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tsuwm #202099 08/25/11 10:27 PM
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>potential

contrary to the above OED info, some olde dictionaries give debellish == embellish.

bummer.

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Was this it by any chance, Candy?
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Originally Posted By: Jackie
Was this it by any chance, Candy?
Maiden Bright-eye


It certainly sounds like it, Jackie....though it didn't mention the word!

How clever of you to find it, you'er a

And Bran....slubberdegullion being a frog, makes even more sense to the story.

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pactitious

obs. rare
Characterized by being agreed upon or stipulated

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I like debellish; embark, debark; embellish, debellish.

Candy, I googled Maiden Bright-eye and found a couple of fuller versions of the story; neither had the word, though. Perhaps yours was an older version or a different story altogether.

Edit: I believe I have somewhat frobnicated this thread; sorry, tsuwm. I shall (most likely) desist. (Is there emsist? Or just sist?)

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There's cyst, but that is not part of the story here, is it?


----please, draw me a sheep----
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and one can insist.


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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.

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Peter, some folks need to be led by the hand..

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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

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