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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: out of kilter #15649 01/18/2001 6:12 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 My teenage kids in bi-lingual Anglo-Welsh schooling have recently brought home the expression <kifted>, which seems to be used in analagous ways to "out of kilter". A typical sentence might be "The post on the machine's all kifted", meaning something like bent, deformed... Anyone come across this or anything like it? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted whack belligerentyouth 01/15/2001 2:32 PM Re: whack Jazzoctopus 01/15/2001 8:34 PM Re: whack tsuwm 01/16/2001 1:21 AM Re: whack belligerentyouth 01/16/2001 7:53 AM Re: whack bikermom 01/16/2001 1:37 PM Re: out of kilter maverick 01/18/2001 6:12 PM Re: out of kilter Fiberbabe 01/18/2001 9:26 PM Re: out of kilter Marty 01/18/2001 10:01 PM Re: out of kilter Jackie 01/19/2001 1:24 AM Re: out of kilter Marty 01/19/2001 2:33 AM Re: out of kilter Anonymous 01/19/2001 5:07 AM Re: git jmh 01/19/2001 7:31 AM Re: git maverick 01/19/2001 5:37 PM Re: git wow 01/19/2001 5:59 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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