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Michael Quinion at worldwidewords.org has an article concerning slubberdegullion, among other other epithets, as occurring in Gargantua and Pantagruel, by François Rabelais, as translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart.
Anyone not familiar with Quinion should browse through his site. It is fascinating and delightful, as well as scholarly.
Peter I go there regularly and subscribe to his weekly email. Great place,Peter.
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and then there's this:
the worthless word for the day is: slubber
[prob. from obsolete Dutch slubberen]
1) dialect chiefly English : stain, sully
2) to perform in a slipshod fashion, do carelessly
(cf. slubberdegullion)
"Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio.."
- W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You must therefore be content to slubber the
gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn
and boisterous expedition."
- W.S., Othello
"..the parking lot had been empty when he
arrived, and except for a chubby, amoebic-looking
family who slubbered in and out of a van.. nobody
but he had stayed for more than two nights."
- Jon Fasman, The Geographer's Library
Gee, I guess these are going to become a daily treat - won't have to go to tsuwm's site any more. http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/ unless, of course, the word there differs from the one posted here. Then we can be treated to two wwftd's.
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slubber, in fact, dates from Oct. 26, 2005 as a wwftd.
(not to be confused with slobber, for which see post icon)
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this, I like..
quagswagging
[fr. quag, to quake + swag, to sway]
n. obs. rare
the action of shaking to and fro
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radicate
v. obs. now rare
to cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly (in something) Chiefly fig.
Progr. Particle & Nucl. Physics "The amazing success of the static quark model.. undoubtedly contributed to radicate in our minds the idea that proton spin is carried by quarks." [2000]
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So how come radicate's opposite isn't aradicate?
Edit: Ooh, ooh! Here's one that's almost totally useless: garf (noun) : a cut on the hand of a fisherman caused by the sharp gill plates of a fish, particularly a walleye
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radicate
v. obs. now rare
to cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly (in something) Not so rare downunder! Someone with a quirky sense of humour has taken the word as name for Footrot Treatment
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>taken the word as name for Footrot Treatment
I'd have thought that the much more common Eradicate would work better for that.
edit: ..and I see that their tag line does just that:
A concetrated footbath solution for the control of spread, treatment and progressive eradication of all strains of footrot in sheep.
bah - although they probly thought they were being clever in avoiding trademark issues, they should have LIU first.
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