cute beaut - 02/14/07 02:45 PM
I presume "butte" is a homophone of "beaut" or did I miss the boat
Re: cute beaut - 02/14/07 02:56 PM
I would agree.
Re: cute beaut - 02/14/07 03:42 PM
Re: Das Boot - 02/14/07 08:26 PM
But is not the the theme touted as homophones of everyday words, not fake ones? 
Re: Das Boot - 02/14/07 08:54 PM
Quote:
But is not the the theme touted as homophones of everyday words, not fake ones?
you consider "slang" to be "fake"??
1866 ‘F. KIRKLAND’ Bk. Anecdotes 178 Hopeful is not a beauty..and though some of the rustic wits call him ‘Beaut’, he is well aware that they intend it for irony. 1896 ADE Artie i. 5 They was beauts too. 1903 S. CLAPIN Dict. Amer., Bute. 1909 T. H. THOMPSON Ballads about Business 79 Well, I guess she ain't a bute. 1910 O. JOHNSON Varmint i. 16 The tin one was easier, but it's a beaut. Ibid. v. 67 Some of the fellows have perfect beauts. 1929 W. SMYTH Girl from Mason Creek xv. 161 We didn't quite git th'hang of things first go off, but now I reckon it will be a ‘beaut’. 1934 T. WOOD Cobbers v. 68 The last of the big sticks in this sector, and a real beaut. 1936 WODEHOUSE Laughing Gas xiii. 139, I seemed to be getting a lot of steam behind the punch... I got those two bozoes a couple of beauts! 1944 Coast to Coast 98 ‘We're a pair of beauts,’ he said with the semblance of a grin. 1952 Arena (N.Z.) XXXII. 5, I scratched her a beaut. 1952 J. CLEARY Sundowners i. 6 Ain't that a beaut farm? 1957 ‘N. SHUTE’ On Beach ii. 71 It's been a beaut evening. 1968 K. WEATHERLY Roo Shooter 22 The bushie grabbed a plate and headed for the camp oven. ‘You beaut,’ he said. ‘Coffee 'll do.’
Re: Das Boot - 02/15/07 03:15 PM
Mis, I had asked myself the same until I was surprised to get 15 hits in OneLook
Re: Das Boot - 02/15/07 07:09 PM
See? Just knew you apologist types would whip out a bunch of lame 'examples' to try to make it look rosier. 
Intermittent popularity does not an 'everyday word' of gutter slang make. 
Intermittent popularity does not an 'everyday word' of gutter slang make.
Re: Das Boot *DELETED* - 02/15/07 07:49 PM
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Re: Das Boot - 02/15/07 08:00 PM
A and dh: when such real words predate your own evanescent beings, who can help but be a-musÉd by your empty protests?
Re: Das Boot - 02/15/07 08:17 PM
tsu: Indeed their purpose is wholly amusement. As a converted prescriptivist I am coming to enjoy the sensation
(pun intended)
(pun intended)
Re: Das Boot - 02/16/07 02:47 PM
Dale, would you please delete your post that begins Mis: Indeed, fellow descriptivists and reformed prescriptivists ? That is just disgusting.
EDIT: Thank you!
EDIT: Thank you!
Re: Das Boot - 02/23/07 09:37 PM
Jackie is a nifty name and no doubt some of us wonder whether she's not also a cute beaut
Re: Das Boot - 02/24/07 12:52 PM
Neither.
Re: Das Boot - 02/25/07 02:25 PM
I maintain it's nifty and I'm disappointed by the lack of support