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SKOLDUGGERY - dipping snuff surreptitiously.

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honeyfuggle

PRONUNCIATION: (HUN-ee-fuh-guhl)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To deceive or swindle, especially by flattery.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps from honey + fugle (to cheat). Earliest documented use: 1829. Also spelled as honeyfugle.
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MONEYFUGGLE - to flatter vain men for their money. Ex:

The minute you walked in the joint
I could tell you were a man of distinction; a real big spender.
Hey Big Spender! Spend...a little time with me.



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[You can have the fun with HONKYFUGGLE...]

HONEYFUDGLE - cute marketing name for a new candy bar

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HONKYFUGGLE - to be fleeced at a white honky tonk rather than at a black juke joint back in the thirties when both joints offered a white or black version of sweet Southern culture blues.

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lallygag or lollygag

PRONUNCIATION: (LAL-ee-gag, LOL-ee-gag)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To fool around, waste time, or spend time lazily.
2. To neck.
ETYMOLOGY:
Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1862.
USAGE:
"I lallygagged around and when it was evident that they were not coming home to take me, I had to start off."
Margaret Mason; A Memory at Large; RoseDog Books; 2011.
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LALLYGAGA - the real Lady Ga-Ga who is lazy but not a lady.

LOLLYGARG - the Yang and Yin within Anu.


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...a good fifty years ago.

OLLYGAG - a corny joke played on Kukla and Fran
(or on Beulah Witch, or Colonel Cracky, or maybe Fletcher Rabbit)

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bumfuzzle
PRONUNCIATION: (bum-FUZ-uhl)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To confuse.
ETYMOLOGY:
From bum-, probably from bamboozle (to deceive) + fuzzle (to confuse). Earliest documented use: 1900.
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BUMGUZZLE:
1. to empty a pint of Mellow Corn whiskey with a single swallow.
2. to pour yourself an eight-ounce tumbler of your brother-in-law's pretentious eighty-nine dollars-a-bottle 1997 imported wine.
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I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil. -Norman Mailer, author (1923-2007)

Any man who could sit with Norman Mailer for ten minutes and limit himself to only eighteen shouts of "evil" is a man not well read.


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BUMFUZZIE -

That vagrant\
( Pick one )... ought to shave more often
.... That ass./

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Good one, wofa.
I think of that frequently watching TV shows,
and certain folks in our Hollywood Royal Family.


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SCUD


PRONUNCIATION:
(skud)

MEANING:
verb intr.: 1. To run or move swiftly.
2. In nautical parlance, to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
noun: 1. The act of scudding.
2. Clouds, rain, mist, etc. driven by the wind.
3. Low clouds beneath another cloud layer.

ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, possibly from Middle Low German schudden (to shake). Earliest documented use: 1609.

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SQUD
pronounced "skwud"

verb: Past tense of "squid"

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