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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? Maiden Bright-eye
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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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Michael Quinion at worldwidewords.org has an article concerning slubberdegullion, among other other epithets, as occurring in Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Fran�ois 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
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Peter, some folks need to be led by the hand.. slub
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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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