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What anyone who is preparing to move becomes.
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>>preparing to move
Like "castin' off"? Ha!
No, but they should be.
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well, I've heard of castanets being called "little black beetle(s)", but "horse chestnuts?"
canasta, anyone?
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chestnut : Etymology: earlier chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, chesteine, chasteine, from Middle French chastaigne, from Latin castanea, from Greek kastanea, kastanon
- M-W Unabridged (W3 online)
as to why they're noticeably collected...
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CARTOPHILY - The pursuit of collecting, arranging, and studying cigarette-cards and similar items. So cartophilist, a person devoted to cartophily; cartophilic a.
1936 C. L. BAGNALL in Cigarette Card News Apr. 87, 30,000 people in the British Isles..collect cigarette cards... I have coined a new word for my clients and call them cartophilists. 1936 Morning Post 11 Aug. 12/6 There is a magazine entirely devoted to ‘cartophily’... For every one serious ‘cartophilist’ in 1930 there are 25 now. 1937 Cigarette Card News Apr. 120 In a mansion..the new cartophilic headquarters is to be found.
A completely fabricated definition. As wsieber and others can attest, the word means "a person who collects potatoes"
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CARTOPHILY - The pursuit of ...
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Sorry.
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Wouldn't it rather be "one who loves potatoes"?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Naw. It's an adverb and it means "doing things in a potatoly manner."
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It is a racehorse that looks like a sack of potatos, or that is untamed and runs all over the map.
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**Sputter, hack, hack, cough, choke** Grrrr, this makes me angry. I'm just getting to this thread and the initial post just knocks my socks off.
I can't believe they do this. People use these books as references because they want to confirm a definition/spelling or they're looking to learn.
If they pitch in a fake word, how are we supposed to know that. I'd have believed it, and cited the dictionary if anybody argued.
If your source is not secure, how are you supposed to believe what they say? How do you know that somebody didn't muck around with other words? How do you know that they did their jobs properly and made sure the rest of the document was correct.
Garrghhh...walking away in frustration *)%##%!!
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