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draffy
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Sweet mav, this was in somebody or another's  wwftd web site: " draffy worthless [also draffish]" By the way, I was glad to see that your explanation of separating the English from the Dutch was what I had been thinking it meant. tsuwm, I sustained a near-shock when I read the definition of the current wwftd: " recreancymean-spiritedness; apostasy; treachery" I looked at the word and thought it must have to do with recreation. Is it related to miscreant in some way, then?
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Middle English recreaunt, defeated, from Old French recreant, present participle of recroire, to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance, from Medieval Latin recrdere, to yield, pledge : Latin re-, re- + Latin crdere, to believe; see kerd- in Indo-European Roots. [AHD]
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you poor sad dabs found you couldn't live on earth without refrigerating your bones,
Heaven bless the inventor of air conditioning.
That said, the old AC is great for those among us who suffer the tortures of the damned with ah,ah, ah CHOO, ('scuse me!) allergies!
Left in temps above 80 or above 75 with humidity, I frighten friends with a change from my normal Irish-inherited pale complexion to that of a blushing beet!
Very disconcering.
I do agree, tho I hadn't thought much about it before now, that a/c should be kept for alternating current and AC perhaps for air conditioning?
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