rehashed topic #4 - jamfled - 08/28/07 03:34 PM
this mystery was resolved, between the interlocutor and myself:
the worthless word for the day is: jamfle
[Sc. jamphle < jamph, travel with difficulty]
to shuffle in walking, as if in consequence of
wearing too wide shoes {Jamieson}
"And in the morning I jamfled over to the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research and their archives..."
- Glen Berger, Underneath the Lintel (2001)
(thanx to John Huston)
-tsuwm
the worthless word for the day is: jamfle
[Sc. jamphle < jamph, travel with difficulty]
to shuffle in walking, as if in consequence of
wearing too wide shoes {Jamieson}
"And in the morning I jamfled over to the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research and their archives..."
- Glen Berger, Underneath the Lintel (2001)
(thanx to John Huston)
-tsuwm