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Page 2 of 3 < 1 2 3 > Topic Options #111189 - 08/30/03 05:59 PM Re: huckery sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui Sorry, Faldage. Here in Zild, huckery means old, decrepit, run-down, threadbare, etc. Googling the owrd strongly suggests the usage is confined to Zild, and the word huckster is not used here. So, my question remains, where did we get our meaning of the word, and why does even the OED not have a reference for this usage? _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Top #111190 - 08/30/03 06:35 PM Re: huckery maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 confined to Zild Musta come from all y'alls rendering of Huckery Duckery Dock :) Top #111191 - 08/30/03 06:41 PM Re: huckery tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass huckery == scungy ah, that explains it. :) p.s. - I also saw reference to a book titled "The Huckery Mole". perhaps that explains it (or not, it's prolly a proper name). Top #111192 - 08/30/03 06:51 PM Re: huckery sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui huckery == scungy ah, that explains it. :) name). Explains it how, dammit?! Next thing I know you'll be telling me elephants got hooves! _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Top #111193 - 08/30/03 07:35 PM Re: huckery AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York Is that Geoff as in Chaucer? Top #111194 - 08/30/03 11:19 PM Re: huckery sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui >Is that Geoff as in Chaucer? Howdy, Pilgrim, and thanks for getting it. _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Top #111195 - 08/31/03 11:12 AM Re: huckery AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York No small part of your charm is your subtlety, Max. Top #111196 - 08/31/03 01:13 PM Re: huckery tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass from the Juxtaposition (out of context) for Fun & Profit Dept. max> Explains it how, dammit?! ASp> No small part of your charm is your subtlety, Max. Top #111197 - 08/31/03 04:06 PM Re: huckery sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui >from the Juxtaposition (out of context) for Fun & Profit Dept. I can never hear juxtapose without thinking of Emo Phillips: --------------------------------- I had an argument with my father. I argued that Plato was the father of philosophy. My dad takes the opposite position, that I should wax the kitchen floor. I said: "Well, the kitchen floor doesn't exist, at least not in the permanent sense the concept "floor" does." He said: "Do you think the concept "your skull" exists?" I said: "Yes" And then he surprised me by juxtaposing the two concepts. _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Top #111198 - 08/31/03 04:20 PM Re: conceptual juxtaposition tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass now *that* was subtle. 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