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Looks like all the posters came up to scratch!
Bye...
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yes thank you nancy-- and did any one look at the word?
itch and scratch are linked as love and marriage.. and itch, itch is pruitus.. which also gives us pruient.. which is the latin for itch.. to itch, to long for, to be lecherous.. from the latin to burn..
and to scratch.. it to statisfy the itch.. to have some scratch, is to have the means to satisfy an itch.. my oh my.. itchy palms anyone? you might be coming into money..
and other itches? or does any have an itch? (and do we want to know!)
Amy Tan, in her first book, (the woman warrior(?))pointed out that the chinese word for itch has the same prurient connotations.. does this hold true for other languages?
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do you think maybe you can find nothing to support it, beause the a word itch in that sense is considered rude or vulgar?
to have an itch (all depending on the tone) could express horniness.. is perhaps rekakreka used rudely, or sexually? is it impolite, (and so, rarely used?)
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Surprised that nobody's mentioned scratch in its golfing connotation.....
We say "playing off scratch" when referring to a player without a handicap - would've thought this was a global saying.....
Sometime in the dim and distant past I mentioned my favourite made up word...'roonerspism' - surely "vroom with a hue" falls into this category?
And whilst on the subject....heard a childhood favourite again the other day after many years. The one about the guy with a toothache who, every time he broke wind said, "Honda!"
A case of "abcess makes the fart go Honda"
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to have an itch (all depending on the tone) could express horniness.. is perhaps rekakreka used rudely, or sexually? is it impolite, (and so, rarely used?
The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2: STEPHANO [Sings]
The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate
Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
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Itchy in Indonesian is gatal, which can also mean hankering after (usually sex or money).
By the way, isn't Old Scratch a euphemism for the Devil?
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Hi Bingley:
Brewer confirms Old Scratch/Old Nick for the Devil, from 'skratta', an old Scandinavian word for a goblin or monster (modern Icelandic 'skratti', a devil).
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hmmm, the Itchy & Scratchy show takes on new meanings...!
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