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thank you! ~ there it is, poisonous, which only leaves us with the mystery: where did Kacirk come up with hisconnection from *that?!?Quote:obsequious
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from the English Dialect Society, Glossaries of Words..Quote:Puzzomful, or Puzzomous, adj.
poisonous. Extremely filthy. 'Puzzomful winds,' those from the east so destructive to our vegetation. Also, disgustingly obsequious.
go figure.
editē - there is also this now obsolete sense of obsequious: dutiful in regard to the dead and in the proper and appropriate performance of obsequies
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