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Posted By: BranShea Snuggery - 01/04/07 06:17 PM
What to do with a word like this? SNUGGERY . Yack..
I tried so hard to relax about banned words and now this surprise of the day! Snuggery.
"Get thee to a snuggery !" Romeo and Juliet? Act ???
Isn't this word the first next candidate for eternal banning?

Or is there anyone who could make a serious use of this word?
Posted By: Zed Re: Snuggery - 01/04/07 07:26 PM
edit oops, read today's word about ten seconds too late. Forget I asked.
Posted By: tsuwm Re: Snuggery - 01/04/07 08:30 PM
I don't know why you'd bother banning something that's pretty much archaic now. Snuggery was oft-used by Dickens and OED has citations from Hawthorne and Trollope and this from Dylan Thomas: It is night neddying among the snuggeries of babies.

on the top of the house was a snuggery, into which he retired when he wanted to be entirely alone.
Posted By: BranShea Re: Snuggery - 01/04/07 09:09 PM
Thanks Tsuwm, I did not know it was an archaic word. It has all the reasons to stay so. Funny to think though that there are archaic words that are pleasing as well as those that are really out of date.Dylan Thomas, I read Under Milkwood, but never sorted out that single word from all the baroque flow of words he uses. He uses it in a way it seems to fit in somehow. But in today's day to day language it's hopeless.
Posted By: TEd Remington Re: Snuggery - 01/07/07 12:57 AM
When I saw the word I immediately thought of the snugs that can be found in pubs.
Posted By: Zed Re: Snuggery - 01/17/07 12:52 AM
Snug as a bug in a pub??
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