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Dear WW,
No. I was not referring to you when I posted a list of people who should be cornobbled. I posted this list before the great tsuwm (swim, swam, suwm, the T is silent)straightened out one billion speakers of the english language by belatedly announcing that "cornobbled" meant being hit by a fist, not a fish. No, I was not referring to you, I was referring to the...uh...Devil?...yes, thats it, no one likes the Devil.
As for you, I still think WW stands for Wonderful Wonderful.
Milum.
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Dear Milum,
What a wonderful wonderful way to wake up.
As for me, I'm going to use cornobbled both ways. There's bound to be a very posh word meaning an incorrect definition that has come into general acceptance through general abuse and overuse.
Best regards,
WordNobbled
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Well, I checked the Byrne site tonight and finally hit cornobbled again. Sure enough, this is a paste of exactly what I read:
"cornobbled adj. -- hit with a fish. "
...but, as I wrote tsuwm, there was also:
"patavinity n. -- the use of local works or expressions."
Ironically, if you search the Byrne site, there's a page on the benefits of editing...
If you think about it, "cornobbled" could mean to fall in love through deception... There's some fishy business to chew on! (Roxanne was cornobbled by Christian...)
Best regards,
WW
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If you think about it, "cornobbled" could mean to fall in love through deception... There's some fishy business
to chew on! (Roxanne was cornobbled by Christian...)Struck by a flying codpiece? Hmmmm.... Maybe WW stands for Wild Woman. 
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I too got hit by a fish: cornobbled adj. -- hit with a fish. After clicking 'More' in Mrs. Byrne's site for about fifteen minutes. I can picture the codfishermen of a hundred years ago, pulling in codfish fast and furious, hitting each other with fish in their haste, because they had to catch all they could before the fist stopped biting. A wonderful book for a boy is: Kipling's
Captains Courageous. The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 80, issue 482 (December 1897). ...
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.author/r.143.html
PS I got hooked by one typo. No mischievous intent. Just got away from me.Maybe I was thinking of the fishermen pulling them in "hand over fist."
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> ...because they had to catch all they could before the fist stopped biting. 1. if this was purposeful, nice touch. 2. if this was a typo, touché. 
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...because they had to catch all they could before the fist stopped biting.This is, no doubt, a ref. to biting the hand that feeds you? 
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This from the Byrne site:
"Yes, you are absolutely correct. I bet you saw that and said, "Something is fishy here". Thanks for catching that mistake.
Sincerely,
Neil Churgin"
...Will let Mr. Churgin know that it was tsuwm who sniffed it out, not I, who wondered about such a strange word, but immediately added it to my whirling lexicon.
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"nobbled" - my earliest memory of hearing this word was my scouser ( native of Liverpool) grandad tearing up his betting slip as his selection trailed in last "THAT BLOODY HORSE HAS BEEN NOBBLED, SEND IT TO THE KNACKERS YARD'" the Knackers yard being where they killed old or crippled horses, giving rise to the expression "knackered" meaning useless or exhausted
the Duncster ( lethal bones)
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Re: from Jackie
...because they had to catch all they could before the fist stopped biting.
This is, no doubt, a ref. to biting the hand that feeds you?since the fishermen (and crew) are catching the fish to eat, (and sell it to other to eat) it this a case of you, feeding the hands on what bites?
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