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#42422 09/22/01 04:27 PM
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Ok, here's the skinny on this subject:
If it costs under $20 thousand to build it's "The Camp."
If the cost exceeds $20 thousand -- originally or with upgrades -- it is (becomes) "The Lodge!"


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1. U.S. slang. A bachelor; old bach, a confirmed bachelor. Also phr. to keep bach for earlier to keep bachelor's hall (cf. hall n. 11) = bach v.

2. N.Z. Also batch. a. A makeshift hut, usu. one in which a man living alone fends for himself. b. Now esp. a small house at the seaside or at a holiday resort.


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So, is there a name for the place where a woman lives alone?
Just want to know what to call my new place.BTW-house-warming party this Friday.

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even more to the point, how about a word for a bachelor girl or woman, other than bachelorette, that could be so shortened.


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Don't think I've ever heard of it being referred to as somewhere where a man lives alone, but it makes sense as an origin.

Thanks tsuwm!



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it simply means "well built".
I've never seen a brick [out]house, and I don't see anything that would suggest that they would necessarily be well built.

Perhaps the simile is more easily comprehensible if "well built" is rephrased as "built substantially beyond the norm".



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re: how about a word for a bachelor girl or woman

didn't that used to be spinster? and isn't now career woman? do we have any better choices?


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>"built substantially beyond the norm".

the 3rd little pig had a "well built" house.


#42430 09/23/01 01:47 AM
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2. N.Z. Also batch. a. A makeshift hut, usu. one in which a man living alone fends for himself. b. Now esp. a small house at the seaside or at a holiday resort.
Say, Max--as our only current NZ resident currently posting,
can you please tell us: if a man lives alone in a hut,
is he still wrong?
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consuelo, happy housewarming, my dear!
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Pooh-Bah CK--congratulations, on both your new title and your newly-added wife...now you can be wrong twice as often!



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jackie ambiguates congratulations, on both your new title and your newly-added wife...now you can be wrong twice as often!

I'm sure I'm reading this wrong, but this oddly worded phrase certainly suggests an even number of wives -- I trust no *more than two(2).


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