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cowobbled: Hit by projectile bovines attempting lunar leaps.
Please! You bring to mind a bit of juvenalia form my pre-teen years:
Birdie, birdie in the sky,
Please don't drop it in my eye.
I'll be good, and I won't cry.
(Gee! I'm glad that cows don't fly!)



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Here's the Bryne site again:

http://www.textstore.co.il/mrsbyrne/mrsbyrne.htm

Since I pasted the definition from the site, I'm fairly confident it was "fish" there and not "fist." I'll send 'em a note about it.

How 'bout "loblobbled": Hit by a flying conifer?

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One notes that Dub-Dub has suddenly been expounding on both "hit by a fish" and ichthyophallia". To what do we ascribe this sudden fish-fetish, my dear? Has some poor fish been hitting (on) you?


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Dear Keiva:

It was pure sinkronicity being cornobbled by Mrs. Byrne and then Philip posting about the fishy business on the other thread.

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>Since I pasted the definition from the site, I'm fairly confident it was "fish" there and not
"fist." I'll send 'em a note about it.

until we get the <ahem> definitive word, any thoughts on which is the more *likely meaning?

(btw, you might want to look up 'nobble')


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Dear tsuwm,

Thanks for suggesting that we look up nobble.

Several definitions in my out-of-date AHD here at school, the most interesting being "3. To outdo or get the better of by devious means."

But, even more exciting and greatly off-topic, are some good Scrabble words from the "n" words in the neighborhood of nobble:

nodi -- plural of nodus (that's a great Scrabble plural to play off of "nod")

noddle -- the head (I've heard of noggin and noodle for head, but never noddle)

nixie -- slang for misaddressed (but I don't have the dadburned Scrabble authority, so don't think this would fly in the game)

And, finally (a ta-da! word):

noes -- pl. of no (I'm a johnny-come-lately here, but I thought the pl. was no's as an exceptional plural form; ya' live 'n' learn)

Now to learn what a veeble and a fetzer are...???

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>Now to learn what a veeble and a fetzer are...???

good luck with that... but it's the whole furshlugginer thing that's of import.


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the whole furshlugginer thing

I've said it before, but it bears repeating:

It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

This is MadŽ, do you hear me? MadŽ!


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CORNOBBLED!! Are you hogswoggling me?


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