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When I was a wee one in a Catholic school, the Irish nuns would box our ears and say "Woe betide!" I did not know what betide meant, but I sure experienced the WOA!"
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And the word "Wretch" was probably used a lot as well, at least it is in school movies with nuns.
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would box our ears
Always found to box ears a very funny expression. To me it meant just taking the ears off to put them in a little box.
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Betide - to happen to; come to; befall I thought the be- would have more of an impact but no, it's pretty much the same as tide  much disappointment on looking it up in my OED
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To me it meant just taking the ears off to put them in a little box.
Like your Dutch painter, van Gogh.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Like your Dutch painter, van Gogh. 
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Gniffel.
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it's pretty much the same as tide much disappointment on looking it up in my OED
I was expecting more too. Thinking of something like. "beware"
"Betide, betide! The gruesome hordes are at our thresholds."
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Gniffel
What a wonderful word. I like how its English gloss mimics it:
gniffel
snigger
Fricatives swapping places with stops and liquids rhoticized.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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My father was a fan of Professional Boxing. I knew
what boxing ears meant. And he meant it as well.
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its a little word I'd forgotten...from my childhood too.
Though I'm sure I was a good girl and never needed 'boxing around the ears'.
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Fricatives swapping places with stops and liquids rhoticized. now that's a great sentence!!
formerly known as etaoin...
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