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Originally Posted By: pgrewThese words are fanciful, early-nineteenth-century, American coinages on a par with other Latinate slang the likes of absquatulate and...
...someone give me another example, please.
chow,
- ph
(this thread needs to be postrevivified every 2 or 6 years)Originally Posted By: H. L. MenckenYet again, there are the purely artificial words, eg, sockdolager, hunkydory, scalawag, guyascutis, sponduluc, slumgullion, rambunctious, scrumptious, to skedaddle, to absquatulate and to exfluncticate.
so..
"The frontiersman, ring-tailed roarer, half horse and
half alligator, described himself as kankarriferous
and rambunctious, his lady love as angeliferous and
splendiferous. With consummate ease he could
teetotaciously exfluncticate his opponent in a
conbobberation, that is to say a conflict or
disturbance, or ramsquaddle him bodaciously, after
which the luckless fellow would absquatulate."
- A. Marckwardt, American English (1980)
coming next week to a wwftd near you..
exfluncticate - to overcome, beat thoroughly; to crush
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