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It looks as if this round of hogwash shall have to be, um, scrubbed. I did a search for the word here and it turned up nothing, but I have gotten three and half PMs telling me it is too easy (the half being a submission of the correct definition as a foil). I'd never encountered the word before this weekend but apparently it's on everyone's lips. I will dig up a new word.
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Um, Alex? I've known this one for ages; so possibly others do, too. But if not, maybe I'll try a fooler.
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See the edit to the original post, above.
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>I did a search for the word here and it turned up nothing..
OneLook finds 15 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word flivver; never a good sign.
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In general I wouldn't think that inclusion in a dictionary is reason to exclude a word from hogwash. (In fact inclusion in a dictionary seems like a necessary requirement.) But if it was a former Word of the Day or of other such distinction I would not consider it.
Honestly I am surprised that flivver is considered such an easy word! I'm reasonably well read and had never seen it in print until this weekend, and never once have I heard it uttered in person.
Never fear, we shall find a piglet that needs a bath.
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the OneLook Count for a word (discussed here before, but I can't be arsed to look it up at this time) seems to be a measure of its obscurity, ergo the likelihood of widespread use. some recent entries had the following OLCs: nisgul,1; eonism, 11; underfong, 9 (gafty had no hits, but that's soon to change {g})
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Well Flivver me timbers!
Is it an americanism? I've never heard or seen it.
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I think it is an Americanism and it's pretty old. Some of us encountered it in our youth and that mostly from old-timers.
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