now at 92 posts), it seems time to restart it with a new thread.
Warning: "category killer" sites can be found by a little googling. It may be more fun to proceed without search engines. From those sites come the recent
bubaline: buffalo-like
struthionine: ostrich-like
To my surprise, the sites reveal that when tsuwm told us that giraffe-like = giraffine, he was being serious, not gi-raffish. But I could not answer ASp's and archie's plea for the term for "cockroach-like". Apparently "cockroach" derives as a combination (for unknown reasons) of cock=rooster and roach=the fish.
What else can be uncovered?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted animal adjectives, part 2 Keiva 01/31/02 08:41 PM by any other name wofahulicodoc 01/31/02 08:50 PM . Max Quordlepleen 01/31/02 09:23 PM Re: animal adjectives, part 2 Keiva 01/31/02 09:51 PM Re: cockroach like Faldage 01/31/02 10:51 PM Re: cockroach like wwh 02/01/02 01:00 AM Re: cockroach like Faldage 02/01/02 01:27 PM Re: cockroach like Keiva 02/21/02 05:13 PM Re: twin of hirsince Wordwind 04/20/02 11:17 AM
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